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IMNano
by IMNano
We are two doctoral nanotechnology researchers that like to talk about the science we do!Our podcasts cover a wide range of topics that include nanotechnology, discuss our own journeys, and review current research in a fun way !Special Feature: Our "Lit" Update features a recent paper from the scientific literature that we review and discuss using layman terms*opinions expressed in this podcast are solely our own.
Episodes
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Ep 74 - From water to lasers: an engineering odyssey with Shasvat Rathod
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...
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Ep 73 - The road of discovery with Prof Esmail Doustkhah
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!
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Ep 72 Nanolife with Prof. Marina: Navigating Life's Water and Air and in-between!
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...
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Ep 71 - Meet the Expert! Nanotech for Women's Health with CT Murphy
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...
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Ep 70 - Alcohols to alcohols - who knew?!
Super amazing chemistry References: Ruizhe Chen et al.,Alcohol-alcohol cross-coupling enabled by SH2 radical sorting.Science383,1350-1357(2024).DOI:10.1126/science.adl5890...
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Ep 69 - Revolutionary Enzyme Ready to Cleave Unbreakable Bond
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...
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Ep 68 - Nanolife interview with Dr Thomas Mortelmans
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…
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Ep 67 - Shine perpendicular light on me! Or parallel!
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,...
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Ep 67 - Year in Review - 2023!
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
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Ep 66 - Meet the Expert - Stéphanie Abo - Circadian Disruption and Health
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...
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Ep 65 - Carbon quantum dots
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…
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Ep 64 - Failed Experiments? Important for machine learning and the scientific process!
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....
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Ep 63 - Nanospray as a new way to make COF films
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,...
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Ep 62 - Human-muscle inspired graphene and liquid crystal elastomer fiber
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....
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Ep 61 - NanoLife Interview with Darren Yip on Startups and Quality Control
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
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Ep 60 - Meet the Expert behind the paper - Brittany Smith and "All-Carbon Thin-Film Transistors Using Water-Only Printing"
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...
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Ep 59 - Nanoplastics transporting polycylic aromatic hydrocarbons (cancerous)!
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...
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Ep 58 - Lit update - water, ice, molecules are nice!
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
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Ep 57 - Nanopore to understand protein-protein interaction
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.…
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Ep 56 - Lit update on nanobubbles Q-beta virus like particles and gold, oh my!!
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…
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Ep 55 nanotube twins built from water loss
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...
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Ep 54 - Discovering new polymer structures using machine learning
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...
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Ep 53 - Lit update - Let's talk nanotech, ai and chatgpt
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...
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Ep 52 - Scientists make mistakes too!
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
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Ep 51 - NanoLife - 2022 Recap!
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
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Ep 50 - Nanolife Interview with Prof. Ben Meekins - pursuing academic career and being a science communicator
Interested in pursuing an academic career in North America? And simultaneously sharing all the fun of science online? Tune in to this nanolife interview with Prof. Ben Meekins, the mastermind behind OpenSciencePresentations! Intro/Outro music: Music by minwbu from Pixabay
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Ep 49 - DNA Nanocages for virus capture!
Incoming lit update! Check out new research that shows nanocages made from DNA are able to capture a wide range of viruses! References: Broad-Spectrum Virus Trapping with Heparan Sulfate-Modified DNA Origami Shells so fresh no official journal page, etc....
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Ep 48 - Imaging atoms in normal everyday environment!
Atoms, they're everywhere! They're the building blocks of everything but you can't see them with your naked eye, now you can! Sumaiya, S. A.; Liu, J.; Baykara, M. Z. True Atomic-Resolution Surface Imaging and Manipulation under Ambient Conditions via Conductive Atomic Force Microscopy. ACS Nano...
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Ep 47 -Nobel prize winning gene editing technology CRISPR modified for sensing!
Have you heard of CRISPR, the ground breaking gene editing technology? The one that got Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020? This technology was repurposed by researchers from Fudan University to detect cell free DNA! Tune in to learn more!…
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TEASER - Ep 47 -Nobel prize winning gene editing technology CRISPR modified for sensing!
Have you heard of CRISPR, the ground breaking gene editing technology? The one that got Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020? This technology was repurposed by researchers from Fudan University to detect cell free DNA! Tune in to learn more!
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Ep 46 Lit update: Transistor how-to
Fun lit update on Monika's favorite topic haha!! References https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-022-00798-8#Sec5 https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2022/07/leading-experts-suggest-guidelines-assessing-emerging-transistor
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Ep 45 - Nanoparticle based cancer treatment efficiency during menstruation
Breast and ovarian cancer are some of the most common cancer for females worldwide. As cancer treatment technology continue to advance, scientists in Israel learned that the physiological processes during the different menstruation phases can affect the efficiency of breast and ovarian cancer...
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TEASER - Ep 45 - Nanoparticle based cancer treatment efficiency during menstruation
Did you know that the physiological processes during the different menstruation phases can affect the efficiency of breast and ovarian cancer treatment? Tune in to learn how scientist in Israel learned about this!
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Ep 44 - SEASON 2 - Nano life - Safety!!
Today we will be talking about safety in nanoscience and technology labs!!! Reference: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-019-0375-x https://www.labsafety.org/lab-safety-terrifying-statistics https://cen.acs.org/safety/lab-safety/10-years-Sheri-Sangjis-death/97/i1...
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Episode 43 - Special NanoLife Interview - Science in literary arts, PhD Life, and Science Communication with Simone Pengue
We conclude the end of Season 1 with a special interview episode with soon-to-be Dr. Simone Pengue, who is pursuing his PhD in biophysics and an avid science communicator. This passion led him to be the Grand Prize winner of the Prix Media Newcomer 2021 for the FORGOTTEN DATA: the Leftovers of...
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TEASER #2 - Ep 43: NanoLife Interview with Simone Pengue
In his spare time, Simone enjoys finding parallels between literary arts work and scientific phenomenon. It's a real life scientific mystery adventure!
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TEASER #1 - Ep 43: NanoLife Interview with Simone Pengue
Data classification, organization, and utilization is a pretty dry topic but Simone successfully made an engaging documentary about it! What made him explore this topic in the first place?
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Ep 42 - Superhydrophobic nanofluid coatings
Today we will be discussing superhydrophobics coatings using nanofluids, and what is special about this research is that that is comes from easily accessible materials such as silica! References: https://www.azonano.com/news.aspx?newsID=39211 Esmaeilzadeh, P. et al. (2022). Tuning the Wetting...
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Ep 41 - Sensitive nanofiber based immunoassay
Many researchers now are working on miniaturizing and simplifying laboratory processes so that they can be easily used in places such as bed-side hospitals, pharmacies, and ambulances. In this lit update, researchers from UC Davis developed a sensitive nanofiber based immunoassay patch! Tune in…
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TEASER - Ep 41 - Sensitive nanofiber based immunoassay
Tune in to this episode to learn more about how researchers simplify and miniaturize laboratory techniques to be used outside the lab!
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TEASER - Changing the color of a liquid crystal that took 100 years to prove its existence!
In this week's lit update, we are discussing the recently discovered "Ferroelectric Nematic Liquid Crystals" and in this work, the researchers have uncovered ways for types of these chiral liquid crystals to change colors with the use of an electric field! Neat!
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Ep 40 - Changing the color of a liquid crystal that took 100 years to prove its existence!
In today's lit update, we are discussing the recently discovered "Ferroelectric Nematic Liquid Crystals" and in this work, the researchers have uncovered ways for types of these chiral liquid crystals to change colors with the use of an electric field! Neat! References: Feng, C., Saha, R.,...
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Ep 39 - Water deposits on glass after cooking activities
Did you know that cooking with oil lead to thin oil film deposits on indoor surfaces? These oily deposits can attract water, which can cause bacterial growth and chemical reactions! Tune in to learn what scientists from University of San Diego and University of Texas learned about how the…
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TEASER - Water deposits on glass after cooking activities
Did you know that cooking with oil lead to thin oil film deposits on indoor surfaces? These oily deposits can attract water, which can cause bacterial growth and chemical reactions! Tune in to the upcoming episode to learn what scientists from University of San Diego and University of Texas…
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Ep 38 - Shrimp shell derived sponge to stop excessive bleeding!
Excessive bleeding during surgery or trauma must be stopped immediately before it becomes deadly. In this lit update, scientists from Nankai University developed a chitosan, derived from shrimp shells, microchannelled sponge-like hemostats using 3D printing that can stop bleeding within 2…
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TEASER - Shrimp shell derived sponge to stop excessive bleeding!
Tune in to the new episode to learn how shrimp shells can be used to prevent excessive bleeding!
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Ep 37 - Lit Update on Lithium-Air Breathing Batteries!?
In today's awesome lit update, we talk about lithium-air-breathing batteries! (LABs!) Wait, what?! Now these lithium air-breathing batteries, often known as LABs or LOBs as in Lithium-Oxygen Batteries don’t actually have lungs! Their operation is based on the metal-air interface to function. Tune...
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TEASER! Lithium Air Breathing batteries?!
Teaser for our upcoming episode discussing new research on lithium - air batteries! Kim, Hyun‐Soo, Boran Kim, Hyunyoung Park, Jongsoon Kim, and Won‐Hee Ryu. "Auto‐Oxygenated Porphyrin‐Derived Redox Mediators for High‐Performance Lithium Air‐Breathing Batteries." Advanced Energy Materials (2022):...
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Ep 36 - Personalized medicine of the future?
We constantly hear that personalized medicine is the medicine of the future but when will this become a reality? Researchers in this field are constantly making progress and one of the most recent developments is from researchers in Israel and China who made wearable microneedle sensors for...
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TEASER - Personalized medicine of the future?
We constantly hear that personalized medicine is the medicine of the future but when will this become a reality? Researchers in this field are constantly making progress and one of the most recent developments is from researchers in Israel and China who made wearable microneedle sensors for...
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We are two doctoral nanotechnology researchers that like to talk about the science we do!Our podcasts cover a wide range of topics that include nanotechnology, discuss our own journeys, and review current research in a fun way !Special Feature: Our "Lit" Update features a recent paper from the scientific literature that we review and discuss using layman terms*opinions expressed in this podcast are solely our own.
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