Ep 69 - Revolutionary Enzyme Ready to Cleave Unbreakable Bond
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by IMNano
2w ago
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 music: Music by ⁠minwbu⁠ from ⁠Pixabay ..read more
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Ep 68 - Nanolife interview with Dr Thomas Mortelmans
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by IMNano
1M ago
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/ https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0677-5857 ..read more
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Ep 67 - Shine perpendicular light on me! Or parallel!
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by IMNano
2M ago
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 ..read more
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Ep 67 - Year in Review - 2023!
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by IMNano
2M ago
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 ..read more
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Ep 66 - Meet the Expert - Stéphanie Abo - Circadian Disruption and Health
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by IMNano
4M ago
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 Applied Dynamical Systems. Stéphanie is a PhD Candidate in mathematical and computational biology at the University of Waterloo. Her academic research primarily explores the interaction between the circadian cl ..read more
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Ep 65 - Carbon quantum dots
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by IMNano
5M ago
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 ..read more
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Ep 64 - Failed Experiments? Important for machine learning and the scientific process!
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by IMNano
7M ago
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, e202204647; Angew. Chem. 2022, 134, e202204647. Intro/Outro music: Music by minwbu from Pixabay ..read more
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Ep 63 - Nanospray as a new way to make COF films
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by IMNano
8M ago
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 Covalent Organic Framework Colloidal Inks and Temperature‐Sensitive Nanocomposite Films." Advanced Materials (2023): 2303673. Intro/Outro music: Music by minwbu from Pixabay ..read more
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Ep 62 - Human-muscle inspired graphene and liquid crystal elastomer fiber
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by IMNano
9M ago
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). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-022-01220-2 Intro/Outro music: Music by minwbu from Pixabay ..read more
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Ep 61 - NanoLife Interview with Darren Yip on Startups and Quality Control
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by IMNano
10M ago
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 ..read more
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