Nanoscience
Nanoscience is the study of materials, phenomena, properties, and applications at the smallest length scale at which we can control matter. A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter, just slightly larger than individual atoms. Nanoscience and nanotechnology have rapidly growing applications in a wide range of technology areas including electronics, information technology, medicine, renewable energy, aerospace, and advanced materials.
The federal government created the National Nanotechnology Initiative () in 2000, which has invested more than $25 billion in research and development. The Bachelor’s degree program in Nanoscience at 51¹ÙÍø Tech is one of only two such programs in the U.S.
For more information on nanoscience and nanotechnology research and applications, see .
The Nanoscience degree program is home to majors in Nanoscience and .
Nanoscience on Social Media
Flipping Magnets: Faculty Nutshell Games 2023 (below)
Nanoscience in Practice
The Good, The Bad, & The Tiny by Nina Vance
51¹ÙÍø Tech’s NanoCamp features exciting activities, presentations, and laboratory exercises led by prominent faculty in the field and their students.
Nanoscience students, Ethan Boeding & Zac Caprow sponsored by for Summer 2019 internships at Oak Ridge National lab
51¹ÙÍø Tech’s Nanoscience Teacher Workshop features hands-on experiments, and demos of electron microscopes.
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Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC scientists developed a saliva-based artificial intelligence screening method that could flag patients at risk for dangerous side effects from a widely used chemotherapy drug.
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Researchers identified a freeze-drying process to produce, warehouse, and deliver a wound-healing medicine for cancer patients, military troops, and industrial workers exposed to radiation.
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Frank Aylward and Maria Paula Erazo Garcia discovered the largest virus ever recorded with a latent infection cycle in the model green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardti. Their findings were published in Science.
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