William Alldred

B.Sc. Physics

William Alldred is a freelance B2B writer with a bachelor’s degree in Physics from Imperial College, London.

William is a firm believer in the power of science and technology to transform society. He’s committed to distilling complex ideas into compelling narratives. Williams’s interests include Particle & Quantum Physics, Quantum Computing, Blockchain Computing, Digital Transformation and Fintech.

Articles from William

Breaking the Limit of When Water Freezes

Researchers have demonstrated droplet size dependence in water to ice phase transitions on the surfaces of anodized aluminum oxide nanomembranes.

10 Dec 2021

Lightwave-Driven Electron Microscope Probes Atom-Sized Graphene Nanoribbons

A team of researchers at Michigan State University have utilized lightwave-driven terahertz scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy to probe 7-atom-wide armchair graphene nanoribbons (7-AGNRs) at ultralow heights. They have uncovered highly localized wave functions in GNR edges that conventional scanning tunneling microscopes have not revealed.

25 Nov 2021

Lithography-Free Carbon Nanotubes Pave the Way for New Biomimetic Materials

A team of researchers from China, Australia and Poland has developed a lithography-free method to synthesize vertically aligned multi-walled carbon nanotubes (VA-MWCNTs). These VA-MWCNTs - synthesized by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) on a nickel catalyst - have tunable pitch and size.

16 Nov 2021

Novel Imaging Technique Takes High Resolution 3D Images of Cells

A team of researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology has developed a high-performance Scanning Ion Conductance Microscope (SICM) using the latest advances in nanopositioning, nanopore fabrication, microelectronics and controls engineering.

11 Nov 2021

2D Doped Graphene Paves the Way for Next Generation Optoelectronics

A team of researchers from the United States, Japan and South Korea have doped a two-dimensional sheet of graphene using a monolayer of tungsten oxyselenide (TOS) by oxidizing a monolayer of tungsten diselenide. This TOS-doped graphene exhibits high optical transmittance and low insertion loss at telecommunications wavelengths.

2 Nov 2021

Conductive Metal-Organic Frameworks Synthesized at Air/Liquid Interfaces

A team of researchers at Osaka Prefecture University, the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, and The University of Tokyo has created a thin-film metal-organic framework (MOF) with major applications in chemiresistive sensors, supercapacitors, electrode catalysts, and environmentally friendly storage media for natural gas.

28 Oct 2021

Carbon Nanotube Air Filter Neutralizes Betacoronavirus

In collaboration with Tortech Nano Fibers Ltd. and Q-Flo Limited, a team of researchers at the University of Cambridge has developed a self-sanitized carbon nanotube (CNT) air filter proven to achieve full deactivation of a betacoronavirus and adeno-associated virus retained on filter surfaces.

26 Oct 2021

NanoNeuro: The Intersection of Nanoscience and Neuroscience

The authors of a paper published in the journal Nature Methods have coined the term "NanoNeuro" to describe an emerging discipline that intersects nanoscience and neuroscience. It utilizes nanotechnology to simulate neuronal activity in the brain.

19 Oct 2021