He returned to the University of Liverpool for a short time in 2012 before taking a Guild Research Fellowship in UCLan in early 2013. Following commissioning work, as of July 2015, the Nanophysics Research Laboratory – an ultra-high vacuum Surface Science laboratory - is working and producing results; our current focus is graphene precursor molecules on ideal metal substrates

Chiral ‘Pinwheel’ Heterojunctions Self-Assembled from C60 and Pentacene. J. A. Smerdon, R. B. Rankin, J. P. Greeley, N. P. Guisinger and J. R. Guest ACS Nano 7 3086-3094 2013 Structural and Electronic Decoupling of C60 from Epitaxial Graphene on SiC. J. Cho, J. A. Smerdon, L. Gao, O. Süzer, J. R. Guest and N. P. Guisinger Nano Lett. 12 3018-3024 2012 Monolayer and bilayer pentacene on Cu(111). J.A.Smerdon, M.Bode, N.P.Guisinger and J.R.Guest Phys. Rev. B, 84 165436 2011 The various growth modes of metals on quasicrystals invited review J.A.Smerdon J.Phys.:Condens. Matt. 22 433002 2010