Dr Majid Taghavi
BSc, MSc, PhD, FAHE

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October 2025

A week of double success: featured in Advanced Materials and Advanced Functional Materials 23 October 2025 A Queen Mary collaboration with the University of Bristol has led to two new publications in Advanced Materials and Advanced Functional. The work has been featured on the latest front cover of Advanced Materials, showcasing a shape-morphing soft matter capable of performing an unprecedented range of deformations, including rotation, translation, … [more]

Research on transferring motion energy through a conductive wire published in Nano Energy 6 October 2025 Can tiny amounts of harvested energy be used to drive precise actuators? Their "StaticDrive" technology has just been published in Nano Energy. It transfers small amounts of mechanical energy directly through a thin wire to an actuator tip in real time, without the need for batteries or gears. … [more]

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