Research Highlights
17/07/2019
One of the early breakthroughs for nanotechnology was its success in visualising individual atoms and molecules.
11/07/2019
The nuclear pore complex (NPC) is the primary transport gateway for biomolecules to enter and exit the cell nucleus.
04/07/2019
LCN researchers at King’s College London have discovered how to control light at ultrafast timescales by designing the distributio
02/07/2019
Catalysts play a key role in many industrial processes, as more than 85% of the energy consumed daily by our essential-routine dev
13/05/2019
During our every day life, many of our tissues are subjected to large deformations.
07/05/2019
To kill bacteria in the blood, our immune system relies on nanomachines that can open deadly holes in their targets.
25/04/2019
Skyrmions, ‘hedgehogs’ of electron spins, are well known in magnetic materials and were long considered for applications in spintr
11/04/2019
10th April 2019
Tiny, individual, flexible ribbons of crystalline phosphorus have been made by UCL researchers in a...
08/04/2019
9th April 2019
Ancient organic matter of biological origin has been tracked in multiple samples of rock spanning over 2,000 mill
28/03/2019
The combination of mobile devices with diagnostic tools offers new possibilities to test, track and treat infectious diseases as w
18/03/2019
A half-century old prediction about how a sheet of atoms will behave has been experimentally verified by researchers at the LCN.
27/02/2019
A way of transporting tiny particles of graphite in liquid using magnetic fields has been developed by UCL scientists.
It opens..