Support morphology affects nanoparticle adsorption
Chi-Ming Yim, working as a postdoc in the LCN group of Geoff Thornton, has discovered an intriguing phenomenon in adsorption properties of nanoparticles. Low temperature scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) experiments, carried out in the LCN, have allowed direct...
Measuring discrete quantum states of metallic nanoparticles
How do you measure the electronic properties of individual nanoparticles or molecules that are only a few nm in size? Conventional methods using electron transport spectroscopy rely on contacting a material with two contacts, a source and a drain electrode. By...
Seeing elements transform at the atomic scale for the first time
Atoms of one chemical element morphing into another have been observed for the first time revealing a new, safer way to potentially treat cancer with radiation. The research has just been published in the journal Nature Materials. The work was done as a...
Transient melting of a nanocrystal: seeing is believing
Jesse Clark, working as a postdoc in the LCN group of Ian Robinson, has discovered a spectacular transient melting phenomenon in nanocrystals. Coherent X-ray diffraction experiments, carried out at the LCLS X-ray free electron laser facility at Stanford, have allowed...