by Lee Bishop While a tablespoon of pond water might look quite devoid of life, a closer look reveals quite the opposite. Though they may be difficult to spot with the naked eye, that doesn’t …
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A Boy and His Atom: The World’s Smallest Movie – Friday Video
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 …
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 …
Kadir Hussein Wins a Scholarly Excellence in Equity and Diversity Award
by Lee Bishop The University of Minnesota’s Office for Equity and Diversity awarded Kadir Hussein with their Scholarly Excellence in Equity and Diversity (SEED) Award. Kadir is an undergraduate student who does research as part …
Hewitt School Adventures in the Nano Zone!
by Lee Bishop Adventures In the Nano Zone! That is the title of the internet presentation that scientists from the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology gave last Friday to 8th graders at the Hewitt School, an …
The Strange New World of Nanoscience – Friday Video!
by Lee Bishop Awesome video, no further comments necessary. Happy Friday! 🙂
Friday Video: Gravity vs Nano!
by Lee Bishop Inside the nano zone, gravity doesn’t really matter!
Liquor Aging, Tiny Barrels, and Next Generation Solar Cells
by Lee Bishop “You’ve gotta give it a taste to know!” answered the long-haired, cowboy shirt-wearing distiller dude at Madison, Wisconsin’s Old Sugar Distillery. He was responding to my incessant questions about how long their liquors …
Friday Video: Does Every Silver Lining Have a Cloud?
by Lee Bishop Happy Friday! That was a video by our friends at the Center for the Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology at Duke University. Our research goals are related to theirs. They are looking at things …
Friday Videos: How Small is a Nanometer?
by Lee Bishop Introducing the Friday Video series! This one will melt your mind!