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The University of Manchester has “surged” 27 places on a list ranking the world’s most innovative universities.   ...

Manchester researchers have made new findings about what happens when folding materials which are just a few atoms thick. ...

Grafine Ltd is a new business created to develop innovative high-performance rubbers, elastomers and other such soft materials enhanced with graphene - the extraordinary 2-dimensional material first isolated in Manchester. ...

In January 2017 the world’s lightest mechanical chronograph watch was unveiled in Geneva, Switzerland, showcasing innovative composite development by using graphene. Now the research behind the project has been published. The unique precision-enginee...

A new service has been launched by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and the National Graphene Institute (NGI) at The University of Manchester, which will help the UK to cash in on the potential of graphene, by providing the ‘missing link’ for i...

Researchers at The University of Manchester’s National Graphene Institute (NGI) have achieved a long-sought-after objective of electrically controlling water flow through membranes, as reported in Nature. ...

Dr Nazmul Karim, Knowledge Exchange Fellow at the National Graphene Institute, The University of Manchester has been awarded £35,000 from the Innovate UK Innovation to commercialisation university research (ICURe) fund to validate commercial potentia...

The University of Manchester’s recently completed £60m Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre (GEIC) has agreed the first in a series of industrial partnerships to accelerate the commercialisation of graphene in Manchester. ...

Published in Science, a team of researchers at The University of Manchester have found that on a microscopic scale water behaves very differently when only a few molecules thick and its thin layers lose any polarizability, becoming electrically dead....

Published in Nature, this new research shows that the channels allow gas through them at rates that are orders of magnitude faster than expected from theory. This will not only be important for fundamental studies on molecular flows at nanoscale b...

Today (20 June 2018), HRH Prince Khaled Bin Sultan announced the winners for the 8th Award of the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW) at the opening session of UNISPACE+50 conference in Vienna, Austria. Professor Andr...

The world’s first-ever sports shoes to utilise graphene – the strongest material on the planet – have been unveiled by The University of Manchester and British brand inov-8. ...

The Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre (GEIC) at The University of Manchester has celebrated a key milestone in its construction. ...

Researchers at The University of Manchester have discovered that the naturally occurring gaps between individual layers of two-dimensional materials can be used as a sieve to separate different atoms. ...

The Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) and the National Graphene Institute (NGI) at The University of Manchester have published a joint paper on the potential of graphene in aerospace. ...

James Baker has been announced as Chief Executive Officer for Graphene@Manchester which leads business-facing development of graphene and 2D materials at The University of Manchester. ...

Researchers working at The University of Manchester have shown new possibilities for observing nanomaterials in liquids by creating a graphene ‘petri-dish’. ...

Business leaders and academics from across the UK will are gathering at The University of Manchester on Wednesday (January 10) to shape nationally-focused strategies for advanced materials - an area identified by government as vital to boosting the e...

A University of Manchester partnership is launching a revolutionary world-first in the sports footwear market following a unique collaboration with graphene experts. ...

This week, William Blythe Ltd has started a new research project with the National Graphene Institute (NGI) at The University of Manchester, targeting the development of novel high capacity graphene-related materials for use in the electric vehicle m...

Graphene, the world’s first two-dimensional material, is many times stronger than steel, more conductive than copper, lightweight, flexible and one million times thinner than a human hair. Graphene is set to improve the quality of life for many ac...

2-dimensional materials have been successfully assembled into devices with the smallest possible man made holes for water desalination. ...

Graphene could help reduce the energy cost of producing heavy water and decontamination in nuclear power plants by over one hundred times compared with current technologies, University of Manchester research indicates. The new development could le...

A new atomically thin material similar to graphene has been proven to be a promising new superconductive material. Black phosphorous - a layered material, somewhat similar to graphite – has generated much excitement among scientists and engineers ...

New research demonstrates the potential for graphene membranes providing clean drinking water for millions of people who struggle to access adequate clean water sources. ...

An ultralight high-performance mechanical watch made with graphene is unveiled today in Geneva at the Salon International De La Haute Horlogerie thanks to a unique collaboration. ...

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin in collaboration with colleagues from the National Graphene Institute (NGI) at The University of Manchester, have used graphene to make the novelty children’s material Silly Putty® (polysilicone) conduct electr...

Following a decade of intensive research into graphene and two-dimensional materials a new semiconductor material shows potential for the future of super-fast electronics. ...

During a royal visit to the city The Duke and Duchess visited the National Graphene Institute (NGI) at The University of Manchester and were welcomed by the President and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell, and Professor Martin Schröder, ...

The University of Manchester has been awarded more than £5m for research into using nanomaterials including graphene in the human body. ...