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Overhead view of a chemical plant

Researchers unravel the complex reaction pathways in zero-carbon fuel synthesis

20 Jan 2023

Researchers have used isotopes of carbon to trace how carbon dioxide emissions could be converted into low-carbon fuels and chemicals. The result...

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Soft solids and the science of cake

24 Feb 2016

Researchers hope that working out the behaviours of soft solids, which can act like either solids or liquids, may make for tastier cakes – and safer...

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Close-up of the moss pots incorporated into a novel table developed at Cambridge University.

The hidden power of moss

22 Sep 2011

Scientists at Cambridge University are exhibiting a prototype table that demonstrates how biological fuel cells can harness energy from plants.

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Bio Lab

Single component biology is past; bioengineering has begun

01 Oct 2008

Professor Nigel Slater, from the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, describes how the influx of ideas and principles from non-...

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Holographic concave mirror

A new vision for Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

01 May 2008

The recently announced merger of the Department of Chemical Engineering and the Institute of Biotechnology heralds a new dimension for research and...

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