Selective p- and n-doping of Colloidal PbSe Nanowires to Construct Optoelectronic Devices

Selective p- and n-doping of Colloidal PbSe Nanowires to Construct Optoelectronic Devices - We report the controlled and selective doping of colloidal PbSe nanowire arrays to define pn junctions for e...

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...

Vanadium Flow Battery for Energy Storage: Prospects and Challenges

Vanadium Flow Battery for Energy Storage: Prospects and Challenges by Cong Ding , Ph.D. student of DICP; Dr. Huamin Zhang, Professor at Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Science...

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....

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2015 UON Three Minute Thesis Finalist - Thomas Murphy, PhD (Chemistry) - YouTube...

High-Density 2D Homo- and Hetero- Plasmonic Dimers with Universal Sub-10-nm Gaps

High-Density 2D Homo- and Hetero- Plasmonic Dimers with Universal Sub-10-nm Gaps - Fabrication of high-density plasmonic dimers on a large (wafer) scale is crucial for applications in surface-enhanced...

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...

Engineered Nanostructures of Haptens Lead to Unexpected Formation

Engineered Nanostructures of Haptens Lead to Unexpected Formation of Membrane Nanotubes Connecting Rat Basophilic Leukemia Cells Author Yang Liu discusses the power of nanostructures for impacting an...

Emergence of On-Surface Magnetochemistry

Emergence of On-Surface Magnetochemistry. Nirmalya Ballav, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pashan, India, discusses his article from the Journal of Physica...

Mapping Molecules with Infrared in the Near Field - Mike Hopkins - Three Minute Thesis

Three Minute Thesis - Mike Hopkins - Physics - Mapping Molecules with Infrared in the Near Field...

Reduction of Acute Inflammatory Effects of Fumed Silica Nanoparticles

Reduction of Acute Inflammatory Effects of Fumed Silica Nanoparticles - Contrary to the notion that the use of fumed silica in consumer products can "generally (be) regarded as safe" (GRAS),...

Three Minute Thesis Ontario 2013 Runner Up - Abraham Heifets (University of Toronto)

Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Ontario 2013 Runner Up -- Abraham Heifets (University of Toronto), presents his research "How can we make better medicines? Computer tools for chemistry" in 3 minut...

New Protocols for the Synthesis of Stable Ag and Au Nanocluster Molecules

New Protocols for the Synthesis of Stable Ag and Au Nanocluster Molecules. A video abstract by T. Udayabhaskararao and T. Pradeep, from the DST Unit of Nanoscience (DST UNS), Thematic Unit of Excelle...

Reversible and Precise Self-Assembly of Janus Metal-Organosilica Nanoparticles

Reversible and Precise Self-Assembly of Janus Metal-Organosilica Nanoparticles - Reversible self-assembly of nanoparticles into ordered structures is essential for both fundamental study and practical...

The Photophysics of All-Trans Para-Distyrylbenzene

The Photophysics of All-Trans Para-Distyrylbenzene. The present Perspective critically re-examines the photophysics of para-distyrylbenzene (DSB) as a prototype of herringbone-arranged H-aggregates to...

Two-Dimensional, Ordered, Double Transition Metals Carbides (MXenes)

Two-Dimensional, Ordered, Double Transition Metals Carbides (MXenes) - Author Babak Anasori describes their introduction of two new families of ordered Mxenes, which were not experimentally possible t...

Three Minute Thesis Ontario 2013 Winner - Jasdeep Saggar (University of Toronto)

Winner, Jasdeep Saggar (University of Toronto, Medical Biophysics student), presents her research "Hypoxia-activated pro-drugs: A novel approach for breast cancer treatment"...

Detecting and Number Counting of Single Engineered Nanoparticles

Detecting and Number Counting of Single Engineered Nanoparticles - The concentrations of nanoparticles present in colloidal dispersions are usually measured and given in mass concentration (e.g. mg/mL...

Engineering Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications Requires Understanding...

Engineering Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications Requires Understanding...by Jennifer E. Gagner, Siddhartha Shrivastava, Xi Qian, Jonathan S. Dordick, and Richard W. Siegel from Rensselaer Polyte...

Self-Assembly of Polymer Brush-Functionalized Inorganic Nanoparticles

In this video, Matthew G. Moffitt, Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Victoria, discusses his Perspective published in issue 21 of the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters----how e...