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 () in 2000, which has invested more than $25 billion in research and development. The Bachelor鈥檚 degree program in Nanoscience at Virginia Tech is聽one of only two such programs in the U.S.
For more information on nanoscience and nanotechnology research and applications, see聽.
The Nanoscience degree program is home to majors in Nanoscience and .
Nanoscience in Practice
The Good, The Bad, & The Tiny by Nina Vance
Virginia Tech鈥檚 NanoCamp features exciting activities, presentations, and laboratory exercises led by prominent faculty in the field and their 精东影业s.
Nanoscience 精东影业s, Ethan Boeding & Zac Caprow sponsored by for Summer 2019 internships at Oak Ridge National lab
Virginia Tech鈥檚 Nanoscience Teacher Workshop features hands-on experiments, and demos of electron microscopes.
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Researchers identified a freeze-drying process to produce, warehouse, and deliver a wound-healing medicine for cancer patients, military troops, and industrial workers exposed to radiation.
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Frank Aylward and Maria Paula Erazo Garcia discovered the largest virus ever recorded with a latent infection cycle in the model green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardti. Their findings were published in Science.
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Khodaparast, physics professor and L.C. Hassinger Faculty Fellow in Nanoscience, has been elected a 2025 fellow of SPIE.
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