Special Temperatures for Magnetic Discovery
Getting to low temperature is something we take for granted today: laboratories across the world are awash with liquid nitrogen at -196C and body scanners in hospitals use liquid helium at only 4.2 degrees above absolute zero (-269 C). Yet what underpins this low...
Morphing twisted nanoscale objects opens up a new way to tailor applications in future technologies
Lonon Centre for Nanotechnology Scientists have helped create a way to model interactions between light and twisted molecules, as they transition from left to right-handed versions, or vice versa. For the first time scientists have created a way to model the...
World’s first room temperature maser using diamond developed
21st March 2018 The world’s first continuous room-temperature solid-state maser has been developed by UCL and Imperial College London scientists. The breakthrough, made using a diamond held in a ring of sapphire, opens up the possibility for masers (microwave...
Mimicking viruses from inside out using DNA origami
The cover of the current issue of ACS Synthetic Biology highlights the work of a research team from UCL, the LCN and NPL to engineer a programmable inside-out “virus”. This everted “virus” is designed to deliver functional proteins into live cells. The synthetic virus...