Sir James Dyson has committed £1.4m over ten years to fund a Cambridge professorship in fluid mechanics – the scientific discipline behind his vacuum cleaner and airblade hand dryer
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Graphene, the wonder material that's stronger than steel and one atom thick, could be as revolutionary as silicon, say its Nobel prize-winning creators. Now with £50m from the UK government, they're racing to prove it, they tell Tim Adams