Welcome to Elettra Crowd!

This time around we greet you with a selection of exciting science highlights and activities. We report the most recent Elettra news on the successful Users' Meeting in December,  the international agreement ELI and the science festival Agorà in Japan. Regarding the latter we also present you a video-interview with Prof. Matsuda of the Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo.
We wish you all the best in 2016!
                                                                          The Elettra Crowd team

Research Highlights

	Counting electrons on supported nanoparticles New mechanistic and quantitative insights into charge transfer between oxide supports and metal nanoparticles have been determined by using a combined experimental and theoretical approach. Nature Materials doi: 10.1038/nmat4500 Read more...
	Nanobubbles at GPa pressure under graphene The morphology and the spatial distribution of Argon nanobubbles trapped under epitaxial graphene at GigaPascal pressure have been thoroughly studied. Nano Letters 15, 6162 (2015) Read more...
	Fluctuations in non-equilibrium lattice dynamics The combination of non-linear spectroscopic techniques with quantum description of the electromagnetic field was used to investigate fluctuations of collective atomic vibrations in α-quartz. Nature Communications 6, 10249 (2015) Read more...