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Celebrating the winners of this year’s Sussex Awards

7 May 2025

On Tuesday 6 May we held the first-ever Sussex Awards ceremony on campus at the Attenborough Centre

Celebrating our community: see the Sussex Awards 2025 shortlist

30 April 2025

See the shortlist for the first ever Sussex Awards, which celebrate the brilliant work of our community across Faculties and Divisions

scientist holding block of material used to build wind turbine blades

How to ‘hide’ a wind farm and move towards Net Zero

5 February 2025

Cleaning up ‘radar clutter’ produced by wind farms will open up new sites and increase renewable energy capacity, say researchers at Sussex

Advanced Material Development and University of Sussex agree new 10-year commercial partnership

12 August 2024

AMD's 10-year investment cements a long-term partnership with the University seeing the development and commercialisation of nanomaterial coatings.

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‘Out of this world’: University of Sussex researchers team up with NASA

21 March 2024

The University of Sussex is aiming for the stars once again as Sussex scientists secure major grant to lead UK research effort on a NASA space mission

“Follow the water”

14 February 2024

How the Materials Physics group at Sussex are supporting NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the Europa Clipper mission

concept art showing printed graphene device generating electrical energy from temperature gradient

New graphene coating converts waste heat into electrical energy

10 January 2024

Sussex researchers demonstrate highly conductive inks which allow generation of electrical energy from your body and other waste heat sources

Left to right: actual rocks which were used and the inks they produced, a nanosheet produced from the inks, a nanosheet showing atoms that make up the surface.

Researchers rediscover new family of nanomaterials from everyday rocks

6 July 2023

A team of researchers from the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences have made a ground-breaking discovery, uncovering a previously dismissed...

Graphic of a honeycomb like structure, which depicts the structure of the film with graphene oxide trapped between polymer latex spheres

Lucky find! How science behind epidemics helped Sussex physicists to develop state-of-the-art conductive paint

20 December 2022

Sussex physicists find first evidence that 'explosive percolation' – seen in the transmission of viruses – can occur in nanomaterial networks

Graphene-wrapped emulsion droplets deposited onto electrodes for single-droplet thin-film electronic devices

The University of Sussex scientists advancing liquid electronics

15 February 2022

University of Sussex physicists have coated droplets in atomically-thin graphene that can be used to wrap any liquid, in liquid tech advance.

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