It’s National Chemistry Week for 2023! The American Chemical Society is dedicating the whole week of October 15-21 to celebrating this year’s theme — “The Healing Power of Chemistry” (otherwise known as medicinal chemistry). The National Chemistry Week website includes links to outreach events, educational resources, and social media materials to help you share this week with your neighbors. The Celebrating Chemistry site has links to articles on the week’s theme, as well as games and activities such as The Healing Power of Chemistry – The Game!

Sustainable Nano has published a number of posts at the intersection of health, medicine, and nanomaterials that can help you learn about this year’s theme. Here are a few: 

• Combining the Old With the New: using nanotechnology to enhance ancient medicines
• Nanoparticles Delivering Drugs Through the Skin
• Magnetic Nanoparticles in Cancer Treatment
• Nanomedicine Explainer – My Cat is in a Clinical Trial

For reading more broadly about science at the intersection of health, medicine, and nanomaterials, here are a few research journals and platforms to check out:

• Journal of Nanobiotechnology 
• Nature Portfolio’s nanomedicine articles
• ETPN – Nanomedicine European Technology Platform
• Precision NanoSystems 

And if you have a few more spare moments on your hands, take a look at some of our previous National Chemistry Week posts:

• National Chemistry Week 2015: Chemistry Colors our World
• National Chemistry Week 2016: Solving Mysteries Through Chemistry
• National Chemistry Week 2017: Chemistry Rocks
• National Chemistry Week 2019: Marvelous Metals
• National Chemistry Week 2020: Sticking with Chemistry