News and Events
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Chemistry News
Au- and Pt-Nanoparticle-Functionalized Tungsten Oxide Nanoneedles for Selective Gas Microsensor Arrays
Chris Blackman demonstrates a new gas-phase method for the one-step synthesis of metal nanoparticles supported on nanostructured metal oxides as a featured cover article in Advanced Functional Materials. With no requirement for substrate pre-treatment, this provides for direct integration of the co-deposited nanomaterial with device structures and it is utilized for the fabrication of selective gas microsensor arrays based on gold and platinum decorated tungsten oxide nanorods. More...
Activation of Carbon Dioxide over Zinc Oxide by Localised Electrons
Gargi Dutta, Alexey A. Sokol*, C. Richard A. Catlow,
Thomas W. Keal, and Paul Sherwood More...
Van der Waals forces
Klimes and Michaelides' article on the cover of Journal of Chemical Physics and September's most downloaded article. More...
ACS Present Department with John William Draper medal
John William Draper – When the College opened in 1828, the Professor of Chemistry who was appointed was Edward Turner. One of his students was John William Draper who later emigrated to the United States and became professor of chemistry at New York University. He had a distinguished career, particularly in the new field of photography. He was the first to photograph the moon (1840) and the Great Orion Galaxy (1880), and he is known as the first astrophotographer. More...
Ice structures, patterns, and processes: A view across the icefields
Stephen D Price and colleagues have published a review article regarding the importance of ice research across a range of disciplines. More...
Solving the puzzle of water/metal interfaces
When water binds to solid surfaces it forms a large variety of structures, which leads More...
The Kubas interaction in M(II) (M = Ti, V, Cr) hydrazine-based hydrogen storage materials: a DFT study
Claire V. J. Skipper, Ahmad Hamaed, David M. Antonelli and Nikolas Kaltsoyannis More...
Bioaerosol detection using potentiometric tomography in flames
Dimitris Sarantaridis, Christian Hennig and Daren J. Caruana More...
New Property of Flames Sparks Advances in Technology
Work published by Dr Daren Caruana and co-workers in Angewandte Chemie International Edition (DOI: 10.1002/anie.201200226) has been highlighted on the UCL website. More...
Work by Prof Nik Kaltsoyannis highlighted in JACS and Nature
Recent computational work by Prof Kaltsoyannis (J. Am. Chem.Soc., 2012, 134 (15), 6500–6503), carried out in collaboration with the experimental teams of Profs Aldridge and Mountford from the University of Oxford, and Prof Jones from Monash University, regarding the properties of the first reported stable two-coordinate acyclic silylene, has been highlighted in “Spotlight on Recent JACS Publications” (J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, 134 (17), 7195) and in Nature (Nature, 2012, 485, 49–50) More...
