by Denise Williams-Harris It’s National Chemistry Week for 2023! The American Chemical Society is dedicating the whole week of October 15-21 to celebrating this year’s theme — “The Healing Power of Chemistry” (otherwise known as …
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Sticking with Chemistry on Mole Day!
by Miriam Krause Happy National Chemistry Week! This year’s theme is “Sticking with Chemistry,” a celebration of the science of glues and adhesives. It’s no coincidence that today is also Mole Day, the annual festival …
It’s National Chemistry Week! What do Marvelous Metals have to do with nanotechnology?
by Miriam Krause Happy Mole Day! On October 23 we celebrate Avogadro’s Number (6.02 x 1023), an important unit of measurement in chemistry. Every year, the American Chemical Society promotes the week that includes Mole …
Happy Mole Day: 2018 Edition
by Rigoberto Hernandez Nano is small. Yet we find that a few nanoparticles can have very large scale effects. How do we make sense of these disparate scales? Several previous blog posts — such as …
It’s National Chemistry Week!
by Miriam Krause Yes, it’s late October and that means National Chemistry Week! It’s the 30th anniversary of NCW, and this year’s theme is “Chemistry Rocks!” It may not seem like this theme has a …
National Chemistry Week – Solving Mysteries Through Chemistry
by Miriam Krause It’s National Chemistry Week! This year’s theme is “Solving Mysteries Through Chemistry,” so today we have a roundup of past blog posts about how nanotechnology is used in forensics.
Happy Mole Day 2015!
by Miriam Krause It’s Mole Day! As we explained in our Mole Day post last year, Mole Day celebrates a fundamental unit of measurement in chemistry, the mole (Avogadro’s number, 6.02 x 1023). We’ve also been …
Enhancing Color: Quantum Dot Televisions
by Melissa Muth edited by Ian Gunsolus Advertisements for bigger and better technology gadgets bombard us daily. It seems like there is always a more advanced cell phone or television that you need to get …
National Chemistry Week – Chemistry Colors our World
by Miriam Krause It’s National Chemistry Week! We have a couple of special posts planned in honor of this year’s theme, “Chemistry Colors our World.”