Chemistry major Liz DaBramo was the winner of the inaugural Hamilton College Three Minute Thesis competition. DaBramo’s talk, “The Secret in Soap: The Comparative Quantitative Analysis of Triclosan an...
High-Density 2D Homo- and Hetero- Plasmonic Dimers with Universal Sub-10-nm Gaps
High-Density 2D Homo- and Hetero- Plasmonic Dimers with Universal Sub-10-nm Gaps - Author Mingliang Zhang describes their work on nanoplasmonic dimers, in which they brought the nanoparticles very clo...
Stop-Frame Filming and Discovery by Transmission Electron Microscopy
Stop-Frame Filming and Discovery of Reactions at the Single-Molecule Level by Transmission Electron Microscopy
In this video, the authors describe how they succeeded in filming inter-molecular chemic...
Spatial Control of Gene Expression by Nanocarriers
Spatial Control of Gene Expression by Nanocarriers Using Heparin Masking and Ultrasound-Targeted Microbubble Destruction
First author Beata Chertok describes the fundamentals of gene therapy, and the...
The Use of Synergistic Interactions to Fabricate Strong
The Use of Synergistic Interactions to Fabricate Strong, Tough, and Conductive Artificial Nacre Based on Graphene Oxide and Chitosan
Author Sijie Wan describes recent work on fabricating artificial n...
Three Minute Thesis Ontario 2013 Winner - Jasdeep Saggar (University of Toronto)
Winner, Jasdeep Saggar (University of Toronto, Medical Biophysics student), presents her research "Hypoxia-activated pro-drugs: A novel approach for breast cancer treatment"...
Catalytic Growth of Graphene: Towards Large-Area Single-Crystalline Graphene
Catalytic Growth of Graphene: Towards Large-Area Single-Crystalline Graphene by Hiroki Ago, Yui Ogawa, Masaharu Tsuji, and Seigi Mizuno, from Kyushu University, and Hiroki Hibino, from NTT Basic Resea...
Red, Yellow, Green, and Blue Amplified Spontaneous Emission
Red, Yellow, Green, and Blue Amplified Spontaneous Emission - There have been multiple demonstrations of amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) and lasing using colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals. How...
Vanadium Flow Battery for Energy Storage: Prospects and Challenges
Vanadium Flow Battery for Energy Storage: Prospects and Challenges by Cong Ding , Ph.D. student of DICP; Dr. Huamin Zhang, Professor at Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Science...
Tuning the Luminescence Properties of Colloidal I-III-VI Semiconductor Nanocrystals...
Tuning the Luminescence Properties of Colloidal I-III-VI Semiconductor Nanocrystals... In this video, Haizheng Zhong, Zelong Bai, and BingSuo Zou from the Beijing Institute of Technology, discuss thei...
Fluorescence Tracking of Genome Release during the Mechanical Unpacking of Single Viruses
Fluorescence Tracking of Genome Release during the Mechanical Unpacking of Single Viruses - Author Álvaro Ortega describes the new method they developed to break open a single virus and release its ge...
The Photophysics of All-Trans Para-Distyrylbenzene
The Photophysics of All-Trans Para-Distyrylbenzene. The present Perspective critically re-examines the photophysics of para-distyrylbenzene (DSB) as a prototype of herringbone-arranged H-aggregates to...