Welcome to the future of materials science, where tiny tech brings about big change!
Nanoengineering is the science of creating materials at atomic scale. It holds the key to solving some of the world’s biggest challenges, from increasing computing power to harnessing energy more efficiently.
Royal Society Summer Exhibition
By engineering materials on a nanoscale – a scale undetectable to the human eye, placing atoms precisely 20nm apart, 3000 times smaller than the width of your hair – we can start to unlock characteristics we’ve never seen in materials before. This is because atoms behave differently at the nanoscale. They interact differently with each other and have unique properties we can use.
By leveraging these new-found strengths and capabilities, we can improve devices at an atomic scale and start to build the materials that will enable game-changing technologies. Technologies like quantum computing – which has the power to process so much data at one time that it could help us create medicine crafted to a person’s individual needs – incredibly accurate weather forecasting, or a world with accident-free driverless cars.
Join us on a journey into the nanoscale world of materials science. Through an immersive three-step experience, our stand will bring materials to life at the atomic scale, and reveal how they can shape our future.
Be an atom! Start by joining us on a VR experience, where you’re shrunk down to atomic scale before being implanted into materials with atomic precision. Experience what it’s like to be 100,000,000 smaller than a ping pong ball and be one of the first in the world to know what it feels like to be implanted into a material.
Be the scientist! Step into the shoes of our team of world-leading engineers and create the perfect nano-scaled material, before watching your experiment brought to life on our giant light cube simulation.
Be the analyst! Get hands on by studying a material without seeing it, and watching our atomic force microscopy (AFM), taken straight out of our lab, characterise new materials – as well as looking at why we wear gloves in the lab (hint; your fingers aren’t as clean as you may think!).
Be a Nanoscale Pioneer
Learn from a team which has been working for years at the forefront of nano-engineering.
A team which:
Has created the world’s purest silicon – the critical ‘brick’ needed to construct a silicon-based quantum computer;
Uses equipment that can’t be found anywhere else in the world, like P-NAME, an ion implantation tool that can ‘dope’ materials to one ion with 20 nanometre accuracy;
Contains experts in atomic force microscopy (AFM), a tool which uses a mechanism similar to a vinyl record player to characterise a material, atom by atom.
Work Side-by-Side with World Leaders
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Why am I a scientist?
“It’s one of the few career paths where the truly fantastical can become the mundane, until you step back and marvel at what you’re doing.”
Joel Burton, University of Leeds
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You may one day change someone’s life.
“What I like about working on masers. circuits and lasers is that you get to build pieces of kit to do things you could never have imagined, that one day may change someone’s life.”
Wern Ng, Imperial College London
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Helping to expand the knowledge.
“I enjoy being a scientist who works with people all over the world, working in teams and helping to expand the knowledge. It’s exciting making new materials in new ways.”
Maddison Coke, University of Manchester
Don’t miss your chance to be a part of the future of materials science. Join us at the Royal Society Summer Exhibition, and witness the incredible impact of nano-scaled advanced materials engineering on our lives and the world around us!
Looking to extend your adventure into nanoscale advanced materials? Check out the links above as well as our NAME @ home section for microscope sheets and crystal kits
Want to find out more about the NAME programme grant, go to our website for more information.
To plan your visit to the Royal Society Summer Exhibition check out their website.
NAME is a EPSRC programme grant (EP/V001914/1) evolving the design and delivery of functionality on demand at the nanoscale within advanced materials. NAME brings together advanced capability from three partner institutions to unlock new areas of advanced materials research which will directly lead to a new generation of highly optimised technologies.
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Partner Institutes
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Nanoscale Materials Engineering
Home to the revolutionary P-NAME tool for single-atom precision doping. Our facilities include advanced electron microscopy, CUSTOM terahertz microscopy, and world-class cleanrooms. We lead the development of ultra-pure silicon for quantum computing.
Key Focus: Atomic-scale materials modification
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Advanced Materials Deposition
Operating the multi-chamber Royce Deposition System for quantum material growth. Our capabilities span topological insulator synthesis, terahertz characterization, and thin film engineering. We specialize in creating novel materials with exotic properties.
Key Focus: Quantum material synthesis
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Device Fabrication & Integration
Transforming materials into functional devices in our state-of-the-art cleanroom. Our integrated facilities enable rapid prototyping, MASER development, and plasmonic applications. We bridge the gap from materials to working technologies.
Key Focus: Device engineering & applications