by Sam Lohse edited by Arielle Mensch Engineered nanoparticles (NPs) are now components of thousands of consumer products, including personal care products, sporting goods, solar panels, and next-generation batteries. In fact, demand for electric car …
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Designing a Simple, Easy-to-Build Reactor for Making Nanoparticles
by Sam Lohse This post is part of our ongoing series of public-friendly summaries describing research articles that have been published by members of the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology. Sam Lohse, the first author on this …
Nano Contaminants: How Nanoparticles Get Into the Environment
by Sam Lohse Nanoparticles and the Environment Series, Part I (click here for part II) More than a year ago on this site, I talked to you about how nanoparticles were already all around us, …
Paper or Plastic? Sustainability is a Multi-Dimensional Problem
by Sam Lohse Part 1 in the “How is That Sustainable?” Series “Paper or plastic?” This was the question you always used to get once you’d made it through the checkout line to the grocery …
Nanoparticles Are All Around Us
by Sam Lohse You’re looking at an electron micrograph of gold nanoparticles; a snap shot of tiny gold crystals that are 1/10,000th the diameter of a human hair. Nanoparticles just these like may soon transform …