A flurry of new contacts were announced at the London 2012 Business Summit yesterday, including a £60m pledge from BP to finance an International Centre for Advanced Materials (BP-ICAM).
The new international centre will support fundamental science and the engineering application of advanced materials – those with superior qualities such as toughness, hardness, durability and elasticity in the energy sector. The University of Manchester will act as a hub, with ‘spokes’ in other universities around the world that have topic-relevant specific areas of expertise. So…
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