Teaser for the upcoming lit update from work on making graphene...really fast and from almost any starting material!! From : 

D. X. Luong et al., “Gram-scale bottom-up flash graphene synthesis,” Nature, vol. 577, no. 7792, pp. 647–651, 2020. 

Remember Iron Man's Mark 50 suit from Avengers: Infinity War? Tony said that it's nanotech, but in reality current nanotechnology is not yet able to make this suit. Recent research by Sun S. and colleagues can potentially be a step towards it!

Lit Paper:

Sun, S., Yang, S., Xin, H.L. et al. Valence-programmable nanoparticle architectures. Nat Commun 11, 2279 (2020). 

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Tune in to ep 14 to learn about current advancements to making the Iron Man Mark 50 suit a reality!

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Welcome to a LIT UPDATE!

How can gold nanoparticles be used in contact lenses? And why?

Today's research:

Salih, A. E., et al. (2021). "Gold Nanocomposite Contact Lenses for Color Blindness Management." ACS Nano 15(3): 4870-4880.

Showcases that the gold NPs can be used to mitigate color vision deficiencies! Truly amazing what nanotechnology can do!

Other References: 

https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2015/from-kansas-to-oz-how-new-glasses-could-change-the-way-the-colorblind-see-the-world/#:~:text=There%20are%20three%20types%20of,%2D500%20nm%20(7).

https://www.nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/8880/materialsgold_guide_31oct11.pdf

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Teaser for our upcoming LIT UPDATE based on research from: ACS Nano 2021, 15, 3, 4870–4880 

In this special episode, we have a double interview with Gillian Guo, a Nanotech Engineer (Waterloo, '19) and Cam Dean (class of '23), a student right in the middle of the same degree!

Both will be talking about their ups and downs of doing a co-op Nanotech Engineering degree from the University of Waterloo in Canada!

Listen now to learn more about nanotech, engineering, co-op, and overall college/university life. 

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Teaser for our upcoming interview with Gillian and Cam!! 

Learn about what its like to do a degree in Nanotech Engineering - should you do co-op? what do you learn? what happens after?? 

References:

Meder, F., Thielen, M., Mondini, A., Speck, T., Mazzolai, B., 2020. Living Plant‐Hybrid Generators for Multidirectional Wind Energy Conversion. Energy Technology 8, 2000236  

Meder, F., Must, I., Sadeghi, A., Mondini, A., Filippeschi, C., Beccai, L., Mattoli, V., Pingue, P., Mazzolai, B., 2018. Energy Conversion at the Cuticle of Living Plants. Advanced Functional Materials 28, 1806689

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Teaser for episode 11 - lit update 

LIT UPDATE - where we dissect a current science article and why it is important and relevant to the nano-field.

According to the WHO, cardiovascular diseases (also known as heart diseases) is the #1 cause of death globally. We need to take care of our heart and continuously monitor for signs of heart disease. In this episode, we look into work from Xiangjiao Xia and colleagues who developed microgel e-skin capacitive sensor that can monitor risks of heart health, providing more information than the current smart watches!

Lit paper:

Xia, X., Zhang, X., Serpe, M.J., Zhang, Q., 2020. Microgel‐Based Devices as Wearable Capacitive Electronic Skins for Monitoring Cardiovascular Risks. Advanced Materials Technologies 5, 1900818. doi:10.1002/admt.201900818 

Other sources: 

World Health Organization (2017). "Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs)." Retrieved March 14, 2021, from https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/cardiovascular-diseases-(cvds).

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