Will Soutter

Creative - Video Specialist

Will has a B.Sc. in Chemistry from the University of Durham, and a M.Sc. in Green Chemistry from the University of York. Naturally, Will is our resident Chemistry expert but, a love of science and the internet makes Will the all-rounder of the team. In his spare time Will likes to play the drums, cook and brew cider.

Articles from Will

Researchers Develop New Technique to Cut Graphene with Accurate Control

Professor XI Ning from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Michigan State University and Professor LIU Lianqing at the Shenyang Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences’ State Key Laboratory of Robotics have developed a novel cutting technique capable of cutting graphene with accurate control.

29 May 2012

Non-Degradable Nanomaterials Pose Unknown Danger

Nanoproducts will eventually need to be degradable as nanoparticles don’t seem to disappear.

28 May 2012

New Doping Technique Drastically Improves Graphene Solar Cell Efficiency

A research team from the University of Florida (UF) has fabricated a graphene solar cell that demonstrates a power conversion efficiency of 8.6%, a record value, when considering earlier attempts in the making of graphene solar cells that managed only 2.9% conversion efficiency.

28 May 2012

Researchers Develop New Nanostructured Metamaterial

A multi-institute research team has developed a novel nanostructured metamaterial that can transmit light more efficiently, taking one step closer to the realization of novel optical technologies.

28 May 2012

Researchers Find Forces Behind Oriented Attachment in Nanocrystal Growth

A research team led by Jim DeYoreo from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) of the US Department of Energy has for the first time directly observed the forces behind ‘oriented attachment,’ a key phenomenon whereby adjoining nanoparticles bind with each other in a typical crystallographic orientation.

28 May 2012

New Study Links Single Molecules and Hierarchical Nanostructures

A research team headed by Haimei Zheng from the Materials Sciences Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has experimentally demonstrated a key but controversial hypothesis describing nanocrystal growth.

28 May 2012

Researchers Demonstrate Carbon Nanotube-Based Nanoclutch

A team of Chinese scientists has developed and evaluated models of a ‘nanoclutch,’ a tool to regulate the speed of nanomotors.

28 May 2012

New Nanoparticle-Based Technique Capable of Co-Delivering DNA and Protein

A research team led by Kan Wang from the Iowa State University has developed a technique using mesoporous silica nanoparticles for concurrently delivering functional DNA and proteins into plant cells.

25 May 2012

New 2D Bilayer Material Helps Realize Graphene Electronics

A research team at Penn State has developed a two-dimensional (2D) bilayer material by integrating one-to-two-atom-thick graphene layer with a hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) layer having a thickness of few to several hundred atoms for fabricating wafer-scale transistors with improved performance.

25 May 2012

Nano-Scale Fluidic Device to Sort DNA Molecules One at a Time

Researchers at Cornell University have developed a nanofluidic device that can be used to analyze epigenetic changes in the DNA by studying one molecule at a time.

25 May 2012