Dye Sensitized Solar Cells for Economically Viable Photovoltaic Systems

Dye Sensitized Solar Cells for Economically Viable Photovoltaic Systems. By Hun Suk Jung, Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Pittsburg...

Reduction of Acute Inflammatory Effects of Fumed Silica Nanoparticles

Reduction of Acute Inflammatory Effects of Fumed Silica Nanoparticles - Author Andre Nel discusses uses of fumed silca in two different circumstances: in coffee creamer (considered safe by the FDA,) a...

The Best Chemistry EXPLOSIONS - Reactions Gone Wrong - Joe Genius

July Fourth: A day for picnics, parades and chemistry. Bassam Shakhashiri, chemistry professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, explains some of the science of fireworks....

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...

Why Too Much Stress Is Bad For You

Why Too Much Stress Is Bad For You. It’s supposed to help keep your body healthy in stressful situations. But the constant stress of our everyday lives means we’re getting overexposed to cortisol. Ray...

Two-Dimensional, Ordered, Double Transition Metals Carbides (MXenes)

Two-Dimensional, Ordered, Double Transition Metals Carbides (MXenes) - The higher the chemical diversity and structural complexity of two-dimensional (2D) materials, the higher the likelihood they pos...

Post-Translational Modification of Bionanoparticles as a Modular Platform for Biosensor Assembly

Post-Translational Modification of Bionanoparticles as a Modular Platform for Biosensor Assembly - Author Qing Sun describes the benefits of bionanoparticles and the various ways in which the research...

Exciton Energy and Charge Transfer in Porphyrin Aggregate/Semiconductor (TiO2) Composites

Exciton Energy and Charge Transfer in Porphyrin Aggregate/Semiconductor (TiO2) Composites. In this video, Sandeep Verma and Hirendra N. Ghosh from the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai discuss the...

Three Minute Thesis (3MT) 2013 QUT winner - Megan Pozzi

Megan Pozzi, Faculty of Education was the winner of QUT's 2013 competition and the people's choice winner. She spoke about her research on teenage girls and social media identity and status updates....

Graphene-Based Chemical Sensors

Graphene-Based Chemical Sensors. Fazel Yavari and Nikhil Koratkar from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute...

Separating Charges at Organic Interfaces: Effects of Disorder, Hot States, and Electric Field

Separating Charges at Organic Interfaces: Effects of Disorder, Hot States, and Electric Field from American Chemical Society....

Quantum Dot Solar Cells. The Next Big Thing in Photovoltaics

Quantum Dot Solar Cells. The Next Big Thing in Photovoltaics by Prashant V. Kamat, of the Radiation Laboratory and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame...

Understanding the Surface Chemistry of Thiolate-Protected Metallic Nanoparticles

Understanding the Surface Chemistry of Thiolate-Protected Metallic Nanoparticles. Metallic nanoparticles (NPs) appear as promising materials to be used in biomedicine, as efficient catalysts and elect...

3MT - Three Minute Thesis - Ryan Guterman

Ryan Guterman from Western University discusses chemistry of water in terms of chemical architecture....

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...

Graphene Interfaced with Biological Cells: Opportunities and Challenges

In this video, Phong Nguyen and Vikas Berry from Kansas State University discuss Graphene Interfaced with Biological Cells: Opportunities and Challenges ...

Two-Photon Absorption in Organometallic Bromide Perovskites

Two-Photon Absorption in Organometallic Bromide Perovskites - YouTube...

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...

2014 Three Minute Thesis winning presentation by Emily Johnston

2014 Three Minute Thesis winning presentation by Emily Johnston - YouTube...

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...