Nanotechnology for engineering systems at the University of Glasgow

Much of our research focuses on the use of nanofabrication to improve the performance of devices and materials for use in advanced engineering systems, especially for computing and communication. We also develop entirely new types of devices and build prototype systems to demonstrate how new and high performance devices can
be employed to deliver greater functionality.

Complementing this work using ‘top-down’ nanofabrication, our chemists, geoscientists and engineers are building nanostructures ‘bottom-up’ using synthetic and self-organising techniques. We are designing new molecules to synthesise biofuels from sunlight, nanostructures to store energy, developing a better understand of how nature grows hard materials with far less energy than industry needs to do the same job, and growing layered materials for high efficiency solar cells.

Advancing the state-of-the-art would not be possible without world-class theoretical and modelling studies to improve our understanding of how novel devices work. And we maintain our world lead in nanofabrication with research into new and improved techniques.

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