Tweet We are pleased to see that two papers authored by VTSuN members have made it into the 2015 Most Downloaded Articles for the new journal Environmental Science: Nano (also known as ES:Nano). The first article was … Continue reading
Tweet About the author: Haoran Wei is a PhD student in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech. Check out his profile on the VTSuN student page. We are very familiar with cellulose, which is the primary component of the paper we … Continue reading
About the author: Ron Kent is a PhD student in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech. Check out his profile on the VTSuN student page. Tweet In a magnificently illustrated post on the VTSuN blog, Jacob … Continue reading
Tweet (This is a post by VTSuN member, Andrea Tiwari. You can reach Andrea at ajtiwari@vt.edu) As we know, carbon is the basis of life on Earth – we are all “carbon-based life forms.” The … Continue reading
Authors: Harish Veeramani & Michael F Hochella Jr. Tweet Green chemistry, also called sustainable chemistry aims at designing products and processes that minimize the use and generation of hazardous substances. Being environmentally benign, the principles … Continue reading
Tweet You may or may not be aware of this, but silver nanoparticles (aka nanosilver) are special. They carry the beautiful “nanoparticle” buzzword, which means they must be special in some way (otherwise they … Continue reading
Tweet Nanocellulose is a promising, renewable nanomaterial. ScienceDaily has called the “wonder material” of the future. How cool is nanocellulose? Well, even Gizmodo and The Verge have talked about it. (Here is a very nice review by by Klemm … Continue reading
Authors: Eric P. Vejerano, Amara L. Holder, and Linsey C. Marr Tweet Abstract figure from Vejerano et al. 2013* Disposal of waste through incineration produces hazardous pollutants. Among them, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) … Continue reading