IMNano

Picture this: Shas started with a master's in water purification, dove into the world of engineering as a lab manager, flirted with the idea of becoming a medical scientist, and finally found his calling in the cutting-edge field of direct laser writing. Along the way, he has developed a passion for sharing these experiences and the incredible science behind them. In this nanolife episode, we'll e...

Check out are awesome nanolife interview with Prof Esmail Doustkhah from İstinye Üniversitesi in Turkey! He is organizing the amazing Nanotech Eurasia conference, and it is open for all to attend! Check it out here: https://eurasia-nanotech.istinye.edu.tr/en Stay curious!

Delve into the fascinating journey of Marina, exploring her experiences, challenges, and triumphs on her way to becoming a Professor in Mechanical Engineering at York University, Canada. She does many projects in water and air purification as well as energy and her lab is growing! Contact Prof Marina here : Marina Freire-Gormaly, PhD, EIT, LEED GA Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical Engin...

Menstrual blood is usually discarded but it actually contains a plethora of biomolecules that can tell us information about your health! CELLECT, a start-up founded by CT Murphy from the University of Waterloo, aims to use menstrual blood and nanotechnology solutions to diagnose HPV and cervical cancer. Tune in to this episode to learn more! About CT Murphy: CEO and Founder of CELLECT. She was awa...

Super amazing chemistry References: Ruizhe Chen  et al. ,Alcohol-alcohol cross-coupling enabled by SH2 radical sorting. Science 383 ,1350-1357(2024).DOI: 10.1126/science.adl5890 https://chemistry.princeton.edu/news/macmillan-lab-scores-alcohol-alcohol-cross-coupling-method-after-long-effort/#:~:text=The%20method%3A%20achieving%20alcohol%2Dalcohol,by%20powerful%20SH2%20radical%20sorting.&text=T...

The Nobel Prize winning scientists, Frances Arnold, has done it again! Her team have use directed evolution to engineer enzymes that can break down the strong carbon-silicon bonds found in many products we use everyday! Reference: Nicholas S. Sarai et al. ,Directed evolution of enzymatic silicon-carbon bond cleavage in siloxanes. Science383,438-443(2024). DOI: 10.1126/science.adi5554 Intro/Outro m...

Time for a nanolife interview with the one and only Dr Thomas Mortelmans who delves deep into his medical biosensor and how he came out his various inventions! Check out his main biosensor work that we talk about here: ACS Appl. Nano Mater.  2022, 5, 1, 517–526 doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.1c03309 And you can follow and connect with Tom here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-mortelmans-ph-d-066a9a83/...

In this lit update we talk about a carbon nanotube sensor discovery that shows the current in a carbon nanotube device can pass parallel or perpendicular to the tubes and the results will be different! Reference: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c02555   Nano Lett. 2023, 23, 21, 9817–9824

Let's review what we have accomplished, some of the missed research we didn't get to cover, and our favorite research in 2023! Intro/Outro music: Music by  ⁠⁠⁠minwbu⁠⁠⁠  from  ⁠⁠⁠Pixabay

Lit-Update Meet the Expert! where we get to dig deep into papers with the scientist themselves! Have you ever wondered how changes to your normal schedule affects your health? Tune in to learn more about circadian disruption and health from Stéphanie Abo based on her paper "Can the Clocks Tick Together Despite the Noise? Stochastic Simulations and Analysis" published in SIAM Journal on A...

Talking about the 2023 Nobel prize in physics used in this recent paper " Functional Group Modulation in Carbon Quantum Dots for Accelerating Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction " Zhikang Liu, Weidong Hou, Huazhang Guo, Zeming Wang, Liang Wang, and Minghong WuACS Applied Materials & Interfaces  2023   15  (28), 33868-33877

Failed experiments are usually hidden in our notebooks and computer, not shared in the literature, but they're important for the scientific process! In this podcast, we'll discuss how it's also important for machine learning assisted chemical experiments. Reference: F. Strieth-Kalthoff, F. Sandfort, M. Kühnemund, F. R. Schäfer, H. Kuchen, F. Glorius,  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.   2022 ,  61...

In this lit update we discuss some super cool new research that uses aerosol jet printing to apply a solution of COF/carbon nanotubes to make nanocomposites. Tune in the for breakdown! References: Bradshaw, Nathan P., Zoheb Hirani, Lidia Kuo, Siyang Li, Nicholas X. Williams, Vinod K. Sangwan, Lindsay E. Chaney, Austin M. Evans, William R. Dichtel, and Mark C. Hersam. " Aerosol‐Jet‐Printable C...

Strong heat-activated artificial muscle to move artificial hands and robotic worms?! Tune in to learn more how scientists from Korea and France used graphene and liquid crystal elastomer to develop this human-muscle inspired technology! Reference: Kim, I.H., Choi, S., Lee, J. et al.  Human-muscle-inspired single fibre actuator with reversible percolation.  Nat. Nanotechnol. 17, 1198–1205 (2022). h...

Biotechnology startup research vs. quality control, how are the two different? Which one is more suitable for you? How do you get started in both? Tune in to learn more from Darren! Intro/Outro music: Music by  minwbu  from  Pixabay

New series: Lit-Update Meet the Expert! where we get to dig deep into papers with the scientist themselves! Our first special guest is Brittany Smith, a PhD Candidate from Duke University, engineer, and marine life expert who is working towards developing technology to benefit marine life and the environment. She will be discussing her latest paper "All-Carbon Thin-Film Transistors Using Wate...

Plastics plastics plastics...when they break down into nanoplastics in the ocean, can they transport cancerous polycyclic hydrocarbons to our body? Reference: Erik B. Schiferle, Wenxu Ge, and Björn M. ReinhardACS Nano  2023   17  (6), 5773-5784DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c12224 Intro/Outro music: Music by  minwbu  from  Pixabay

We are talking about the weird and wonderful water today and it's amazing new property involving water vapours at ice cold temperatures!! References:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05749-7   https://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx? ID=9860  

Mimicking nanopore transport using nanopore quartz tube to understand protein-protein interactions! Reference: Nanopore Detection Using Supercharged Polypeptide Molecular Carriers Xiaoyi Wang, Tina-Marie Thomas, Ren Ren, Yu Zhou, Peng Zhang, Jingjing Li, Shenglin Cai, Kai Liu, Aleksandar P. Ivanov, Andreas Herrmann, and Joshua B. Edel Journal of the American Chemical Society 2023 145 (11), 6371-63...

It's like three nanotech things all in one! Fascinating research geared towards nano cancer therapeutics References:  Enhanced Nanobubble Formation: Gold Nanoparticle Conjugation to Qβ Virus-like Particles Perouza Parsamian, Yaning Liu, Chen Xie, Zhuo Chen, Peiyuan Kang, Yalini H. Wijesundara, Noora M. Al-Kharji, Ryanne Nicole Ehrman, Orikeda Trashi, Jaona Randrianalisoa, Xiangyu Zhu, Matthew...

Amazing work where imine condensation reactions lead up to building molecular nanotube enantiomers using something known as Covalent Organic Pillars COP! References:  Tian, Y., Guo, Y., Dong, X. et al. Synthesis of covalent organic pillars as molecular nanotubes with precise length, diameter and chirality. Nat. Synth (2023). Making molecular nanotubes by cross-linking stackable rings. Nat. Sy...

We previous learned about how nanotech can help advance AI. Now, let's learn about how AI helps scientists to discover new morphologies of directed self-assembled copolymers! References: G. S. Doerk et al. , Autonomous discovery of emergent morphologies in directed self-assembly of block copolymer blends . Science Advances. 9 , eadd3687 . Intro/Outro music: Music by minwbu from Pixabay

In this lit update we don't really talk about the paper in detail but we had a lot of fun discussing on how relevant or not nanotech is to the ai and language model space. Check it out! References:  Finocchio, Giovanni, et al. "Roadmap for Unconventional Computing with Nanotechnology." arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.06727 (2023). https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.06727 Gongora, Aldair E., et al. "Autonom...

First episode of 2023! Let's start with reflecting on the funny mistakes we made in our early years and what we would like to improve on! Intro/Outro music: Music by minwbu from Pixabay

Last episode of 2022! We have come a long way since we first started and accomplished quite a bit this year. Tune in to the recap of 2022, what we wished we could have covered, and what we have coming up in 2023! Intro/Outro music: Music by minwbu from Pixabay