On this first episode of our brand new podcast, we talk with the Director of the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology, along with students, faculty, and a few complete strangers about some questions related to our Center’s research: What is nanotechnology? What is sustainability? And what does it mean when we put the two terms together?
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It’s the Sustainable Nano Podcast Preview!
That’s right, Sustainable Nano is about to become a podcast! This new audio version of Sustainable Nano is launching next week. You can get a brief sample of what we have in store with this 3-minute preview …
Magnetic Nanoparticles in Cancer Treatment
by Ellen Purdy edited by Joe Buchman Although nanomedicine may sound like something out of a science fiction film, it is already being put to use in treating a range of human illnesses. Magnetic nanoparticles …
Bob’s Beautiful Blue Glacier
by Bob Hamers Recently I had the fortune to visit the state of Alaska. While there, I took a boat trip around the Kenai Peninsula, where there are glaciers moving from the Harding Icefield toward …
What’s in a Unit Anyway? Part 2: When is a Kilogram Not a Kilogram?
by Mike Schwartz In my last post, I told you about how scientists measure amazingly cool things that can be vastly different in size, like elementary particles or very distant dwarf planets and their moons. …
What’s in a Unit Anyway? Part 1: From Protons to Galaxies
by Mike Schwartz If you’re like me, you often find yourself thinking about random things. For example, just the other day I was thinking to myself, “what’s the diameter of a gold nanoparticle* in light …
Thus Spake Paracelsus*
by Joel Pedersen The Swiss Renaissance physician, alchemist and founder of toxicology Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus (!) von Hohenheim, better known as Paracelsus (Figure 1), said it well: “All substances are poisons; there is none …
CSN t-shirts are here!
by Miriam Krause Want to show off your science style and support Sustainable Nano students in the process? Now’s your chance with our brand new Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology t-shirts!
How can you calculate how many atoms are in a nanoparticle?
by Cathy Murphy Two years ago, I wrote a blog post called Two Ways to Make Nanoparticles, describing the difference between top-down and bottom-up methods for making nanoparticles. In the post I commented, “we can estimate, knowing how gold atoms pack …
Fluorescence is Awesome: New CSN Videos!
by Miriam Krause Fluorescence is a favorite topic here at Sustainable Nano – we’ve written about quantum dots, fluorescein in the Chicago River, glowing bacteria, and many other topics, but one of our most popular blog posts …