NanoBlog

The College of Nanoscale Science & Technology is hosting NANOnovember. There are many talks scheduled, clean room tours, and activities for kids.

Graphene is the hot new material now. The Science News web site has a wonderful summary article describing the properties of graphene: Carbon Flatland. Hopefully, the development of graphene based devices won't take as long as carbon nanotubes has.

Researches at the University of Oregon have discovered that metals like silver and copper naturally form nanoparticles on their surfaces when exposed to the atmosphere. This means that we are are naturally exposed to metal nanoparticles from things like jewelry and eating utensles. Understanding the environmental impact of nanoparticles has been challenging and now has become more perhaps more complex. The full paper can be found at: Generation of Metal Nanoparticles from Silver and Copper Objects: Nanoparticle Dynamics on Surfaces and Potential Sources of Nanoparticles in the Environment

Chad Mirkin describes a new method for assembling nanoparticles into structures with subnanoscale resolution. The full paper of this work appears in the journal Science: Nanoparticle Superlattice Engineering with DNA.

Berkeley has posted many courses online at webcast.berkeley website. Many of the older lectures can be found on iTunes and YouTube.

Scientific American has posted an interesting article on the The Smallest Revolution: 5 Recent Breakthroughs in Nanomedicine.

The Virtual Professor website has lectures on String Theory and M-Theory and Modern Physics : Quantum Entanglement Part 3 available on its website along with many other lectures. The string theory course is taught by Stanford professor Leonard Susskin.

The Select Nano RSS feeds wiki page has been updated to include Nanoscale Research Letters and the Nanomedicine Journal. The page now shows RSS feeds from 18 nanotechnology related websites and journals. The order of the RSS feeds is a bit random and the latest additions were placed at the end.

The website has been upgraded to the latest version of Tikiwiki. If you have problems with the site please send comments to 0brane at p-brane.com .

The October issue of Optical Materials Express from the OSA has a special focus on nanoplasmonics and metamaterials. The journal started in April 2011 and is open access.