High-Efficiency Fog Collector: Water Unidirectional Transport on Heterogeneous Rough Conical Wires

High-Efficiency Fog Collector: Water Unidirectional Transport on Heterogeneous Rough Conical Wires. An artificial periodic roughness-gradient conical copper wire (PCCW) can be fabricated by inspiratio...

Seeding Bimetallic Nanostructures as a New Class of Plasmonic Colloids

Seeding Bimetallic Nanostructures as a New Class of Plasmonic Colloids. Recent advances in the synthesis and application of Au--Ag and Au--Pd nanostructures are discussed. The highlighted nanostructur...

Three Minute Thesis Competition - Liz DaBramo '15

Chemistry major Liz DaBramo was the winner of the inaugural Hamilton College Three Minute Thesis competition. DaBramo’s talk, “The Secret in Soap: The Comparative Quantitative Analysis of Triclosan an...

Clemson University 3-Minute Thesis Winner (tie), 2014, Namrata Sengupta (Env. Toxicology)

Namrata Sengupta, a PhD student in environmental toxicology at Clemson University, describes her research as part of the 3-Minute Thesis competition at Clemson. The title of her presentation is "...

Can Surface Plasmon Fields Provide a New Way to Photosensitize Organic Photoreactions?

Can Surface Plasmon Fields Provide a New Way to Photosensitize Organic Photoreactions? By Juan C. Scaiano and Kevin Stamplecoskie, from the University of Ottawa....

A Nanoprinted Model of Interstitial Cancer Migration

A Nanoprinted Model of Interstitial Cancer Migration - Metastatic progression of tumours requires the coordinated dissemination of cancerous cells through interstitial tissues and their replication in...

YouTube Science Video

2015 UON Three Minute Thesis Finalist - Mr Emad Benhelal, PhD (Chemical Engineering) - YouTube...

In Vivo Self-Powered Wireless Cardiac Monitoring Via Implantable Triboelectric Nanogenerator

In Vivo Self-Powered Wireless Cardiac Monitoring Via Implantable Triboelectric Nanogenerator - Harvesting biomechanical energy in vivo is an important route in obtaining sustainable electric energy fo...

Engineering Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications Requires Understanding...

Engineering Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications Requires Understanding of Nano-Bio interface, Jennifer E. Gagner, Siddhartha Shrivastava, Xi Qian, Jonathan S. Dordick, and Richard W. Siegel from...

Three Minute Thesis - Joseph Donohue (1st place)

Three Minute Thesis - Joseph Donohue (1st place) - YouTube...

Reduction of Acute Inflammatory Effects of Fumed Silica Nanoparticles

Reduction of Acute Inflammatory Effects of Fumed Silica Nanoparticles - Author Andre Nel discusses uses of fumed silca in two different circumstances: in coffee creamer (considered safe by the FDA,) a...

Formation Mechanism for Stable Hybrid Clusters of Proteins and Nanoparticles

Formation Mechanism for Stable Hybrid Clusters of Proteins and Nanoparticles - Citrate-stabilized gold nanoparticles (AuNP) agglomerate in the presence of hemoglobin (Hb) at acidic pH. The extent of a...

Polymeric Nanovehicle Regulated Spatiotemporal Real-Time Imaging

Polymeric Nanovehicle Regulated Spatiotemporal Real-Time Imaging - Recent advances in neural stem cell (NSC) transplantation have led to an inspiring progress in alleviating central nervous system (CN...

2013 Three Minute Thesis Winner - Sharon Savage

Sharon Savage (School of Medical Science, Faculty of Medicine) gives her winning presentation in the 2013 UNSW Three Minute Thesis Competition - "Giving words new life in dementia"....

Controlled Suppression of Wear on the Nanoscale by Ultrasonic Vibrations

Controlled Suppression of Wear on the Nanoscale by Ultrasonic Vibrations - Author Patricia Pedraz discusses recent mechanisms of wear on nanoscale using scanning force microscopy, and in particular su...

Designing Enhanced One-Dimensional Electrocatalysts...

Designing Enhanced One-Dimensional Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction by Christopher Koenigsmann Megan E. Scofield, Haiqing Liu, and Stanislaus S. Wong from Stony Brook University...

Tuning the Luminescence Properties of Colloidal I-III-VI Semiconductor Nanocrystals...

Tuning the Luminescence Properties of Colloidal I-III-VI Semiconductor Nanocrystals... In this video, Haizheng Zhong, Zelong Bai, and BingSuo Zou from the Beijing Institute of Technology, discuss thei...

The Best Chemistry EXPLOSIONS - Reactions Gone Wrong - Joe Genius

July Fourth: A day for picnics, parades and chemistry. Bassam Shakhashiri, chemistry professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, explains some of the science of fireworks....

3 minute thesis 2013: Briana Davie

Briana Davie. Presentation Title: Identifying the binding site of a novel drug molecule with therapeutic potential for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease'. Research Theme: Drug Discovery Biology/Med...

Chiral-Induced Spin Selectivity Effect

Chiral-Induced Spin Selectivity Effect. In this video, Ron Naaman, from the Weizmann Institute, and David Waldeck, from the University of Pittsburgh, discuss their Perspective published in issue 16 of...