Episode Summary Early in the COVID pandemic, then-graduate student Safia Jilani became Twitter buddies with the Chief Editor of the prestigious journal Nature Chemistry, Dr. Stuart Cantrill. Dr. Jilani is now a Postdoctoral Fellow with …
Year: 2023
CSN middle school outreach: Teaching nanoscience the fun way!
by Caroline Anastasia (written with help from Ravithree Senanayake) Leading up to our Fall 2023 CSN All-Hands meeting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a group of CSN students, post-docs, and faculty arrived at Deer Creek Intermediate School …
¿Podemos hacer que las nanopartículas sean más sostenibles?
Originalmente publicadoen inglésPublicado el 11 de junio del 2018Traducido por Regina González Lona,Editado por Wilanyi R. Alvarez Reyes y Lissett G. Diaz La mayoría de nosotros estamos familiarizados con el concepto de “efectos secundarios”. Aquí …
Recognizing Veterans Day 2023
by Miriam Krause The United States celebrates Veteran’s Day each year on November 11 as a way to recognize and remember those who have served in the Armed Forces. The history of the holiday dates …
Ep 43. Revolutionizing How we Grow, Distribute, & Store Food: Revisiting the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
Episode Summary Five years after our first interview, we catch up with Dr. Jason White about chemistry at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station and how nanoscience can benefit agriculture and global food security. To listen …
Light up your Halloween with quantum dots
by Cheng-Hsin Huang On October 4th, the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov for their work on quantum dots. These tiny shiny particles …
How do CSN experiments become patented technology?
by Christy HaynesEdited by Rayla Vilar How do CSN experiments become patented technology (and potentially products/companies)? In chemistry we often categorize our research as either more fundamental or more applied. Fundamental studies are trying to …
Combinando lo viejo con lo nuevo: usando nanotecnología para mejorar medicinas antiguas
Originalmente publicado en inglésPublicado el 16 de agosto del 2019Traducido por Lissett G. Diaz,Editado por Wilanyi R. Alvarez Reyes y Regina González Lona Pasas por delante de una tienda de productos para el cuerpo en …
National Chemistry Week – The Healing Power of Chemistry
by Denise Williams-Harris It’s National Chemistry Week for 2023! The American Chemical Society is dedicating the whole week of October 15-21 to celebrating this year’s theme — “The Healing Power of Chemistry” (otherwise known as …
National Nanotechnology Day and Indigenous Peoples Day 2023
by Denise Williams-Harris October 9, 2023 is both National Nanotechnology Day and Indigenous Peoples’ Day! We previously posted about the co-occurrence of these celebrations in our 2017 Celebrating National Nanotechnology Day and Indigenous Peoples Day …