nanoscale views

I haven't done this in a while.  Are there any particular subjects that you would like me to address, or concepts to explain?  It's ...

Here are some things that I wanted to share with my readership: My friend Arjendu Pattanayak (founder of a very good blog ) pointed out t...

I've talked before about how condensed matter/materials physics/engineering is so ubiquitous that it somehow fades into the background, ...

We were very fortunate last week to host Paul McEuen for our Chapman Lecture series (previous speakers here ).  NAS member, successful nove...

It's that time of year again - go ahead and speculate away in the comments about possible Nobel laureates in physics or chemistry.  Natu...

Hello readers - As I'd mentioned previously, I've written a nano textbook that's going to come out next year.  I'd like to a...

I just read that NPR is getting rid of Robert Krulwich's excellent science blog , allegedly as part of cost-cutting.  Cost-cutting?  Rea...

In the 21st century, with the prevalence of air travel, global near-instantaneous communications, and active cultures of well-financed scien...

It's been a few years since I've written a post slamming some piece of hype about nanoscience.  In part, I decided that all this-is-...

When we teach basic ac circuits in second semester freshman physics, or for that matter in intro to electrical engineering, we introduce the...

Way back in the mists of time, I wrote about  what what physicists mean when they say that some material is a metal .  In brief, a metal is ...

This is another in an occasional series of posts where I try to explain some physical phenomena and concepts in a comparatively accessible w...

The beginning of the semester is a crazy time, so blogging is a little light right now.  Still, here are a couple of recent papers from the ...

I've returned from the NSF's workshop regarding the successor program to the NNIN .  While there, I learned a few interesting things...

Arthur C. Clarke's most famous epigram is that "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."  A ques...

Here are a few neat things that have cropped up recently: The New Horizons spacecraft is finally getting close enough to Pluto to be able ...

There is a paper in this week's issue of Nature (with an accompanying news commentar y by my colleague Jim Tour) in which the authors a...

For the past few years, as I've been teaching honors freshman mechanics, I've tried to work in at least one homework problem based o...

Sorry for the posting drought.  There is a good reason:  I'm in the final stages of a textbook based on courses I developed about nanost...

I mentioned back in February that I'd had the chance to speak at Nerd Nite Houston ( facebook link - it's updated more frequently...