Characterization of a pentacene-based room-temperature MASER
A paper published in Scientific Reports by LCN researchers based at both UCL and Imperial College, presents the first thorough characterisation of a room temperature, zero-field MASER (a type of laser emitting microwaves); a system that was only discovered in 2012....
Serial killers of the immune system caught on microscopic CCTV
Our life hinges on an army of serial killers that attack virus-infected and cancerous cells in our body. These killers are a type of white blood cell called cytotoxic lymphocytes, which show remarkable efficiency in first perforating their victims and next injecting...
Metallic atomically-thin layered silicon
A new metallic silicon (Si) nanostructure has been discovered by researchers from the LCN at UCL, the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), and the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), USA. Their study, which appears in the journal 2D Materials,...