Demonstrator aircraft

Watts up - aeroplanes go hybrid-electric

23 December 2014

An aircraft with a parallel hybrid engine 鈥 the first ever to be able to recharge its聽batteries in flight 鈥 has been successfully tested in the UK, an important early step聽towards cleaner, low-carbon air travel.

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Active matrix electrophoretic display incorporating graphene

First graphene-based flexible display produced

05 September 2014

A flexible display incorporating graphene in its pixels鈥 electronics has been successfully demonstrated by the Cambridge Graphene Centre and Plastic Logic, the first time graphene has been used in a transistor-based flexible device.

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A crumpled paper ball

探花直播 spin-out wins green award

27 August 2014

探花直播 of Cambridge spin-out Reduse, which has developed a technology to remove print from paper allowing it to be reused several times before being recycled, has won the Venture Competition, organised by the Climate-KIC UK , the EU鈥檚 main climate innovation initiative.

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