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The transition to electric vehicles and renewable energy is often presented as a clean-energy success story. Yet behind the batteries powering this transformation lies a growing challenge: where will the raw materials come from, and what happens when millions of batteries reach the end of their lives?These questions are at the heart of the work of …

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are among the most remarkable materials ever discovered. Thousands of times thinner than a human hair yet extraordinarily strong and electrically sensitive to specific external impacts, they have long promised breakthroughs in electronics, medicine and environmental monitoring. But turning that promise into everyday technolo…

Organic semiconductors may sound like an obscure corner of material science, but according to Prof. Thomas D. Anthopoulos, The University of Manchester, they could soon influence everything from the solar panels powering the IoT device ecosystem to the safety systems protecting future hydrogen-powered vehicles.In a recent lecture titled “Organic Se…

When Prof. Carsten Schuck talks about quantum technology, he doesn’t start with abstract equations or distant theoretical ideas. Instead, he describes something surprisingly tangible: chips.Not the kind in your phone, at least not yet, but silicon-based platforms capable of generating, manipulating and detecting individual particles of light. These…

Wide-area AFM scan over a live circuit at 200 mK (left), and a higher resolution AFM image shows the interdigitated capacitors within the resonator (right). Image credit: Hegedüs, M. et al 2025, shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 International Licence.Quantum technologies are often described as revolutionary,…

Quantum technologies have long promised to revolutionise computing, sensing and secure communications. But between a breakthrough in the lab and a product in the marketplace lies a complex, often misunderstood journey.In his lecture, “The Pathway to Commercial Implementation of Quantum Technologies,” Paul Ceely, from Digital Catapult, unpacked what…

If you took apart your smartphone, you would find astonishing layers of electronic sophistication. But what you would not obviously see (yet) is light.That, says Dr. Sylwester Latkowski of Eindhoven University of Technology and Scientific Director of the Photonic Integration Technology Center (PITC), is about to change.“I want people to know that t…