How is a shopping cart like a nanoparticle? What coarse-grained molecular models can show us about nano-bio interactions
Imagine you work at a grocery store and you need to figure out how many shopping carts will fit in
Tag: nobel prize
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
What is Aqua Regia, and what makes it royal?
Aqua regia, latin for “royal water”, is a fascinating, dangerous, and useful liquid that some of us in the Center
Podcast Ep 22. On Thin Films and Nobel Prizes: Margaret Schott Profiles Katharine Burr Blodgett
At last summer’s American Chemical Society national meeting, Dr. Margaret Schott of Northwestern University took the unusual step of giving
How to Understand Nobel Science? Food!
Every year the Nobel Prizes bring some extra attention to science in the award categories of medicine, physics, and chemistry.
Nobel 2014: What makes super-resolution microscopy so super?
The awarding of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Dr.s Betzig, Hell, and Moerner (my former research mentor) is
Nanotechnology Through History: Carbon-based Nanoparticles from Prehistory to Today
Since our early ancestors first learned to make fires, humans have been producing carbon-based nanoparticles. The smoke and soot from
“How do Lasers Work?” or “Not your father’s lightsaber”
When Luke Skywalker receives his father’s lightsaber from Obi Wan in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, he learns
