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ECI Conference on Nature-Inspired Engineering

16 October 2018

This first ECI Conference on Nature-Inspired Engineering will bring together practitioners and researchers from academia...Read more

New study from CNIE published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society

03 October 2018

Small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) reveals stabilization of fluid-like protein arrangements in mesoporous silica, fac...Read more

Dr Ayomi Perera appointed Lecturer at Kingston University

02 October 2018

We congratulate Dr Ayomi Perera with her recent appointment as Lecturer in Organic and Pharmaceutical Chemistry at Kings...Read more

Two new publications on hierarchically structured catalysts

19 September 2018

As part of our highly fruitful collaboration with East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) in Shanghai (g...Read more

Job Opportunity: Lecturer in Nature-Inspired Chemical Engineering

18 September 2018

UCL Department of Chemical Engineering is one of the top research and teaching departments in the UK and has world-class...Read more

IChemE & UCL conference on 'Kinetic, Transport Modelling and Experiments in Catalytic Systems'

17 September 2018

The IChemE Catalysis Special Interest Group, in collaboration with University College London (UCL) and the Centre for Na...Read more

New Paper: 'Titanium(IV)-induced cristobalite formation in titanosilicates and its potential impact on catalysis'

12 September 2018

This new paper describes unexpected phase transitions that occur during the synthesis of titanosilicates, and their impa...Read more

Watch the new CNIE Research Facility video

07 August 2018

The Centre for Nature Inspired Engineering contains a wide range of state-of-the-art equipment including SAXS/WAXS, Liqu...Read more

New PhD Studentship with UCL CNIE (London) and IFP Energies nouvelles (Lyon)

09 July 2018

In collaboration with, and sponsored by IFPEN (Institut Français du Pétrole – Energies Nouvelles), there is a vacancy fo...Read more

Maxeler joins Amazon Web Services (AWS) at the International Supercomputing Conference, Frankfurt, 24-28 June 2018

27 June 2018

Maxeler Technologies, members of the CNIE Advisory Board, is proud to announce the availability of Maxeler Multisca...Read more

Congratulations to Guanghua Ye for his prestigious new position as Te Ping Associate Professor at ECUST

22 June 2018

We are delighted to announce that Dr Guanghua Ye, former PhD researcher in the Nature Inspired Chemical Engineering grou...Read more

Marc-Olivier Coppens attends the International Panel for Mesoscience, at the Chinese Academy of Sciences

06 June 2018

On 27-29 May 2018, Professor Marc-Olivier Coppens, Director of the CNIE, served on the first meeting of the Internationa...Read more

CNIE attends the 25th International Conference on Chemical Reaction Engineering

31 May 2018

CNIE’s Nidhi Kapil and Dr Victor Francia attended the 25th International Conference on Chemical Reaction Engineering in ...Read more

New Inspiration Grant awarded on Novel microfluidic chemotaxis screening platform for high-throughput bacterial viability quantification

24 May 2018

We are pleased to announce that Anand N. P. Radhakrishnan, Asterios Gavriilidis, Elaine Allan and David Wareham have bee...Read more

New Inspiration Grant awarded on Nature-Inspired water management in PEM Fuel Cell

11 May 2018

We are pleased to announce that Jason Cho, Dan Brett, Marc-Olivier Coppens and Nikolay Kardjilov have been awarded a Cen...Read more

Marc-Olivier Coppens interviewed on Nature-Inspired Chemical Engineering

09 May 2018

In the below video interview, Prof Marc-Olivier Coppens discusses 'Nature-Inspired Chemical Engineering - a Pathway to I...Read more

New paper outlines an exciting new technology for remote-controlled drug release using biocompatible magnetic nanofibres

03 May 2018

An exciting new technology for remote-controlled drug release using biocompatible magnetic nanofibres, is reported in a ...Read more

CNIE/LINKAM mini-workshop on environmental controlled hot-stage - 17th May

24 April 2018

Join us on Thursday 17 May to explore the possibilities of the Linkam imagining system - a new addition to the CNIE rese...Read more

Matthew Chin presents at the UCL Grand Challenges Showcase 2018

24 April 2018

On Wednesday 8 April, UCL hosted an exhibition of posters and films to showcase projects that have been supported by the...Read more

Prof Marc-Olivier Coppens to present a plenary talk at the 8th World Congress on Particle Technology

17 April 2018

Prof Marc-Olivier Coppens, Dr Victor Francia and Kaiqiao Wu from the Centre of Nature Inspired Engineering will pre...Read more

CNIE attends ChemEngDay UK 2018

16 April 2018

On 27-28 March, ChemEngDay UK 2018 hosted its annual conference, run by Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), at t...Read more

CNIE presents to students at the North London Collegiate School

12 April 2018

On 21 March, CNIE’s Nidhi Kapil visited the North London Collegiate School to give a talk on, ‘Supported Gold Nanopartic...Read more

Aerial view of the application bitstream as fitted to the reconfigurable device of MAX5. By zooming into this image one can distinguish between utilisation of logic, DSP or on-chip memory (FMEM) resources on the chip, which are colour-filled according to which kernel uses the resource. Note that the design contains many (minor) kernels not listed in the legend.

Maxeler Technologies delivers new pilot system on Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) computations

11 April 2018

Maxeler Technologies, members of the CNIE Advisory Board, recently delivered a pilot system that has the potential of fa...Read more

CNIE present new PhD projects for Nature-inspired and bio-integrated Architecture

28 March 2018

On Monday 12th March, The Centre Pompidou in Paris visited the CNIE to learn more about our research on nature-inspired ...Read more

New vacancy: CNIE Research Laboratories Manager

26 March 2018

The Centre of Nature Inspired Engineering is seeking to recruit a new Research Laboratories Manager. The post holder wil...Read more

Read the new CNIE brochure

16 March 2018

Read the new CNIE brochure outlining the work of the Centre and its research outputs. The Centre was formed in 2013 and...Read more

New research paper published in the Journal of Catalysis

15 March 2018

A new paper on the effects of zeolite particle size and internal grain boundaries on Pt/Beta catalyzed isomerization of ...Read more

New research published on pattern formation in pulsed fluidized beds

15 March 2018

A new article by former CNIE postdoc, Dr Lilian de Martin (now Assist. Prof at Chalmers University) and Prof Marc-Olivie...Read more

CNIE contributes to a new book on ‘Diffusive Spreading in Nature, Technology and Society’

05 March 2018

CNIE contributes to a new book on ‘Diffusive Spreading in Nature, Technology and Society’, edited by Armin Bunder, Jürge...Read more

New research paper published in the Journal of Materials Science

01 February 2018

CNIE’s new paper on ‘optimization of mesoporous titanosilicate catalysts for cyclohexene epoxidation via statistically g...Read more

CNIE Annual Advisory Board meeting and Conference

30 January 2018

The Centre for Nature Inspired Engineering (CNIE) hosted its 5th Annual Advisory Board Meeting and Workshop on 24-25 Jan...Read more

Marc-Olivier Coppens appointed Corresponding Member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences

29 January 2018

Professor Marc-Olivier Coppens, CNIE Director, has been elected a Corresponding Member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences ...Read more

CNIE's Mark Miodownik awarded a MBE in the New Year’s Honours list

11 January 2018

Many congratulations to CNIE's Professor Mark Miodownik on receiving a MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) i...Read more

CNIE awards five new "Inspiration" Grants

15 December 2017

We are pleased to announce that the Centre for Nature Inspired Engineering has awarded five new "Inspiration" Grants. ...Read more

Nature Inspired 4D printing for biomedical applications

15 December 2017

We are pleased to announce that Anna Ploszajski, Mark Miodownik, Cathy Holloway and Patrick Cullen have been awarded a C...Read more

An applied, engineered oscillation inspired by the natural oscillatory behaviour of HIV

12 December 2017

We are pleased to announce that Dr Darren Nesbeth and Dr M. Carmen Romano have been awarded a Centre for Nature Inspired...Read more

CNIE / Quantachrome mini workshop - 20 November

17 November 2017

We are hosting a CNIE / Quantachrome mini workshop on particle size measurement of concentrated dispersions using Acoust...Read more

CNIE Research Paper to be featured in the Energy & Environmental Science Journal

25 October 2017

The Centre for Nature Inspired Engineering (CNIE) at UCL has had a research paper accepted to appear in the Energy and E...Read more

2017 AIChE Annual Meeting

25 October 2017

Members of the Department of Chemical Engineering are attending this year's 2017 AIChE Annual Meeting on October 29 - No...Read more

IN THE MEDIA: CNIE RESEARCH COLLABORATION FEATURED IN ACS CATALYSIS PUBLICATION

28 September 2017

The July 2017 edition of ACS Catalysis features a research article in collaboration with State Key Lab of Chemical Engin...Read more

Prof. Marc-Olivier Coppens delivers a plenary talk at Process Intensification in Chemistry Conference in St. Petersburg, Russia

27 September 2017

In September, Professor Coppens had the honour of being invited to attend the conference in Russia and gave a plenary ta...Read more

Prof Marc-Olivier Coppens delivers keynote at IUMRS-ICAM

27 September 2017

Following the conference in Hong Kong, Marc-Olivier travelled to Kyoto in Japan in late August to attend the Materials R...Read more

Prof Marc-Olivier Coppens delivers keynote speech at the Asian Pacific Community of Chemical and Process Engineering (APCChE)

27 September 2017

In August, Professor Coppens was invited to attend the APCChE conference and deliver a keynote speech. The APCChE is a b...Read more

IN THE MEDIA: CNIE & FORMER NICE PHD STUDENT FEATURED IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE

27 September 2017

The December 2017 issue of the Chemical Engineering Journal, (Volume 32, Special Issue for the ChemReactor 22 conference...Read more

JOIN US at the GC Workshop at Shimadzu, 20th October

15 September 2017

Come and join us! FREE one day GC workshop at Shimadzu head office in Milton Keynes. You do not need to have a Schimadzu...Read more

Prof. Marc-Olivier Coppens wins AIChE PSRI Lectureship Award in Fluidization

03 August 2017

We are delighted to announce that our Head of Chemical Engineering, Professor Marc-Olivier Coppens has been selected to ...Read more

CNIE-SAXS Seminar and Networking Event: Adventures with Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering at USC

18 July 2017

On Monday 24th July, CNIE holds their very first SAXS Seminar on Adventures with Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering at USC. It...Read more

Inaugural Symposium of the EPSRC/Jeol Centre of Liquid Phase Electron Microscopy

13 July 2017

On the 10th July, UCL Department of Chemistry hosted a symposium to celebrate the official opening of the LPEM Centre. T...Read more

Professor Coppens delivers keynote speech and presentation at ICMAT 2017, Singapore

13 July 2017

Professor Coppens was honoured to be invited to deliver a keynote speech, and an invited presentation with Dr Panos Trog...Read more

CNIE PhD researcher Matthew Chin presents posters at two international conferences

11 July 2017

Matthew was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Research Fund from the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3), and U...Read more

UCL Grand Challenges Doctoral School Small Grant awarded

11 July 2017

PhD researcher Matthew Chin has been awarded a grant by UCL Grand Challenges ("Transformative Technology" category)...Read more

CNIE participates in In2science program 2017

30 June 2017

After having a wonderful experience with Shantona Shahid from in2science program 2015, the Centre for Nature Inspired En...Read more

Congratuations to Michele Lynch on receiving the Best Poster Prize in the 1st Meeting of the UCL Cross-Disciplinary Network on Soft Materials

21 June 2017

CNIE has participated in the 1st Meeting of the UCL Cross-Disciplinary Network on Soft Materials. Dr Ayomi Per...Read more

Dr Han Wu: UK representative at ISO for the development of nanoparticle characterisation standards

16 June 2017

Han Wu, senior research technician in Chemical Engineering, has been nominated as the UK expert at ISO and appointed as ...Read more

New paper - "Pattern formation in pulsed gas-solid fluidized beds – the role of granular solid mechanics" by Kaiqiao Wu

31 May 2017

Congratulations to CNIE team - Kaiqiao Wu, Lilian de Martín, Marc-Olivier Coppens with new paper - "Pattern formation in...Read more

CNIE takes part in 'It's All Academic Festival', 10 June 2017

07 April 2017

It's All Academic Festival Saturday 10 June 2017 Dr Ayomi Perera from the Centre for Nature Inspired Engineering will ...Read more

CNIE won the second prize of the poster presentation at UK Particle Technology Forum 2017!

29 March 2017

Congratulations to PhD student Kaiqiao Wu who won the second prize of the poster presentation at UK Particle Technology ...Read more

CNIE and UCL Chemical Engineering won seven prizes at ChemEngDayUK 2017

28 March 2017

On 27-28 March 2017, Birmingham University hosted ChemEngDayUK 2017, which welcomed leading UK Chemical Engineering acad...Read more

CNIE featured SAXS Workshops at UCL on 26-28 April

01 March 2017

A successful CNIE/SAXSLAB workshop organised by Dr Han Wu (CNIE) and Dr Isja de Feijter (SAXSLAB)  h...Read more

CNIE participates in ChemEngDayUK 2017 Better Life, Better World (27-28 March 2017, Birmingham, UK)

01 February 2017

We are glad to announce that CNIE is participating in ChemEngDayUK 2017 Better Life, Better World (27-28 March 201...Read more

Season’s Greetings: Happy Holidays and a New Year filled with Prosperity and success!

09 December 2016

Dear Colleagues, Partners, Collaborators and friends of CNIE, On behalf of all of us at UCL’s Centre for Nature Insp...Read more

Great opportunity to join CNIE: Research Associate (Chemical Engineering), - Ref:1612663

01 December 2016

Department of Chemical Engineering and CNIE is seeking an exceptional Post Doctoral researcher to join the team at UCL. ...Read more

Ralph Anderson Memorial Lecture, 9th November 2016 at the Royal Society of Medicine London

03 November 2016

Professor Marc-Olivier Coppens will present the 19th Ralph Anderson Memorial Lecture, organised by the Worshipful Compan...Read more

The Open Call: CNIE Inspiration Grants 2016-2018

01 November 2016

We are delighted to announce the Open-Call-CNIE Inspiration-Grants 2016-2018 following the success of the first and seco...Read more

CNIE presents at 2016 AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco USA, November 13-18, 2016

17 October 2016

The AIChE Annual Meeting is the premier educational forum for chemical engineers interested in innovation and professi...Read more

VIDEO: Drawing lessons from nature to engineer innovative solutions to our grand challenges by Prof Coppens

13 October 2016

Prof Marc-Olivier Coppens gave a talk on 'Drawing lessons from nature to engineer innovative solutions to our grand chal...Read more

Prof Stephen Marshall kicks off the CNIE-funded Nature-inspired Urbanism series

12 October 2016

Tuesday 12th October – Stephen Marshall kicks off the UCL CfNIE-funded Nature-inspired Urbanism series, with an introduc...Read more

Congratulations to Professor Marc-Olivier Coppens, the newly elected Fellow of the AIChE!

10 October 2016

It is our pleasure to announce that Professor Marc-Olivier Coppens just has been elected Fellow of the AIChE (the Americ...Read more

Opening lecture of the 'First workshop on rational design for improved functionalities of porous inorganic materials', Cavaillon, France, November 7th – 9th 2016

05 October 2016

We are pleased to announce the ‘First workshop on rational design for improved functionalities of porous inorganic mater...Read more

Prof Coppens attends the Symposium on 'Scalable production of nanostructured materials', Delft, Netherlands on October 28th, 2016

05 October 2016

Prof Marc-Olivier Coppens will attend the mini-symposium “Scalable Production of Nanostructured Materials” a tTU Delft, ...Read more

Congratulations to Dr Han Wu on achieving PRINCE2 Practitioner qualification!

03 October 2016

We are glad to announce that Dr Han Wu (Senior Research Technician) completed Project Management courses and succes...Read more

CNIE hosts 'Novel Analytical Techniques' seminar/conference by Quantachrome, 10th November, London

30 September 2016

We are glad to announce 'Novel Analytical Techniques' seminar by Quantachrome, co-organised by CNIE at 10th November at ...Read more

The IET Engineering the Future Festival, IET London: Savoy Place, 6th October 2016

28 September 2016

We are glad to announce The IET Engineering the Future Festival, IET London: Savoy Place, 6th October 2016....Read more

Professor Marc-Olivier Coppens delivers a lecture at Zhejiang University, 14th October 2016

19 September 2016

We are glad to announce that Prof Marc-Olivier Coppens will be visiting the College of Chemical and Biological Engineeri...Read more

Congratulations to Jichuan Liu on a successful BEng completion and new research article!

01 September 2016

Congratulations to Jichuan Liu for obtaining his BEng from the entire staff at the CNIE. You have earned every single mo...Read more

New paper in Langmuir: "Chaperonin-Inspired pH Protection by Mesoporous Silica SBA-15 on Myoglobin and Lysozyme"

26 August 2016

We are pleased to announce a new research article, "Chaperonin-Inspired pH Protection by Mesoporous Silica SBA-15 on Myo...Read more

Michele Lynch presents at ESBES 2016

15 August 2016

Michele Lynch will present at the European Symposium on Biochemical Engineering Sciences (ESBES) 2016. The con...Read more

Congratulations to Guanghua Ye on a successful PhD completion!

20 July 2016

Congratulations to our recent Alumni - Guanghua Ye on earning your PhD from the entire staff at the CNIE. You have earne...Read more

CNIE group has a day out!

07 June 2016

The CNIE group has had some summer fun together! On 7 June we all met up for a Thames riverboat cruise. And of course it...Read more

New vacancy: Research Associate - Chemical Engineering and Centre for Nature Inspired Engineering, Ref: 1553509

03 June 2016

Department of Chemical Engineering and CNIE is seeking an exceptional Post Doctoral researcher to join the team at UCL. ...Read more

Great opportunity to join CNIE: Research Associate - Centre for Nature Inspired Engineering vacancy, Ref:1553531

02 June 2016

CNIE is seeking an exceptional Post Doctoral researcher to join the team at UCL. Closing Date: 24th August 2016 ...Read more

Announcement of CNIE Inspiration Grant: The Self-Organising Built Environment

01 June 2016

We are pleased to announce that Prof Stephen Marshall has been awarded a Centre for Nature Inspired Engineering Inspir...Read more

Announcement of CNIE Inspiration Grant: Robust self-healing fabrics for soft robotic applications

01 June 2016

We are pleased to announce that Prof Mark Miodownik and Mark Ransley from the UCL Institute of Making (www.instituteofma...Read more

Announcement of CNIE Inspiration Grant: Nature-inspired confined jet-mixers for ionic liquid-liquid extraction applications

01 June 2016

We are pleased to announce that Prof Panagiota Angeli and Dr Dimitrios Tsaoulidis have been awarded a Centre for Nature ...Read more

Congratulations to Silo Meoto with 2016 Enterprise Fellowship

27 May 2016

We are delighted to congratulate Dr Silo Meoto for the award of a prestigious Enterprise Fellowship to support her in de...Read more

Alan Jones Memorial Session at this year's BACG conference, University of Leeds, 30th June 2016

24 May 2016

We are delighted to announce THE ALAN JONES INDUSTRIAL CRYSTALLIZATION SYMPOSIUM at the 47th Annual Conference of BACG, ...Read more

Congratulations to Silo Meoto on a successful PhD viva!

24 May 2016

Congratulations to Silo Meoto on earning your PHD from the entire staff at the CNIE. You have earned every single moment...Read more

CNIE participates in Pint of Science 2016, London, 25 May 2016

02 May 2016

We are glad to announce that Dr Ayomi Perera (Post-doctoral Researcher, Centre for Nature Inspired Engineering) will par...Read more

H. Walter Stern PhD Studentship - CNIE is seeking an exceptional graduate student

21 April 2016

CNIE is seeking an exceptional graduate student to be the first recipient of the prestigious H. Walter Stern PhD Student...Read more

The Summer Challenge 2016, 'Nature-Inspired Chemical Engineering' supported by CNIE, London, 13 June - 27 July 2016

18 April 2016

The Summer Challenge 2016, 'Nature-Inspired Chemical Engineering', planned in collaboration with the UCL Office of Wid...Read more

CNIE participates in Gordon Research Conference: “Catalysis - From Theory to Commercialization”, New London, US,12-17 June 2016

14 April 2016

We are glad to announce that Dr Ayomi Perera and Dr Michael Nigra will be representing the CNIE at Gordon Research Confe...Read more

New paper: 'Pattern formation in fluidized beds as a tool for model validation: A two-fluid model based study' by Kaiqiao Wu

01 April 2016

We are pleased to announce the new paper 'Pattern formation in fluidized beds as a tool for model validation: A two-flui...Read more

Annoncement: Michele Lynch received the 3rd Prize for the heavily contested “Three-Minute Thesis Presentation”

01 April 2016

CNIE has participated in ChemEngDayUK 2016: Towards a sustainable future (31 March - 1 April 2016), which welc...Read more

CNIE participates in The Second HPC Materials Chemistry Consortium conference, Cardiff, Wales, 6-8 April 2016

21 March 2016

We are glad to announce that Dr Katarzyna Maksimiak will be representing the CNIE at The Second HPC Materials Chemistry ...Read more

New paper: 'Titano-silicates: highlights on development, evolution and application in oxidative catalysis' by Dr Ayomi S. Perera

07 March 2016

We are pleased to announce the new paper by CNIE members: “Titano-silicates: highlights on development, evolution and ap...Read more

3rd CNIE Advisory Board Meeting, London, 22-23 March, 2016