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Prof Robert Young of the NGI along with two alumni have been honoured with IOM3 Awards. ...

Scientists are seeking to kick-start a wearable technology revolution by creating flexible fibres and adding acids from red wine. ...

The initiative aims to bring together early career researchers to share their work in the field of composite materials. ...

CEO of Graphene@Manchester James Baker will chair the Advanced Materials Show opening plenary. ...

Professor Burke becomes the society's first female president from the physical sciences field. ...

Dr Benstead received the Highly Commended Paper Award at the EurOMA Conference 2019 in Helsinki. ...

Qian Chen's entry project was based on his PhD studies into laser processing for perovskite solar cells. ...

Professor Xiao has been named Rolls-Royce/Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Advanced Coating Technology. ...

Professor Michael Preuss has been recognised for outstanding achievements in the field of zirconium research and technology. ...

University of Manchester researchers have used their knowledge of graphene to understand its parent material, graphite. ...

The University of Manchester has been awarded £10million to launch a UK-wide biomanufacturing research hub that could pave the way for easier and quicker ways to make new medicines and sustainable energy solutions. ...

A UK team of materials researchers, led by The University of Manchester, has secured nearly £7.5 million in EPSRC funding to undertake research into nuclear fuel cladding materials. ...

Scientists have used a Nobel-prize winning Chemistry technique on a mixture of metals to potentially reduce the cost of fuel cells used in electric cars and reduce harmful emissions from conventional vehicles. ...

Professor Michael Shaver has joined the School of Materials as Professor of Polymer Science. ...

Researchers and scientists from across The University of Manchester are coming together in the fight against plastic pollution as part of a new multimillion-pound, Government-backed scheme. The University will lead on the UKRI funded ‘Rethinking R...

His Royal Highness The Duke of York has officially opened the £60m Masdar Building which houses the Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre (GEIC) at The University of Manchester. ...

Scientists working at The University of Manchester have shone new light on the Enigma machine used by the German military in World War Two and cracked by Alan Turing and his team of code breakers at Bletchley Park. ...

Two exceptional scientists have been awarded prestigious BP funded fellowships to carry out research at The University of Manchester with a range of advanced materials applications, from carbon capture and storage, to smart materials and sensors.  ...

We are deeply saddened by the death of Professor Paul O'Brien CBE FREng FRS. ...

The University of Manchester has been awarded a pair of multi-million pound research grants to work with two leading industry partners, Astra Zeneca and AkzoNobel. ...

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 University of Manchester PhD student has developed a prototype flexible heat shield for spacecraft that could reduce the cost of space travel and even aid future space missions to Mars. ...

Prospect Planes will be unveiled on Friday, 17 August as part of The Hexagon Experiment series of events at the Great Exhibition of the North in partnership with the National Graphene Institute and Brighter Sound. The fascinating video art project...

Taking place across six Friday evenings in Newcastle and Gateshead this summer as part of the Great Exhibition of the North, The Hexagon Experiment will feature live music, conversations and original commissions from some of the North’s most exciting...

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...