a blog by the NSF Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology
The title of this post presents a riddle similar to the one that I solved along with my advisor, Professor Rigoberto Hernandez, in a recent article published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C.1 Nanoparticles are often made of a core (for example gold, silver, quantum dots, etc.) coated with molecules called ligands or polymers …
Happy Mole Day from the CSN! This is our third annual post for Mole Day (check out the posts forĀ 2014 and 2015), so it is starting to become a tradition now. In this post, I will show you an example of a real pen-and-paper calculation involving moles that I do sometimes in my work as …
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In 2005, Science magazine published their 125th anniversary issue and posed 25 of the biggest questions āfacing science over the next quarter-centuryā.1 In my previous post, I talked about how, ten years later, the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology is tackling one of those questions: āHow Far Can We Push Chemical Self-Assembly?ā2 In todayās post, Iām …
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The coming of spring, like New Years Day, leads many of us to ruminate over what we did and did not accomplish in the past year and to set readily achievable and truly ambitious goals for the next. But what if you wanted to make resolutions about what you wanted to do 10 or 25 …
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