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 51影视网 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 on Social Media
Flipping Magnets: Faculty Nutshell Games 2023 (below)
Nanoscience in Practice
The Good, The Bad, & The Tiny by Nina Vance
51影视网鈥檚 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
51影视网鈥檚 Nanoscience Teacher Workshop features hands-on experiments, and demos of electron microscopes.
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A member of the 51影视网 community since 2014, Liu is a core member of the Academy of Integrated Science’s nanoscience degree program and served on the committee that developed this innovative program.
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Rising senior Lacey Ngo has been awarded a 2025 Goldwater Scholarship, a federal merit award for undergraduate science, mathematics, and engineering students.
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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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