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The University of Manchester is this week hosting a graphene congress, for companies working on graphene applications of the future. It runs 12th-13th June. It is the second annual Graphene Supply, Application and Commercialisation Congress, to give it its full name, and will examine how graphene is being commercialised. Speakers at the Congress include senior researchers from leading companies involved ...

The University of Southampton has appointed Liam Maxwell, government Chief Technology Officer, as a Visiting Professor in Electronics and Computer Science. “As CTO to the UK Government, Liam Maxwell occupies one of the most significant positions in UK IT and computing,” said Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Head of the University’s Web and Internet Science Group. “He is leading a transformation ...

A team led by Dr Fiona Mathews, of Biosciences at the University of Exeter, has been studying the potential effect of mobile phone radio-frequency electromagnetic radiation (RF-EMR) emissions on male fertility. They have conducted a review of the findings from ten previous studies. Previous research, says the university, has suggested that RF-EMR emitted by the devices can have a detrimental ...

More from Manchester University on the graphene front. The university has announced a new project, ‘Electrochemical Energy Storage with Graphene-Enabled Materials’ which will be exploring different ways to reduce the size and weight of batteries and extend their lifespan by adding graphene as a component material”. Before such batteries can be built the researchers need to study how graphene will ...

A team led by Dr Artem Mishchenko and Sir Andre Geim from The University of Manchester have found that the electronic properties of graphene change dramatically if graphene is placed on top of boron nitride, also known as ‘white graphite’. They have published their findings in Nature Physics. The university writes: A new direction that has recently emerged in graphene ...

We wrote back in January that Bristol University had been selected by Intel to become an Intel Parallel Computing Centre (IPCC). Now, the University of Edinburgh joins the ranks. EPCC is the supercomputing centre at Edinburgh and it will be working with Intel. The university has announced: EPCC … has been designated an Intel Parallel Computing Centre (IPCC), through a prestigious ...

Research at a number of universities – Sheffield, Southampton and Crete – is aiming to develop a new hybrid energy transfer system that mimics the processes responsible for photosynthesis. This energy transfer, writes Richard Wilson, is known as Forster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET), a radiationless transmission of energy that occurs on the nanometer scale from a donor molecule to an acceptor ...

A Professor of Cryptology in the Department of Computer Science at Bristol University has won an award from IBM Research. A paper on “Fully Homomorphic Encryption” by Bristol’s Professor Nigel Smart is the winner of the Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award, the university highlights. The citation for the paper says: This paper represents a large step forward in the ...

A new type of light sensor could support medical and security imaging, and also work with low cost cameras. This is the promise of new research at Surrey University.  The new ‘multispectral’ light sensor detects the full spectrum of light, says the university, from ultra-violet (UV) to visible and near infrared light. One application could be non-invasive medical procedures, such as ...

Scientists at the University of Liverpool have created a new material, related to graphene, which has the potential to improve transistors, writes David Manners.