Publication = Cake
First authors have to bake a cake in the style of each paper to celebrate success, and cherish the support of the rest of our team. We love our cake days, and our cake-making creativity has advanced greatly!
- Sarah: ‘Transient Au-Cl adlayers modulate the surface chemistry of gold NPs during redox reactions’
Our new paper is out! You can chcek it out here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-025-01989-4
- Jeremy ERC Synergy grant: ‘Twanging DNA with light’
Along with six other researchers from the Univeristy of Cambridge Jeremy Baumberg has been awarded Synergy Grant from European Research Council on ‘DNA for Reconfigurable Nano-Opto-Mechanical Systems’. To find out more visit: https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-researchers-awarded-prestigious-synergy-grants-from-european-research-council
- Paul: Optical writing and reading of gold adatoms
- Bart: Resolving Molecular Perturbations near Undercoordinated Metals
- Sara: Amplified plasmonic forces in DNA-origami nanogaps
- Lukas: The optomechanics of molecules with light
- Nicolas: Vibrational Stark Effects: Ionic Influence on Local Fields
- Jeremy: “Slightly nutty professor Jeremy awarded a named chair”
- Jeremy: Picocavities: a primer
- Shu: Optical suppression of energy barriers
- Niclas: Collective Mid-Infrared Vibrations in SERS
- Eoin: Fingerprinting the Hidden Facets of Plasmonic Nanocavities
- David: Monolayer aggregate for sensing
- Chetna: Nanowire on mirror
- Angelos: Nanoparticle on Resonator for MIR-vis coupling
- Rohit: Accessing Plasmonic Hotspots Using Nanoparticle-on-Foil Constructs
- Matt: Nanoscopy through a plasmonic nano-lens
- Bart: THC Sensing using plasmonic aggregates
- Andrew: Motile Artificial Chromatophores: Light-Triggered Microdroplet Locomotion
- Junyang: Plasmon-induced optical control over dithionite-mediated chemical redox reactions
- Rohit: Mapping nanoscale hotspots with single-molecules in DNA origami plasmonics
- Hsin-Ling and Mélanie: Roll-to-roll fabrication of touch-responsive cellulose photonic laminates
- Phillip: Excitation of higher-order modes in holey fibre
- Bart: Unfolding the content of sub-nm plasmonic gaps (in NanoParticle on Mirror geometry)
- Bart: Plasmonic tunnel junctions for single-molecule redox chemistry
- Marlous: Writing with raspberry-shaped colloids
- Jeremy: hot-electrons grow polymers in nanogaps
- Marie-Elena: Plasmonic strong coupling with WSe2
- Sean: Light-actuated nanoparticle goes up and down on mirror
- Laura: deformable plasmonic rings
- Jeremy: propagating through life cake
- Cloudy: SERS of aggregates of different substrates
- Marlous: Detecting methanol contamination of whiskies
- Tijmen: Rapid screening of metallodrugs in photonic crystal fibre microflow reactors
- Giuliana: Nanoparticles on Au immersed in an electrochemical cell
- Giuliana: Hydrogen reduction in a plasmonic electrochemical cell
- Giuliana: Laser reduction of Cu nanoparticles
- Tijmen: Photochemistry in high-index glass hollow-core fibre
- Felix Benz: Single-molecule optomechanics in picocavities
- Alan Sanders: tips do matter
- Marlous Kamp: Marie Curie success
- Jan Mertens: Optical nano-welding
- Richard Bowman: WaterScope 2nd in PDRA business competition
- Andrew Salmon: Assembling nanoparticles in microdroplets
- LiWu Zhang: NPoM on solar water splitting
- Richard: One-piece 3D printed flexure for microscopy
- Anna: tuneable SERS on single gold nanoparticles
- Tao: actuating nano-transducers = ANTs
- Tijmen: Fluorescence-based microparticle sensor
- Laura: Polarisation-selective hotspots in metallic ring stack arrays
- Giuliana: Memristor with plasmonic nanofilament
- Tao: Tuning nanoparticle-on-mirror plasmonics
- Felix LCR: plasmonic coupling using simple circuits
- Jan: Plasmon resonance tuning of a faceted Au nanoparticle on mirror
- Jeremy: graded nanoparticle mats for sensors
- Giuliana: Controlling nanowire growth by light!
- Hamid: Spontaneous Spin Bifurcations in a Spinor Exciton-Polariton Condensate
- Tao: Imprint Polymer Opal Patterns and Anisotropic Hybrid Nanoparticles
- Tao: Self-aligned plasmonic gaps from Au nanoparticles
- Alan: Facile fabrication of AuNP-tipped AFM probes for plasmonics
- Ventsi: Nonlinear superchiral meta-surfaces
- Lars: DNA Origami assembled Au NP dimers
- Jeremy: Grant for NanoPhotonics Centre cakes
- Richard: Secure screens for insecure environments
- LiWu: photocatalytic opal
- Andrew: micro-cantilever thickness interferometry
- Jeremy: Au/Ag nanoparticle assembly: theory and experiment
- Richard: deformable metamaterial
- Jan: graphene in gold nanoparticle on mirror sandwich
- Lindsey: roll-up log-pile metamaterials
- Daniel: Reproducible deep-UV SERRS on aluminium nanovoids
- Ventsi: chiral metamaterials
- Jonathan: single quantum dot spectroscopy
- Peter: condensate vortex lattice in semiconductor microcavity
- Benjamin: printable structural colour from opals
- Richard: Plasmonic chain modes in gold nanoparticles glued with CBs
- Cornelius: Bendable gold strong-coupling microcavities
- Gab: Locked polariton condensates in semiconductor microcavities
- Andrew: anisotropic scattering from polymer opals
