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Tool Order: London Centre for Nanotechnology selects FEI’s Titan S/TEM for nanotech research |
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Oct 18, 2006 at 04:41 PM |
 The London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN), an interdisciplinary collaboration between Imperial College London and University College London (UCL), has purchased and installed a Titan 80-300 S/TEM from FEI that will be used for a wide range of nano-enabled research.
"Finally we have a true nano-analytical facility in a single instrument," stated Imperial's Dr. David McComb. "We can now see the atom, we can identify the atom and we can determine how it is coordinated to the atoms around it - this will enable us to make major advances in establishing the relationship between structure and properties in systems such as biomedical materials, materials for renewable energy and electronic materials. This
reinforces the position of the LCN and Imperial College London as a world-leading centre for nanomaterials research."
The Titan 80-300 S/TEM will support a range of nanotechnology research projects in
medical, pharmaceutical and materials science. These include understanding the processes which influence degenerative brain diseases, developing lightweight aircraft materials to reduce fuel consumption and researching quantum dots as a way to increase the communication bandwidth available from fibre-optic cables. In particular, researchers will study the impurity atoms responsible for the quantum bits, manipulated in silicon-based quantum computers.
Also, by understanding the relationship between nanotube structure and metal catalysts used for synthesis, it may be possible to find ways to produce nanotubes with specific structures, designed for individual applications.
The multi-million dollar microscope was funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council following a joint submission from Imperial College, University College London and the London Centre for Nanotechnology.
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