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A major new initiative brings together top scientists in the UK, China and Saudi Arabia to transform CO2 into super-clean fuel and other commodities.
Breaking Moore’s Law: New photonic computing project aims to speed up artificial intelligence computing power to petascale processing levels
Funding Materials science
15 April 2021
The PHOENICS project brings together world leaders in neuromorphic photonic computing to achieve for the first time energy efficient petascale processing powers with ultra-high bandwidth. This is the processing power required by AI to reach its full potential.
Professor Saiful Islam to join the Department of Materials
Materials science
14 April 2021
Professor Islam will become the next Statutory Chair in Materials Modelling. He will take up his appointment in January 2022.
Oxford research given significant boost to develop lithium-rich battery cathodes
Materials science Research
30 March 2021
A team of scientists, including those based at the University of Oxford as part of the Faraday Institution CATMAT project, researching next-generation cathode materials have made a significant breakthrough in understanding oxygen-redox processes involved in lithium-rich cathode materials.
Winners announced for Oxford’s Beyond Boundaries art competition to encourage inclusion in STEM sciences
Equality and Diversity Materials science Plant sciences Statistics Zoology
24 February 2021
Oxford University has today announced the winners of its science-inspired schools’ art competition Beyond Boundaries which was launched to encourage inclusion in science research
Light-carrying chips advance machine learning
Materials science Research
11 January 2021
A team of international scientists has demonstrated an initial prototype of a photonic processor using tiny rays of light confined inside silicon chips that can process information much more rapidly than electronic chips and also in parallel - something traditional chips are incapable of doing.
EC advisory group, led by Prof Nicole Grobert, issues recommendations on the use of biodegradable plastics
Materials science
15 December 2020
Most biodegradable plastics only degrade in specific environments and should only be used in line with new recommendations from the European Commission’s independent Group of Chief Scientific Advisors (GCSA), led by Oxford Professor Nicole Grobert.
$10 million gift for new Nanoscience Institute in Oxford
Biomedical engineering Chemistry Engineering Funding Materials science Medical science Physics
7 December 2020
A new institute for nanoscience research is to open in Oxford thanks to a $10 million gift from The Kavli Foundation.
Prof Peter Nellist and Prof George Smith awarded Honorary Fellowships of the Royal Microscopical Society
Award Materials science
12 November 2020
This is the most prestigious award possible from the RMS for researchers around the globe, and is bestowed by the Society for pre-eminence in microscopy and related branches of science.
Prof Grobert appointed Chair of European Commission’s Chief Scientific Advisors
Materials science
3 November 2020
Professor Nicole Grobert, Professor of Nanomaterials and Associate Head of Department (Research) in the Department of Materials, has been elected Chair of the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors to the European Commission. Professor Sir Paul Nurse, Director of the Francis Crick Institute, joins her as Deputy Chair.
Understanding the superpowers of perovskites
Materials science Physics Research
2 November 2020
For the first time, researchers from Oxford’s Departments of Physics and Materials have managed to image hybrid metal halide perovskites with atomic-scale resolution providing new insights into these wonder-materials.
Prestigious European Awards for MPLS researchers
Chemistry Funding Materials science Physics
8 September 2020
Five researchers from MPLS Division have been awarded major European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants to fund cutting-edge projects.
Nanoscale engines far colder than even deepest outer space
Materials science
3 September 2020
Natalia Ares from the Department of Materials talks to the Science Blog about how rapid breakthroughs in the fabrication and measurement of devices at the nanoscale are now presenting us with the opportunity to explore new physics in the laboratory.
AI automatic tuning delivers step forward in Quantum computing
Materials science Research
19 August 2020
Researchers at Oxford University, in collaboration with DeepMind, University of Basel and Lancaster University, have created a machine learning algorithm that interfaces with a quantum device and ‘tunes’ it faster than human experts, without any human input. They are dubbing it ‘Minecraft explorer for quantum devices’.
Three academics in MPLS honoured by the Royal Society
Award Chemistry Materials science Maths
4 August 2020
Professor Bryan Birch (Mathematical Institute), Professor Ben Davis (Department of Chemistry) and Professor George Smith (Department of Materials) have all received Royal Society 2020 medals or prizes.
Citizenship in a networked age: an agenda for rebuilding our civic ideals
Computer science Materials science
2 June 2020
MPLS academics honoured by the Royal Society
Award Materials science Maths Physics
29 April 2020
Six Oxford University academics, including three from MPLS Division, have been elected to the prestigious Fellowship of the Royal Society.
Oxford professor joins the leadership team for National Quantum Computing Centre
MPLS Materials science
25 February 2020
Professor Simon Benjamin, Professor of Quantum Technologies at the University of Oxford, has today been appointed Deputy Director for Research at the National Quantum Computing Centre.
Oxford leads in £80M National Nuclear User Facility Award
Funding Materials science Research
20 January 2020
Research spotlight: Supercharging the future
Materials science Research
20 January 2020
Associate Professor Robert Weatherup is a new arrival in the Department of Materials. Continuing its series of ‘amazing people at Oxford you should know about’, ScienceBlog talks to Rob about his research in ‘interfaces science’ and the advances he’s working on for batteries, electric vehicles and sustainable technology.