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The Strange New World of Nanoscience – Friday Video!
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Nanotechnology in the Aquaculture Industry
Picture yourself eating a juicy fish filet or a delicious shrimp cocktail. You might be surprised to discover the diverse array of technologies that are used to raise the fish or shrimp you ordered....
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Nano Contaminants: How Nanoparticles Get Into the Environment
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, and have been for most...
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Nano-Sensors: Small size, big impact
If you took high school chemistry, you might remember using pH indicator strips. You’d take a piece of the specially treated paper, dip it in your solution, and watch it change color depending on...
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Teeny Tiny Motors That Fit in Your Body
Imagine tiny gadgets wandering around in your bloodstream, travelling into your cells to seek out infections and fight diseases… Does it sound too fantastic to be true? Let’s explore just how close...
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Keeping Our Food Safe – Nanomaterial Style
From reading this blog, you may know that nanomaterials are becoming more and more prevalent in the products that we use on a regular basis. What you may not realize is that nanomaterials are also...
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Nano in the Movies
Science and engineering topics appear in many movies – think of the gadgets in the James Bond series. Star Trek, Star Wars, and other long-standing science fiction series, of course, are full of...
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Scientists Gather in Minneapolis to Talk Nanoengineering in Biology
A couple weeks ago, over 300 scientists and engineers with an interest in nanotechnology met together in Minneapolis at the American Society for Mechanical Engineering Nanoengineering in Medicine and...
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Gold Nanotechnology Featured on Academic Minute
Last month, I was featured on The Academic Minute, a segment produced by radio station WAMC in the northeastern US. The Academic Minute presents 300-word essays by professors and academics around the...
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The Green Nanotechnology Revolution
When we talk about sustainability in chemistry, one thing we have to think about is how the chemicals we use in our experiments may affect the environment. The traditional production of nanoparticles...
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Sunburns and Circuits: How Nanotechnology is Pushing the Boundaries of Computing
Last July, IBM announced that it had developed a new computer chip that could boost computer speeds by 50%.1 The company achieved this performance boost by building their chip with transistors a mere 7...
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Nanomaterials in bicycles???? Part 2
In Tuesday’s post, I told you about the impressive properties of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and how they can increase strength and reduce weight in bicycle frames compared to traditional designs. I also...
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From Leap Year to Frogs to Nanotechnology
In case you hadn’t noticed, today is February 29! That means this is a leap year. Occurring once every four years, leap years have 366 days rather than the usual 365, with the additional day occurring...
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Generation Nano, Here We Come!
This weekend, over 350,000 people are expected to attend the 4-day U.S. Science & Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C. The event is at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center from 10am-6pm...
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Field Trip to the Minnesota Nano Center
Ever wondered what it’s like to go into a “clean room”? A couple weeks ago a group of students from the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology (CSN) got to find out during a tour at the Minnesota Nano...
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It’s the Sustainable Nano Podcast Preview!
That’s right, Sustainable Nano is about to become a podcast! Podcast cover art! This new audio version of Sustainable Nano is launching next week. You can get a brief sample of what we have in store...
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Why do we care about sustainable nanotechnology?
What does “Sustainable Nano” even mean? On this pilot episode of our brand new podcast, we talk with the Director of the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology, along with students, faculty, and a few...
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Ep 2. Viruses: Biology’s Nanoparticles
Welcome to episode 2 of the Sustainable Nano podcast! In this episode, we talk with scientist M.G. Finn about how viruses are like (and unlike) nanoparticles, and some of the ways researchers want to...
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Ep 3. Nanoparticles in Electric Car Batteries: How Do We Study Sustainability?
Welcome to episode 3 of the Sustainable Nano podcast! In this episode, we talk about a recent research study that looked at how one type of battery nanomaterial affects bacteria called Shewanella...
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Ep 4. Nano Superheros: At the Interface of Art and Science
Welcome to episode 4 of the Sustainable Nano podcast! In this final new episode of our launch week, we interview the three high school student finalists from NSF’s Generation Nano contest about their...
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