The hybrid lithium-ion supercapacitors store up to 25 times more energy per kilogram than conventional versions, retaining 96% of capacity after 15,000 cycles.
Jennifer Meakins, assistant professor in the UK College of Design, uses digital knitting to create complex textile materials. Her research and teaching center on craft, textiles, and learning through making.
John Balk explores how the structure of materials affects their strength, toughness and performance, especially for demanding uses such as next-generation energy systems and sensors.
Alexandra Paterson has earned two prestigious national awards for early-career faculty: the U.S. National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Young Faculty Award.
A new study by UK researchers is helping change how scientists understand and control magnetic energy — and it could lead to faster, more efficient electronic devices.
Ashley Morris, a principal research engineer at the UK Center for Applied Energy Research and part of the Carbon Materials Research Group, is among a new generation of women engineers who are paving the way for women in science.