A jet engine turbine blade.

From atoms to jet engines – extreme materials on display at summer exhibition

30 June 2015

At any one time over half a million people are flying far above our heads in modern aircraft. Their lives depend on the performance of the special metals used inside jet engines, where temperatures can reach over 2000˚C. Cambridge researchers will be exhibiting these remarkable materials at this year’s Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition.

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Wind turbines in the Thames estuary with heavy supporting structures under water.

How offshore wind turbines could be more efficient

17 August 2012

A Cambridge University study suggests that offshore wind farms could be 100 per cent more efficient in terms of energy payback if manufacturers embraced new methods for making the structures that support the turbines.

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