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May 15, 2020 blog post

Molecular music: Patterns of vibrations at the quantum level

Hearing of the fire at Notre Dame de Paris a year ago broke my heart. I have only been there

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April 23, 2020 blog post

Nano-enabled Recovery of Scarce Metals: From benchtop to startup

In these days of social distancing, everyday electronic devices such as cell phones and laptops are more crucial than ever.

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April 17, 2020 blog post

Can nanotechnology help make a better COVID-19 test?

Did you know that scientists have used nanotechnology to develop a test for the MERS coronavirus? The results of the test

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April 2, 2020 blog post

Nanotechnology and Modern Agriculture

A brief introduction of nanoparticle applications in agriculture from the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station There are currently about 7.67 billion

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March 30, 2020 blog post

Nanotechnology and the Future of Fuel Cells

Fuel cells are a technology for transforming the chemical energy of a fuel into electricity using redox reactions (usually combining

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March 20, 2020 blog post

Nanotechnology for Younger & Healthier Skin?

Guess what? Your skin is the biggest organ in your body, with an area of 2m2 (pretty much the size of

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March 13, 2020 blog post

COVID-19, Nano, and You

For many of us, our news feeds and personal conversations have been dominated this week by COVID-19. The disease caused

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March 3, 2020 blog post

How do we measure the size of nanoparticles in a solution?

The size of the materials in nanotechnology is one of the most important factors that power and define the properties

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February 10, 2020 blog post

Pokémon Carbon Chemistry: Carbink and Diancie

For our Halloween blog post back in 2017, I used chemistry to figure out how many moles of gas are in a

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January 31, 2020 blog post

Entertaining and Informing: The Art of Fun Science Abbreviations

Have you ever had to read a paragraph or a sentence several times to understand it? I know I have.

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