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Happy Mole Day! On October 23 we celebrate Avogadro's Number (6.02 x 1023), an important unit of measurement in chemistry. Every year, the American Chemical Society promotes the week that includes Mole Day as National Chemistry Week (NCW). This year, NCW is October 20-26, and the theme is Marvelous Metals. There are local events being …
Nano is small. Yet we find that a few nanoparticles can have very large scale effects. How do we make sense of these disparate scales? Several previous blog posts -- such as this, this, and this -- have provided great insight to this question. But as a chemistry professor I know that you can never have too …
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It's National Chemistry Week! This year's theme is "Solving Mysteries Through Chemistry," so today we have a roundup of past blog posts about how nanotechnology is used in forensics. Investigating crime is only one example of "solving mysteries," but it is an important one and there are many examples of how nanotechnology is contributing to forensic science. Here …
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It's Mole Day! As we explained in our Mole Day post last year, Mole Day celebrates a fundamental unit of measurement in chemistry, the mole (Avogadro's number, 6.02 x 1023). We've also been celebrating both National Chemistry Week and #RealTimeChem Week this week. In case you missed any of the the festivities, here are some links you …
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