02-10-2025: Delighted to announce that our first collaborative paper on nano-mechanical sensing, titled “Two Dimensional-Material-Coated Microcantilevers for Enhanced Mass Sensing and Material Characterization” , has been accepted in Nanoscale. Huge thanks to everyone involved!
18-06-2025: Excited to share that our paper “Thermal Shrinkage-Induced Modifications in Photonic Band Gaps of Two-Photon Polymerized Bragg Reflectors” has been accepted in Advanced Photonics Research – grateful to all involved!
16-01-2025: Check out our latest publication on “Recent Advances in Surface Functionalized 3D Electrocatalyst for Water Splitting” .
25-11-2024: Our project, ‘HyMeta: Hyperuniform Disordered Metasurfaces for Selective Absorbers (EP/Y016440/1) ,’ has been shortlisted in the Energy and Environment category . NEL is honored to be part of this highly promising project and to collaborate with such an outstanding team.
01-10-2024: NEL welcomes its new PhD student: Mr. Owen Bell
11-04-2024: Our EPSRC joint project (EP/Y016440/1) “Hyperuniform Disordered Metasurfaces for Selective Absorbers” has been granted! A news item is released - Project to boost solar energy capture awarded £1.1 million
12-02-2024: Check out our collaboration with Dr Jonathan Mar from Newcastle University to celebrate the Year of the Dragon, which is now available to the public! X(Twitter) , LinkedIn , facebook , Threads , and Instagram .
09-01-2024: Our EPSRC networking project (EP/Y003551/1) , which has recently been granted, is featured in the Engineer Magazine - Smart Stent to warn of restenosis .
18 – 21 September 2023 Nadira will present the paper “3D Pyrolyzed Carbon Modified with g-C3N4@Ni Electrodeposit for Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Generation” at the E-MRS 2023 Fall Meeting in Warsaw, Poland.
29-05-2023: Our EPSRC ECR international collaboration grant project (EP/Y003551/1) “Additive Micro/Nano-manufacturing of Structured Piezoelectric Active Materials for Intelligent Stent Monitoring” has just been granted!
26 – 30 June 2023 NEL will present the papers at the CLEO®/Europe-EQEC 2023 in Munich, Germany.
10-05-2023: Check out our latest publication on “Conformal CVD-grown MoS2 on Three-dimensional Woodpile Photonic Crystals for Photonic Bandgap Engineering” , ACS Applied Optical Materials.
29-05 to 02-06 2023: NEL presented the papers at the E-MRS 2023 Spring Meeting in Strasbourg, France.
28-09-2022: Our joint research proposal Catalyst Award (Academia Sinica of Taiwan - Healthy Longevity Grand Challenge Competition) with Dr. Yu-Sheng Lin from Southern Taiwan University of Science and technology has just been granted.
30-08-2022: NEL presented the paper and poster at the Photon 2022 Conference in Nottingham, UK.
21-03-2022: Our Royal Society Research Grant to fund equipment has just been granted, which is for a heated microscope stage to characterise materials properties of solar thermal absorbers.
01-03-2022: NEL welcomes its new PhD student: Miss Nadira Hameed
23-02-2022: Check out our latest publication on Strongly Confining Light with Air-Mode Cavities in Inverse Rod-Connected Diamond Photonic Crystals
22-09-2021: NEL has a fully funded PhD position available to study Artificially Nano-structured Materials for Three-dimensional Electrodes and Catalysts
01-09-2021: NEL welcomes its new member: Dr. Mike Taverne
04-06-2021: NEL has a Research Fellow position available in Experimental Nanophotonics
10-03-2021: Our EPSRC New Investigator Award project 3D Nanophotonics in Artificially Structured Chalcogenide Materials
02-12-2019: NEL has a fully funded PhD position available to study 3D Nanophotonics in Artificially Structured Chalcogenide Materials