Nanoscience Newsletter – Winter 2020
Posted on December 1, 2020 in Nanoscience Initiative
Get caught up on recent news and achievements from the Nanoscience Initiative. […]
Tracking the Big Promise of Tiny Materials
Posted on November 23, 2020 in ASRC News, Nanoscience Initiative
A study from the the lab of Rein Ulijn, director of the Nanoscience Initiative, demonstrates a new way to visualize nanostructures made of short peptide sequences. […]
Natural Pigments Inspire Scientists to Create Novel Conductors for Biodegradable Electronics
Posted on November 12, 2020 in ASRC News, Nanoscience Initiative
Rein Ulijn, Director of the ASRC Nanoscience Initiative, is among a team of researchers who have created a new, melanin-inspired pigmented fibers for use in bioelectronics and energy storage. […]
CUNY Undergrads Get a Taste of Interdisciplinary Research Culture at the ASRC
Posted on November 6, 2020 in ASRC News
ASRC faculty, Ph.D. students, undergrads and high school interns joined forces for a summer of research that aims to advance treatment of spinal cord injuries. […]
Can Satellites Save a Forest?
Posted on October 30, 2020 in ASRC News, Environmental Sciences Initiative, Featured News
What do you do when there are tiny bugs destroying a critical species across a huge, economically important region? You turn to outer space for help. And researchers from the ASRC are leading the way. […]
Empowering New Yorkers to Scientifically Monitor Our Environment
Posted on September 17, 2020 in ASRC News, Environmental Sciences Initiative
A new project at the ASRC helps diverse students and New York City residents create low-cost environmental sensors and become advocates for a cleaner, healthier city. […]
A Novel ‘Human Experiment’: Professor Dianne Greenfield Studies How the Shutdown Has Affected the Waters of Long Island Sound
Posted on September 15, 2020 in ASRC News, Environmental Sciences Initiative, Featured News
Their effort is part of a year-long study, funded by a National Science Foundation (NSF) Rapid Response Research (RAPID) grant, of how stay-at-home orders and the unprecedented decline in commuting and travel in the New York City metropolitan area affected the waters of Long Island Sound. […]
New Study Finds Two Amino Acids Are the Marie Kondo of Molecular Liquid Phase Separation
Posted on September 15, 2020 in ASRC News, Structural Biology Initiative
The discovery advances a novel area of cell biology and provides important clues about causes of cellular disfunction and disease […]
Researchers Create Morphing Crystals Powered by Water Evaporation
Posted on September 14, 2020 in ASRC News, Featured News, Nanoscience Initiative
New study details the molecular-level design of materials that enable clean and sustainable water evaporation energy to be harvested and efficiently converted into motion, with the potential to power future mechanical devices and machines. […]
CUNY ASRC Researchers to Help Launch NSF Center for the Mechanical Control of Chemistry
Posted on August 4, 2020 in ASRC News, Nanoscience Initiative
The multi-institution team will explore novel methods of chemical synthesis through mechanochemistry […]