by Eamonn Boylan | Jul 9, 2024
Prof Bowler is a computational physicist, who develops novel electronic structure methods and works on the properties of semiconductor surfaces and nanostructures on those surfaces. He is the co-developer of the linear scaling density functional theory (DFT) code,...
by Eamonn Boylan | Apr 14, 2024 | News, Outreach
The celebration showcased world-leading quantum research from across the London Centre for Nanotechnology World Quantum Day is celebrated annually on 14 April. This date is chosen because the first three digits of Planck’s constant, the fundamental constant for...
by Grzegorz Komorowski | Mar 11, 2024 | News, Research Highight
A new, greener and cheaper method to accelerate chemical reactions has been developed by LCN scientists at King’s College London in collaboration with the University of Barcelona and ETH Zurich. Instead of using polluting and expensive metal-based catalysts, the team...
by Eamonn Boylan | Feb 14, 2024 | News, Publication, Research Highight
Researchers at Imperial College London and Heriot-Watt University have discovered new ways to control the optical properties of 2D materials. Optical properties define how a material interacts with light. These properties play an important role for solar harvesting...
by Grzegorz Komorowski | May 17, 2022 | News, Publication, Research Highight
LCN researchers have shown it is possible to perform artificial intelligence using tiny nanomagnets that interact like neurons in the brain. The quote from Kilian is also very nice “How the magnets interact gives us all the information we need; the laws of physics...
