Young engineers’ new technologies garner Royal support

Posted on 15 Oct 2015 by Jonny Williamson

Ten promising doctoral projects with potential to make a significant impact on health, environment and industry will now be taken towards commercialisation, thanks to funding and support by the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851.

The new technologies include a replacement for the eye’s lens which could stop vision deteriorating with age; new materials for much cheaper solar cells; research that could create much longer lasting batteries, and a silicon based data transfer technique which could underpin the development of affordable quantum computers. New modelling tools…

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