NewsWe study the measurement of the physical and chemical properties of surfaces down to the nanoscale, from biological samples to electronic components.
- 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'.
- NPL's Felicia Green awarded the 2011 British Vacuum Council Junior Prize and C R Burch Memorial Award and Medal.
- The Nano-Molecular Analysis for Emerging Technologies (NMAET) IV conference was an outstanding success.
- A new LTQ Orbitrap mass spectrometer has been installed in the Nanoanalysis laboratory for use with ambient ionisation sources including DESI, PADI and MALDI.
- Alex Shard, Jian Wang and Steve Spencer won the NPL Rayleigh Award for their paper, “XPS topofactors: determining overlayer thickness on particles and fibres", published in Surface and Interface Analysis.
- Felicia Green gave an invited lecture at Kings College London for part of their 'Analytical Science for Industry' MSc.