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 (www.nano.gov) in 2000, which has invested more than $25 billion in research and development. The Bachelor’s degree program in Nanoscience at Virginia Tech is one of only two such programs in the U.S.
For more information on nanoscience and nanotechnology research and applications, see www.nano.gov.
The Nanoscience degree program is home to majors in Nanoscience and Nanomedicine.
Nanoscience in Practice
The Good, The Bad, & The Tiny by Nina Vance
Virginia Tech’s 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 Economical and Sustainable Materials SGA for Summer 2019 internships at Oak Ridge National lab
Virginia Tech’s Nanoscience Teacher Workshop features hands-on experiments, and demos of electron microscopes.
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Virginia Tech students named 2024 Astronaut Scholars , articleCollege of Science students Chloe Nyhart and Stephen Argauer earned spots in the highly competitive 2024 class of Astronaut Scholars.
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Research team discovers molecular mechanism for a bacterial infection , articleDaniel Capelluto and his research team have discovered the mechanism by which the bacterial pathogen Shigella flexneri, the causative agent of dysentery, manipulates molecular activity to assure its survival against its host’s natural defenses.
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The virus that causes COVID-19 is widespread in wildlife, Virginia Tech scientists find , articleSix of 23 common wildlife species showed signs of SARS-CoV-2 infections in an examination of animals in Virginia, as revealed by tracking the virus’s genetic code.
Date: Jul 29, 2024
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