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<div class="field field-name-field-content-summary field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><p>Global aviation could be on a flight path to net zero if industry and governments reach just four goals by 2030, according to a new聽report聽from the 探花直播 of Cambridge.</p>
</p></div></div></div>Sun, 22 Sep 2024 22:18:18 +0000plc32247931 at Cambridge and Boeing celebrate a 20-year partnership
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<div class="field field-name-field-news-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="cam-scale-with-grid" src="/sites/default/files/styles/content-580x288/public/news/news/louisa-michael-boeing.jpg?itok=ZefKv9rm" alt="Dr Louisa Michael from Boeing talked about her work on multi-physics modelling of the impact of lightning strikes" title="Dr Louisa Michael from Boeing talked about her work on multi-physics modelling of the impact of lightning strikes, Credit: Boeing" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Over the last two decades, the two organisations have worked together on a wide range of topics such as transitioning the聽aviation sector to net zero, developing electric and hybrid-electric propulsion, making breakthroughs in materials and manufacturing technologies and managing airport disruption.</p>
<p>To recognise the success of the partnership, Todd Citron, Boeing鈥檚 Chief Technology Officer, and Pat Stokes, 探花直播 of Cambridge Research Portfolio Lead for Boeing, presented Professors David Cardwell and Duncan McFarlane, and Philip Guildford, Chief Operating Officer of the Department of Engineering, with awards recognising their outstanding leadership and dedication聽supporting 20 years of collaborative research excellence.</p>
<p>As well as sharing ideas and reviewing a wide range of projects with 探花直播 researchers, the Boeing and Cambridge teams toured the 探花直播鈥檚 Whittle Laboratory and Institute for Manufacturing.</p>
<p>Inspiring the next generation of aerospace engineers is also an important facet of the longstanding partnership. As part of the summit, Scott Walston, vice president of Boeing鈥檚 Enterprise and Technology Office talked to students about Boeing research and life as an engineer in the aviation sector.聽</p>
<p>"We are immensely proud of our 20-year partnership with the 探花直播 of Cambridge, a collaboration that has exemplified the power of global research and development partnerships in driving aerospace innovation,鈥� said Pat Stokes. 鈥淭ogether, we've tackled some of aviation鈥檚 biggest challenges, including finding ways to accelerate sustainable aviation. Our partnership underscores the importance of academia and industry working hand in hand to shape the future of aerospace and demonstrates how much we can achieve when we come together.鈥�</p>
<p>Philip Guildford added, 鈥� 探花直播relationship works so well because the engineers and scientists from these two organisations are truly world-class and they get to talk with each other, be creative and work on innovative projects. Everyone gives their best to make aviation more efficient, sustainable and safe.鈥�</p>
<p><a href="/stories/Boeing">Read more about the Cambridge-Boeing partnership</a>.</p>
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-content-summary field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><p>Senior executives and employees from research and technology teams at Boeing spent three days in Cambridge to celebrate 20 years of successful collaboration and to identify the next set of challenges they want to address.</p>
</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-image-credit field-type-link-field field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/" target="_blank">Boeing</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-image-desctiprion field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Dr Louisa Michael from Boeing talked about her work on multi-physics modelling of the impact of lightning strikes</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cc-attribute-text field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" rel="license"><img alt="Creative Commons License." src="/sites/www.cam.ac.uk/files/inner-images/cc-by-nc-sa-4-license.png" style="border-width: 0px; width: 88px; height: 31px;" /></a><br />
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-show-cc-text field-type-list-boolean field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Yes</div></div></div>Thu, 05 Oct 2023 12:09:32 +0000skbf2242381 at 探花直播future of flying
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<div class="field field-name-field-content-summary field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><p>Cambridge and Boeing have been working together for 20 years. Today they are combining their research strengths and industry know-how to speed aviation聽towards a carbon-neutral future.</p>
</p></div></div></div>Thu, 16 Feb 2023 14:46:49 +0000skbf2236861 at Cambridge-led team developing a simulator to help reach net zero flight
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<div class="field field-name-field-news-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="cam-scale-with-grid" src="/sites/default/files/styles/content-580x288/public/news/research/news/pascal-meier-uyiesso4fim-unsplash.jpg?itok=1SZpqGly" alt="Airplane landing" title="Plane landing in Zurich, Credit: Photo by Pascal Meier on Unsplash" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> 探花直播simulator will capture the whole aviation sector, from the sources of renewable electricity and raw materials to the production and transport of fuel, and the introduction of new aircraft technologies and operations. Leaders in industry and government will gain an understanding of the potential for change and the trade-offs between decisions. 探花直播simulator will guide innovation, investment and policy action, and provide educational benefits.</p>
<p> 探花直播AIA is led by the <a href="https://whittle.eng.cam.ac.uk/">Whittle Laboratory</a> and the <a href="https://www.cisl.cam.ac.uk/">Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)</a>. 鈥淎chieving an aviation sector with no climate impact is one of society鈥檚 biggest challenges,鈥� said Professor Rob Miller, Director of the Whittle Laboratory and co-lead of the project. 鈥淪olving it will require a complex combination of technology, business, human behaviour and policy. We have assembled a world-class team of academics and industry experts to take on this challenge.鈥�</p>
<p>Users of the simulator will be able to simulate future scenarios to 2050 and calculate the resource requirements, such as renewable electricity and land use, the climate impact, both CO鈧� and non-CO鈧�, and the cost of flying.</p>
<p>Options include the type of energy used, such as hydrogen, batteries and a range of sustainable aviation fuels, the type of aircraft and aircraft technologies, the way in which aircraft are operated, and the value judgments made by the public and government. 探花直播simulator will take a whole system approach 鈥� from the source of the electricity to the methods of fuel production and transport 鈥� to the passenger journey.</p>
<p>鈥淚nternational travel helps people and societies connect,鈥� said Clare Shine, Director of CISL. 鈥淭o retain this opportunity for future generations, we must urgently address aviation鈥檚 environmental impact as part of systemic decarbonisation of the economy. This calls for imaginative and inclusive innovation, which is why the Aviation Impact Accelerator brings together insight from industry, policy and civil society.鈥�</p>
<p> 探花直播AIA team also includes the Air Transportation Systems Lab at 探花直播 College London and the Melbourne Energy Institute at the 探花直播 of Melbourne. 探花直播AIA is in partnership with HRH 探花直播Prince of Wales鈥檚 Sustainable Markets Initiative, 探花直播World Economic Forum, <a href="https://www.zero.cam.ac.uk/">Cambridge Zero</a>, MathWorks and SATAVIA, and is supported by industry advisors Rolls-Royce, Boeing, BP, Heathrow and Siemens Energy.</p>
<p>鈥� 探花直播transition to a zero-carbon future requires a bold response to climate change,鈥� said <a href="https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/people/efs20">Dr Emily Shuckburgh</a>, Director of Cambridge Zero. 鈥� 探花直播Aviation Impact Accelerator is such a bold response, bringing together multidisciplinary expertise to inform decision making and enable meaningful change.鈥�</p>
<p> 探花直播simulator was conceived in early 2020 at a roundtable hosted by HRH 探花直播Prince of Wales and attended by senior industry leaders, government and academia.</p>
<p>鈥� 探花直播Aviation Impact Accelerator will play a vital role in highlighting the action required to achieve net zero aviation and support Heathrow to ensure 2019 is our year of 鈥榩eak carbon鈥�,鈥� said John Holland-Kaye, CEO of Heathrow Airport. 鈥� 探花直播first priority is accelerated use of sustainable aviation fuel. Government can act to unlock SAF through a mandate stimulating supply, plus incentives to drive demand. 探花直播prize is a new British growth industry and UK leadership in the race to net zero.鈥�</p>
<p> 探花直播official launch of the Aviation Impact Accelerator will take place at COP26 in November.聽</p>
<p><em>Adapted from a <a href="https://www.cisl.cam.ac.uk/convening/aviation-impact-accelerator-aia">CISL news story</a>.</em></p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-content-summary field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><p> 探花直播 announces launch of Aviation Impact Accelerator (AIA) 鈥� a team of experts in aerospace, economics, policy, and climate science, who are building an interactive simulator to help achieve聽net zero flight.</p>
</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-content-quote field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Achieving an aviation sector with no climate impact is one of society鈥檚 biggest challenges: solving it will require a complex combination of technology, business, human behaviour and policy</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-content-quote-name field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Rob Miller</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-image-credit field-type-link-field field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/white-biplane-UYiesSO4FiM" target="_blank">Photo by Pascal Meier on Unsplash</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-image-desctiprion field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Plane landing in Zurich</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cc-attribute-text field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" rel="license"><img alt="Creative Commons License" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png" style="border-width:0" /></a><br />
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-show-cc-text field-type-list-boolean field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Yes</div></div></div>Wed, 25 Aug 2021 08:00:00 +0000Anonymous226101 at 探花直播 of Cambridge wins Boeing Innovation Award
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<div class="field field-name-field-news-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="cam-scale-with-grid" src="/sites/default/files/styles/content-580x288/public/news/news/crop-boeing.jpg?itok=PbMGgYfz" alt="Collecting the Boeing Innovation Award on behalf of the 探花直播 of Cambridge: Professor Bill O'Neill (holding the Award), Dr John Durrell (centre), and Philip Guildford (centre, right)." title="Collecting the Boeing Innovation Award on behalf of the 探花直播 of Cambridge: Professor Bill O&#039;Neill (holding the Award), Dr John Durrell (centre), and Philip Guildford (centre, right)., Credit: 探花直播Boeing Company 2018" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p style="margin-left:20px;"> 探花直播 探花直播 was presented with聽<a href="https://www.boeing.com/">Boeing</a>鈥檚 Innovation Award at a gala held in Portland, Oregon, on Wednesday 11 April. 探花直播award was given for the 探花直播鈥檚 鈥榦utstanding performance in research and development efforts, instrumental in the introduction of new products to meet Boeing鈥檚 current and future business needs鈥�.</p>
<p style="margin-left:20px;">Accepting the award on behalf of the 探花直播聽were Philip Guildford, Professor Bill O'Neill and Dr John Durrell from the Department of Engineering.聽</p>
<p style="margin-left:20px;">鈥淲e thought working with Boeing engineers on such exciting research for the last 15 years was already prize enough, but now Boeing has topped this wonderful experience with its most prestigious award 鈥� we are thrilled,鈥� said Guildford.聽</p>
<p style="margin-left:20px;"><a href="http://bulk-sucon.eng.cam.ac.uk/dc135/">Professor David Cardwell</a>, Head of the Department of Engineering, coordinated the Boeing partnership for Cambridge for many years, a role which was taken over in 2017 by聽<a href="https://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/profiles/dm114">Professor Duncan McFarlane.</a></p>
<p style="margin-left:20px;">Researchers from the聽<a href="https://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/">Institute for Manufacturing (IfM)</a>聽have been working with Boeing since 2005, finding intelligent solutions to some challenging industrial problems. DIAL, headed up by McFarlane, has worked with Boeing on seven major projects to date, addressing three key challenges: how to manage supply chains more effectively, how to improve production resilience and how to make airports and airlines more efficient and robust. 探花直播lab is currently implementing a production quality tracking system in one of Boeing's US facilities.</p>
<p style="margin-left:20px;">Researchers in the聽<a href="http://bulk-sucon.eng.cam.ac.uk/">Bulk Superconductivity Group</a>, supported by Boeing, set a new聽<a href="https://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-engineers-break-superconductor-world-record">Guinness World Record in 2014</a>聽for the strongest magnetic field trapped in a superconductor (17.6 tesla - roughly 2000聽times stronger than the field generated by a typical fridge magnet), beating a record that stood for more than a decade. They have since demonstrated a portable superconducting magnetic system that can act as聽<a href="https://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/novel-superconductor-acts-portable-permanent-magnet">a high-performance substitute for a conventional permanent magnet</a>聽and can attain a 3-tesla level for the magnetic field.</p>
<p style="margin-left:20px;"> 探花直播team, led by聽<a href="http://bulk-sucon.eng.cam.ac.uk/jhd25/">Dr John Durrell</a>, are planning further testing for more magnetic power and overall efficiency. 探花直播group aims to enhance both the fundamental performance of superconducting bulks and to tailor them for specific applications.</p>
<p style="margin-left:20px;">And聽<a href="https://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/profiles/wo207">Bill O'Neill,聽Professor of Laser Engineering</a>, is working with Boeing on a new generation of laser-based manufacturing technologies aimed at improving quality and productivity.</p>
<p style="margin-left:20px;">As part of its 2017 Supplier of the Year Awards, Boeing recognised 13 companies for the high-quality products, services and value they create for Boeing as well as its commercial airplanes, services, and defence, space and security customers.</p>
<p style="margin-left:20px;"> 探花直播aerospace company said its award-winning suppliers had helped it achieve a 鈥榬ecord year鈥� in its commercial airplane deliveries, growth in its services business and solid defence, space and security performance.</p>
<p style="margin-left:20px;">Boeing Chairman, President and CEO Dennis Muilenburg said: 鈥淥ur continued success in an increasingly challenging business environment is driven in large part by having the aerospace industry鈥檚 best team and talent 鈥� and that includes the world鈥檚 best supply chain.</p>
<p style="margin-left:20px;">鈥� 探花直播2017 Supplier of the Year Award recipients all share a passion for innovation, collaboration and sustained exceptional performance 鈥� qualities we look for in all of our industry partners.鈥�</p>
<p style="margin-left:20px;">Jenette Ramos, Boeing Senior Vice President, Supply Chain and Operations, added: 鈥� 探花直播winners are among the best aerospace suppliers the world has to offer, and with their help, we will continue to lead the market by delivering value throughout Boeing鈥檚 second century.鈥�</p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-content-summary field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><p> 探花直播 探花直播 of Cambridge鈥檚 鈥榦utstanding performance鈥� in research and development has been recognised by Boeing in its 2017 Supplier of the Year Awards.</p>
</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-image-credit field-type-link-field field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/" target="_blank"> 探花直播Boeing Company 2018</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-image-desctiprion field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Collecting the Boeing Innovation Award on behalf of the 探花直播 of Cambridge: Professor Bill O'Neill (holding the Award), Dr John Durrell (centre), and Philip Guildford (centre, right).</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cc-attribute-text field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" rel="license"><img alt="Creative Commons License" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png" style="border-width:0" /></a><br />
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-show-cc-text field-type-list-boolean field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Yes</div></div></div>Thu, 03 May 2018 08:50:11 +0000Anonymous197052 at Watts up - aeroplanes go hybrid-electric
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<div class="field field-name-field-news-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="cam-scale-with-grid" src="/sites/default/files/styles/content-580x288/public/news/research/news/141222-hybrid-plane.jpg?itok=EpV49uzo" alt="Demonstrator aircraft" title="Demonstrator aircraft, Credit: 探花直播 of Cambridge" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Researchers from the 探花直播 of Cambridge, in association with Boeing, have successfully tested the first aircraft to be powered by a parallel hybrid-electric propulsion system, where an electric motor and petrol engine work together to drive the propeller. 探花直播demonstrator aircraft uses up to 30% less fuel than a comparable plane with a petrol-only engine. 探花直播aircraft is also able to recharge its batteries in flight, the first time this has been achieved.</p>
<p> 探花直播demonstrator is based on a commercially-available single-seat aircraft, and its hybrid engine was designed and built by engineers at Cambridge with Boeing funding support.</p>
<p> 探花直播aircraft uses a combination of a 4-stroke piston engine and an electric motor / generator, coupled through the same drive pulley to spin the propeller. During take-off and climb, when maximum power is required, the engine and motor work together to power the plane, but once cruising height is reached, the electric motor can be switched into generator mode to recharge the batteries or used in motor assist mode to minimise fuel consumption. 探花直播same principle is at work in a hybrid car.</p>
<p>鈥淎lthough hybrid cars have been available for more than a decade, what鈥檚 been holding back the development of hybrid or fully-electric aircraft until now is battery technology,鈥� said Dr Paul Robertson of Cambridge鈥檚 Department of Engineering, who led the project. 鈥淯ntil recently, they have been too heavy and didn鈥檛 have enough energy capacity. But with the advent of improved lithium-polymer batteries, similar to what you鈥檇 find in a laptop computer, hybrid aircraft 鈥� albeit at a small scale 鈥� are now starting to become viable.鈥�</p>
<p> 探花直播hybrid power system in the Cambridge demonstrator is based on a Honda engine, in parallel with a custom lightweight motor. A power electronics module designed and built in the Engineering Department controls the electrical current to and from the batteries - a set of 16 large lithium-polymer cells located in special compartments built into the wings. 探花直播petrol engine is optimally sized to provide the cruise power at its most efficient operating point, resulting in an improved fuel efficiency overall.</p>
<p>鈥淥ur mission is to keep our sights on finding innovative solutions and technologies that solve our industry鈥檚 toughest challenges and continually improve environmental performance,鈥� said Marty Bradley, Boeing鈥檚 principal investigator for the programme. 鈥淗ybrid electric is one of several important elements of our research efforts, and we are learning more every day about the feasibility of these technologies and how they could be used in the future.鈥�</p>
<p>While the Cambridge demonstrator is an important step in the development of hybrid or fully-electric aircraft, more research is required before commercial airliners will be powered entirely with electric motors. For example, if all the engines and all the fuel in a modern jetliner were to be replaced by batteries, it would have a total flying time of roughly ten minutes.</p>
<p>Test flights for the project took place at the Sywell Aerodrome, near Northampton. These tests consisted of a series of 鈥榟ops鈥� along the runway, followed by longer evaluation flights at a height of over 1,500 feet.</p>
<p>Robertson鈥檚 team, which includes PhD students Christian Friedrich and Andre Thunot and MEng student Tom Corker, is conducting ongoing test flights to characterise and optimise the system for best performance and fuel economy.</p>
<p> 探花直播Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates aviation is responsible for around 2% of global man-made carbon dioxide emissions. 探花直播aerospace industry made global commitments to take action that will see carbon neutral growth from 2020 and a net reduction in CO2 emissions of 50% by 2050 compared to 2005 levels. Boeing is a member of Sustainable Aviation (<a href="http://www.sustainableaviation.co.uk">www.sustainableaviation.co.uk</a>), which is responding to these goals in the UK.</p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-content-summary field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><p>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.</p>
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-show-cc-text field-type-list-boolean field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Yes</div></div></div>Tue, 23 Dec 2014 06:00:00 +0000sc604142212 at Cambridge team breaks superconductor world record
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<div class="field field-name-field-news-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="cam-scale-with-grid" src="/sites/default/files/styles/content-580x288/public/news/research/news/140626-superconductor-record.png?itok=ieNT6g8y" alt="" title="A bulk superconductor levitated by a permanent magnet, Credit: 探花直播 of Cambridge" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>A world record that has stood for more than a decade has been broken by a team led by 探花直播 of Cambridge engineers, harnessing the equivalent of three tonnes of force inside a golf ball-sized sample of material that is normally as brittle as fine china.</p>
<p> 探花直播Cambridge researchers managed to 鈥榯rap鈥� a magnetic field with a strength of 17.6 Tesla - roughly 2000聽times stronger than the field generated by a typical fridge magnet - in a high temperature gadolinium barium copper oxide (GdBCO) superconductor, beating the previous record by 0.4 Tesla. 探花直播<a href="http://iopscience.iop.org/0953-2048/27/8/082001/">results</a> are published today in the journal <em>Superconductor Science and Technology</em>.</p>
<p> 探花直播research demonstrates the potential of high-temperature superconductors for applications in a range of fields, including flywheels for energy storage, 鈥榤agnetic separators鈥�, which can be used in mineral refinement and pollution control, and in high-speed levitating monorail trains.</p>
<p>Superconductors are materials that carry electrical current with little or no resistance when cooled below a certain temperature. While conventional superconductors need to be cooled close to absolute zero (zero degrees on the Kelvin scale, or 鈥�273 掳C) before they superconduct, high temperature superconductors do so above the boiling point of liquid nitrogen (鈥�196 掳C), which makes them relatively easy to cool and cheaper to operate.</p>
<p>Superconductors are currently used in scientific and medical applications, such as MRI scanners, and in the future could be used to protect the national grid and increase energy efficiency, due to the amount of electrical current they can carry without losing energy.</p>
<p> 探花直播current carried by a superconductor also generates a magnetic field, and the more field strength that can be contained within the superconductor, the more current it can carry. State of the art, practical superconductors can carry currents that are typically 100 times greater than copper, which gives them considerable performance advantages over conventional conductors and permanent magnets.</p>
<p> 探花直播new record was achieved using 25 mm diameter samples of GdBCO high temperature superconductor fabricated in the form of a large, single grain using an established melt processing method and reinforced using a relatively simple technique. 探花直播previous record of 17.24 Tesla, set in 2003 by a team led by Professor Masato Murakami from the Shibaura Institute of Technology in Japan, used a highly specialised type of superconductor of a similar, but subtly different, composition and structure.</p>
<p>鈥� 探花直播fact that this record has stood for so long shows just how demanding this field really is,鈥� said Professor David Cardwell of Cambridge鈥檚 Department of Engineering and Fitzwilliam聽College, who led the research, in collaboration with Boeing and the National High Field Magnet Laboratory at the Florida State 探花直播. 鈥淭here are real potential gains to be had with even small increases in field.鈥�</p>
<p>To contain such a large field, the team used materials known as cuprates: thin sheets of copper and oxygen separated by more complex types of atoms. 探花直播cuprates were the earliest high temperature superconductors to be discovered, and have the potential to be used widely in scientific and medical applications.</p>
<p>While they are high quality superconductors with outstanding potential for practical applications, the cuprates can be as brittle as dried pasta when fabricated in the form of sintered ceramics, so trying to contain a strong magnetic field within bulk forms of the cuprates tends to cause them to explode.</p>
<p>In order to hold in, or trap, the magnetic field, the researchers had to modify both the microstructure of GdBCO to increase its current carrying and thermal performance, and reinforce it with a stainless steel ring, which was used to 鈥榮hrink-wrap鈥� the single grain samples. 鈥淭his was an important step in achieving this result,鈥� said Dr John Durrell who led the experiment in Florida.</p>
<p> 探花直播lines of magnetic flux in a superconductor repel each other strongly, making containing such a large field difficult. But, by engineering the bulk microstructure, the field is retained in the sample by so-called 鈥榝lux pinning centres鈥� distributed throughout the material. 鈥� 探花直播development of effective pinning sites in GdBCO has been key to this success,鈥� said Dr Yun-Hua Shi, who has been responsible for developing the melt process fabrication technique at Cambridge for the past 20 years.</p>
<p> 探花直播result was the biggest ever trapped field achieved in a bulk, standalone material at any temperature.</p>
<p>鈥淭his work could herald the arrival of superconductors in real-world applications,鈥� said Professor Cardwell. 鈥淚n order to see bulk superconductors applied for everyday use, we need large grains of superconducting material with the required properties that can be manufactured by relatively standard processes.鈥�</p>
<p>A number of niche applications are currently being developed by the Cambridge team and its collaborators, and it is anticipated that widespread commercial applications for superconductors could be seen within the next five years.</p>
<p>鈥淭his record could not have been achieved without the support of our academic and industrial colleagues and partners,鈥� said Professor Cardwell, who is the next Head of the Department of Engineering. 鈥淚t was a real team effort, and one which we hope will bring these materials a significant step closer to practical applications.鈥�</p>
<p>鈥淏oeing continues to see practical applications for this superconducting material research and we are excited about the possibilities being enabled by the recent advances achieved by the Cambridge team,鈥� said Patrick Stokes, who leads the Boeing-funded research portfolio with Cambridge 探花直播.</p>
<p> 探花直播research was funded by 探花直播Boeing Company and by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). 探花直播National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, where the measurements were performed, is funded the National Science Foundation and the State of Florida.</p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-content-summary field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><p>New record for a trapped field in a superconductor, beating a record that has stood for more than a decade, could herald the arrival of materials in a broad range of fields.</p>
</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-content-quote field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> 探花直播fact that this record has stood for so long shows just how demanding this field really is</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-content-quote-name field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">David Cardwell</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-image-credit field-type-link-field field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/" target="_blank"> 探花直播 of Cambridge</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-image-desctiprion field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">A bulk superconductor levitated by a permanent magnet</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cc-attribute-text field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> 探花直播text in this work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/">Creative Commons Licence</a>. If you use this content on your site please link back to this page. For image rights, please see the credits associated with each individual image.</p>
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<div class="field field-name-field-news-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="cam-scale-with-grid" src="/sites/default/files/styles/content-580x288/public/news/research/news/socialmedia.jpg?itok=-zQtN4ec" alt="154 Blue Chrome Rain Social Media Icons" title="154 Blue Chrome Rain Social Media Icons, Credit: WebTreats ETC, on flickr" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Social networking (SN) sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter have taken communication in the 21st century by storm. As businesses increasingly embrace the technology to connect individuals and share information, a new study funded by Boeing is developing methods to measure its value to organisations.</p>
<p>鈥楽N technologies are seen by companies as a major opportunity for improving collaboration, managing knowledge, connecting with clients, and generally helping individuals to feel part of a business,鈥� says project leader Dr David Good in the Department of Social and Developmental Psychology. 鈥楤ut, there is little understanding of how SN technologies evolve, what impact they have in practice and therefore how one can best deploy them for business efficiency.鈥�</p>
<p>In the past, SN structures were studied without much regard to the individuals that form them. However, Dr Good, PhD student Michal Kosinski, together with Dr Alan Blackwell from the Computer Laboratory and collaborators at Boeing believe that successful collaboration depends on the interaction of the SN structure and the individual characteristics of its members.</p>
<p>To investigate this problem requires the amassing of vast amounts of information on collaboration efficiency, SN structures and individual traits of network members, and then analysing the data using an interdisciplinary approach.</p>
<p>To understand individual traits, Michal Kosinski, working with David Stillwell from the 探花直播 of Nottingham, has developed a Facebook application that allows its users to complete a psychometric test and receive feedback. More than four million people have now taken the my Personality test, providing a huge dataset that links SN data with such traits as personality, life satisfaction, interests, education and demographic profile.</p>
<p>Results of the Facebook study will assist the team in evaluating the use of an in- house SN tool available to Boeing鈥檚 160,000 employees and its relation to collaboration efficiency and tactical decision making.</p>
<p>SN services are predicted to replace email as the primary vehicle for interpersonal communication for 20% of business users by 2014. With such escalating use in mind, Boeing collaborator Dr Anthony Majoros comments on the widespread benefits of this new research: 鈥楩or businesses to develop an effective culture around SN that places the technology at the centre of collaborative and communication activities, it鈥檚 important to develop the qualitative and quantitative measures that this project aims to do.鈥�</p>
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<p>For more information, please contact Dr David Good (<a href="mailto:dg25@cam.ac.uk">dg25@cam.ac.uk</a>) or Dr Alan Blackwell (<a href="mailto:afb21@cam.ac.uk">afb21@cam.ac.uk</a>).</p>
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-content-summary field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><p>A new study is examining the value of social networking technologies to business collaboration.</p>
</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-content-quote field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Social networking technologies are seen by companies as a major opportunity for improving collaboration, managing knowledge, connecting with clients, and generally helping individuals to feel part of a business.</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-content-quote-name field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Dr David Good</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-image-credit field-type-link-field field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/" target="_blank">WebTreats ETC, on flickr</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-image-desctiprion field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">154 Blue Chrome Rain Social Media Icons</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-panel-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Boeing</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-panel-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Boeing is the world鈥檚 largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial aeroplanes and defence, space and security systems. 探花直播company strives to work with the best technical talent in developing new aerospace-related technologies and has established multi-year collaborative research relationships with several UK universities, including Cambridge.<br />
With the future of aerospace being driven by developments in technology, Boeing is continually looking globally for new ideas and innovations. To help achieve this, the US-based company has established strategic relationships with universities around the world.</p>
<p>In the UK, Boeing is collaborating through multi-year agreements to conduct research and technology programmes with the 探花直播 of Sheffield, Cranfield 探花直播 and the 探花直播 of Cambridge. Not only are these programmes helping to expand Boeing鈥檚 technical reach and business concepts, but they also have long-lasting benefits in helping to stimulate British aerospace innovation.</p>
<p>Boeing鈥檚 framework agreement with Cambridge to conduct collaborative research began in 2003 and has recently been extended to 2014. Currently, nine projects are running, involving research teams in the Department of Engineering, the Computer Laboratory and the Department of Social and Developmental Psychology.</p>
<p> 探花直播principal focus has been to conduct research and development in areas such as automated reasoning, intelligent systems, natural language and information processing, information manipulation and information security, new materials for high-end engineering, and the interface between humans and computers.</p>
<p>Professor Cardwell, from the Department of Engineering and the lead principal investigator in the collaboration, explains why the relationship with Boeing has proved such an extraordinarily healthy example of industrial collaboration with academia: 鈥楤oeing facilitate 鈥� they make it easy for us to do the academic research that we think is relevant, while keeping in mind the best interests of the company. It鈥檚 a very productive, very supportive way of doing research. Their open-minded attitude makes it possible for new objectives to be set as new discoveries are made.鈥�</p>
<p>Applications of the research are as varied as developing new materials for energy-storage systems, assessing the potential of social networking technologies to improve knowledge management and communication in businesses (see above), and improving the operation and security of airports.</p>
<p>For more information about Boeing, please visit <a href="http://www.boeing.com/">www.boeing.com/</a></p>
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