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...

Multiferroic and Magnetoelectric Oxides: The Emerging Scenario

Multiferroic and Magnetoelectric Oxides: The Emerging Scenario. In this video, C.N.R Rao, Athinarayanan Sundaresan, and Rana Saha from the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research disc...

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...

Computer Simulations of Voltage-Gated Cation Channels

In this video, Werner Treptow, from the University of Brasília, and Michael L. Klein, from Temple University, discuss Computer Simulations of Voltage-Gated Cation Channels ...

University of Birmingham Three Minute Thesis final (2014): Chrissie Tock

Chrissie Tock (School of Chemical Engineering), College of Engineering and Physical Sciences finalist from the 2014 Birmingham Three Minute Thesis competition, delivers her three-minute presentation e...

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...

Matthew Simmonte's Three Minute Thesis - Finding a match - polymer microarrays and internet dating

Matthew Simmonte from the School of Chemistry presented his Three Minute Thesis entitled "Finding a match - polymer microarrays and internet dating"....

3 minute thesis 2013: Briana Davie

Briana Davie. Presentation Title: Identifying the binding site of a novel drug molecule with therapeutic potential for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease'. Research Theme: Drug Discovery Biology/Med...

Switching of a Carbon Nanotube Chiral Junction Imaged with Nanometer Spatial Resolution

Optoelectronic Switching of a Carbon Nanotube Chiral Junction Imaged with Nanometer Spatial Resolution Authors Martin Gruebele and Lea Nienhaus discuss their work optoelectronically tuning the metall...

High-Resolution Photocurrent Imaging of Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

High-Resolution Photocurrent Imaging of Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells by Sabyasachi Mukhopadhyay , Anshuman J. Das , and K. S. Narayan from the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Resear...

Beyond the Periodic Table of Elements: The Role of Superatoms

Beyond the Periodic Table of Elements: The Role of Superatoms. Puru Jena is a Distinguished Professor of Physics at Virginia Commonwealth University and a Jefferson Science Fellow alumnus at the U.S. ...

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...

YouTube Science Video

Direct Cytosolic Delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 Ribonucleoprotein for Efficient Gene Editing. CRISPR technology is a simple yet powerful tool for editing genomes. It allows researchers to easily alter DNA se...

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...

Expression-Enhanced Fluorescent Proteins Based on Enhanced Green Fluorescent Protein

Expression-Enhanced Fluorescent Proteins Based on Enhanced Green Fluorescent Protein - "Smart fluorophores", such as reversibly switchable fluorescent proteins (RSFPs), are crucial for advan...

Can Surface Plasmon Fields Provide a New Way to Photosensitize Organic Photoreactions?

Can Surface Plasmon Fields Provide a New Way to Photosensitize Organic Photoreactions? By Juan C. Scaiano and Kevin Stamplecoskie, from the University of Ottawa....

Three Minute Thesis Competition - Liz DaBramo '15

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...

Slippery Wenzel State

Slippery Wenzel State - Authors Tak-Sing Wong and Xianming Dai describe how they drew inspiration from nature to develop a new water-repellent material known as "slippery wet surface," which...

Crystal Engineering of Self-Assembled Porous Protein Materials in Living Cells

Crystal Engineering of Self-Assembled Porous Protein Materials in Living Cells ...

Video abstract: The Power of Thiol-ene Chemistry

Craig Hawker and Daniel Burke at the University of California Santa Barbara describe their paper "The power of thiol-ene chemistry", published in the Journal of Polymer Science: Part A, Poly...