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.
Ultrafast Lasers 26 May 2021
Dr Amelle Zaïr - King's College London High-harmonic XUV sources: from lab to infastructure
Professor Jon Marangos Measuring photoexcited dynamics in the few-femtosecond time-domain
Professor Ian Robinson- UCL Where does laser melting start in polycrystalline metals
Energy Harvesting - 28 April 2021
Dr Agi Brandt-Talbot - Imperial College London Biopolymer processing with low-cost ionic liquids
Dr Carla Perez Martinez - UCL Unexpected phenomena in ionic liquids and other concentrated electrolytes
Dr Leigh Aldous – King's College London Waste heat to electricity conversion in thermogalvanic cells, and our attempts to get nanomaterials involved
Single-Molecule Science- 24 February 2021
Dr Binoy Paulose Nadappuram - Imperial College
London New methods for single cell and single molecule screening
Dr Ismael Diez Perez - King's College London
Deciphering Bioelectricity Mechanisms using Single-Protein Junctions
Dr Taylor Stock – UCL
Silicon surface chemistry of atomically precise arsenic doping
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