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Liam Critchley is a writer, journalist and communicator who specializes in chemistry and nanotechnology and how fundamental principles at the molecular level can be applied to many different application areas. Liam is perhaps best known for his informative approach and explaining complex scientific topics to both scientists and non-scientists. Liam has over 350 articles published across various scientific areas and industries that crossover with both chemistry and nanotechnology.

Liam is Senior Science Communications Officer at the Nanotechnology Industries Association (NIA) in Europe and has spent the past few years writing for companies, associations and media websites around the globe. Before becoming a writer, Liam completed master’s degrees in chemistry with nanotechnology and chemical engineering.

Aside from writing, Liam is also an advisory board member for the National Graphene Association (NGA) in the U.S., the global organization Nanotechnology World Network (NWN), and a Board of Trustees member for GlamSci–A UK-based science Charity. Liam is also a member of the British Society for Nanomedicine (BSNM) and the International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM), as well as a peer-reviewer for multiple academic journals.


Quantum Computers Can Predict Complex Behaviors Liam Critchley
Explore how designers may eventually leverage quantum computing’s impressive processing capabilities to perform numerous predictive and optimization tasks, including simulating complex behaviors that are either difficult to compute with classical systems or require significant computational power.

What Are the Main Semiconductor Nanofabrication Techniques? Liam Critchley
Fabrication techniques that create and manipulate materials at the nanoscale are at the heart of semiconductor manufacturing. Learn how both deposition and patterning technologies are crucial to creating advanced semiconductor materials and miniaturized electronic devices.

Agricultural Robots and the Current State of Smart Farming Liam Critchley
Agricultural production conditions tend to be complex and variable. Learn how today’s agricultural robots use sensor capabilities, advanced image processing systems, complex algorithms, mobile platforms, and flexible locomotion controls to improve production and occupational safety for farmers.

What Are Piezotronic Devices? Liam Critchley
Piezotronic devices are a subset of piezoelectric devices that use the piezopotential generated during the strain of semiconducting 1D nanowires to modulate and control the movement of charge carriers in different semiconductor architectures, such as p-n junctions and metal-semiconductor interfaces.

Key Application Areas of MEMS Liam Critchley
MEMS contain many different electronic and mechanical components and perform various bulk functions based on the components within. The range of materials and components available to MEMS has enabled them to be designed for a wide array of applications across many different industries.

How Are MEMS Fabricated? Liam Critchley
A combination of many different fabrication methods have enabled MEMS to be used in a range of applications, and as fabrication methods get more advanced and their resolutions get narrower, smaller features and smaller components are being created within MEMS devices.

What Are Piezo-Phototronics? Liam Critchley
Piezo-phototronic materials share many characteristics with piezotronic materials that help modulate charge carriers and electric currents at different semiconducting interfaces, but they also have photoexcitation properties that enable them to enhance a range of optoelectronic devices.

Nanoarchitectonics in High-Tech Applications Liam Critchley
Nanoarchitectonics is a technological process combining material fabrication and atomic manipulation methods to create functional and active nanoscale features in materials so that the intended device can be much better tailored to an application than fabrication methods alone.

Printable Sensors: A Key Technology for Health Wearables? Liam Critchley
Integrating components into flexible sensing devices is not always straightforward. Printing sensors on the device’s surface opens newer and easier ways to develop sensing wearables for health monitoring and telemedicine applications.

Can Designers Use 2D Materials to Build More Advanced Computers? Liam Critchley
2D materials offer a way to go beyond the limits of silicon-based technologies and create ultra-small devices that don’t degrade below 5nm thickness. These small-scale devices can be used to develop more efficient and application-specific hardware for matrix and logic computing systems.

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