Outreach
The London Centre for Nanotechnology is committed to sharing its research and inspiring the wider community through a variety of outreach and public engagement initiatives.
We create opportunities for school students, families and the wider public to explore the world of nanotechnology and quantum science. Whether it’s hands-on experiments, talks or interactive demos, our outreach activities aim to spark interest, encourage questions and make cutting-edge research more accessible. We believe science is for everyone, and our programmes are designed to share what we do in a way that is open, inclusive and inspiring.
Outreach News
The LCN captivates crowds at The Great Exhibition Road Festival!
The LCN featured at the Great Exhibition Road Festival over the weekend of Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 June. Thousands of visitors came to ...
Quantum Beats: A Weird Science Silent Disco at Imperial Lates
A team from the London Centre for Nanotechnology at King’s brought quantum physics to life at Weird Science, an Imperial Lates event ...
LCN Celebrates Nano for Humanity: How Tiny Science is Shaping Our Future
The London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) hosted Nano for Humanity at Imperial College London, highlighting the transformative ...
The LCN showcases quantum research for World Quantum Day
The celebration showcased world-leading quantum research from across the London Centre for Nanotechnology World Quantum Day is ...
LCN members win top honours and awards from Institute of Physics
Academics, students and technical staff at the LCN have been awarded a total of five prizes from the Institute of Physics (IOP), the ...
LCN celebrates waves at the first UK Nanoday
On a night when the Royal Albert Hall was hosting the grand Proms, the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) embarked on an exquisite ...
LCN @ UCL hosts alumni event
The London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) UCL recently hosted the first LCN alumni event. The popular event featured alumni ...
LCN spinout raises £42 million to develop quantum processors
Quantum Motion, a quantum computing spinout led by researchers from LCN @ UCL and Oxford University, has raised more than £42 million ...
Mechanobiology explored in the Wheatstone Lecture 2023
The Department of Physics at King's College London recently hosted its annual Wheatstone Lecture, featuring guest lecturer Professor ...
LCN researcher featured in Imperial People
Jang Ah Kim is a Research Associate in Biosensing in the Department of Materials, at Imperial College London was recently featured in ...
LCN researchers showcase innovative ‘tiny science’ at Imperial Lates
On Thursday 24 November, Imperial Lates dedicated an evening to explore the wonders of 'Tiny Science'. Researchers were invited to ...
LCN Participates in National Nanotechnology Day
Image Credit: Zacary Croft and Oscar Valenzuela, Graduate Students at Virginia Tech - More details at the bottom of the post. The ...
Seeing the Unthinkable at the Science Gallery London
LCN Researcher Dr James Millen has worked with artist Steven Claydon, to create Seeing the Unthinkable which is being exhibited at the ...
Dr Jess Wade writes for the Nature Index 2022 Nanoscience and nanotechnology
Dr Jess Wade is an award-winning physicist and author based at the LCN at Imperial College London. Her work is focused on the ...
International Women in Engineering Day
To celebrate International Women in Engineering Day two PhD students working in Professor Camille Petit's laboratory at Imperial ...
LCN researchers celebrate the International Day of Light
The London Institute for Advanced Light Technologies (LIALT) hosted 'Guiding Lights' at Science Gallery London on 16 May 2022 to ...
Royal Society Pairing Scheme – A Week in Westminster
Earlier this year, LCN Executive Board Member Dr Eileen Gentleman, participated in the Royal Society Pairing Scheme Week in ...
Celebrating the International Day of Light
On Thursday, 20 May, the London Institute for Advanced Light Technologies hosted The Shared Language of Light, an interdisciplinary ...
COVID-19 talks launch LCN joint seminar series
The LCN held its first online joint seminar this earlier this week. The seminar focused on the LCN response to the COVID-19 pandemic, ...
MAPS Enterprise Videos: Showcasing Exciting and Impactful work from the LCN
At the beginning of the year MAPS enterprise, with the support of an Innovation & Enterprise Impact Acceleration Award (IAA) (BIP ...
LCN thanks Professor Milo Shaffer, Imperial Director for the past 10 years
The London Centre for Nanotechnology welcomed Professor Sandrine Heutz as its new Director this month, taking over the role ...
Diversity Challenge
6.00pm to 8.00pm, Thursday 19th September @ The Royal Institution Theatre Where are all the Black and brown scientists? Women ...
Students showcase their research at the Great Exhibition Road Festival
Students from the Centre for Doctoral Training in Advanced Characterisation of Materials (CDT ACM) took part in the first ever Great ...
Preparing the NHS for a digital future
As the NHS celebrates its 70th anniversary, LCN academic and i-sense EPSRC IRC Director, Professor Rachel McKendry, is helping to ...
Amazing masers at the Royal Society
A team of LCN researchers is exhibiting at the prestigious Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition in London (4-9 July). The joint ...
The LCN features in London Tech Film
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, declares London Is Open to global technology. In anticipation of the London Tech festival a short ...
STEM for Britain 2017
LCN researcher, Dr Jennifer Brookes, was honored again this year to be a Member of the Physics Judging panel for the 2017 Poster ...
LCN students create innovative responses to the UN SDGs
LCN students and staff have been involved in an international collaboration in which the LEGO2NANO and OpenAFM projects joined forces ...
Bug Hunters
i-sense will be at this year's Spark Festival London with an interactive stall 'Bug Hunters', at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park on ...
Escaping the quantum critical singularity; modulated magnetism in PrPtAI
The transition between ferromagnetism and paramagnetism in metals is one of the simplest examples of a continuous phase transition. ...