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.

Alex Saywell has won 1st prize in the poster competition at CMMP 2009. His poster was titled "Conformational Control of porphrin oligomeric and polymeric assemblies on a Au(111) substrate".

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".

Above-barrier surface electron resonances induced by a molecular network
R. Stiufiuc, L. M. A. Perdigão, B. Grandidier, D. Deresmes, G. Allan, C. Delerue, D. Stiévenard, P. H. Beton, S. C. Erwin, M. Sassi, V. Oison and J. M. Debierre
Phys. Rev. B 81, 045421 (2010)

Patterns and Pathways in Nanoparticle Self-Organisation
M. O. Blunt, A. Stannard, E. Pauliac-Vaujour, C. P. Martin, I. Vancea, M. Šuvakov, U. Thiele, B. Tadic and P. Moriarty
in the Oxford Handbook of Nanoscience and Technology (Volume 1: Basic Aspects),
editors: A. V. Narlikar and Y. Y. Fu, ISBN: 978-0-19-953304-6 (Oxford University Press, 2010)

Maintenance of pluripotency in human embryonic stem cells cultured on a synthetic substrate in conditioned medium
M. M. Mahlstedt, D. Anderson, J. S. Sharp, R. McGilvray, M. D. Barbadillo Muñoz, L. D. Buttery, M. R. Alexander, F. R. A. J. Rose, C. Denning
Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Vol. 105, No. 1, p130-140, (2010)

Solubilized derivatives of perylenetetracarboxylic dianhydride (PTCDA) adsorbed on highly oriented pyrolytic graphite
J. C. Russell, M. O. Blunt, G. Goretzki, A. G. Phillips, N. R. Champness and P. H. Beton
Langmuir, Article ASAP (2009)

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)