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...

Graphene-Based Chemical Sensors

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

Organ-Specific and Size-Dependent Ag Nanoparticle Toxicity in Gills

Organ-Specific and Size-Dependent Ag Nanoparticle Toxicity in Gills - YouTube...

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...

Sunlight as a Conversation Starter Between Our Skin's Cells - Three Minute Thesis - Daniel J Coleman

Three Minute Thesis - Daniel J. Coleman - Molecular and Cellular Biology - Oregon State University - Sunlight as a Conversation Starter Between Our Skin's Cells...

Detecting and Number Counting of Single Engineered Nanoparticles

Detecting and Number Counting of Single Engineered Nanoparticles - Author Daniela Paunescu describes the novel method they created for indirectly counting nanoparticles, which is sensitive enough to c...

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...

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 ...

Stretch-Triggered Drug Delivery from Wearable Elastomers Containing Therapeutic Depots

Stretch-Triggered Drug Delivery from Wearable Elastomers Containing Therapeutic Depots - Authors Zhen Gu and Yong Zu describe their collaborative work developing a stretch-triggered drug delivery dev...

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...

2014 Three Minute Thesis winning presentation by Emily Johnston

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

3 minute thesis 2013: Lori Ferrins

Lori Ferrins - Presentation Title: New drugs to cure sleeping sickness Research Theme: Medicinal Chemistry...

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 ...

Tailoring MoS2 Exciton–Plasmon Interaction by Optical Spin–Orbit Coupling

Tailoring MoS2 Exciton–Plasmon Interaction by Optical Spin–Orbit Coupling. In this video, the Nanosmart Team from Peking University describe MoS2 photoluminescence modification via optical spin-orbit...

University of Calgary Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) 2014 - Diana Powers

University of Calgary Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) 2014 - Diana Powers - YouTube...

Controlled Suppression of Wear on the Nanoscale by Ultrasonic Vibrations

Controlled Suppression of Wear on the Nanoscale by Ultrasonic Vibrations - Wear on the nanoscale, as evidenced by the formation of periodic ripples on a model polystyrene thin film while a sharp tip i...

Tumor-specific formation of enzyme instructed supramolecular self-assemblies as cancer theranostics

Tumor-specific formation of enzyme instructed supramolecular self-assemblies as cancer theranostics - Despite the effort of developing various nanodelivery systems, most of them suffer from undesired ...

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

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...

A Hydrogel-Based Hybrid Theranostic Contact Lens for Fungal Keratitis

A Hydrogel-Based Hybrid Theranostic Contact Lens for Fungal Keratitis - Fungal keratitis, a severe ocular disease, is one of the leading causes of ocular morbidity and blindness, yet it is often negle...

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

Post-Translational Modification of Bionanoparticles as a Modular Platform for Biosensor Assembly - Context driven biosensor assembly with modular targeting and detection moieties is gaining significan...