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...

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...

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...

Engineered Nanostructures of Haptens Lead to Unexpected Formation

Engineered Nanostructures of Haptens Lead to Unexpected Formation. A recent finding reports that co-stimulation of the high-affinity immunoglobulin E (IgE) receptor (FcεRI) and the chemokine receptor ...

Physical Chemistry Research Toward Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Advancement

In this video, Karen E. Swider-Lyons, from the Naval Research Laboratory, and Stephen A. Campbell, from the Automotive Fuel Cell Cooperation Corp., discuss their Perspective published in issue 3 of th...

High-Efficiency Fog Collector: Water Unidirectional Transport on Heterogeneous Rough Conical Wires

High-Efficiency Fog Collector: Water Unidirectional Transport on Heterogeneous Rough Conical Wires. An artificial periodic roughness-gradient conical copper wire (PCCW) can be fabricated by inspiratio...

The Contribution of Femtosecond Laser Spectroscopy...

The Contribution of Femtosecond Laser Spectroscopy, by Chi-Hung Chuang and Clemens Burda from Case Western Reserve University...

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...

Three Minute Thesis Ontario 2013 Winner - Jasdeep Saggar (University of Toronto)

Winner, Jasdeep Saggar (University of Toronto, Medical Biophysics student), presents her research "Hypoxia-activated pro-drugs: A novel approach for breast cancer treatment"...

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...

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...

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...

ACS Nanotation

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

Stretch-Triggered Drug Delivery from Wearable Elastomers Containing Therapeutic Depots

Stretch-Triggered Drug Delivery from Wearable Elastomers Containing Therapeutic Depots - Mechanical force-based stimulus provides a simple and easily accessible manner for spatiotemporally controlled ...

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

Switching of a Carbon Nanotube Chiral Junction Imaged with Nanometer Spatial Resolution. Chiral junctions of carbon nanotubes have the potential of serving as optically or electrically controllable sw...

Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) | James Frith

Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Final in Natural Environmental Science at the University of Southampton. James Frith, PhD Student in Electrochemistry presenting 'Using redox shuttles in breathing batterie...

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...

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...

3 minute thesis 2013: Emilia Savage

Biased allosteric modulation of regulatory proteins at the GLP-1 receptor Research Theme: Drug Discovery Biology Emilia Savage is a third year PhD student working under Professor Patrick Sexton. She ...