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November, 2022Materials containing rare-earth elements dominate the market for high-performance permanent magnets, and there is much interest in finding alternatives.  Among the most promising of these is an iron-nickel phase first reported 60 years ago to form under neutron irradiation.  Later, the same phase was found in small amounts within mete…

Seeing transformations as they happenAugust, 2020State-of-the-art heating stages for transmission electron microscopy (TEM), based on MEMS technology, give close control of sample temperature and stability of sample position.  Yurii Ivanov and colleagues in Lindsay Greer’s group in the Department, together with Kostas Georgarakis of Cranfield Unive…

June, 2020Glassy springs are so much betterFamiliar springs are wires formed into coils but, in comparison, thin sheets formed into wavy shapes can elastically support a given load in much smaller working volume,  using much less spring material.  This work of Nikos Panagiotopoulos and Lindsay Greer, together with colleagues in Grenoble (FR), São C…

Sofia University - Doctor honoris causa - Professor A. Lindsay GreerOn Monday 2 December 2019, at an official ceremony at the Aula Magna of the Rectorate, Professor A. Lindsay Greer was awarded the "Doctor Honoris Causa" honorary degree of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”.The proposal for the conferral of the honorary degree of the oldest an…

Strain-hardening in metallic glasses March, 2020Strain(work)-hardening is the main reason that alloys are significant structural materials.  It ensures that flow is delocalized, imparts ductility and inhibits catastrophic mechanical failure.  Metallic glasses (MGs) have desirably high yield stress and elastic strain limit, but they show strain-soft…

BIOREMIA - European Training NetworkBiofilm-resistant materials for hard tissue implant applicationsBIOREMIA will provide top-level multidisciplinary skills to 15 Early-Stage Researchers through an ambitious research and training programme in the area of biofilm-resistant materials for hard tissue implant applications. It is a 4-year project funded…

Samer Kurdi, a PhD student in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, has been selected to participate in the 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting later this year.Once per year, more than 30 Nobel Laureates convene in Lindau, Germany, to meet the next generation of leading scientists, consisting of between 500 to 600 undergraduates, PhD s…

Møller Institute’s executive education team designed and delivered a leadership development programme for Sichuan University’s Teacher Development Programme.  Sichuan University is the 10th largest University in China and this cohort includes 30 teachers and research teachers in arts, science, engineering, and medical school all under 35 years old.…

Visit from Sichuan UniversityMøller Institute’s executive education team designed and delivered a leadership development programme for Sichuan University’s Teacher Development Programme.  Sichuan University is the 10th largest University in China and this cohort includes 30 teachers and research teachers in arts, science, engineering, and medical s…

Professor George Neville GreavesWith the death of Neville Greaves earlier this month, the research community focused on glasses and disordered materials has lost one of its most cherished members.  For the past near-decade, after stepping down as Head of the Department of Physics at Aberystwyth, Neville was a Distinguished Research Fellow of the Ma…

Visit of scientists from the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Sofia to University of Cambridge, UK within the H2020 Materials Networking project Members of the Management Committee of the H2020 Materials Networking project meet in CambridgeThe program of the visit included meetings with Professor Paul Midgley, Head of the Department…

Armourers & Brasiers' Cambridge Forum Tuesday 18 June 2019Forum 2019The Forum will be held on Tuesday 18th June 2019.  The afternoon programme includes the award of the Armourers & Brasiers’ Materials Science Venture Prize and the 21st Kelly Lecture.  

Antiferromagnetic Spintronics"Antiferromagnetic Spintronics: An Unexpected Journey"talk bySamer Kurdiat 1:15 pm in Goldsmiths 1.{Duration ~ 25 minutes}ABSTRACTAntiferromagnetic Spintronics: An Unexpected JourneySamer Kurdi1, Philipp Zilske2, Yuya Sakuraba3, Xiandong Xu3, Zoe H. Barber1, Günter Reiss2, Jungwoo Koo21 Device Materials Group, Departmen…

CSARSAMER KURDI RECEIVES CSAR AWARD 2019CSAR PhD Students Awards - 20192019 CSAR PhD Student Awards For Applied ResearchThe CSAR PhD Students Awards for 2019 have been finalized. This year there were 218 applicants for 12 places.The winners were presented with their awards by Prof. Andrew Neely, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Enterprise and Business Relat…

Samer Kurdi, a PhD student in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, has been selected to participate in the 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting later this year. Samer Kurdi, a PhD student in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, has been selected to participate in the 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting later this year.htt…