New paint makes tough self-cleaning surfaces
A new paint that makes robust self-cleaning surfaces has been developed by a team led by UCL researchers. The coating can be applied to clothes, paper, glass and steel and when combined with adhesives, maintains its self-cleaning properties after being wiped,...
Non-protein nucleating agent specifically designed for automated protein crystallization trials
Scientists at Imperial College London are developing new nano-materials and technologies that include high-throughput methods for producing protein crystals that are pivotal to the structural determination of biological molecules at atomic resolution. These underpin...
European Research Council grant success for the faculty
Researchers in the Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences have been awarded three major new grants from the European Research Council (ERC). These are in the areas of mathematics and nanotechnology Mark Buitelaar – London Centre for Nanotechnology/UCL Physics...
Molecular Dynamics unravel the dependence of friction on the atomistic details of surfaces
Researchers at UCL in a collaboration study with Laurent Joly, from the University of Lyon, have investigated the friction properties of liquid water at the interface with graphene and with an hexagonal boron nitride sheet, using ab initio molecular dynamics for the...