Advancing the surface technology of materials
01 September 2008Research at the Gordon Laboratory is opening up an important new area for the surface engineering of materials.
Collagen mechanics: learning from nature
01 September 2008Because of their unique structure, biological tissues exhibit physical and mechanical properties that are unlike anything in the world of engineering.
Brushing up on soft materials for nanotechnology
01 September 2008Taking their cue from the building blocks of life, Cambridge chemists are assembling polymers that move.
Synthetic biology takes root
01 September 2008Creating circuits from multiple components is routine in engineering. Can living systems be constructed using similar principles?
Squeezing more from light: coupling nanoscience and photonics
01 September 2008Cambridge’s new NanoPhotonics Centre is creating novel properties of light and matter at the nanoscale.
Next-generation medical implants
01 September 2008At the Cambridge Centre for Medical Materials, a highly interdisciplinary approach is meeting the challenge of bioengineering new materials for the human body.
Atomic yoga: the new physics of flexibility
01 September 2008A UK-wide collaboration led by the Department of Earth Sciences is uncovering the counterintuitive properties of flexible materials.
Materials on the horizon
01 September 2008Professor Lindsay Greer, Head of the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, highlights the vital role of materials research in meeting many of today’s challenges.
Lean machines: environmentally friendly engines
01 September 2008An industrial-grade aerospace gas turbine combustion simulator – the first of its kind in the UK and one of only a dozen worldwide – is...
‘Super’ superalloys: hotter, stronger, for even longer
01 September 2008Only a single class of engineering materials can withstand the extreme conditions deep within a jet aeroplane engine – the nickel-base superalloys.