2013 Three Minute Thesis Winner - Sharon Savage

Sharon Savage (School of Medical Science, Faculty of Medicine) gives her winning presentation in the 2013 UNSW Three Minute Thesis Competition - "Giving words new life in dementia"....

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...

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 - Fabrication of high-density plasmonic dimers on a large (wafer) scale is crucial for applications in surface-enhanced...

Seeding Bimetallic Nanostructures as a New Class of Plasmonic Colloids

Seeding Bimetallic Nanostructures as a New Class of Plasmonic Colloids. Recent advances in the synthesis and application of Au--Ag and Au--Pd nanostructures are discussed. The highlighted nanostructur...

Computational Insights into Dynamics of Protein Aggregation and Enzyme--Substrate Interactions

Computational Insights into Dynamics of Protein Aggregation and Enzyme--Substrate Interactions with Mehmet Ozbil, Arghya Barman, Ram Prasad Bora, and Rajeev Prabhakar from the University of Miami....

Reduction of Acute Inflammatory Effects of Fumed Silica Nanoparticles

Reduction of Acute Inflammatory Effects of Fumed Silica Nanoparticles - Contrary to the notion that the use of fumed silica in consumer products can "generally (be) regarded as safe" (GRAS),...

Treelectriq: The Intersection of Illumination and Imagination - Holly Koontz - Three Minute Thesis

Holly Koontz - Business Administration - Portland State University - Treelectriq: The Intersection of Illumination and Imagination...

Designing Enhanced One-Dimensional Electrocatalysts...

Designing Enhanced One-Dimensional Electrocatalysts... by Christopher Koenigsmann Megan E. Scofield, Haiqing Liu, and Stanislaus S. Wong from Stony Brook University...

Anomalously Fast Diffusion of Targeted Carbon Nanotubes in Cellular Spheroids

Anomalously Fast Diffusion of Targeted Carbon Nanotubes in Cellular Spheroids - Author Yichun Wang describes carbon nanotubes and details the researchers' observations of how the nanotubes transport i...

Nano-enabled chemotheraphy for pancreatic cancer with improved safety and efficacy

Nano-enabled chemotheraphy for pancreatic cancer with improved safety and efficacy - Urgent intervention is required to improve the 5 year survival rate of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). Whi...

Clemson University 3-Minute Thesis 3rd Place (tie), 2014, Julian Velez (Chemical Engineering)

Clemson University 3-Minute Thesis 3rd Place (tie), 2014, Julian Velez (Chemical Engineering) - YouTube...

3 Minute Thesis -- Brian Hauck

Brian Hauck came to WSU in 2010 from Nazareth College. He is currently in the fifth year in his doctoral program in analytical chemistry. His thesis focuses in decreasing false alarm rates of IMS fiel...

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Perovskites: The Emergence of a New Era for Low-Cost, High-Efficiency Solar Cells

Over the last 12 months, we have witnessed an unexpected breakthrough and rapid evolution in the field of emerging photovoltaics, with the realization of highly efficient solid-state hybrid solar cell...

Architecture in Crisis and Peace in Service of Refugees and their Host Communities - Grace Aaraj

Three Minute Thesis - Grace Aaraj Architecture - University of Oregon - We are all Refugees: Architecture in Crisis and Peace in Service of Refugees and their Host Communities...

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...

Room Temperature Multiferroicity of Charge Transfer Crystals

Room Temperature Multiferroicity of Charge Transfer Crystals - Authors Shenqiang Ren and Beibei Xu describe their research on the development of organic charge transfer complex for the charge-transfer...

Pushing the Envelope of the Intrinsic Limitation of Organic Solar Cells

Pushing the Envelope of the Intrinsic Limitation of Organic Solar Cells, by Nadia Camaioni and Riccardo Po, Istituto per la Sintesi Organica e la Fotoreattività, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, vi...

Three Minute Thesis Ontario 2013 Runner Up - Abraham Heifets (University of Toronto)

Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Ontario 2013 Runner Up -- Abraham Heifets (University of Toronto), presents his research "How can we make better medicines? Computer tools for chemistry" in 3 minut...

Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Nanoprobe Ratiometry for Detection of Microscopic Ovarian Cancer

Folate-Targeted Surface-Enhanced Resonance Raman Scattering Nanoprobe Ratiometry for Detection of Microscopic Ovarian Cancer Imaging with Raman scattering nanoparticles can provide surgical guidance...