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December 6, 2019 podcast

Ep. 33 It Just Didn’t Feel Like Me: Belonging and Sexism in Science

How often do college women in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) experience sexism? And how do these experiences affect

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November 3, 2018 blog post / podcast

Ep 27. The Constant Loop: How Nanoparticles and the Environment Affect Each Other

Lithium Cobalt Oxide (LCO) is an important nanomaterial used in batteries, but little is known about what happens when it

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October 19, 2018 podcast

Ep 26. Nanomaterials and Renewable Energy: From Solar Panels to Machine Learning

How are photons like toddlers? And what does that have to do with solar energy? Dr. Jillian Buriak has been

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August 31, 2018 blog post

Nanotechnology and cars, inside and out

Vehicles of the near future will benefit greatly from nanotechnology and nanomaterials. The global expectations for lower emissions and fuel

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May 10, 2018 blog post

How do nanomaterials from e-waste transform in water? Computational chemistry helps find the answer

The development of nanotechnology has been an exciting route to chemical innovation that has changed the way that we live.

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September 28, 2017 blog post

Have You Ever Heard a Lemon Sing? Music and Chemistry

Have you ever used a poem or song to help yourself remember a complicated concept or a list that you

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October 13, 2016 blog post

What’s With All Those Flaming Cell Phones? A Primer on Battery Safety

By now you’ve probably heard about Samsung’s recall of all Galaxy Notes 7s. Several years ago the entire worldwide fleet

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September 14, 2016 podcast

Ep 3. Nanoparticles in Electric Car Batteries: How Do We Study Sustainability?

In this episode, we talk about a recent research study that looked at how one type of battery nanomaterial affects bacteria called Shewanella oneidensis. We interview Mimi Hang and Ian Gunsolus, who were co-first authors of the study as graduate students in the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology.

May 12, 2016 blog post

Battery Behavior in the Biosphere: How We Probed Nanoscale Battery Materials Interacting with Bacteria

Along with eight colleagues (most from the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology) I recently co-authored an article in the American Chemical Society’s

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April 29, 2016 blog post

How Many AA Batteries Would it Take to Power a Mercedes?

If you’re like me, you probably have a drawer full of AA batteries at home somewhere, just in case you

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