On the 22nd of October 2011, members of the Nanoscience group ran demonstrations for the public at the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) in Manchester. More information about the event can be found on our outreach pages.

Congratulations to Adam Sweetman for the award of a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science fellowship. This will fund a three month visit to the group of Oscar Custance, world-leaders in atomic manipulation using dynamic force microscopy.

Students in the Nanoscience Group won first, second, and third prizes in the Tesella Poster competition.
1st Place: Julian Stirling, with the title: “Computer Vision and Automation at the Atomic Scale”
2nd Place: James Bailey, with the title: “Thin film polymer photonics: Spin cast distribution Bragg reflectors”
3rd Place: Rosanna Danza, with the title: “Disentangling atomic and electronic structure in scanning probe images of Si(100)”

James Hayton has uploaded the video for his presentation “Thesis Hell!”.

Kevin Langley came second in the Young Scientist’s Lecture Competition at NanoSMat-5 (Reims, France, 19-21 October 2010) . The title of his lecture was “Micro-wrinkled bilayer structures with gradient wetting properties”.