New Protocols for the Synthesis of Stable Ag and Au Nanocluster Molecules
New Protocols for the Synthesis of Stable Ag and Au Nanocluster Molecules. A video abstract by T. Udayabhaskararao and T. Pradeep, from the DST Unit of Nanoscience (DST UNS), Thematic Unit of Excelle...
Two-Photon Absorption in Organometallic Bromide Perovskites
Two-Photon Absorption in Organometallic Bromide Perovskites - Organometallic trihalide perovskites are solution processed semiconductors that have made great strides in third generation thin film ligh...
2012 Three Minute Thesis People's Choice Award - Ludmilla Khodai
Ludmilla Khodai (School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences) won the People's Choice Award at the 2012 UNSW Three Minute Thesis competition with her presentation - "Forced gen...
Formation Mechanism for Stable Hybrid Clusters of Proteins and Nanoparticles
Formation Mechanism for Stable Hybrid Clusters of Proteins and Nanoparticles - Citrate-stabilized gold nanoparticles (AuNP) agglomerate in the presence of hemoglobin (Hb) at acidic pH. The extent of a...
Catalytic Growth of Graphene: Towards Large-Area Single-Crystalline Graphene
In this video, Hiroki Ago, Yui Ogawa, Masaharu Tsuji, and Seigi Mizuno, from Kyushu University, and Hiroki Hibino, from NTT Basic Research Laboratories, discuss Catalytic Growth of Graphene: Towards L...
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...
Following Single Molecules to a Better Understanding of Self-assembled ...
Following Single Molecules to a Better Understanding of Self-assembled. Daniel Higgins of the Department of Chemistry at Kansas State University discusses his Perspective published in issue 18 of the ...
Red, Yellow, Green, and Blue Amplified Spontaneous Emission
Red, Yellow, Green, and Blue Amplified Spontaneous Emission and Lasing Using Colloidal CdSe Nanoplatelets
Researchers discuss recent work studying materials combining the electronic structure of quan...
Controlled Suppression of Wear on the Nanoscale by Ultrasonic Vibrations
Controlled Suppression of Wear on the Nanoscale by Ultrasonic Vibrations - Author Patricia Pedraz discusses recent mechanisms of wear on nanoscale using scanning force microscopy, and in particular su...
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...
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 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...
Computational Insights into Dynamics of Protein Aggregation and Enzyme--Substrate Interactions
Computational Insights into Dynamics of Protein Aggregation and Enzyme--Substrate Interactions by Mehmet Ozbil, Arghya Barman, Ram Prasad Bora, and Rajeev Prabhakar from the University of Miami...
Porphyrin-Based Supramolecular Nanoarchitectures for Solar Energy Conversion
Porphyrin-Based Supramolecular Nanoarchitectures for Solar Energy Conversion. By Taku Hasobe, Department of Chemistry, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan, discusses his Perspective published in issue 11...
High-Resolution Photocurrent Imaging of Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells
High-Resolution Photocurrent Imaging of Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells with Sabyasachi Mukhopadhyay , Anshuman J. Das , and K. S. Narayan from the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Rese...
Microscopic Insights into the Electrochemical Behavior...
Microscopic Insights into the Electrochemical Behavior of Nonaqueous Electrolytes in Electric Double-Layer Capacitors by De-en Jiang , Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Ji...
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...
Two-Dimensional, Ordered, Double Transition Metals Carbides (MXenes) - Author Babak Anasori describes their introduction of two new families of ordered Mxenes, which were not experimentally possible t...
Celecoxib Nanoparticles for Therapeutic Angiogenesis
Celecoxib Nanoparticles for Therapeutic Angiogenesis - Controllable induction of blood vessel formation (angiogenesis) presents an important therapeutic goal in ischemic diseases and is also beneficia...
