NanoGlow – Lighting up a Sustainable Future
Welcome to NanoGlow – where we are creating materials that use light to power chemistry! These materials, known as catalysts, hold the key to solving some of the world’s biggest challenges, from producing new fuels to removing pollution from the air.
Join us at the Royal Society Summer Exhibition and discover how nanoscale materials engineering is transforming our lives and the world around us.
Imagine a world where we can accelerate chemical reactions using only light and tiny particles! Plasmonic catalysis is like a superhero in the lab, transforming ordinary processes into extraordinary feats of efficiency and sustainability.
By harnessing the power of light, we can create greener technologies that pave the way for a cleaner, brighter future.
We are a team of physicists, chemists and engineers who combine our expertise in chemistry, materials science, and nanotechnology to push the boundaries of light-driven chemical processes. We design nanomaterials at a scale undetectable to the human eye, roughly a billionth of a meter or 100,000 times smaller than the width of human hair. When materials are this small, they behave differently and interact with light in a way that allows us to use light energy to power reactions at the surfaces of the materials.
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- Simon Freakley
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- Megan Grace-Hughes
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- Anastasiia Zaleska
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- Brian Tam
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- Igor Kowalec
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- Zachary Warren
For more information contact Megan or Simon: cplas@kcl.ac.uk
Join us on an exciting journey into the nanoscale world by walking through our NanoGlow stand and into one of our nanomaterials! On each nanopillar, you will learn about or research in controlling how light and materials interact to address global challenges such as removing pollution from the air and turning light energy into chemical fuels.
Learn from a team that has been working for years at the forefront of nanoengineering. A team which:
Are developing new computer simulations to predict the effects of light-matter interactions on chemical reactions.
Are developing new methods to precisely control the location of atoms in nanomaterials to maximise the chemical reaction rates of these catalytic materials.
Contains experts in using state-of-the-art techniques to follow these chemical reactions and how the materials evolve under our reaction conditions, using X-rays and lasers.
Shhhh…. There may even be an appearance of some nanomaterials synthesised by Michael Faraday himself on the stand!
Don’t miss the opportunity to experience the NanoGlow stand! Join us at the Royal Society Summer Exhibition and discover how nanoscale advanced materials engineering is transforming our lives and the world around us. Witness the incredible innovations firsthand!
CPLAS is £10 million programme grant funded by EPSRC and industry project partners for a six-year study to investigate light-driven energy-conversion at the nanoscale for stimulating chemical transformations.
The project aims to advance a new field of research called “plasmo-catalysis”, which will take the light-harvesting capabilities of metallic nanostructures and transform this energy to control chemical reaction pathways in photocatalysis and photo-electrocatalysis. The research has the potential for wide-reaching applications in energy production, environmental clean-up & the pharmaceutical industry.