IT Resources:
Nano File Server
The Nanoscience group runs a file server, called 'nano', on the School network. Group members can ask to have an account created. This entitles you to 4 GB personal storage space and access to a range of other useful resources. The server administrators are currently Ed Perkins and Andrew Wilson. For more information see either the Nano User Guide or the Nano Administrator Guide. 
Nanosci Mailing List
The nanosci mailing list is used to keep everybody up-to-date with what's going on in the group. You can subscribe at this page using your university e-mail address.
Data Storage Protocol
All experimental data should be managed according to the group Data Storage Protocol.
Useful Web Links
Outlook Webmail Web of Science
Experimental Resources:
Nanoscience group A-level Masterclass 2009 :
This year's annual A-level Nanoscience Masterclass, "Exploration and Manipulation at the Nanoscale" was held on the 10th of October 2009
in the School of Physics & Astronomy. Sessions included hands-on atomic force microscope (AFM)-driven nanolithography, scanning tunnelling
microscopy (STM), AFM demonstrations and problems classes. Each session was led by staff and student demonstrators. Two example STM images
and eight nanolithography scans taken by the students are shown below (click the thumbnail for a larger image).
Feedback comments from the A-level students implied the event was both informative and enjoyable:
"Increased my knowledge and understanding of quantum mechanics and nanoscience";
"Opened my eyes to a whole branch of science that I had previously thought was just abstract";
"Thoroughly enjoyed it!"
Thanks to all the A-level students who attended the Masterclass for their efforts and enthusiasm!
Nanoscience group A-level Masterclass 2008 :
The Nanoscience group's A-level Masterclass, "Exploration and Manipulation at the Nanoscale", held on the 27th of September 2008 in the School of Physics & Astronomy included a hands-on session on atomic force microscope(AFM)-driven nanolithography. (The session was coordinated by two postgraduate students in the group,
Andy Stannard and Adam Sweetman). Each group of A-level students drew a picture (using the simple Microsoft Paint
application) which was subsequently loaded into the control software for an Asylum Research MFP-3D AFM. The drawing was then transferred into the surface of a thin polystyrene film with a sub-micron (few hundred nanometre or smaller) linewidth. All of the nanoscale artwork produced by the A-level students can
be found below (click on a thumbnail to download a higher resolution image).
Thanks to all the A-level students who attended the Masterclass for their efforts and enthusiasm!
Nano in Nottingham Videos:
'Nano in Nottingham' is a series of six larger than life films about the small science of nanotechnology. These films were first screened at the Nano in Nottingham event held in the city's Market Square in May 2007.
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