The joint seminars aim to showcase research being carried out across the three LCN institutions. Held monthly during term time, each seminar will focus on a specific challenge, topic, or technique, and will comprise of 3 short talks.
Nanomechanics - 27 January 2021
Dr Finn Giuliani - Imperial College London
In situ stable fracture tests of ceramic interfaces
Professor Sergi Garcia-Manyes - King's College London
The mechanical stability of proteins regulates their translocation rate into the cell nucleus
Professor Bart Hoogenboom - UCL
Nanomechanics in bacterial life and assassination
Plasmonics - 18 November 2020
Dr Fang Xie – Imperial College London
Engineering plasmonic materials for healthcare and solar energy harvesting applications
Professor Anatoly Zayats – King's College London
Nonlinear plasmonic metamaterials
Dr Sabrina Simoncelli – UCL
Monitoring plasmonic hot-carrier chemical reaction at the single particle level
COVID-19 28 October 2020
Dr Cecilia Mattevi - Imperial College London
Nanotechnology-Enabled Approaches against the COVID-19
Pandemic Professor Rachel McKendry - UCL
i-sense EPSRC IRC: Harnessing nanotechnology, biomedical engineering and machine learning to build early warning sensing systems for COVID-19
Professor Harris Makatsoris - King's College London
Modular factories-in-a-box for scalable vaccine manufacture