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 …
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Science Henna: Sharing stories through my hands
By Safia Jilani When you say art, some people might think of paint with canvases, graphite and paper, or engravings in pottery. I believe art can be all those things and more, but for me, …
What can frosting teach us about cell membranes?
by Laura Kesner You could say that baking runs in my family: the inventor of angel food cake was a distant cousin, the big question at family gatherings when I was a kid was whether …
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 …
2016: The Start of a New… Decade? Part 1
by Gene Chong edited by Ariane Vartanian The coming of spring, like New Years Day, leads many of us to ruminate over what we did and did not accomplish in the past year and to …
How I Study Nanoparticles’ Interactions with Biological Soup
by Lisa Jacob Designing non-toxic nanomaterials requires that we understand how those nanomaterials interact with biological systems. Systems such as you me, and all other organisms, contain a “biological soup” of chemical compounds, known as …
Fungus Amongus – the Nanoparticle Producers
by Jared Bozich Recent discoveries continue to highlight the many uses of that wonderful kingdom of life, fungus. Penicillin, a group of antibiotics that changed medicine forever, is derived from the Penicillium fungi (taken from …
Citizen nanoscientists: Can you design nanomaterials from the couch?
by Ariane Vartanian Not too long ago, a team of frustrated scientists glanced up from their computer screens and saw the untapped potential beyond their lab doors. They had spent years trying to unravel the …
Nature’s Nanomachines Harnessed to Enable Healthier Delicious Ice Cream
by Kurt Jacobson To me, one of the most interesting aspects of nanotechnology is how close in size the nanoparticles we can make are to the nano-sized components of living organisms. These nano sized proteins, …