Liam Critchley

Liam Critchley is a science writer who specialises in how chemistry, materials science and nanotechnology interplay with advanced electronic systems. Liam works with media sites, companies, and trade associations around the world and has produced over 900 articles to date, covering a wide range of content types and scientific areas. Beyond his writing, Liam's subject matter knowledge and expertise in the nanotechnology space has meant that he has sat on a number of different advisory boards over the years – with current appointments being on the Matter Inc. and Nanotechnology World Association advisory boards. Liam was also a longstanding member of the advisory board for the National Graphene Association before it folded during the pandemic.

Studying Complex Phosphorus Systems with Machine Learning

Machine learning and other artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms are becoming more commonplace in modern-day society. They are starting to become a very valuable tool for chemica

12-11-2020

How Machine Learning Has Helped Develop Computational Chemistry

In years gone by, chemical research solely focused on trial and error experimental approaches using prior knowledge gained from personal experience and the literature. While there

27-10-2020

Why Mobiles have Been Used to Collect Data During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Sars-Cov-2 coronavirus pandemic, aka COVID-19, has been going on for a long time now. Despite not knowing much about it in the beginning, a lot of research has been done this y

13-10-2020

Creating Photodetectors from 2D Heterostructures

Photodetectors are now used in a wide range of optoelectronic applications, from optical fibres to scientific characterisation equipment, and many more in between. They are mostly

07-10-2020

Surface Engineering of Perovskite Solar Cells

Different types of solar cells can be tailored and optimised to be more efficient. This is often due to surface engineering approaches maximising the performance of the active regi

30-09-2020

Biologically Inspired Flexible Perovskite Solar Cells

Modern-day solar cells are made of a number of materials, from inorganic materials that show superior efficiencies, to organic materials that enable solar cells to become flexible

28-08-2020

Storing Information and Data with DNA

Data is at everyone’s fingertips in our current high-tech modern-day world, and the amount of data available to us all is exponentially increasing by the day. Over the years, and t

11-08-2020

A MEMS Plasma Switch for Energy Harvesting Devices

Energy harvesting devices are a big application area, especially for some of the more sophisticated technologies that are coming out―for example, electronic textiles (e-textiles).

28-07-2020

Single Atom Gas Sensor For Detecting Disease

Single-Atom Gas Sensor For Detecting Disease Sensors have been scaling down in size for many years now, with ultrasmall active sensing elements becoming commonplace. Over the years

20-07-2020