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Preparation of hydrosol suspensions of elemental and core-shell nanoparticles by co-deposition with water vapour from the gas-phase in ultra-high vacuum conditions

Howes’ contribution to this paper was two-fold. The original idea to co-evaporate water and nanoparticles onto a cold surface as a means to get nanoparticles from the gas phase into a liquid suspension was his. This is the core scientific advance described in the paper. In addition, Howes performed the molecular dynamic simulations, described in the paper, of metal nanoparticles landing on ice. This essential element of the paper demonstrated that the nanoparticles did not deform significantly upon landing. A key concern was that agglomeration would take place within the ice but the MD simulation showed that this was unlikely.