A wide range of research projects have been supported by our centre over the years. Brief descriptions of projects can be found below.
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Mechanical properties of DNA hydrogels
Sun and water, a perfect pair
Targeting the cure for Tuberculosis: Solid-state nanopore sensing
Controlling the uncontrollable
Batteries to power a sustainable future
Compressing Hard Drives
Solar Power on a Roll
Trapping light to open up our universe
Nano swiss rolls in batteries
The Fanciest Colander You’ll Never See
Algae Need Vitamins Too
Opening a Window to Sunlight
Nanomaterial engineering in ‘designer’ ionic solvents
Construction on the nanoscale with DNA stars
Dementia drug screening in hollow-core fibres
Treating cancer using surfaces, light and gold
The next great detective story: using nanosensors for early cancer detection
A flexible shuttle to fight intracellular infections
Kicking the Lithium habit
Spying and tagging cancer to attack it first!
Wasted Energy into Electricity
Making better displays by merging two wonder materials
Green chemical synthesis using vitamins and light
Shining a light on the fading mind
Fruit breaking nature’s rules
Nanotechnology right under our noses
Flexible Electronics
Is your sample running a fever?
Frontier observations using superconductors
Laser texturing for ‘self-cleaning’
Finding Small Things with Tiny Holes
Rubbing materials to power small devices
3D printing going nano
Smart surfaces for heating and cooling buildings using only sunlight
Quantum computers with industry-standard silicon technology
Photobatteries: Harvesting and storing solar energy at the same time!
Counting photons from atoms and stars
Materials building themselves in water
Shake it up every once in a while…
Spare body parts for active (or not-so-active) people
Tiny Barrels Unlock the Materials of Tomorrow
Shaping nanoscale pores with DNA origami
A new way for brain cancer treatment
Fuels from Air
What if you could see magnetism?
Arrangements of metal atoms in nanoparticle catalysts
The Nanotoxicity of Bone
Preventing human insulin sticking together
Invisibly Bright Emitters to Make Solar Cells Great Again
Look for the light!
Smaller and smaller: let’s get weird
The studies of battery degradation under the microscope
Controlling nature’s patterns
A Collaborative Approach in Tackling Dementia
Power for Space Missions
Capturing the Energy of Individual Electrons
Bringing Magnetism and Electricity Together
The future is bright for generating new light
Warning signals for disease from a DNA lightbulb
Shining light on green hydrogen
Shaking things up
Between Light and Matter
Documenting the lifespan of electrons, from birth till death
Flipping spins to boost the efficiency of LEDs
What can escape from a glass tube sealed with a sheet of atoms?
Playing with light
Cages for the Future – A caravan for molecules is on its way
Squeezing electricity out of new materials
Life from scratch
Watching what happens inside working batteries
Understanding our brain’s language
Mimicking living systems with DNA
Lighting up a greener future
Fishing for biomolecules
Solar Energy: Two for Blue
Radically different organic energy materials
Miniaturisation of barcoding
The power of soft connections: next-generation neural interfaces
Chloroplasts: a platform for vertical biopharming
Making superconductors more super
Better Batteries
Porous nanomaterials: Fuel storage of the future
Biasing a nanoparticle
From waste to hydrogen
Materials for motion
Tangled spaghetti-like molecules lead to new electronics
Functional Nanoelectronics and Quantum Materials
Singlet Fission Luminescent Solar Concentrators
Safety alert – beware of battery explosions
Microfluidic bioelectronic interfaces at the cellular level
A new spin on electronics
Materials chemistry meets stretchable electronics
Trapping liquids in a sponge
Photoswitches with ultra-fast response times
Pipeline from the Sun
Computing on a diamond cluster
Brain navigation: connecting the eyes to the brain
A computer on a needle point
Seeing is believing
Warning, may contain nuts!
Jelly solar cells
Using light to make chemistry more environmentally friendly
Capturing light with an antenna based on DNA
Tiny Cages that deliver medicines
Better night vision using the darkest material on Earth
Shining Light on Neurodegeneration
Solar cells through the Looking Glass of electrons
Fighting cancer with pink diamonds
Nano-Mechanical Quantum Computers
Investigating synthetic analogues of haem
Catching sunbeams
Using Electronic Noise to Speed Up Machine Learning
Watching molecules grow helps find origin of Alzheimer’s
Sensors for Detecting Cancer Biomarkers
Can bacteria save the world
Building a nanoworld in a pale blue dot
Create a world that is flat
Cell Membrane-on-a-Chip for Drug Interaction Studies
Navigating hyper-dimentional voltage space
Return to Nature
Colour from Nothing
Quantum cryptography with blue-LED technology
The (Di)electric light orchestra
Solar Panels from Bacteria
A touch screen for cells: establishing a new method to communicate with biology
Low power memory devices
Karate on electrons to give a bigger zap from light
Recycling Carbon Dioxide
Studying membrane transport electrical ‘colour’
Zero dimensions – a quantum revolution is under way
Stacking a market stall with fruit with hands 10,000 times the size!
Bacteria: Enemy or Hero?
The coolest infrared sensor in the Universe
Bionic leaf to power your car
A perpetual supercomputer
Generating electrical currents from light in graphene
Shining new light on old rocks
Using Supercapacitors to Capture Carbon Dioxide
Making batteries ring
Lighter than Feathers but Stronger than Steel
Making sense of a sea of atoms
Nanorobots – not who you think they are
Light at the end of the tunnel
Shrunk Electronics
Lipids: The Missing Key to the Parkinson’s Puzzle?
Routes of Captured Light
Seeing dancing molecules on a surface
Nano-structuring of battery electrode
Making quantum fly – with microwaves
