Energy conversion

CEEM’s researchers, in partnership with global industry leaders such as Toyota and Seagate, are at the forefront of developing more powerful – and cheaper – magnetic materials that will dramatically cut the energy wastage in current technologies, opening new markets for cleaner and more efficient cars and energy production.

Our expertise in this field is acknowledged around the world. Two powerful software packages developed by CEEM’s researchers - VAMPIRE and CASTEP – are now the go-to tools for leading companies in fields as diverse as mobile phone manufacture and data warehousing to renewable energy production and clean car technologies.

CEEM’s researchers have a global reputation for their advances in:

• The design of improved materials for hybrid and all-electric vehicles
• The development of new thermoelectric materials
• All-optical thermally induced magnetic switching using synthetic ferrimagnets.

This reputation is built on a distinctive approach to research and partnership:

• Process friendly, collaborative culture
• First principles modelling to test, design and refine new energy efficient materials
• High powered electron microscopy – bespoke to CEEM – to inform atomic engineering

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