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Welcome to the Nottingham Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Centre

The Centre offers co-ordinated nanotechnology resource for pure and applied research and teaching. The Centre is the hub for the University's Nanoscience postgraduate Masters programme which welcomes students from a wide range of scientific backgrounds.

The University has recognised strengths in key areas of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. This includes Single Molecule Nanoscience, Bionanotechnology, Carbon Nanostructures, Nanoparticulates, Nanopharmaceuticals and Nanoscale Assembly.

EPSRC open-access materials analysis centre for UK academics

  

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Latest News

NNNC Researchers Forum - Photonics

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NNNC Researchers Forum Dec 2011 - photonics
Date:
20/01/2012

Cryo Microscopy Group meeting 2011

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Cryo microscopy group meeting Nottingham November 2011
Date:
20/01/2012

Organic medical imaging system to detect disease and track medication

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organic medical imaging systems - nano-transducers for medical applications
Date:
05/10/2011

Recent Publications

Resonant Properties of Sessile Droplets; Contact Angle Dependence of the Resonant Frequency and Width in Glycerol/Water Mixtures, James S. Sharp, Soft Matter, 2012, 8 (2), 399 – 407, DOI: 10.1039/C1SM06916K

Factors affecting the formation of insulin amyloid spherulites, Michael I. Smith, Vito Foderàb, James S. Sharp, Clive J. Roberts, Athene M. Donald, Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 89 (2012), 216– 222, DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2011.09.018

The differential effect of apoferritin-PbS nanocomposites on cell cycle progression in normal and cancerous cells, Lyudmila Turyanska, Tracey D. Bradshaw, Mei Li, Philip Bardelang, William C. Drewe, Michael W. Fay, Stephen Mann, Amalia Patane and Neil R. Thomas, J. Mater. Chem., 2012, available online, DOI: 10.1039/c1jm13563e

Tuneable Mechanical Properties in Low Molecular Weight Hydrogels, Lin Chen, Jaclyn Raeburn, Sam Sutton, David G. Spiller, James Williams, James S. Sharp, Peter C. Griffiths, Richard K. Heenan, Stephen M. King, Alison Paul, Steve Furzeland, Derek Atkins and Dave J. Adams, Soft Matter, 2011, 7 (20), 9721 - 9727

Contact Angle Dependence of the Resonant Frequency of Sessile Water Droplets, James S. Sharp, David J. Farmer, and James Kelly, Langmuir, 2011, 27 (15), pp 9367–9371 DOI: 10.1021/la201984y

In situ TEM investigation of <beta>-FeOOH and <alpha>-Fe2O3 nanorods; Trevor P Almeida, Michael W Fay, Yanqiu Zhu and Paul D Brown, in press, available online Physica E doi:10.1016/j.physe.2011.01.016

Effects of Substrate Constraint on Crack Pattern Formation in Thin Films of Colloidal Polystyrene Particles, M. I. Smith and J. S. Sharp, Langmuir, 2011, 27 (13), pp 8009–8017 DOI: 10.1021/la2000624

Contact Angle Dependence of the Resonant Frequency of Sessile Water Droplets, James S. Sharp, David J. Farmer, and JamesKelly, Langmuir, 2011, 27 (15), pp 9367–9371 DOI: 10.1021/la201984y

Imaging the photovoltaic response of PbS-sensitized porous titania,  L. Turyanska, O. Makarovsky, U. Elfurawi, A. Patanè, M. W. Fay, J. W. Bowers, H. M. Upadhyaya,  Phys. Status Solidi A, DOI  - 10.1002/pssa.201127066

 

 

 

Nottingham Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Centre

University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham, NG7 2RD

telephone: +44 (0) 115 846 7729
email: peter.milligan@nottingham.ac.uk