Thin films surfaces and interfaces

Polarons in 2D

18/04/2012

In a collaborative work between the LCN, University of York and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, scientists have discover

Unit cell of the 2 x 2 potassium (purple atoms) superlattice that forms on graphene (black atoms) at saturation potassium doping

Transforming Graphene by Potassium Doping

21/12/2011

Graphene has been widely touted as a potential replacement for silicon in the next generation of electronic circuits.

Charge density waves, on the surface of the graphene sheets that make up a graphitic superconductor

Graphene Earns its Stripes

29/11/2011

New nanoscale electronic state discovered on graphene sheets Researchers from the London Centre for Nanotechnology have discove

A complex and ordered defect superstructure

Complexity of grain boundaries in ceramics: electrons reveal it all

18/11/2011

18th November 2011 Reporting in Nature this week, a team of researchers from the UK and Japan, including Professor Alex Shluger

Colour-coded images of surface strains in a gold nanocrystal

It’s stressful being gold

26/09/2011

Differential stress induced by thiol adsorption on facetted nanocrystals When putting together a medical sensor for blood protein.

A view of the ice surface illustrating weakly, intermediate and strongly bound water molecules

Large variation in ice surface vacancies

22/09/2011

Ice exhibits a phenomenon known as pre-melting which was first alluded to by Michael Faraday in his ‘regelation' experiments...

Recyclable circuits - easy on paper

07/09/2011

Complementary metal oxide semiconductor technology using paper Complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) circuit based on n-t

Nick is Professor of Chemical Physics at Imperial College, London. His group conducts theoretical and experimental research in the general area of nanomaterials with particular interest in their interaction with biomaterials and bionanotechnology. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the Institute of Nanotechnology, Editor-in-Chief of the international Journals, Molecular Simulation, and the Journal of Experimental Nanoscience.