by Lee Bishop This amazing movie was made using a microscope that can visualize atoms at 100 million times magnification. This microscope, known as a scanning tunneling microscope, can also move atoms around. For more, see …
Month: December 2013
New Nanomaterial for Increased Energy Efficiency – Friday Video
by Lee Bishop A research group at Drexel University has developed a set of material that show promise in increasing the energy storage capacity and charge/discharge speeds of lithium ion batteries. Batteries with greater storage capacity …
The Cautionary Tale of DDT – Biomagnification, Bioaccumulation, and Research Motivation
by Laura Olenick We perform many different kinds of experiments in the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology—some that you might expect (like making new kinds of nanoparticles), and some that you might not (like feeding nanoparticles …
How the 2013 Government Shutdown Forced a Retreat from the Frontier of Science
by Franz Geiger Federal science funding is at the heart of the American enterprise. Sustained science funding was first established as the core of US science policy in July 1945, when Vannevar Bush, Science advisor …
Nature’s nanotechnology, bio-mimicry, and making the superpowers of your dreams a reality
by Devrah Arndt Only over the past 20 years have we begun to harness the unique properties of nano-scale materials, while nature has been using nano- “technology” since the beginning of time to prevent infections, …