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Daniel Kelly

Daniel Kelly is a PhD student contributor to Physics World. Daniel completed a BA Hons in the nanoscience, physics and chemistry of advanced materials at Trinity College Dublin before moving to the University of Manchester to join the Graphene NowNano Centre for Doctoral Training.

His PhD research involves the use of analytical electron microscopy to study nanostructures and nanomaterials in liquids, a field known as in situ transmission electron microscopy. He is specifically concerned with developing novel methods for performing high resolution imaging and chemical mapping on multi-metallic nanoparticle systems in aqueous environments.

In his spare time he is an avid cinema-goer ("hello to Jason Isaacs!"), amateur guitarist and casual pub quizzer.

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Analysis of the alloy’s chemical composition. Credit: Idaho National Laboratory

Hierarchical nanostructures bolster high-performing alloys

Insights into the composition of nickel-base superalloys reveal that a complex structure spanning multiple length-scales is responsible for enhanced thermal stability

Watching plasmons break bonds in single molecules

Researchers induce chemical reactions in single molecules by exciting plasmons and monitor the process in real time using scanning tunnelling microscopy

Atomic-scale imaging achieves attosecond resolution

A novel electron microscopy technique allows for picometre-scale imaging of materials with unprecedented time resolution

Xiaopu Zhang and John Boland at the STM lab

Grain dynamics make perfectly flat copper films impossible

Misalignments between grain boundaries in nanocrystalline copper films lead to surface roughening in the form of nanoscale ridges and valleys, meaning perfectly flat metal films do not exist

Nanosheet inks offer new route to flexible electronics

Printed electronics are viewed as a cost-effective and scalable route to new technologies

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