Nottingham University Nanoscience Group

Resonant Properties of Sessile Droplets; Contact Angle Dependence of the Resonant Frequency and Width in Glycerol/Water Mixtures

nano.admin — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 07:00:50 +0000

J.S. Sharp
Soft Matter, 8 (2), 399 (2012)

Meet the Nanoscientists

nano.admin — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:02:22 +0000

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.

A single centre water splitting dye complex adsorbed on rutile TiO2(110): Photoemission, x-ray absorption and optical spectroscopy

nano.admin — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 07:00:46 +0000

M. Weston, T.J. Reade, A.J. Britton, K. Handrup, N.R. Champness, and J.N. O’Shea, J. Chem. Phys., 135, 114703 (2011)

Factors affecting the formation of insulin amyloid spherulites

nano.admin — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 07:00:06 +0000

M.I. Smith, V. Foderàb, J.S. Sharp, C.J. Roberts, A.M. Donald
Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 89, 216 (2012)

Manipulating Si(100) at 5 K using qPlus frequency modulated atomic force microscopy: Role of defects and dynamics in the mechanical switching of atoms

nano.admin — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 07:00:09 +0000

A. Sweetman, S. Jarvis, R. Danza, J. Bamidele, L. Kantorovich, and P. Moriarty
Phys. Rev. B, 84, 085426 (2011)

Measuring Si–C60 chemical forces via single molecule spectroscopy

nano.admin — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 07:00:04 +0000

C. Chiutu, A. Stannard, A.M. Sweetman, and P. Moriarty
Chem. Commun., 47, 10575 (2011)

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science fellowship

nano.admin — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 22:00:00 +0000

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.

Haptic-STM: A human-in-the-loop interface to a scanning tunneling microscope

nano.admin — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 07:00:40 +0000

L.M.A. Perdigão and A. Saywell
Rev. Sci. Instrum., 82, 073704 (2011)

Coherent hypersonic closed-pipe organ like modes in supported polymer films

nano.admin — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 07:00:07 +0000

A.V. Akimov, E.S.K. Young, J.S. Sharp, V. Gusev, and A.J. Kent
Appl. Phys. Lett., 99, 021912 (2011)

Fluorination of the diamond surface by photoinduced dissociation of C60F48

nano.admin — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 07:00:06 +0000

K.J. Rietwyk, M. Wanke, H.M. Vulling, M.T. Edmonds, P.L. Sharp, Y. Smets, Q.-H. Wu, A. Tadich, S. Rubanov, P.J. Moriarty, L. Ley, and C.I. Pakes
Phys. Rev. B, 84, 035404 (2011)