The research programmes of the Nottingham Nanoscience group span a range of exciting and topical themes in state-of-the-art nanoscale science. Housed in a suite of recently refurbished laboratories containing an excellent equipment base, our core activities are focussed on understanding and controlling the structure and behaviour of condensed matter on length scales ranging from the single molecule limit to micron dimensions. In early '07, the School of Physics and Astronomy in which the group is based opened a new multidisciplinary Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Centre which will promote the development of many exciting intra- and inter-University collaborations.

Zoe Langham has won the Best Oral Presentation at a recent Ph.D. Review Day held by AstraZeneca for the students funded by their Pharmaceutical Analytical Research & Development division. Her presentation was titled "Characterisation of Felodipine/Copovidone Solid Dispersions in Aqueous Environments".

Congratulations to Adam Sweetman and Andy Stannard for winning an oral presentation and poster presentation prize, respectively, at the 17th Interdisciplinary Surface Science Conference in Reading this week. Adam's talk was entitled "Qplus NC-AFM of Si(100):Activating the c(4x2)->p(2x1) transition with sub-nm oscillations" and the title of Andy's poster was "Directing the nucleation of nanoparticle rings".

How Does Graphene Grow? Easy Access to Well-Ordered Graphene Films
F. Müller, H. Sachdev, S. Hüfner, A. J. Pollard, E. W. Perkins, J. C. Russell, P. H. Beton, S. Gsell, M. Fischer, M. Schreck, B. Stritzker.
Small 5, No. 20, 2291-2296 (2009)

Formation of monolayer graphene by annealing sacrificial nickel thin films
A. J. Pollard, R. R. Nair, S. N. Sabki, C. R. Staddon, L. M. A. Perdigao, C. H. Hsu, J. M. Garfitt, S. Gangopadhyay, H. F. Gleeson, A. K. Geim and P. H. Beton.
J. Phys. Chem. C, 2008, 112 (39), pp 15439-15448 (2009)

C60 submonolayers on the Si(1 1 1)-(7 × 7) surface: Does a mixture of physisorbed and chemisorbed states exist?
S. Gangopadhyay, R. A. J. Woolley, R. Danza, M. A. Phillips, K. Schulte, Li Wang, V.R. Dhanak, P.J. Moriarty
Surf. Sci. 603 2896 (2009)

Adsorption of PTCDI on Au(111): photoemission and scanning tunneling microscopy
J. N. O'Shea, A. Saywell, G. Magnano, L. M. A. Perdigão, C. J. Satterley, P. H. Beton and V. R. Dhanak
Surf. Sci. (2009)

Molecular random tilings as glasses
J. P. Garrahan, A. Stannard, M. O. Blunt, and P. H. Beton
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106, 15209 (2009)