NewsWe study the measurement of the physical and chemical properties of surfaces down to the nanoscale, from biological samples to electronic components.
- NPL has been selected by ISO as one of five organisations through which direct access to relevant sections of ISO 18115 - Surface Chemical Analysis - Vocabulary can be obtained.
- The innovation of desorption electrospray ionisation in 2004 heralded the increasingly important field of ambient mass spectrometry. Within this growing domain, plasma based desorption and ionisation techniques have developed as one of the leading variants, with particular focus at NPL upon plasma assisted desorption/ionisation.
- A recent paper published in Analytical Chemistry shows how work at NPL has contributed towards the metrology for the ambient mass spectrometry technique, plasma-assisted desorption ionisation (PADI).
- The Nano-Molecular Analysis for Emerging Technologies (NMAET) V conference was an outstanding success.
- The chemical characterisation of nanoparticles is important for innovative devices as well as environmental regulation.
- NPL's expertise in Reference Materials and Reference Methods for Nanomaterial Characterisation makes it a key partner in MARINA.
- The Surface and Nanoanalysis group at NPL, in partnership with Imperial College London and the University of Warwick, have developed the capability to simultaneously map the topography and electrochemical activity of soft surfaces.
- NPL develops a state-of-the-art technique to rapidly detect small molecules on the surface of the skin.
- These materials have been used in two highly successful VAMAS interlaboratory studies and have become de facto reference materials for organic depth profiling.
- Congratulations to Andrew Pollard, who has successfully defended his PhD thesis, titled 'Scanning Probe Microscopy of Adsorbed Molecules on Boron Nitride and Graphene Monolayers'.