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  • 21st May, 2013
    The paper published by G.A. Bhaduri and L. Siller in Catalysis Science and Technology titled "Nickel nanoparticles catalyst reversible hydration of carbon dioxide for mineralization carbon capture and storage" is the most accessed article in the month of March for the journal.
  • 24th April, 2013
    The paper published by G.A. Bhaduri and L. Siller in Catalysis Science and Technology titled "Nickel nanoparticles catalyst reversible hydration of carbon dioxide for mineralization carbon capture and storage" is the most accessed article in the month of February for the journal.

  • 5thFebruary, 2013

    Dr Lidija Siller and Mr G.A. Bhaduri make headlines for their research on Carbon Capture and Storage. The news was following the study published in Catalysis Science and Technology was found in leading newspapers, magzines, blogs and channels all over the world including BBC , Telegraph, The Journal, Mirror, Chemistry World (Royal Society of Chemistry) in the UK. The article was also published in media in United States, Canada, Brazil,India, China, Portugal, Finland, France, UAE and Dubai, Australia, Africa to name a few.

  • 31st January, 2013

    Mr S. Piticharoenphun, published his paper in International Journal of Environmental Pollution and Remedition.

  • 16th January, 2013

    Dr Lidija Siller was invited for a talk on"Characterization of silver nanoparticles in complex media" at Surface Characterization Day, Newcastle University, UK.

  • 14th December, 2012

    Mrs K.M. Abualnaja and Mr G.A. Bhaduri presented their posters at RSC Postgratuate Symposium on Nanotechnology, University of Birmingham, UK.

  • 23th November, 2012

    Mr G.A. Bhaduri presented and won the third position at the Excellence in Energy Research Poster Competition, organised by the North East Chamber of Commerce, UK.

  • 11th October, 2012

    Khamael Abualnaja presented her postere titled "Optical and Chemical Characterization of Erbium doped Silicon Quantum Dots" at the 6th Saudi Scientific International Conference organized at Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK

  • 3rd-7th September, 2012

    Ms Yayuk Astuti and Mr Sunthon Piticharoenphun presented there work at the 24th Conference of the European Physical Society Condensed Matter Division, 11th European Conference on Surface Crystallography and Dynamics, 29th European Conference on Surface Science, and 2012UK Condensed Matter and Materials Physics Conference (all held parallel), at Edinburgh, UK.

  • 1st September, 2012

    Dr Mohammed Abid Hassan Alamiry joined the research group.

  • 29th August-1st September, 2012

    Dr Lidija Siller gave a keynote lecture at the 5th International Conference on Biomaterials "Biomaterials & Medical Devices" BiomMedD'2012 at Constanta, Romania.
    She also chairperson of the scientific session-Bio-inspired Material and the Memeber of the scientific commeete of the same.

  • 28th-30th August, 2012

    Mr Sunthon Piticharoenphun presented his paper at the 2nd International Conference on Environmental Pollution and Remedition, Montreal, Qucbec, Canada.

  • 20th July, 2012

    Mr Gaurav Bhaduri gave a seminar titled "Carbon Capture and Sequestration using Novel Metal Catalyst" at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, P.R. China.

  • 9th July-3rd August, 2012

    Mr Gaurav Bhaduri visited Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, P.R. China, for research collaboration with Prof Wenfeng Shangguan group at the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering.

  • 30th May-1st June, 2012

    Ms Yayuk Astuti presented her paper titled "Functionalized Nanodiamonds: Raman and Spectroscopy Studies" at the International Conference on Nanotechnology 2012 (ICONT 2012) held on 30th May and 1st June, 2012 at Pahang, Malaysia.

  • 14th May, 2012

    Mr Gaurav Bhaduri gave a talk at the SAgE Seminar Series on the topic of "Nanofluids: Heat and Mass Transfer Applications", at Newcastle University.

  • 18th April, 2012

    Ms Yayuk Astuti won the runners up prize for her proposal titled "Nanodiamond as a novel catalyst support material" at the Products and Processes Postgraduate Research Proposal Competition at Newcastle University.

  • 18th April, 2012

    Mrs. K.M. Abualnaja (Titled: Doping Silicon Nanocrystals with Erbuim Ion),
    Mrs. N.H.S. Nasralla (Titled: Structural and Spectorscopic Study Fe-Doped TiO2 Nanoparticles) and
    Mr G.A. Bhaduri (Titled: Green Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles)
    presented their posters at the Products and Processes Postgraduate Research Poster Presentation Competition at Newcastle University.

  • 20th and 21st March, 2012

    Postgraduated students present their work at the Postgraduate Research Conference 2012 organized by School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials, Newcastle Universiy, at Research Beehive, Room 2.21.

  • 19th March, 2012

    Yayuk Astuti presented a poster titled "Deaglomeration and Evapration of detonation nanodiamonds", at the Products and Process Poster Seminar, organized by Newcastle Univeristy.

  • 14th March, 2012

    Yayuk Astuti presented a poster titled "The optical properties of functionalized nanodiamonds: Raman and Photoluminescence spectoscopic study", at the Scond RSC Chemical Nanoscience Spring Symposium at Newcastle Univeristy.

  • 17th March, 2011

    Ms Yayuk Astuti was invited to speak on "Deaglomeration and Evaporation of Detonation Nanodiamonds" at the nanoLab Lunch Meeting, at Newcastle University.

  • 29th July 2007 - Paper published in Nature Nanotechnology

    The paper "Evaporation and deposition of alkyl-capped silicon nanocrystals in ultrahigh vacuum" has been published in issue 2 of Nature Nanotechnology, it can be reached online here.

  • 1st July 2007 - Group members at ICN+7 2007

    Luis Alves & Paul Coxon both presented research results at the International Conference on Nano Science and Technology (ICN+T 2007) in Stockholm, Sweden. Luis gave a talk on "Gold nitride as a new surface enhanced raman scattering substrate" and Paul presented a poster "Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy on Alkylated Silicon Nanocrystals".