Nanotechnology: Small Things Matter - 2017 Dickson Prize Lecture

Описание: Chad A. Mirkin, George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry and Director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology, Northwestern University, is the recipient of the 2017 Dickson Prize. He gave a lecture on "Nanotechnology: Small Things Matter" at the prize ceremony on February 2, 2017.

Nanotechnology is an interdisciplinary field focused on studying and manipulating ultraminiaturized structures, ones with at least one dimension 10,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair. This field has the potential to transform almost every aspect of our lives for the better – from enabling our cell phones and computers to run faster to generating our power more efficiently to making our tennis racquets and golf clubs lighter and more durable to making our medicines and drugs more efficacious. How can such small materials lead to such big advances in fields spanning chemistry, biology, engineering, and medicine? Watch discover all of the amazing size, shape, and composition-dependent properties of nanomaterials that are changing the way we see the world on a length scale that can’t even be observed with the naked eye.

The Dickson Prize in Science is awarded annually to the person who has been judged by Carnegie Mellon University to have made the most progress in the scientific field in the United States for the year in question.

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