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Our recent Nano Letters article was mentioned alongside another beautiful paper on molecular quasicrystals in the Research Highlights editorial of the journal Nature Nanotechnology. You can read about our paper below. The other paper uses a molecule (ferrocenecarboxylic acid) that agglomerates in pentagonal clusters on a gold surface. This kind Read More …
On 6th April 2014 a memorial service was held in Much Hoole parish Church to commemorate the life of Jeremiah Horrocks. The service was taken by the Right Reverend Julian Henderson, Bishop of Blackburn, who blessed a new weather-vane on the church tower, depicting the 2012 transit of Venus. The Read More …
Our latest publication (in Nano Letters) describes the first observations of molecular layers on a quasicrystal that are induced to show quasicrystalline ordering. The quality of ordering is astonishing, with every molecule situated in a location consistent with the underlying quasicrystal. Once again, those workhorse molecules, carbon-60 and pentacene, are Read More …