by Kushani Mendis Plastics are the most common marine waste, coming from both land and ocean sources. They enter water in various ways and never fully break down. Once in the ocean or Great Lakes, …
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NanoParticles Within Your Grasp: Art as an Educational tool
by Giulia Mantovani In the 17th century when alchemy was at its height, many scientists were convinced that they could use science to turn more ordinary substances into gold. It was a time of transformation …
What are Nanoparticle Proteomics?
by Cathy Murphy If you’ve read this blog before, you are likely to know what nanoparticles are: bits of matter on the 1-100 nm scale that have unique properties different from bigger sizes of the …
How crochet can be used to model nanoscience
by Abby Stitgen What do silver nanoparticles have to do with snowflakes and crochet? Usually, not much! But recently, scientists have created methods to make snowflake-like shapes out of silver nanoparticles 1, and their methods …
Happy Valentine’s Day from our amazing universe!
by Bob Hamers Today’s blog post is a Valentine’s Day message from our universe, sent 7500 years ago from an address 44,000,000,000,000,000,000 (that’s 44 quadrillion, or 4.4×1019) miles away.
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 …
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 …
Play the Game of Nanopoly!
by Chris Castilloco-written by Marena Rivera Dopazo & Hye-In Kim After having recently attended the 2023 Environmental Nanotechnology Gordon Research Conference, I was blown away by the different types of applications nanoparticles were being used …
What Nanoparticle Are You? Take Our Quiz to Find Out!
by Chris Castilloco-written by Claire Alford People love to categorize themselves by personality type, whether it’s describing what kind of baked potato we are, or which character we have most in common with from Stranger …
Accidental nanoparticles in the environment: the nanoplastic pollution problem
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. …