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Ep 41. Stronger, Tougher, Lighter

Sustainable Nano - March 08, 2023 14:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings
What do nanotechnology, blacksmithing, and Star Wars have in common? In this episode, we talk with Dr. Suveen Mathaudhu about a range of topics from medical applications of materials science to metallurgy in The Mandalorian. Zoom screen shot of Dr. Mathaudhu showing off his Armorer action figur...

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Wax, wood and CO2

63 Degrees North - November 15, 2022 15:15 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Three tons of wax. A 4-story office building made almost entirely of wood. And putting CO2 to work instead of letting it heat up the planet: Scientists and engineers across the globe are harnessing unlikely materials to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Today's show looks at how a zero-emissions o...

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The EU has the strongest climate law in the world. But it's not enough.

63 Degrees North - November 07, 2022 09:06 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Earlier this year, tremendous floods in Pakistan forced 600,000 pregnant women to leave their homes for safer ground. It was among the latest in a series of nearly unthinkable happenings caused by climate change."Can you imagine if you are about to give birth to a child, and you have to leave yo...

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Using Nanotechnology to Make Renewable Fuel from Sunlight: A Conversation with Dan Nocera

Stories from the NNI - October 07, 2022 13:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this episode of the “Stories from the NNI” podcast, Dan Nocera, the Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy at Harvard University, describes how he and his team have developed a nanostructured device, called an artificial leaf, which works like a leaf by using sunlight to split water into hydr...

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Behind the Scenes: A Conversation with the NNCO Staff

Stories from the NNI - July 25, 2022 14:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this special episode of the “Stories from the NNI” podcast, Lisa Friedersdorf, the Former Director of the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office, reflects with the NNCO staff on the NNI’s impact on the nanotechnology landscape.   If you would like to learn more about nanotechnology, go...

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Using Nanotechnology to Create Smart Window Coatings

Nano Entrepreneurship Network - July 18, 2022 13:00 - 13 minutes
In this episode of the “Nano Matters” podcast, Delia Milliron, the T. Brockett Hudson Professor of Chemical Engineering and the Bill L. Stanley Endowed Leadership Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, discusses how her team is using nanotechnology ...

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Studying Unusual Properties of Two-Dimensional Materials: A Conversation with Leo Li

Stories from the NNI - July 11, 2022 13:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this episode of the “Stories from the NNI” podcast, Leo Li, Assistant Professor of Physics at Brown University, describes his work studying unusual properties of two-dimensional materials. Also, he discusses the importance of accessing instrumentation from nanotechnology research facilities i...

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Building Crystal Nanostructures from Self-Assembling Nanoparticles

Stories from the NNI - July 04, 2022 13:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this episode of the “Stories from the NNI” podcast, Sharon Glotzer, the Anthony C. Lembke Department Chair of Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, discusses her research on how to build crystal nanostructures from self-assembling nanoparticles and the role of entropy...

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Growing Nanowires to Create Functional Devices for On-Demand Nanoelectronics

Stories from the NNI - June 27, 2022 13:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this episode of the “Stories from the NNI” podcast, Michael Filler, Associate Professor and the Traylor Faculty Fellow in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech, describes how his team is growing nanowires to create functional devices for on-demand nanoelectronics...

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Designing and Assembling Nanoparticles of Different Shapes: A Conversation with Aaron Santos

Nano Entrepreneurship Network - June 20, 2022 13:00 - 15 minutes
This episode of the Nano Entrepreneurship Network podcast features a conversation between NNCO Director Lisa Friedersdorf and Aaron Santos, President and co-founder of a nanotechnology company called DNP123. Dr. Santos describes a technique developed by his company that can design and assemble n...

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Using Nanotechnology to Improve the Performance of Batteries

Nano Matters - June 13, 2022 13:00 - 12 minutes
In this episode of the “Nano Matters” podcast, Tod Pascal, Assistant Professor of NanoEngineering and Chemical Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, discusses his work on improving the performance of batteries by using various nanomaterials.   If you would like to learn more ...

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Designing Bio-Based and Sustainable Nanostructured Polymers: A Conversation with Thomas Epps, III

Stories from the NNI - June 06, 2022 13:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this episode of the “Stories from the NNI” podcast, Thomas Epps, III, the Allan and Myra Ferguson Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware, describes how he and his team are designing bio-based and sustainable nanostructured polymers. He a...

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Getting to Net Zero

63 Degrees North - June 02, 2022 09:40 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
We all know that climate change is real and that we have to do something about it. In today's podcast extra episode, we go behind the scenes at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and talk to Anders Hammer Strømman, who was one of the lead authors for their latest report, released in ...

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Using Nanomaterials to Develop Highly Sensitive Sensors

Nano Matters - May 30, 2022 13:00 - 12 minutes
In this episode of the “Nano Matters” podcast, Sherine Obare, the Dean of the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering at the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, discusses her work using nanomaterials to develop hi...

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Monitoring Plant Health with Optical Nanosensors: A Conversation with Juan Pablo Giraldo

Stories from the NNI - May 23, 2022 13:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this episode of the “Stories from the NNI” podcast, Juan Pablo Giraldo, Associate Professor in the Department of Botany and Plant Sciences at the University of California, Riverside, describes optical nanosensors that he and his team have developed and tested to monitor plant health and allev...

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Controlling Internal Bleeding with Nanoparticles

Nano Matters - May 16, 2022 13:00 - 9 minutes
In this episode of the “Nano Matters” podcast, Erin Lavik, Professor of Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, describes how she and her team have developed nanoparticles to control internal bleeding resulting from traumatic injuries...

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Using Nanowires to Label Cells for Cancer Treatment: A Conversation with Beth Stadler

Stories from the NNI - May 09, 2022 13:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this episode of the “Stories from the NNI” podcast, Lisa Friedersdorf, Director of the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office, speaks with Beth Stadler, Professor and Associate Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota, about her work using magnetic nanow...

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Commercializing Quantum Dots for Display Applications: A Conversation with Jason Hartlove

Nano Entrepreneurship Network - May 02, 2022 13:00 - 24 minutes
This episode of the Nano Entrepreneurship Network podcast features a conversation between NNCO Director Lisa Friedersdorf and Jason Hartlove, CEO of Nanosys, a company that manufactures quantum dots for displays and other applications. Mr. Hartlove describes the technology development pathway th...

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Love Computers? Love History? Listen to This Podcast

Science Talk - April 26, 2022 18:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 579 ratings
In the newest season of Lost Women of Science, we enter a world of secrecy, computers and nuclear weapons—and see how Klára Dán von Neumann was a part of all of it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Developing Nanostructured Polymer Membranes for Various Applications

Nano Matters - April 25, 2022 13:00 - 11 minutes
In this episode of the “Nano Matters” podcast, Chinedum Osuji, the Eduardo D. Glandt Presidential Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses his work developing nanostructured polymer membranes for a variety of applications, ...

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Using nanocrystals to make smart window materials: A Conversation with Delia Milliron

Stories from the NNI - April 18, 2022 13:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this episode of the “Stories from the NNI” podcast, Delia Milliron, the T. Brockett Hudson Professor of Chemical Engineering and the Bill L. Stanley Endowed Leadership Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, discusses her work using nanocrystals t...

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The Alchemists: Turning wild water into white coal

63 Degrees North - April 13, 2022 17:54 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
The secrets behind how Norwegian scientists and engineers harnessed the country’s wild waterfalls by developing super efficient turbines — and how advances in turbine technology being developed now may be the future in a zero-carbon world. They include an engineer who figured out how to take adv...

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Using Multifunctional Nanostructures to Remove Pollutants from the Environment

Nano Entrepreneurship Network - April 11, 2022 13:00 - 20 minutes
In this episode of the Nano Entrepreneurship Network podcast, Vinayak Dravid, the Abraham Harris Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University and founder of a company called MFNS (Multi-Functional Nano-Structures for Environment, Energy, and Biomedicine), describes h...

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Developing Sustainable, High-Performance Polymers from Lignin

Nano Matters - April 04, 2022 13:00 - 10 minutes
In this episode of the “Nano Matters” podcast, Thomas Epps, III, the Allan and Myra Ferguson Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware, discusses his work developing sustainable, high-performance polymers from lignin, an organic compound prese...

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The Detectives: Hunting toxic chemicals in the Arctic

63 Degrees North - March 30, 2022 20:23 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
Baby grey seals. Polar bears. Zooplankton on painkillers. How do toxic chemicals and substances end up in Arctic animals — and as it happens, native people, too? Our guests on today's show are Bjørn Munro Jenssen, an ecotoxicologist at NTNU, Jon Øyvind Odland, a professor of global health at ...

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Better Understanding Catalytic Nanoparticles: A Conversation with Jen Dionne

Stories from the NNI - March 28, 2022 13:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this episode of the “Stories from the NNI” podcast, Jen Dionne, Senior Associate Vice Provost of Research Platforms and Shared Facilities and Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University, discusses her research on catalytic nanoparticles, and the importance ...

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Using Nanotechnology to Design Wear-and-Forgettable Biosensors

Nano Matters - March 21, 2022 13:00 - 7 minutes
In this episode of the “Nano Matters” podcast, Nanshu Lu, Associate Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Texas at Austin, discusses her work using nanotechnology to design wear-and-forgettable biosensors that can monitor a person’s h...

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Hermann Göring’s Luftwaffe and the $6 billion deal

63 Degrees North - March 16, 2022 18:07 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
How the unlikely combination of WWII Germany, a modest English engineer who created a worker’s paradise, an ambitious industrialist prosecuted as a traitor and a hardworking PhD helped build modern Norway, one aluminium ingot at a time. Today's guests are Hans Otto Frøland, Svein Richard Brandt...

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Developing Approaches to Treat Trauma of the Central Nervous System: A Conversation with Erin Lavik

Stories from the NNI - March 14, 2022 13:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
In this episode of the “Stories from the NNI” podcast, Erin Lavik, Professor of Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, discusses her work on developing approaches to treat trauma and diseases of the central nervous system. She also t...

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Using Nanotechnology to Improve Organ Preservation for Transplantation

Nano Matters - March 07, 2022 14:00 - 13 minutes
In this episode of the “Nano Matters” podcast, Beth Stadler, Professor and Associate Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota, discusses her work using nanotechnology to improve the preservation of organs for transplantation.   If you would like to learn more ...