Welcome to episode 2 of the Sustainable Nano podcast! In this episode, we talk with scientist M.G. Finn about how viruses are like (and unlike) nanoparticles, and some of the ways researchers want to use viruses to fight disease.

A virus-like nanoparticle.  (image adapted with permission from Pokorski et al. (2011), copyright American Chemical Society)

https://sustainablenano.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/viruses-82516-4-57-pm.mp3

We still have two more new episodes coming up this week! You can listen to them here on the blog or through iTunes.

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Interviewee : Professor M.G. Finn

Producer/Narrator : Miriam Krause

**Music source: ** Music for this episode is by Kesta, acquired from the Free Music Archive

Tagged: nanomedicine, nanoparticles, nanotechnology, podcast, viruses

What does “Sustainable Nano” even mean?

On this pilot episode of our brand new podcast, we talk with the Director of the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology, along with students, faculty, and a few complete strangers about some questions related to our Center’s research: What is nanotechnology? What is sustainability? And what does it mean when we put the two terms together?

https://sustainablenano.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/pilot-sept6-9616-4-40-pm.mp3

We’ll be posting new episodes of the podcast Monday through Thursday this week, so stay tuned! You can find each episode here on the blog or on our podcast page, or you can subscribe on iTunes.

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Interviewees :  Dr. Bob Hamers,  Dr. Christy Haynes,  Dr. Zeev Rosenzweig,  Dr. Rebecca Klaper,  Dr. Ian Gunsolus, Andie Alton, Austin Hermann, Tamira Amin, Kyle Johnson, Maddy Meyer, Gus Millevolte,  Jared Bozich

Producer/Narrator : Dr. Miriam Krause

**Music sources: ** Music for this episode came from the Free Music Archive, specifically tracks by Kesta and  Dexter Britain

Tagged: grants, nanotechnology, NSF, podcast, research, sustainability

That’s right, Sustainable Nano is about to become a podcast!

Podcast cover art!

This new audio version of Sustainable Nano is launching next week. You can get a brief sample of what we have in store with this 3-minute preview episode:

https://sustainablenano.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/preview-9916-9-20-am.mp3

Don’t worry, the Sustainable Nano blog that you know and love isn’t going anywhere! Although next week the blog will be dominated by podcast episodes, starting the week of September 19th we’ll resume our regular weekly(ish) schedule of written posts about nanotechnology, sustainability, and life in science.

Tagged: nanotechnology, podcast