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Realizing the promise of the world's smallest science @NorthwesternU. Tweets about nanoscience and nanomedicine research, events & more. Led by Chad A. Mirkin.
Northwestern University
Joined February 2013
We are proud to celebrate IIN faculty member Mercouri Kanatzidis, who has been awarded the 2025 Albert Einstein World Award of Science by the World Cultural Council. A well-deserved recognition for a truly transformative researcher.
Congrats Mercouri Kanatzidis on winning the 2025 Albert Einstein World Award of Science from the @WCCOfficial_! 🎉.@MercouriK is recognized for breakthroughs in solar PVs, halide perovskites & sustainable energy materials. #FacultyExcellence #MaterialsScience #NUChemistry
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“We just scratched the surface.”. After a year as chair of @NUChemistry, Omar Farha returns to Nanoscape to discuss MOFs, sustainability, and the future of nanotechnology. 🎧 New episode is LIVE. Listen at or wherever you get your podcasts.
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RT @hartreefocker: Check out our latest article from @NUChemistry and @IINanoNU in @JPhysChem where we discuss how real time density functi….
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RT @NUChemistry: Cancer. Diagnostics. Programmable materials. One @NorthwesternU breakthrough is shaping it all. #SNAs power cancer drugs a….
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Nicholas Peppas receives the Kabiller Prize for groundbreaking work in biomaterials and drug delivery. His research at @CockrellSchool has transformed targeted therapies and made oral treatments possible for millions.
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Michael Mitchell receives the Kabiller Rising Star Award. His innovations in cancer immunotherapy and gene delivery at @PennEngineers are shaping next-generation treatments and inspiring future bioengineers.
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Nathan Gianneschi is recognized with the Kabiller Young Investigator Award. His research at @NUChemistry explores proteomimetic materials and nanoscale imaging, redefining how new drugs are designed and visualized.
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RT @NUChemistry: Researchers from @TempelaarTeam and @UWMadisonChem found that a centrosymmetric #crystal—once thought incapable of #chiral….
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What does it take to solve gigaton-scale challenges?. Professor Vinayak Dravid (@ProfDravid) explains how nanoscience + nature work together in the latest Nanoscape. Listen: or wherever you get your podcasts. #Nanoscience #Sustainability
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🎧 New Episode!. How do you extend the life of organs outside the body?. Jarad Mason, Harvard chemist and former @MirkinGroupNU postdoc, shares how nanotech solutions, like oxygen-loaded porous water, change the game. 🔗 or wherever you get your podcasts.
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A new perspective from Chad Mirkin (@CHADNANO), Milan Mrksich, and Natalie Artzi (@NatalieArtzi) charts a bold future for precision nanomedicine. Out now in Nature Reviews Bioengineering:
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RT @NorthwesternEng: A team led by Professor Vinayak Dravid demonstrated how researchers can pull carbon directly from the air using change….
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🎧 New Episode! . Roel Tempelaar joins Nanoscape to discuss his quantum research that challenges textbook assumptions — and how jazz piano shaped his approach to science. 🎙️ Listen now: or wherever you get your podcasts. @TempelaarTeam .@NUChemistry
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RT @NorthwesternEng: Northwestern Engineering Professors John Rogers, Igor Efimov, and Yonggang Huang have created the world's smallest pac….
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RT @NorthwesternEng: Professors Julius Lucks and James Rondinelli have been elected 2024 fellows of the American Association for the Advanc….
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