Congratulations to third year PGR Joe Pitfield, who has been awarded 250,000 CU (Computer Units) with a notional value of £100,000 from Materials Chemistry Consortium (MCC). Read below for Joe’s comments on this achievement: The Hepplestone research group have a ritual when it comes to supercomputing. Biannually we draft proposals that are sent to the […]
Category: Activities & achievements
Training and other events: February 2022 to April 2022
Please find below a table of all upcoming XM² training and other events from February 2022 to April 2022, as far as planning currently allows and subject to change. PGRs, please highlight any XM²-training related absence times to your supervisors. In regards to annual leave or other absence time planning: all confirmed events have been […]
Exeter’s Centre for Metamaterial Research and Innovation Exeter secures significant grant to revolutionise wireless and computing technologies
The University of Exeter has received a £1.8 million research grant for a collaboration with the National Science Foundation Industry-University Cooperative Research Center for Metamaterials (CfM) in the USA to develop advanced, reconfigurable metamaterials that will revolutionise technologies such as wireless communication networks, remote imaging and artificial intelligence type computing. The project will be led […]
Elizabeth Martin awarded PhD!
Congratulations to Dr Elizabeth Martin, who was recently awarded her PhD. Her thesis was titled ‘Microfluidic Elasto-Magnetic Materials For Controlled Swimming And Pumping’. During her time as part of the CDT, she published 6 papers and was involved with multiple Outreach activities, notably Pint of Science and Metabuddies, a PGR-led scheme where PGRs work with local […]
Pint of Science 2021
Pint of Science 2021 was slightly different to previous years. Normally, the events would be held in pubs across the country, but because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was moved to an online format. Over 30 UK cities organised almost 70 live online shows. This year, the city of Exeter hosted three shows: Our Bodies […]
New Publication Featured as Front-Page Story: ‘Enhanced Performance and Diffusion Robustness of Phase-Change Metasurfaces via a Hybrid Dielectric/Plasmonic Approach’
Congratulations to third year PGR Joe Shields, whose recent publication ‘Enhanced Performance and Diffusion Robustness of Phase-Change Metasurfaces via a Hybrid Dielectric/Plasmonic Approach’ was published in Nanomaterials and featured on their website as a front-page story. Joe explains the purpose of this work: Phase change materials can dramatically change their optical properties when they undergo a […]
PGR contributions and poster winner at IOP Magnetism 2021
Five of our PGRs contributed to this year’s IOP Magnetism conference; IoP Magnetism is the largest conference for the UK/RoI magnetism community and features researchers/industry from across Europe. The contributions from our PGRs were: CONTRIBUTED TALKS: Oliver Latcham – “Magnetically tunable resonant acoustic transmission in phononic crystals” Kostas Chatzimpaloglou – “Optically detected spin-orbit […]
Zahid Hussain passes his viva!
Congratulations to PGR Zahid Hussain, who has passed his viva. His thesis was titled ‘Metal-organic Framework (MOFs) Derived Nanocomposites: Synthesis and Applications in Photocatalysis’. During his time with the CDT, Zahid published 11 papers, plus an English-to-Urdu translation of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli. Zahid now works as a postdoctoral researcher at Technical University […]
Ned Taylor passes his viva!
Congratulations to CDT student Ned Taylor, who has just finished his PhD. His thesis was titled ‘Ab Initio Exploration of Interface Structures and Their Properties’. Ned published five papers during his time as part of the CDT and presented at national and international conferences. He was also involved with the Metabuddies scheme- an outreach scheme led […]
Exeter’s Centre for Metamaterial Research and Innovation to provide novel research for £2m government offshore windfarm development
Exeter’s Centre for Metamaterial Research and Innovation (CMRI) will develop novel methods for creating conductive coating for turbine blades that adsorb radar in partnership with TWI Ltd as part of the £2M offshore windfarm development boost spearheaded by the Ministry of Defence (MOD)’s Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) on behalf of the Department for Business, […]