Nano blog

For those of you who don’t know them, I think it is worth having a look at the nanoeducational initiative of the Material Science and Engineering Center of UW Madison.

They have created a website with tens of lab demonstrations and exercises related to nano. Almost all of them can be done on the bench and do not require complicated instrumentation.

On top of that they have little videos of every key step of the experiment to allow for easy reproduction of the experiment.

This is by far the most sophisticated educational tool on practical nanochemistry that I have ever seen. And by far the most worthy of praise.

Congrats to the authors and now go visit their website by clicking here

Hi all,

the surge in publications in nanochemistry has compelled RSC to open a new venue for publications in the nanoscale-sciences.

The new journal is called Nanoscale, will publish the first editions this fall and is now open to submissions. The first few issues will be free for download.
Notably, the editors are young stars of the field and are based on three continents: Francesco Stellacci from MIT, Markus Niederberger from ETH and Chunli Bai from NCNST, China. I am sure they will be able to draw some amazing publications to this journal!

Let’s wish the best of luck to this new endeavour from RSC!

The theme for the just-concluded Salt Lake City national meeting was Nanoscience: Challenges for the Future.

Many of the world’s foremost nano experts gave talks, and permitted the American Chemical Society to record and post these presentations on www.acs.org.
In all, over 30 nano presentations (audio and slides) can be found by visiting www.acs.org (click on ‘Nanoscience’ box in right margin).
Among others, you’ll find the following presentations:

• Raymond Astumian, Generalized Fluctuation-Dissipation Relations for Brownian Sieves and Molecular Machines
• Ashleigh Baber, Thermal and Mechanical Activation of Single-Molecule Thioether Rotors
• Angela Belcher, From Nature and Back Again: Giving New Life to Materials for Energy
• Roman Boulatov, Maximum Force Obtainable from a Molecular Photoactuator
• Vicki Colvin, Nanotechnology in the Environment: Safety by Design
• Miguel Garcia-Garibay, Crystalline Arrays of Molecular Gyroscopes: Toward the Limit of Barrierless Rotation in Solid State Materials
• Mark Haidekker, Molecular Rotors: TICT Fluorophores with Mechanosensitive Properties
• James Hutchison, Greener Nanoscience: A Proactive Approach to Advancing Applications and Reducing Implications of Nanotechnology
• Heather Kalish, Microchip Analysis of Neuronal Secretions by Immunoaffinity Capillary Electrophoresis
• Anatoly Kolomeisky, Thermally-Driven Nanocars and Molecular Rotors: What Can We Learn from Molecular Dynamics Simulations
• Josef Michl, Toward Designed Surface Ferroelectricity
• John Rogers, Techniques for Molecular Scale and 3-D Nanofabrication
• Mehmet Sarikaya, Biohesion: Coupling Synthetic and Biological Entities Using Genetically Engineered Peptides
• George Whitesides, Nanotechnology in Adolescence

Hi all

after this long delay the manuscript is finally online and can be found here.
We are happy with the way it looks and we hope it will provide some stimulating debate on the future of nanochemistry. It is true that nanochemistry, as put by George Whitesides recently (see the video of his presentation at the ACS here), is in a phase of “adolescence” and gradually drifting from being the new kid on the block to being a new tool of science.

While we believe that expectations were exaggerated at the inception of the field, we also think that many surprises are still awaiting in nanochemistry. The discovery of graphene proved wrong once again who stated that the era of discovery of entirely new materials was over.

Nanochemistry is thus entering a new phase of development and we believe that priorities need to change. The field is enstablished and now is the time to actually make it work and really look for some big problems to solve with it.

Every field of science, as history demonstrates, has an initial explosive development, followed by some disappointment caused by misplaced expectations. What follows is always very encouraging as the newly discovered field becomes the stepping stone to something bigger, broader and often completely unexpected. We are thrilled to see what nanochemistry will enable in the future!!!

Hello!

Me and Geoff have a new perspective article submitted and entitled “Nanochemistry: What is Next?” in which we attempt to draw a vision of the future of Nanochemistry and of how it will probably be instrumental in spawning the Next Big Thing. We’ll keep you posted on when it will be published.

Cheers!!!

Ludovico

Hi there

this is the first message from the authors of Nanochemistry: A Chemical Approach to Nanomaterials.

We are very excited to have this new window over the readers, through which we can hopefully communicate, receive feedback and gather suggestions for future editions. You all are welcome to leave comments on the book, especially if you have some suggestions on how to improve it. It would greatly help to hear from people that have adopted the book. Their feedback would be most precious in understanding how the book can be improved and made more efficacious as a teaching tool.

Cheers!!!

Ludovico

The global success of the 1st edition of Nanochemistry, along with exceptionally rapid change in the field, has necessitated the publication of a 2nd edition after only three years. This truly major update highlights the latest breakthroughs using more than eighty new case histories, more problem sets, and more teaching principles.

RSC is pleased to host the Nanoblog as forum to provide feedback and comments on the latest edition of this book and express your opinions about the rapidly developing field of nanochemistry.