Moderate Li⁺-Solvent Binding for Gel Polymer Electrolytes with Stable Cycling toward Lithium Metal Batteries
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE05866F, PaperShaojie Zhang, Zhongpeng Li, Yixin Zhang Zhang, Xuanpeng Wang, Pei-Yang Dong, Saihai Lei, Weihao Zeng, Juan Wang, Xiaobin Liao, Xingye Chen, Dongqi Li, Shichun Mu
Solvation chemistry is crucial for gel polymer electrolytes (GPEs) due to great impact on ionic conductivity and solid electrolyte interface (SEI) properties. However, its rational regulation to balance fast Li⁺...
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Management practices and manufacturing firm responses to a randomized energy audit
Nature Energy, Published online: 11 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41560-025-01729-5
New research finds that a randomized energy audit intervention reduced metal processing firms’ unit cost of electricity by 8%, primarily by informing managers that they were overpaying for electricity, and had an insignificant net effect on electricity use and associated greenhouse gas emissions.Switching on and off the spin polarization of the conduction band in antiferromagnetic bilayer transistors
Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 11 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41565-025-01872-w
Double-gate transistors of bilayer layered antiferromagnet CrPS4 give full control of the spin polarization of the conduction band and of the magnetization of the accumulated electrons.Green-Solvent-Processable Polymer Hole Transport Material for Achieving 26.31% Efficiency in Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells
DOI: 10.1039/D5EE00380F, PaperSen Yin, Xuanang Luo, Fushen Tang, Zhihui Xiong, Youran Lin, Wenyu Yang, Yuanyuan Shu, Yang Wang, Lei Ying
Polymer hole transport layer plays a critical role in inverted perovskite solar cells since they can determine stability and photovoltaic performances of devices. However, conventional polymer hole transport materials, such...
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Degradation path prediction of lithium-ion batteries under dynamic operating sequences
DOI: 10.1039/D4EE04787G, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Inwoo Kim, Hyunjae Kim, Seongha An, Jihoon Oh, Minsoo Kim, Jang Wook Choi
Reliable battery management requires the degradation of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) under variable usage patterns to be accurately and continuously monitored and predicted. However, the chemically entangled internal states and the...
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Wed 12 Mar 12:00: The Ignite Guide: How your mentor will work with you
Interested in applying for our Ignite programme 6-11 July 2025? Join us for an informative webinar on 12 March which will provide you with more information on the mentoring at Ignite.
The Ignite Guide: How your mentor will work with you
Date: Wednesday 12 March, 12:00-13:00 GMT
Venue: Online via Microsoft Teams
Register: Please complete the online form to book your place
This webinar is designed to give you an idea of what the tailored mentor support is like at our Ignite programme and how you, as a mentee, can build a good relationship with your mentor and work to get the best from the mentoring process. We explain what mentors look for and how you can get a head start at Ignite by knowing this in advance.
During the intense Ignite week, your assigned mentor helps you work on identifying your customer and competitive advantage, enabling you to design your business model and develop your financial strategy in preparation for investment. All this and your mentor will help you wrap it up in a pitch deck for different stakeholders – a great takeaway as you establish and grow your venture.
Chaired by Ann Davidson, Head of Practice at Cambridge Judge Entrepreneurship Centre
Guest speaker: Sarah Mardle, CEO and Founder of Alma Business Consulting, and seasoned coach and mentor.
We aim to provide you with the advice, tips and inspiration you need to maximise your experience of the Ignite programme.
The talk is followed by 10 minutes of Q&A to give participants an opportunity to ask questions.
This is a must attend event for those looking to apply to the Ignite 2025 programme from 6 – 11 July at Cambridge Judge Business School. We hope you will join us and look forward to seeing you there.
Please share this event with your networks or community…
Have a query? Email ignite@jbs.cam.ac.uk
Find out more and apply for Ignite > https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/programmes/ignite/
- Speaker: Sarah Mardle, CEO and Founder of Alma Business Consulting
- Wednesday 12 March 2025, 12:00-13:00
- Venue: Online.
- Series: Entrepreneurship Centre at Cambridge Judge Business School; organiser: ignite.
Fri 11 Apr 13:00: Towards Global-scale Species Distribution Modelling
Abstract
Estimating the geographical range of a species from sparse observations is a challenging and important geospatial prediction problem. Given a set of locations where a species has been observed, the goal is to build a model to predict whether the species is present or absent at any location. This problem has a long history in ecology, but traditional methods struggle to take advantage of emerging large-scale crowdsourced datasets which can include tens of millions of observations of hundreds of thousands of species in addition to the availability of multi-modal data sources such as paired images and natural language descriptions. In this talk, I will present recent work from my group where we have developed deep learning-based solutions for estimating species’ ranges from sparse presence-only data. I will also discuss some of the open challenges that exist in this space.
Bio
Oisin Mac Aodha is a Reader in Machine Learning in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. He is also an ELLIS Scholar and former Turing Fellow. He obtained his PhD from University College London and was a postdoc at Caltech prior to his current role. His current research interests are in the areas of self-supervised learning, 3D vision, fine-grained learning, and human-in-the-loop learning. In addition, he works on questions related to AI for conservation and biodiversity monitoring.
- Speaker: Oisin Mac Aodha, University of Edinburgh
- Friday 11 April 2025, 13:00-14:00
- Venue: Main Seminar Room at the David Attenborough Building. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .
- Series: Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST; organiser: lyr24.
Thu 17 Apr 16:00: Cambridge Immunology and Medicine Seminar - NO TALK
There will be no Cambridge Immunology and Medicine Seminar taking place on Thursday 17 April 2025.
- Speaker: Speaker to be confirmed
- Thursday 17 April 2025, 16:00-17:00
- Venue: Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.
- Series: Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series; organiser: Ruth Paton.
Thu 03 Apr 16:00: Cambridge Immunology and Medicine Seminar - TBC
If you have a question about this talk, please contact Ruth Paton.
This Cambridge Immunology and Medicine Seminar will take place on Thursday 3 April 2025, starting at 4:00pm, in the Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre (JCBC)
Speaker: TBC
Title: TBC
Host: TBC
Refreshments will be available following the seminar.
- Speaker: Speaker to be confirmed
- Thursday 03 April 2025, 16:00-17:00
- Venue: Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.
- Series: Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series; organiser: Ruth Paton.
Thu 15 May 16:00: Prof. Jonathan Wilson Yewdell, Senior Investigator Cellular Biology and Viral Immunology Section, NIAID/DIR
This Cambridge Immunology and Medicine Seminar will take place on Thursday 29 May 2025, starting at 4:00pm, in the Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre (JCBC)
Speaker: Prof. Jonathan W Yewdell, Senior Investigator Cellular Biology Cellular Biology and Viral Immunology Section, The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Title: TBC
Host: Prof. Louise Boyle, Department of Pathology, Cambridge
Refreshments will be available following the seminar.
- Speaker: Prof. Jonathan W Yewdell, Senior Investigator Cellular Biology Cellular Biology and Viral Immunology Section, The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
- Thursday 15 May 2025, 16:00-17:00
- Venue: Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.
- Series: Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series; organiser: Ruth Paton.
Thu 29 May 16:00: Cambridge Immunology and Medicine Seminar - TBC
This Cambridge Immunology and Medicine Seminar will take place on Thursday 29 May 2025, starting at 4:00pm, in the Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre (JCBC)
Speaker: TBC
Title: TBC
Host: TBC
Refreshments will be available following the seminar.
- Speaker: Speaker to be confirmed
- Thursday 29 May 2025, 16:00-17:00
- Venue: Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.
- Series: Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series; organiser: Ruth Paton.
Thu 24 Apr 16:00: Inflammation in vaccines and infection: it’s (even) more complex than we think
This Cambridge Immunology and Medicine Seminar will take place on Thursday 24 April 2025, starting at 4:00pm, in the Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre (JCBC)
Speaker: Prof John Tregoning, Professor of Vaccine Immunology at Imperial College London
Title: ‘Inflammation in vaccines and infection: it’s (even) more complex than we think’
Prof John Tregoning is currently Professor of Vaccine Immunology at Imperial College London, where he has studied the immune responses to vaccination and respiratory infection for more than 25 years. His group is currently focusing on the immune response to RNA vaccination. John has written more than 90 peer-reviewed scientific articles. He is also the author of two books Live Forever? A Curious Scientist’s Guide to Wellness, Disease and Ageing and Infectious: Pathogens and how we fight them.
Host: Ravindra Gupta, CITIID , Cambridge
Refreshments will be available following the seminar.
- Speaker: Prof John Tregoning, Professor of Vaccine Immunology at Imperial College London
- Thursday 24 April 2025, 16:00-17:00
- Venue: Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.
- Series: Cambridge Immunology Network Seminar Series; organiser: Ruth Paton.
Fri 23 May 16:30: To be confirmed The host for this talk is Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
The Host for this talk is Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
The host for this talk is Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
- Speaker: Professor Ron Mangum,Center for Mind and Brain 267 Cousteau Place Davis, CA
- Friday 23 May 2025, 16:30-18:00
- Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.
- Series: Zangwill Club; organiser: Sara Seddon.
Fri 02 May 16:30: To be confirmed
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Professor Hugo Spiers
- Friday 02 May 2025, 16:30-18:00
- Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.
- Series: Zangwill Club; organiser: Sara Seddon.
Thu 13 Mar 13:00: Cancer’s Rejuvenation Trap: Turning Cells Young and Fierce
Cancer becomes dangerous when it grows uncontrollably, spreads to other parts of the body, and resists treatments. We’ve discovered that cancer cells can actually “reverse age”, returning to a more youthful state, which makes them more aggressive, better at spreading, and harder to treat with targeted therapies.
- Speaker: Shanlin Tong
- Thursday 13 March 2025, 13:00-14:00
- Venue: Richard King room, Darwin College.
- Series: Darwin College Science Seminars; organiser: Alexander R Epstein.
Thu 12 Jun 14:00: Title to be confirmed
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Marina Filip (Oxford)
- Thursday 12 June 2025, 14:00-15:30
- Venue: TCM Seminar Room.
- Series: Theory of Condensed Matter; organiser: Bo Peng.
Fri 30 May 16:30: TBC
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Peter Godfrey Smith
- Friday 30 May 2025, 16:30-18:00
- Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.
- Series: Zangwill Club; organiser: Sara Seddon.
Fri 30 May 16:30: TBC
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Peter Godfrey Smith
- Friday 30 May 2025, 16:30-18:00
- Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.
- Series: Zangwill Club; organiser: Sara Seddon.
Thu 13 Mar 17:00: Formal verification of the 5th Busy Beaver value
We prove that S(5) = 47,176,870. The Busy Beaver value S(n) gives the maximum number of steps a halting n-state 2-symbol Turing machine can perform from the all-0 tape before halting and S was historically introduced as one of the simplest examples of a noncomputable function.
Using the Coq proof assistant, we enumerate 181,385,789 5-state Turing machines, and for each, decide whether it halts or not. Most of these machines are decided using new algorithms that simplify the halting problem by building Finite State Automata to approximate the machine’s set of reachable configurations. For 13 challenging Sporadic Machines, we provide individual Coq proofs of nonhalting.
Our result marks the first determination of a new Busy Beaver value in over 40 years, leveraging Coq’s computing capabilities and demonstrating the effectiveness of collaborative online research.
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- Speaker: Tristan Stérin (Maynooth University, Ireland) and Maja Kądziołka
- Thursday 13 March 2025, 17:00-18:00
- Venue: MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.
- Series: Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers ; organiser: Anand Rao Tadipatri.
Thu 20 Mar 16:00: Deciphering EMT morphogenetic forces
Folding is a basic morphogenetic process essential to shape organs and tissues. Apical constriction is often viewed as the main driving force leading to epithelium folding. Consistent with other recent studies, our work highlights the importance of apico-basal forces in epithelium folding, coming either from apoptotic cells or from cells undergoing epithelia-mesenchymal transition (EMT). We are further studying the force generation mechanism taking place during the initial steps of the EMT process, leading to the detachment of the extruding cell. We are also analyzing how the forces generated during EMT affect cell nucleus and whether and how they contribute to the transcriptional shift observed during this cellular process.
- Speaker: Dr. Magali Suzanne. The Centre de Biologie Intégrative, Toulouse, France
- Thursday 20 March 2025, 16:00-17:00
- Venue: Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology building, Downing Site CB2 3EG.
- Series: Foster Talks; organiser: foster.