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2026:
- Watch this space for updates
2025:
- IOP Nanoscale Physics & Technology Thesis Prize- Dr Kieran Orr (November 2025)
- From Solar Power to Patient Care– Professor Sam Stranks University of Cambridge, Enterprising Minds (November 2025)
- Dynamic Nanodomains Influence – Dr Milos Dubajic Cover Issue of Nature Nanotechnology (June 2025)
- Clarity Sensors Awarded by European Innovation Council– Professor Sam Stranks & Dr Hayden Salway (April 2025)
- Mongolia Visit – Professor Stranks & Dr Ganbataar Tumen-Ulzii host The Chairman of Parliament of Mongolia (March 2025)
- EES Solar Authors – StranksLab Members Interviewed for Royal Society of Chemistry (February 2025)
- Advancing Sustainability with Materials Science Breakthrough | Technology Networks – Professor Stranks Interviewed in Technology Networks (February 2025)
- Brighter, Stretchier and ready to glow– Professor Stranks and Dr Hong In Jeong Research (January 2025)
2024:
- Study introduces new approaches to engineer stable and robust perovskite solar cells– Techxplore Interview with Professor Stranks (December 2024)
- Recognition at last for Tom Bacon, the scientist you’ve never heard of who helped put men on the moon – Professor Stranks gives comment in The Guardian (November 2024)
- The Cost of Solar Power: How Low Can we go? Professor Sam Stranks recently was interviewed on Solar Cell Technology (October 2024)
- People Doing Physics Podcast Exploring the Intersection of Physics and Business with Professor Sam Stranks (October 2024)
- Unlocking potential: 3D Strain Mapping for High-Performance Halide Perovskite Devices – Diamond Light Source – Dr Kieran Orr and Professor Stranks comment on recent paper
- Can Solar Panels Designed for Space Boost Clean Energy on Earth? – Professor Stranks comments in New Scientist (July 2024)
- A simple ‘twist’ improves the engine of clean fuel generation – Press release from the University of Cambridge on our Nature paper (April 2024)
- Finalist for Blavatnik Awards – Professor Samuel D. Stranks from the University of Cambridge (March 2024)
2023:
- Machine Learning Lights the Way – Press release from the University of Cambridge on our Nature Machine Intelligence paper (November 2023)
- Sam Stranks interviewed on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire to discuss making solar cells from berries at the Cambridge Festival, and the group’s research (March 2023)
2022:
- Fuel from the Sun Competition – Team reaches EU ‘Fuel from the Sun’ Final with artificial leaves capable of producing a sustainable solar fuel (December 2022)
- CCG COP27– Former Strankslab member Beth Tennyson talking about the APSISSFE project (November 2022)
- The search for perovskite durability– Sam and Swift Solar featured in an article in Nature (September 2022)
- Channel S– Kyle Frohna discusses climate change on Uk-Bangladeshi TV channel (July 2022)
- People Doing Physics Podcast– Stuart Macpherson appears on the Cavendish Lab podcast to talk about his academic work and role with Sustain/Ed (June 2022)
- Nanoscale heterogeneity in halide perovskites: the good, the bad, and the ugly– Sam Stranks presenting at the Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics Conference 2022 (June 2022)
- Centre for Innovation on New Energies– Sam Stranks delivers a webinar on “Multimodal Microscopy to Unveil Performance Losses in Next-Generation Optoelectronic Devices” (April 2022)
- The future of perovskites for solar power and lighting– Sam Stranks at the Cambridge Festival (April 2022)
- Energy Unplugged podcast – A conversation between Sam Stranks and Aurora Energy founder John Feddersen about PV and research (April 2022)
- CINE Webinar – Multimodal Micropscopy to Unveil Performance Losses in Next-Generation Optoelectronic Devices by Sam. YouTube link. (April 2022)
- Picoquant Webinar – Multimodal microscopy of halide perovskite solar cells by Sam Stranks (April 2022)
2021:
- Templating approach stabilises ‘ideal’ material for alternative solar cells – Press release from the University of Cambridge on our Science paper (December 2021)
2020:
- How a new solar and lighting technology could propel a renewable energy transformation – Article in The Conversation by Sam (September 2020)
- Fast Nanoscale ‘Movies’ Shed Light on a Solar Cell Mystery – Article in WIRED about our article in Nature (April 2020)
- Shedding light on dark traps – Press Release from the University of Cambridge, with a more extensive version here (April 2020)
2019:
- ‘Interview with Sam Stranks about Perovskite based technologies‘ – Interview with Sam as featured on the Amp Hour Electronics podcast (June 2019)
2018:
- ‘Potassium gives perovskite-based solar cells an efficiency boost‘, Press release from the University of Cambridge on our Nature paper (March 2018). Highlighted by a number of news sources.
- ‘A new type of solar cell is coming to market‘, Article in the Economist about the commercialisation of perovskites (February 2018)
2017:
- ‘Revolutionizing solar power with perovskites‘, keynote talk at Hello Tomorrow Summit (October 2017)
- ‘Defects in next-generation solar cells can be healed with light‘, Press release on our article in Joule, also covered in other sources including Physics Today, the Huffington Post, Materials Today. (September 2017)
- ‘2017 could be the tipping point for super efficient solar panels‘, Article in WIRED World 2017 highlighting perovskites based on interview with Sam and his TED talk (January 2017)
2016:
- Our work on ‘Photo-induced halide redistribution in organic–inorganic perovskite films‘ was featured on the front page of the MIT and DOE websites, and highlighted by Nature as well as ScienceDaily, Phys.Org, ChemEurope.com and others (May 2016)
- An article on perovskites in Fast Company based on Sam’s TED talk (March 2016)
- ‘Uncovering a radical discovery in solar energy‘ TED Talk by Sam, TED conference Vancouver (February 2016)
2015:
- Press associated with Sam’s selection as a 2016 TED Fellow (December 2015): https://www.eecs.mit.edu/news-events/media/stranks-named-2016-ted-fellow and https://medium.com/ted-fellows/21-rising-stars-to-watch-in-2016-f56c11958963#.jwiik7vao.
- Perovskite Solar Cells Could Beat the Efficiency of Silicon (Scientific American, July 2015): http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/perovskite-solar-cells-could-beat-the-efficiency-of-silicon/
- Press releases on our paper focusing on the microstructure optoelectronic properties of perovskites published in Science (May 2015): http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2015-05-01-flaw-clue-building-better-solar-cell, http://www.washington.edu/news/2015/04/30/engineering-a-better-solar-cell-uw-research-pinpoints-defects-in-popular-perovskites)
2014:
- Perovskites: The Future of PV? (CleanTechnica, June 2014): http://cleantechnica.com/2014/06/11/perovskites-future-pv/
- Revolutionary solar cells double as lasers (Press release about our work led by Cambridge collaborators reporting the first perovskite lasers, March 2014): http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/revolutionary-solar-cells-double-as-lasers
2013:
- Perspective video. Perovskites: The Emergence of a New Era for Low-Cost, High-Efficiency Solar Cells (J. Phys. Chem. Lett., December 2013): http://pubs.acs.org/page/jpclcd/snaith-video.html
- Creating simpler, cheaper solar cells (Oxford University Science blog about our diffusion paper in Science, November 2013): http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/science-blog/creating-simpler-cheaper-solar-cells