Cyphochilus beetle

探花直播beetle鈥檚 white album

15 August 2014

探花直播physical properties of the ultra-white scales on certain species of beetle could be used to make whiter paper, plastics and paints, while using far less material than is used in current manufacturing methods.

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 Scanning electron micrograph image of sunflower head developing.

Plants and patterning: how shapes are made

11 March 2013

A Cambridge Science Festival lecture on Wednesday (13 March 2013) will look at how plants grow through repeating patterns and discuss what we can learn from them in developing smart materials.聽聽

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Detail from a hybrid three-dimensional heterostructure consisting of graphene, boron nitride and molybdenum disulphide in two dimensional layers.

Changing our material future, layer by layer

20 December 2012

Researchers are aiming to develop a new class of materials with remarkable properties using one atom-thick substances such as graphene and other two dimensional crystals in a new collaborative project.

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Scrap-metal

Six steps to a better material world

30 November 2011

Every year we make 10 times our own bodyweight of steel, aluminium, cement, plastics and paper, for every person alive, using a fifth of all the world鈥檚 energy supply to do so. Now researchers are releasing a manifesto to change that and help cut carbon emissions. And they鈥檝e also released an album of songs to go with it.

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A section of an Ashby chart

It鈥檚 a material world

15 September 2011

A spin-out from Cambridge's Engineering Department and a leading supplier of materials information technology software to industry, Granta Design has achieved an average growth of 30 per cent over the past ten years.

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Calls for a global nuclear renaissance in new study

13 August 2010

Scientists from the 探花直播 of Cambridge and Imperial College London today outlined a 20-year master plan for the global renaissance of nuclear energy. Their research was published in the latest issue of the journal.

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Dr Andrea Ferrari

Royal Society award given to Cambridge academic

21 June 2010

探花直播Royal Society, the UK's national academy of science, has recognised the work of Dr Andrea Ferrari at the Department of Engineering with one of the prestigious Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Awards.

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