University of Manchester - Archive (Research-Beacons)
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2023
25
January
2023
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14:50
Europe/London
Published in Science, a collaboration between teams from the National Graphene Institute at The University of Manchester, and the École Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris, demonstrated the Hebbian learning in artificial nanochannels, where the channels ...
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11
January
2023
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12:53
Europe/London
Molymem, a spin-out company based at The University of Manchester that is developing a breakthrough water filtration technology, which promises to be both greener and cheaper, has secured SEED equity investment of £500,000 to help scale-up....
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2022
17
November
2022
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13:24
Europe/London
In a recently published paper, an international research group examined significant development directions in the field of electronic materials with curved geometries at the nanoscale. From microelectronic devices with enhanced functionality to large...
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09
November
2022
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15:19
Europe/London
UK team reveal boost to green hydrogen ambitions to coincide with COP27 climate change summit...
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04
November
2022
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13:44
Europe/London
Watercycle Technologies – a spin-out company from The University of Manchester that specialises in recovery of scarce minerals through filtration - has won a £500,000 Innovate UK Smart Grant, in partnership with Cornish Lithium, to test its ground-br...
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04
November
2022
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00:05
Europe/London
At a visit yesterday (Thursday 3 November) the new Business Secretary, Grant Shapps, has announced a £95m investment to the Henry Royce Institute (‘Royce’) headquartered at The University of Manchester. ...
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07
October
2022
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07:00
Europe/London
Graphene scientists from The University of Manchester discovered that water molecules on the surface of graphene electrodes split exponentially faster with stronger electrical forces – a phenomenon known as the Wien effect....
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06
October
2022
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14:55
Europe/London
Pioneering scientists and engineers from The University of Manchester are looking to build a future in space through innovation in advanced materials and autonomous systems - including revolutionary concepts in space habitats and the trustworthy robo...
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18
August
2022
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13:19
Europe/London
‘Tales From The Future’, a beer made in a recent collaboration between researchers at The University of Manchester and Cloudwater Brew Co., will launch at the end of August 2022. The beer is uniquely brewed using a novel strain of yeast, a hybrid, de...
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16
August
2022
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14:30
Europe/London
Scientists from Manchester and China have demonstrated that graphene can be a kind of ‘philosopher’s stone’, allowing gold extraction from waste containing only trace amounts of gold....
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02
August
2022
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15:22
Europe/London
Scientists from The University of Manchester have developed a novel yet simple method for producing vertical stacks of alternating superconductor and insulator layers of tantalum disulphide (TaS2), potentially speeding up manufacture of ‘heterostruct...
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27
July
2022
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16:00
Europe/London
Graphene scientists from The University of Manchester have created a novel ‘nano-petri dish’ using two-dimensional (2D) materials to create a new method of observing how atoms move in liquid, with potential application in green energy technologies....
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13
July
2022
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11:13
Europe/London
National Graphene Institute researcher Professor Coskun Kocabas is among six world-leading scientists shortlisted for the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) prestigious A F Harvey Engineering Research Prize, worth £350,000....
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21
June
2022
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15:02
Europe/London
The University of Manchester’s expertise in advanced materials and robotic systems will play a key role in driving a revolution in UK manufacturing, according to graphene start-up pioneer Dr Vivek Koncherry....
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20
June
2022
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11:17
Europe/London
Energy sector academics, experts, practitioners, decision-makers, advocates and business sector representatives from all across the world are attending the 3rd International Conference on Energy Research & Social Science, hosted by The University of ...
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25
May
2022
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08:26
Europe/London
Watercycle Technologies, a spin-out from The University of Manchester, has secured initial funding for an innovative technology that uses advanced graphene-based membranes and systems to extract lithium and other minerals from brines and water soluti...
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12
May
2022
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00:00
Europe/London
The University of Manchester has retained 5th place for research power - the quality and scale of research and impact - in the UK government’s Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021, the major national exercise to evaluate research activity, which ...
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06
May
2022
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10:03
Europe/London
The Energy Innovation Agency has officially launched, bringing together world-leading academic, private sector and public sector expertise to help bridge the energy innovation gap and find solutions to make sure Greater Manchester can reach its carb...
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26
April
2022
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10:55
Europe/London
A robot named Lyra has been used to inspect a ventilation duct in Dounreay’s redundant nuclear laboratories and map radioactive materials. Lyra traversed 140m of duct from a single entry point and provided operators with detailed radiological charact...
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08
April
2022
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10:09
Europe/London
A research team led by The University of Manchester’s National Graphene Institute (NGI) has developed a tunable graphene-based platform that allows for fine control over the interaction between light and matter in the terahertz (THz) spectrum, reveal...
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04
April
2022
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13:59
Europe/London
Researchers at Manchester will help decarbonise the electricity system in Great Britain and accelerate progress towards net zero, in a five-year innovation partnership announced with National Grid. The collaboration will help to enable the transition...
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04
April
2022
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13:51
Europe/London
Scientists at Manchester are supporting National Grid on a project funded through the Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) from Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem) to address the challenge of increasing demand for electricity, particularly in mo...
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22
March
2022
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11:24
Europe/London
The ongoing collaboration between The University of Manchester’s graphene scientists and Northern England-based outdoor sports brand inov-8 has been awarded as an ‘outstanding’ example of innovation and wealth creation in the UK by Innovate UK....
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22
March
2022
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11:17
Europe/London
Poor countries reliant on fossil fuel revenues need more time to end production and financial support to do so. ...
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17
March
2022
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14:08
Europe/London
Graphene@Manchester and its partners enjoyed a night of success at the CogX Awards in London, winning four prizes for innovation at a gala evening in London....
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08
March
2022
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12:23
Europe/London
The University of Manchester is supporting a Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) from Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem)....
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03
March
2022
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11:03
Europe/London
Nuclear experts at The University of Manchester have outlined some of the key actions needed to deliver a responsible nuclear sector in the UK’s net zero future....
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01
March
2022
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13:44
Europe/London
A team of researchers at The University of Manchester’s National Graphene Institute and the National Physical Laboratory has demonstrated that slightly twisted 2D transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) display room-temperature ferroelectricity....
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16
February
2022
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14:21
Europe/London
Scientists from The University of Manchester have managed to successfully make a transuranium complex where the central metal, here neptunium, forms a multiple bond to just one other element....
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11
February
2022
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11:26
Europe/London
Technical advances made through The University of Manchester led DISCOVERER project to create new generation satellites capable of operating at a lower orbit have been honoured at The Engineer's Collaborate to Innovate (C2I) awards....
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