Seeing polarons at a metal oxide surface
Polarons in metal oxides play a key role in processes such as catalysis, high temperature superconductivity, and dielectric breakdown in nanoscale electronics. For this reason, numerous studies have been conducted on technologically relevant oxide materials in which...
DNA-based nanocontainers for drug delivery
Scientists from the LCN have engineered a novel nanoscale drug delivery vehicle which can be tuned to release a range of cargos. The drug delivery system consists of self-assembled DNA nanopores embedded in nanometre-sized ‘bubbles’ known as polymersomes. Polymersomes...
Royal Society Award for LCN Professor
LCN Professor, Neil Alford MBE FREng, has been awarded the Royal Society Armourers & Brasiers’ Company Prize 2016 for his outstanding contributions to materials research with benefit to society, especially the development of ultra-low-loss microwave...
Ultrafast control and detection of magnetic correlations in a 5d transition metal oxide
Understanding how the electronic and magnetic properties of materials are modified by the injection of charge carriers is of central importance across a range of fundamental and applied research. For example, the selective doping of impurity atoms into semiconductors...