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Hair care formulations like shampoos and conditioners contain a mixture of surfactants and polyelectrolytes to modify different properties. One important target of conditioners is to leave the hair feeling smooth, by reducing friction. In this study, we use non-equilibrium molecular…

Boosting Photocatalysis with 2D Heterostructures. A team led by Azeem Nabi at University of Gujrat (Pakistan) and Devis Di Tommaso (Queen Mary University of London) explored computationally van der Waals heterostructures combining boron arsenide (BAs) and Janus MXY monolayers (M…

This manuscript reports molecular simulations of bolaamphiphiles, elongated molecules with attractive moieties on each end. An initial portion of the manuscript deals with the algorithms developed to obtain the macroscopic behaviour of these fluids from the knowledge of their interactions…

A new fabrication process that could be used to build a quantum computer achieves an almost zero failure rate and has the potential to be scaled up, according to new research from engineers and physicists at UCL. The study, published in Advanced…

An electronic nose is a device that can detect gases and recognise odour. In general, however, they cannot yet compete with the versatility and sensitivity of the best biological noses. Drawing on a proposed theory of how humans identify odour…

The vibrational spectra of crystals, on which many thermal and mechanical properties depend, are known to be highly structured at low temperatures, with all of the energy restricted to a set of surfaces in reciprocal spacetime, known as the phonon bands.…

Solar cells are a promising renewable energy source due to theirability to convert sunlight into electricity without a negative impact on theenvironment. Most commercial photovoltaics are made from silicon but there is ademand for alternative technologies with greater efficiency and…

The interaction of nanoparticles with light plays an important role in many applications, for example solar cells or photocatalysis. The fundamental quantity that determines if a nanoparticle can absorb light is the energy gap between its highly occupied orbital and…

TYC members, Zhao and Di Tommaso (Queen Mary), and Crespo-Otero (UCL) have identified the role of copper (Cu) in diatomic catalysts in the electrochemical CO2 conversion to one-carbon (C1) value-added chemicals. Traditionally, Cu has been identified as the catalytic site…

The production of hydrogen using solar energy is a key step towards a green hydrogen economy. Palladium nanoparticles are good catalysts for the production of hydrogen, but they do not absorb much sunlight. This limitation of palladium nanoparticles can be…