Dept News
‘Glue’ that makes plant cell walls strong could hold the key to wooden skyscrapers
Molecules 10,000 times narrower than the width of a human hair could hold the key to making possible wooden skyscrapers and more energy-efficient paper production, according to research published in the journal Nature Communications.
Christmas Lectures
Six Warwick Christmas Lectures presented science in an entertaining, festive and educational way to over 2,500 people - half from local schools and half general public. Topics ranged from gravitational waves to number theory, cake making to snow making, emotions to life in a cartoon universe.
Extraordinarily large coercive field in a frustrated magnet
As a result of the interplay between correlations, frustration, reduced dimensionality and anisotropy, the materials Sr3NiIrO6 and Sr3CoIrO6 exhibit record high coercive magnetic fields of up to 55 T.
Structure of a model TiO2 photocatalytic interface
The structure of a model photocatalytic interface has been determined combining scanning microscopies, surface diffraction and density functional theory calculations.