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鈥檚 degree program in Nanoscience at 91pro视频 is聽one of only two such programs in the U.S.
For more information on nanoscience and nanotechnology research and applications, see聽.
The Nanoscience degree program is home to majors in Nanoscience and .
Nanoscience in Practice
The Good, The Bad, & The Tiny by Nina Vance
91pro视频鈥檚 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
91pro视频鈥檚 Nanoscience Teacher Workshop features hands-on experiments, and demos of electron microscopes.
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Khodaparast, physics professor and L.C. Hassinger Faculty Fellow in Nanoscience, has been elected a 2025 fellow of SPIE.
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The Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Postdoctoral Excellence Awards, established through the generosity of Mary Denton Roberts and David Lyerly, recognize exceptional research potential and professional development. The most recent recipients are Ignacio Aiello, Xiaobo Wu, and Mark Renton. The awards recognize the potential for impactful individual scientific contributions. Recipients are selected based on the likelihood that their research proposal will lead to novel contributions as well as their mentors' ability to enhance their professional development. Roberts taught microbiology and immunology at Radford University from 1980 to 2006. Lyerly is a co-founder and chief science officer of the Blacksburg-based medical diagnostics company TechLab Inc. He and colleague Tracy Wilkins founded the company in 1989, based on discoveries from their research on Clostridium difficile, the major cause of hospital-acquired diarrhea and colitis.
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Liu discussed his journey in sustainability and the innovative process of converting plastic waste into soap.
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