Filming how our immune system kills bacteria
To kill bacteria in the blood, our immune system relies on nanomachines that can open deadly holes in their targets. LCN scientists have now filmed these nanomachines in action, discovering a key bottleneck in the process which helps to protect our own cells. The...
New SPIN-Lab at Imperial
LCN Professor Sandrine Heutz has been awarded £2 million from the EPSRC to fund a new state-of-the-art hub of magnetic characterisation SPIN lab in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London. The facility includes equipment for the study of strongly...
Mutual affinity of electron polarons and water at a TiO2 surface
Titania has been the subject of a tremendous amount of research, most of it related to its photocatalytic applications. Central to these studies has been the work that has explored the interaction of water with TiO2 surfaces. Indeed, this is now quite well understood....