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    • Professor Tim Albrecht
    • Adrian Fortuin, Dr
    • Nashwa Awais
    • Wesley Flavell
    • Lauren Matthews
    • Oliver Irving
    • Chris Weaver
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    • Single-molecule sensing with nanopores and nanopipettes
    • Charge Transport in Single Molecules
    • Quantum Tunnelling for Sensing and Sequencing
    • Machine Learning in Single-Molecule Science
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An analytical perspective on nanopore sensing!

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Here is our latest review on nanopore (‘resistive pulse’) sensing, published in Annual Reviews of Analytical Chemistry. It is written from an analytical and applied perspective, because we feel this is an important direction of travel for the field.

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New paper in Organometallics

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Joint with Nick Long (Imperial) and Konrad Kowalski (Lodz), we show how a ferrocene alkanethiol can lose the thiol group when in contact with gold. So no stable bonding! The result is an unsaturated molecular product – quite unexpected. To the paper.

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Welcome Adrian

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Adrian Fortuin joins our group as a research fellow.

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New paper accepted in Analytical Chemistry!

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“Electric Single-Molecule Hybridization Detector for Short DNA Fragments”, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.analchem.8b04357 (still with the Imperial crowd!)

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Welcome Nashwa

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We welcome Nashwa Awais who starts her project in the group. She will work on the nanoparticles.

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Welcome Oliver

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We are pleased to welcome Oliver Irving as a new member in our group. Oliver will work on a project around nanopore/pipette sensing for disease diagnostics/monitoring and sepsis in particular.

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Welcome Chris Weaver and Luke Earnshaw, both joining the group for their Masters projects!

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They will works on the projects related to Machine Learning and Single-Molecule Detection…

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Welcome to Wesley Flavell who will start his PhD in October!

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In his project, we will look at programmed self-assembly, in collaboration with Dr Dwaipayan Chakrabarti at UoB!

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Paper accepted in Nanoscale!

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Joint work between the Albrecht, Long and Cohen groups at UoB and Imperial College: ‘Cross-plane Conductance through a Graphene/Molecular Monolayer/Au Sandwich’ Cross-plane conductance through a graphene/molecular monolayer/Au sandwich Bing Li, Marjan Famili, Evangelina Pensa, Iain Grace, Nicholas J. Long, Colin Lambert, Tim Albrecht, and Lesley F. Cohen. Nanoscale 10, 19791–19798 (2018) [Show/hide abstract] Experimental scalability […]

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    Welcome Lauren and Chris!

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