CNIE to host Nature Inspired Solutions to Industrial Challenges event alongside Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN)
14 January 2020
CNIE are pleased to announce that we’ll be hosting a Nature Inspired Solutions to Industrial Challenges event in partner...Read more
Festive greetings from the CNIE!
18 December 2019
The NICE group and Centre for Nature Inspired Engineering (CNIE) send warmest wishes for a happy holiday season, and a p...Read more
CNIE Alumnus Dr Niall Kent Accepts Honorary Lectureship
12 December 2019
We are delighted to announce that valued CNIE alumnus, Dr Niall Kent, has accepted the position of Honorary Lecturer in ...Read more
Kaiqiao Wu successfully defends PhD
04 December 2019
Many congratulations to Kaiqiao Wu for successfully defending his PhD. Kaiqiao's thesis was titled: 'Dynamically Structu...Read more
New Paper on Nature-inspired fuel cells
27 November 2019
CNIE has published a new paper in the reputed Chemical Engineering Science Journal titled "Optimising the Architecture o...Read more
Research Lab Manager, Dr Han Wu publishes 2 new papers
25 November 2019
Dr Han Wu whom is currently managing the Research Facility for the Department of Chemical Engineering has published 2 pa...Read more
New article on zeolite catalysis in Angewandte Chemie
22 November 2019
An article has just been accepted in the prestigious Chemistry Journal Angewandte Chemie titled "Understanding the Role ...Read more
New Paper: "Acoustic emission as a function of polarisation"
19 November 2019
CNIE in collaboration with the Electrochemical Innovation lab (EIL) have published a new paper in the reputed Electroche...Read more
New Guest Researchers join CNIE
14 November 2019
CNIE would like to welcome Frank Chen and Shuman Xu, our new guest researchers. Frank is a second year PhD university st...Read more
New published paper on “Biotic analogies for self-organising cities”
08 November 2019
We are delighted to announce publication of “Biotic Analogies of Self-Organising Cities” which is now available here in ...Read more
CNIE Centre Administrator Position Available
08 November 2019
The Centre for Nature Inspired Engineering (CNIE) is in search for a Centre administrator to deal with day to day manage...Read more
Coming up: 2019 AIChE Annual Meeting & UCL Chemical Engineering Reception
05 November 2019
The Annual AIChE Meeting for 2019 is fast approaching and will take place from the 10th-15th of November in Hyatt Regenc...Read more
New published paper: "A lung-inspired printed circuit board polymer electrolyte fuel cell"
04 November 2019
CNIE in collaboration with the Electrochemical Innovation lab (EIL) have published a new paper in the reputed Energy Con...Read more
A warm welcome to our new MSc student Ibrahim Alnutaifi
01 November 2019
Ibrahim Alnutaifi is a new MSc student who has just joined the Centre for Nature Inspired Engineering this previous mont...Read more
Dr Han Wu's latest paper featured as PCCP Editor's Choice and the Front Cover of the forthcoming issue
31 October 2019
Dr Han Wu, Research Facility Manager UCL Chemical Engineering and CNIE recently published a new paper titled "Understand...Read more
CNIE Features in the UK Royal Society of Chemistry Magazine "Chemistry World"
26 October 2019
Earlier this week, the UK Royal Society of Chemistry published a feature piece in Chemistry World, titled "Single-atom c...Read more
Two PhD openings on Nature-Inspired Process Intensification
25 October 2019
We are pleased to offer two fully funded, four-year long PhD openings under the guidance of Professor Marc-Olivier Coppe...Read more
Nina Jotanovic to give a talk at the "Design with the Living" Symposium
22 October 2019
PhD candidate Nina Jotanovic will give a talk at the Design Museum on Friday the 8th of November. The symposium is title...Read more
PhD Candidate Malica Schmidt receives a total of 3 awards in September
16 October 2019
CNIE PhD candidate Malica Schmidt, whom is currently conducting research on nature-inspired, multi-functional surface co...Read more
Closing in on the month of September at CNIE
10 October 2019
September has been a very busy but nevertheless an exciting time for the Centre for Nature Inspired Engineering. Followi...Read more
PhD studentship available at the Nature-Inspired Materials Engineering Lab
08 October 2019
A new PhD studentship is available at the Nature-Inspired Materials Engineering (NIME) lab led by Dr Yang Lan within CNI...Read more
Prof Coppens attends the second International panel meeting on Mesoscience
27 September 2019
On the 22nd-24th September, Marc-Olivier Coppens, the Director of CNIE attended the 2nd international panel meeting on M...Read more
Nina Jotanovic showcases work at the Biodesign Here Now exhibition
24 September 2019
PhD student Nina Jotanovic showcased her work at the Biodesign Here Now exhibition from the 19th to the 21st of Septembe...Read more
Postdoctoral researcher Maximilian Besenhard gives a talk at FLOWMAT2019
17 September 2019
UCL Chemical Engineering postdoctoral research associate Maximilian Besenhard gave a talk at the Flow synthesis of multi...Read more
CNIE researchers to showcase their work at the Global Grand Challenges Summit 2019
16 September 2019
The Global Grand Challenges Summit 2019 is the launch of a second series of summits jointly hosted by the UK Royal Acade...Read more
Prof Marc-Olivier Coppens featured in One Earth Voices “Visions for a Positive Future” article
16 September 2019
The Director of the Centre for Nature Inspired Engineering, Prof Coppens contributed an invited opinion piece on the fir...Read more
CNIE releases new brochure for 2019
06 September 2019
CNIE is pleased to announce the release of our newly updated brochure for 2019. The front cover image “Aquaphile - Eli...Read more
ECI Conference on Nature-Inspired Engineering begins Sunday 8th September
05 September 2019
This first ECI Conference on Nature-Inspired Engineering will bring together practitioners and researchers from academia...Read more
PhD students, Haiyue Yu & Mohammad Alkhunaizi present their posters at Diffusion Fundamentals VIII
04 September 2019
PhD students at UCL, Haiyue Yu and Mohammad Alkhunaizi presented their posters at the international conference “Diffusio...Read more
Nidhi Kapil presents poster at EuropaCat 2019
28 August 2019
PhD student Nidhi Kapil, presented a poster at 14th European Congress on Catalysis, EuropaCat 2019 which was held in Aac...Read more
UK’s first polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell/battery hybrid mobility scooter successfully tested
23 August 2019
On the 15th August 2019, Jason Cho (Postdoctoral Researcher with Prof Marc-Olivier Coppens) and Lara Rasha (PhD student ...Read more
CNIE Welcomes Inspire Summer School
23 August 2019
The Inspire Summer School was run in collaboration with the Engineering Development Trust for thirty female A-Level stud...Read more
61st London International Youth Science Forum 2019
09 August 2019
On Wednesday 31st July 2019, Professor Marc-Olivier Coppens was invited to be a speaker and facilitator at the “Science ...Read more
NICE Group Away Day
09 August 2019
On the 23rd July 2019, the NICE research group enjoyed a team away day at the WWT London Wetland Centre. WWT London Wetl...Read more
Kaiqiao Wu awarded IChemE young researcher second prize at PTF2019
02 August 2019
On 28–31 July 2019, the 7th UK–China International Particle Technology Forum and annual UK Particle Technology Foru...Read more
Webcast - KTN - Nature Inspired Solutions meet industry challenges event
23 July 2019
The Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN – part of Innovate UK) has established a new UK Special Interest Group (SIG), bringi...Read more
Chemical Engineering Summer Challenge
16 July 2019
UCL's Access and Widening Participation team ran a six week summer challenge in various STEM and humanities subjects for...Read more
Nina Jotanovic showcases work at SynbiTECH 2019 exhibition
02 July 2019
On 24-25th June 2019, PhD student, Nina Jotanovic, showcased her research project at Synbitech 2019, QEII Centre, London...Read more
NICE collaborations between UCL and Zhejiang University
02 July 2019
Currently working on collaborative projects in the context of Nature-Inspired Chemical Engineering are students Shuxian ...Read more
NIS SIG launch event: Nature Inspired Solutions meet industry challenges
27 June 2019
On Tuesday 9 July, Professor Marc-Olivier Coppens will present a Keynote lecture on Nature-inspired Solutions for Engine...Read more
Marc-Olivier Coppens gives seminars at Fluidization XVI conference, Zhejiang University and ECUST
24 June 2019
Prof Marc-Olivier Coppens gave a seminar, “A NICE Approach to Fuel Cell Design” on 14 June 2019 at the State Key Laborat...Read more
Dr Niall Kent wins the Early Career Impact Award 2019
24 June 2019
On Tuesday 4 June, CNIE Postdoctoral Researcher, Dr Niall Kent won the Early Career Impact Award at the UCL Awards for I...Read more
Dr Yang Lan appointed as Nature-Inspired Chemical Engineering (NICE) Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
24 June 2019
We are delighted to welcome Dr Yang Lan to the Department of Chemical Engineering and the CNIE, as our first Nature-Insp...Read more
Prof Marc-Olivier Coppens to give Plenary Lecture at Fluidization XVI Conference in Guilin
24 May 2019
The Fluidization XVI conference, aims to bridge fundamental research on fluidization and emerging applications of fluidi...Read more
Sasank (Viswanath) Bethapudi to present a talk at 235th ECS Meeting, Dallas, Texas
24 May 2019
PhD student Sasank (Viswanath) Bethapudi, will present a talk at the 235th Electrochemical Society (ECS) Meeti...Read more
New paper: Dynamic viscoplastic granular flows: A persistent challenge in gas-solid fluidization
24 May 2019
At a macroscopic scale, Eulerian models based on the Kinetic Theory of Granular Flow (KTGF) have been successfully emplo...Read more
Congratulations to Jason Cho for successfully completing his PhD
02 May 2019
Jason Cho successfully defended his PhD entitled “A nature-inspired approach to robust fuel cell design with water man...Read more
CNIE and UCL Chem Eng win four prizes at ChemEngDayUK 2019
12 April 2019
On 8-9 April 2019, UCL Chemical Engineering and the Centre for Nature Inspired Engineering (CNIE) participated at an exc...Read more
Dr Niall Kent shortlisted for 'Early Career Impact Award 2019'
11 April 2019
CNIE's Dr Niall Kent, has been shortlisted for a UCL Innovation and Enterprise Award, in the category 'Early Career Impa...Read more
La Fabrique du vivant (Designing the Living) Exhibition, at Centre Pompidou, Paris
08 April 2019
La Fabrique du vivant (Designing the Living) Exhibition "Mutations/Creations 3" Our team at University College L...Read more
CNIE awarded EPSRC “Frontier Engineering: Progression Grant”
26 March 2019
We are pleased to announce that the UCL Centre for Nature Inspired Engineering (CNIE) has been awarded £750,000 of core ...Read more
Professor Coppens invited to give lecture at Trinity School for Facets of Science event
21 March 2019
On Thursday 7th March, Professor Marc-Olivier Coppens gave one of three 30 minute lectures titled 'Nature-Inspired ...Read more
ECI Conference on Nature-Inspired Engineering - Keynote speakers announced + call for abstracts
21 March 2019
Abstract Submission One-page abstracts should be submitted as soon as possible and no later than the deadlines noted ...Read more
Dr Victor Francia appointed Assistant Professor at Heriot-Watt University
21 March 2019
We congratulate Dr Victor Francia, former postdoctoral researcher at the CNIE, who recently became Assistant Professor a...Read more
Malica Schmidt wins joint Best Poster Prize in CheERS Poster Competition
06 March 2019
On February 22nd in conjunction with the Industrial Advisory Board meeting, the CheERS group organised a poster competit...Read more
TU Dortmund Jubilee Lecture with presentation by Prof Marc-Olivier Coppens
06 February 2019
Marc-Olivier Coppens, Ramsay Memorial Chair and Head of Department of Chemical Engineering at UCL has been invited to pr...Read more
Professor Marc-Olivier Coppens featured in IChemE's "The Chemical Engineer"
28 January 2019
Ramsay Memorial Professor and Head of Department Marc-Olivier Coppens was interviewed for the IChemE's "The Chemical Eng...Read more
Season's Greetings from CNIE
18 December 2018
The Centre for Nature Inspired Engineering at UCL would like to wish all our students, friends, colleagues and collabo...Read more
A recent study from CNIE on mesoporous materials highlighted in Nature Nanotechnology
13 November 2018
A recent publication from the CNIE titled, 'Confinement Facilitated Protein Stabilization As Investigated by Small-Angle...Read more
2018 AIChE Annual Meeting & UCL Chemical Engineering Reception
23 October 2018
Colleagues from the Department of Chemical Engineering are attending this year's 2018 AIChE Annual Meeting from October ...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
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
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