Blog original en inglés por Gustavo A. Dominguez Traducido por Gustavo A. Dominguez Cuando hablamos sobre sustentabilidad en química, hay que tomar en cuenta cómo los productos químicos que usamos en los experimentos pueden afectar …
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Sustainable Nano on Open Access Sustainably
by Rigoberto Hernandez This post is part of our ongoing series of public-friendly summaries describing research articles that have been published by members of the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology. Dr. Rigoberto Hernandez (one of the …
Light Can Do Way More Than Bend: Part 2
by Juli Troiano edited by Ariane Vartanian For the first post that I wrote for the blog 2 years ago, I discussed some of the cool things that focused, high intensity light from a laser …
Gold Nanotechnology Featured on Academic Minute
by Cathy Murphy Last month, I was featured on The Academic Minute, a segment produced by radio station WAMC in the northeastern US. The Academic Minute presents 300-word essays by professors and academics around the …
Why Don’t We Recycle Styrofoam? – Speaking of Chemistry video
by Miriam Krause This post is part of our occasional “How is that sustainable?” series. You can see our previous post on paper vs. plastic here. This spring, New York City banned the use of …
Nanoparticles & Food Part 1: Vitamins
by Ese Ehimiaghe edited by Arielle Mensch For decades, Americans have spent billions of dollars on vitamin and mineral supplements,1 and despite concerns about effectiveness and safety,2 a 2013 Gallup poll found that half of Americans …
Scientists Gather in Minneapolis to Talk Nanoengineering in Biology
by Katie Hurley A couple weeks ago, over 300 scientists and engineers with an interest in nanotechnology met together in Minneapolis at the American Society for Mechanical Engineering Nanoengineering in Medicine and Biology meeting. If …
National Lab Travelogue: A day in the life of a graduate student visiting the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
by Eric Melby edited by Ian Gunsolus As a life-long nerd and science-lover, it is hard to imagine a laboratory that could get me more excited than Galya Orr’s lab at the Pacific Northwest National …
Publication Summary: Dark Field Microscopy Makes Nanoparticles Light Up
by Katie Hurley This post is part of our ongoing series of public-friendly summaries describing research articles that have been published by members of the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology. Katie Hurley and Nathan Klein, a …
How Can You See an Atom? – ACS Reactions Video
by Miriam Krause Here at Sustainable Nano, we’ve published several posts talking about the instrumentation used by researchers in the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology to visualize nanoparticles and cell membranes, such as atomic force microscopy and super-resolution …