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