by Eamonn Boylan | Oct 7, 2015 | News
We are pleased to announce that Professor Andrew Fisher has commenced his role of the new co-director of the London Centre for Nanotechnology from the University College London. The LCN is jointly owned and run by UCL and Imperial, with one co-director from each...
by Eamonn Boylan | Jul 2, 2015 | News
Two LCN scientists, Geoff Thornton and Chris Pickard, have been recognised in this year’s Institute of Physics awards (Left: Chris Pickard; Right: Geoff Thornton) Tabor Medal – Prof Geoff Thornton (UCL Chemistry) “For his contributions to...
by Owen Harrison | Jun 16, 2015 | News, Research Highight
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...
by Owen Harrison | Mar 10, 2015 | News, Publication, Research Highight
Scientists at Imperial College London are developing new nano-materials and technologies that include high-throughput methods for producing protein crystals that are pivotal to the structural determination of biological molecules at atomic resolution. These underpin...
by Eamonn Boylan | Mar 23, 2010
Prof Alfè’s research interests are mainly focused on theoretical-computational first principles techniques applied to a variety of problems, from the study of the properties of Earth’s forming materials at the extreme conditions of Earth’s deep...
