The University of Southampton has been awarded a multi-million pound grant from Lloyd’s Register Foundation to bring together some of the world’s brightest early career researchers to find new ways of using nanotechnologies to improve safety at sea, on land and in the air. Dr Themis Prodromakis, from the Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnologies Group at Southampton, is leading the £3m programme, which will receive match funding...

Researchers at the University of Southampton’s Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC), part of the Zepler Institute, have successfully fabricated and characterised large-area 2D films of molybdenum disulphide (MoS2) at room temperature using a process which is scalable to any size wafer.

  Researchers at the University of Southampton’s Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) are set to investigate using 3D printing, or additive manufacturing, techniques in the fabrication of optical fibre.

A 3D printed aircraft has successfully launched off the front of a Royal Navy warship and landed safely on a Dorset beach. HMS Mersey provided the perfect platform for the University of Southampton to test out their SULSA UAV. Weighing 3kg and measuring 1.5m, the airframe was created on a 3D printer using laser sintered nylon and catapulted off HMS Mersey into the Wyke Regis Training Facility in Weymouth, before landing on Chesil Beach.

Pioneering research from the University of Southampton using electrical currents to grow materials that could create tiny tech the size of atoms will be on show at the Royal Society’s annual Summer Science Exhibition, which opens to the public this week (Tuesday 30th June 2015).

The University of Southampton is to play a major role in helping to boost the UK’s ability to develop and exploit the vast potential of robotics and autonomous systems. Southampton is one of the founding partners of the EPSRC UK Robotics and Autonomous Systems Network (UK-RAS Network), which will bring together the country’s key academic capabilities in robotics innovation under national coordination for the first time.

  The University of Southampton has signed an agreement with Chinese high-speed train manufacturer CSR Qingdao Sifang (CSR Sifang) to establish a new centre for railway research and development.

Researchers at the University of Southampton’s Zepler Institute have successfully manufactured 11km of hollow core photonic bandgap fibre with low loss and a broad transmission bandwidth. This is a type of fibre that until now had only been made in lengths of hundreds of metres.

Researchers from University of Southampton have developed an automated method for classifying hundreds of miles of the deep sea floor, in a way that is more cost efficient, quicker and more objective than previously possible. Currently, there is very little information about the geographic distribution of life on the sea floor. This is largely because of the practical difficulty in accessing creatures that live at such great depths in the oc...

Researchers from the University of Southampton will play a major role in establishing a European Data Science Academy (EDSA) - an online platform for training data scientists across Europe. The Academy will help organisations and businesses across the EU to benefit from the global explosion and availability of large and complex data sets – known as Big Data.

University of Southampton research has shown consumers reduce their water consumption by 16.5% after they receive a metered connection – based on the study of a five-year programme to install nearly half a million water meters in the south-east of England. This reduction is far more than the national average of 10% and is typically achieved very quickly after a meter is installed.

Scientists have developed an octopus-like robot which can launch itself through water, with fast propulsion and acceleration never before seen in man-made underwater vehicles. Most fast aquatic animals are sleek and slender to help them move easily through the water but cephalopods, such as the octopus, are capable of high-speed escapes by filling their bodies with water and then quickly expelling it to dart away.

Computers that function like the human brain could soon become a reality thanks to research using optical fibres made of chalcogenides, sulphur-based, light-sensitive speciality glasses. The research, published in Advanced Optical Materials, has the potential to allow faster and smarter optical computers capable of learning and evolving.

A University of Southampton researcher has developed a loudspeaker system to help people with hearing problems listen to television without affecting the sound for other viewers. Marcos Simón, a PhD researcher from the University’s Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, has devised a highly-directional system of acoustical radiators, commonly known as loudspeaker arrays.