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Recent news

DyeRecycle x Patrick McDowell for London Fashion Week
STEM meets style: Imperial spinout showcased in leading fashion publication

Exciting news from DyeRecycle: not only has the team collaborated with fashion designer Patrick McDowell, but their partnership has been featured in Vogue Italia!

Founded from research within Imperial’s Department of Chemical Engineering, DyeRecycle is transforming the way the fashion industry reuses and recycles dyes from textiles. It progressed through Undaunted’s Greenhouse accelerator in 2023.

Undaunted collage shows a diver under the ocean swimming towards petri dishes embedded in the sea bed
Unearthing ground-breaking solutions for climate adaptation and resilience
Less than 10% of climate finance is allocated to adaptation and resilience (A&R), even though these areas are as vital as decarbonisation / mitigation for a sustainable future.

Our second Climate Solutions Catalyst (CSC) cohort of academic researchers will focus on five missions designed to uncover game-changing, scalable, and investable adaptation and resilience solutions.

Climate Launchpad UK finalists, mentors, and judges
ISONIK wins UK Final of ClimateLaunchpad with its ultrasonic ice prevention tech

Ice build-up on the blades of wind turbines is an issue for 65% of the world’s wind farms, decreasing energy generation by up to 20% and resulting in revenue loss for wind farms globally. ISONIK’s technology can be retrofitted inside the blades and uses ultrasonic soundwaves to prevent ice build-up. Its founding team, who met on Imperial’s MSc Cleantech Innovation, came in first place in the 2025 UK final of ClimateLaunchpad.

News archive

Women in cleantech innovation: “Bring the passion, but also the numbers. Investors want both” – Carmel Rafaeli

For the next blog in our series of insights from women in cleantech innovation, the Grantham Institute’s Linsey Wynton meets... The ... Read more

Women in cleantech innovation: “I wanted to start a business that could make people’s lives better” – Megan Hale

For the next blog in our series profiling trailblazing women in cleantech, the Grantham Institute’s Linsey Wynton chats to ... Read more

ISONIK wins UK Final of ClimateLaunchpad with its ultrasonic ice prevention tech

Startup empowering reliable wind energy with its ice prevention tech comes in first in UK final of world’s largest green business ... Read more

Vertical farming and sustainable food production: Women in cleantech innovation

As part of our series profiling women making waves in the field of cleantech innovation, the Grantham Institute’s Linsey Wynton... The ... Read more

Imperial co-hosts UN roundtable on capital markets and sustainability at FFD4

Imperial College London brought academic insight to the UN, co-hosting a high-level roundtable on capital markets at FFD4 in Seville. Read more

From Bangladeshi roots to natural algae dyes

Celebrating South Asian Heritage Month 2025 with Redwan Rahman, researcher in Sustainable Chemical Engineering and co-founder of ... Read more

Scientists call for action and implementation ahead of COP30

The Countdown to COP30 event began with a clear message: science must be placed “at the heart of everything we do”. Read more

Imperial to host CDL-London to support entrepreneurship in critical minerals

Imperial Business School will host Creative Destruction (CDL) London, a mentorship programme to support entrepreneurship, backed by ... Read more

Biofonic’s novel acoustic tech wins top prize at Undaunted’s Greenhouse Demo Day

Biofonic is a climate startup developing tech that unearths rich insights into soil, to make agriculture more profitable and sustainable. Read more

Unearthing the soul of climate innovation: introducing ALMa

Dr César Quilodrán-Casas, Advanced Research Fellow in Machine Learning, is part of Undaunted’s Climate Solutions Catalyst team. ... Read more

Imperial launches Schools of Convergence Science to drive scientific discovery

The new Schools of Convergence Science will help Imperial supercharge scientific discovery and drive economic growth. Read more

AI startup Deep.Meta shortlisted for £1 million Manchester Prize

Digital twin designed to reduce carbon emissions from steel-making is chosen as an example of AI for the public good. Read more

From the lab to zero emissions – how can we accelerate climate innovations out of academia?

Dr Christopher Waite and colleagues leading Undaunted’s Climate Solutions Catalyst (CSC) programme reflect on the need to proactively ... Read more

Imperial at London Tech Week 2025

Imperial academics, staff and startups take part in a range of events across this year’s London Tech Week. Read more

AI evidence pipelines could offer reliable support for conservation decisions

AI can match human experts in retrieving conservation evidence, researchers from Imperial College London and Cambridge University find. Read more

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