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How Many AA Batteries Would it Take to Power a Mercedes?
If you’re like me, you probably have a drawer full of AA batteries at home somewhere, just in case you need them. They’re not as ubiquitous as they used to be – I try to buy mostly rechargeable...
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Battery Behavior in the Biosphere: How We Probed Nanoscale Battery Materials...
Along with eight colleagues (most from the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology) I recently co-authored an article in the American Chemical Society’s Chemistry of Materials journal titled “Impact of...
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Ep 3. Nanoparticles in Electric Car Batteries: How Do We Study Sustainability?
Welcome to episode 3 of the Sustainable Nano podcast! In this episode, we talk about a recent research study that looked at how one type of battery nanomaterial affects bacteria called Shewanella...
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What’s With All Those Flaming Cell Phones? A Primer on Battery Safety
By now you’ve probably heard about Samsung’s recall of all Galaxy Notes 7s. Several years ago the entire worldwide fleet of 787 “Dreamliners” was grounded due to onboard battery fires. You might be...
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Have You Ever Heard a Lemon Sing? Music and Chemistry
Have you ever used a poem or song to help yourself remember a complicated concept or a list that you were sure to forget? (Figure 1) As I sat and thought about the many times that songs and clever...
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How do nanomaterials from e-waste transform in water? Computational chemistry...
The development of nanotechnology has been an exciting route to chemical innovation that has changed the way that we live. Fields as diverse as medicine, water treatment, and energy storage have all...
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Nanotechnology and cars, inside and out
Vehicles of the near future will benefit greatly from nanotechnology and nanomaterials. The global expectations for lower emissions and fuel economy are creating huge demands for lightweight, durable,...
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Ep 26. Nanomaterials and Renewable Energy: From Solar Panels to Machine Learning
How are photons like toddlers? And what does that have to do with solar energy? Dr. Jillian Buriak has been researching nanomaterials and renewable energy for over a decade, including work to improve...
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Ep 27. The Constant Loop: How Nanoparticles and the Environment Affect Each...
Lithium Cobalt Oxide (LCO) is an important nanomaterial used in batteries, but little is known about what happens when it gets exposed to the environment. In this episode we interview Center for...
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Ep. 33 It Just Didn’t Feel Like Me: Belonging and Sexism in Science
How often do college women in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) experience sexism? And how do these experiences affect their likelihood of staying in scientific fields? In this episode...
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