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2011 NPL Science Poster Fair - best presentation and impact winner. There is a pressing need to move away from the conventional fossil fuels used as vehicle fuels today due to their damaging environmental effects and dwindling resources.
2011 Best Science Content Poster. Using scanning probe microscopy to characterise electrocatalysts.
2011 Best Presentation and Impact Poster. Measuring and standardising hydrogen impurities for application in fuel cells.
Silver nanoparticles can be used as metal markers in tests known as immunoassays that can detect specific molecules in complex mixtures such as blood.
Detecting biomarkers using Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS).
NPL has demonstrated the accurate quantisation of the Hall resistance in epitaxial graphene on silicon carbide (SiC/G) to 3 parts in a billion.
NPL's single-electron pumps generate a current by repeatedly trapping and releasing individual electrons.
NPL has developed a novel form of clock-controlled single electron device - the tunable barrier electron pump.
Quantum dot-based single electron pumps are a convincing candidate for use as a quantum metrological current standard.
Water vapour is the most important greenhouse gas in the atmosphere but some of its absorption characteristics are poorly understood.
Ensuring that radiotherapy doses are safe and effective by using existing detection equipment in a novel way.
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Light microscopes have a resolution limit of around 250 nanometres (nm), which means anything smaller will appear blurred.
Photoelectrochemical activity screening of dyes on TiO2 surfaces is becoming increasingly relevant as industry tries to expand commercialisation of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs).
Joint winners of the NPL Science Poster Fair 2012
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