by Zeke Piskulich When you hear the term “plastic pollution,” what do you think of? If you’re like me, you might picture a pile of garbage on a beach, or microplastic beads inside a fish. …
computer modeling
Protein folding, artificial intelligence, and impacts on sustainable nanotechnology
by Qiang Cui Back in 2016 you might have read about a computer called AlphaGo that beat some of the best Go players in the world (I even wrote a blog post about it). At …
Authentic Research Experiences Amid The Pandemic
by Minh Tam Hoang On a lovely spring day, as I was lying on the Skinner Green and soaking up the sun, my phone buzzed. It was an email from the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology (CSN) …
How is a shopping cart like a nanoparticle? What coarse-grained molecular models can show us about nano-bio interactions
by Qiang Cui Imagine you work at a grocery store and you need to figure out how many shopping carts will fit in a certain space. You know that each shopping cart is 33 inches …
A Holiday Sustainable Nano Riddle: How does a polymer wrap around a nanoparticle? Like a ball of yarn, or like a bow on a gift box?
by Gene Chong The title of this post presents a riddle similar to the one that I solved along with my advisor, Professor Rigoberto Hernandez, in a recent article published in the Journal of Physical …
A Quick Peek Into Computational Chemistry
by Andy Bei edited by Alicia McGeachy When talking about chemists, what image comes to your mind? Labs, tubes, beakers, colorful solutions, turning dirt into gold… Yes, yes, those images represent some parts of chemistry …
How do nanomaterials from e-waste transform in water? Computational chemistry helps find the answer
by Joe Bennett edited by Caley Allen The development of nanotechnology has been an exciting route to chemical innovation that has changed the way that we live. Fields as diverse as medicine, water treatment, and …
Podcast Ep 21. Quantifying Effects of Gender Bias: There’s an App for That
Does gender bias matter? You can see for yourself thanks to an interactive app created by software engineer Penelope Hill at doesgenderbiasmatter.com. In this episode, we interview Penelope about what prompted her to create the …