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Read more at: Dr. Laura Promoted to Professorship

Dr. Laura Promoted to Professorship

16 June 2022

CaPI's Principal Investigator, Dr. Laura Torrente Murciano, has been promoted to Professorship at the Department of Chemical Engineering. Many Congratulations to Laura!


Read more at: Joseph Wins Best Presentation Award at CEB Conference 2022

Joseph Wins Best Presentation Award at CEB Conference 2022

15 June 2022

Our Ph.D. student Joseph El Kadi won the Best Presentation Prize at the recent CEB Research Conference 2022. Congratulations Joseph, well-deserved! .


Read more at: Cambridge Festival 2022

Cambridge Festival 2022

6 May 2022

The CaPI group took part in the annual Cambridge Festival 2022 to showcase our work in sustainability and health and inspire younger generations to get involved in science. Joseph and Collin’s ignition of hydrogen balloons - to demonstrate how much energy can be stored safely in a few milliliters of liquid ammonia - was...


Read more at: Dial-a-material paper published in Advanced Energy Materials

Dial-a-material paper published in Advanced Energy Materials

19 July 2021

Pleased to share our recent paper in Advanced Energy Materials on precise manufacturing of plasmonic nanoparticles based on early growth Information. We hope to redefine automation for slow material synthesis. #automation #sustainability #nanomaterials #nanotechnology #chemistry #microfluidics Please check our article at...


Read more at: Gaia - North Carolina State University Award

Gaia - North Carolina State University Award

19 July 2021

Congratulations to Gaia Ganzer for getting another award during her Part IIB research project. This time she got the North Carolina State University (NCSU) award, which is awarded annually to a candidate that exhibits distinction in the performance of original work (experimental or theoretical) in the research project...


Read more at: 3-year EPSRC grant awarded for nanomaterial automation

3-year EPSRC grant awarded for nanomaterial automation

18 April 2021

The CAPI group has been recently awarded an EPSRC grant for a 3-year project in the Manufacturing sector, being entitled “Dial-a-particle: model-driven self-optimised manufacturing platform of nanoparticles”. This project aims to deliver automated precise manufacturing of customized inorganic nanoparticles (1 to 100 nm) of...


Read more at: Joseph El Kadi and Collin Smith were featured on BBC

Joseph El Kadi and Collin Smith were featured on BBC

4 April 2021

Joseph El Kadi and Collin Smith were featured on BBC One igniting hydrogen balloons in the lead-up to their interactive Cambridge Festival talk ‘Fuel of the Future’ which discusses the potential of ammonia to serve as a future fuel or energy vector in a carbon-free society. All the energy released in the exploding balloon...


Read more at: Gaia - 1st prize for the Part IIB presentations

Gaia - 1st prize for the Part IIB presentations

31 March 2021

Our undegraded student Gaia Ganzer just won the CEB 1st prize for the Part IIB presentations (final year presentation of the departmental R&D project). Congratulations Gaia, well-deserved! Her project is entitled “3D printed reactors for the continues synthesis of bi-metallic nanoparticles”


Read more at: Redefining haber bosch loop

Redefining haber bosch loop

14 March 2021

Collin Smith and Laura Torrente-Murciano have published an article in Advanced Energy Materials that has been featured on the CEB website . It displays their work on a new process for ammonia production in which synthesis and separation are integrated into a single vessel. As opposed to the conventional Haber-Bosch process...


Read more at: IChemE Clean Energy - community outreach

IChemE Clean Energy - community outreach

15 February 2021

Joseph El Kadi , Collin Smith and Laura Torrente-Murciano published an article in The Chemical Engineer (the Institution of Chemical Engineer’s magazine) about the potential roles of hydrogen and ammonia in energy storage. This article was part of a Clean Energy Special Interest Group series on the Hydrogen Economy. In...