Nanotechnology is booming. New applications are popping up everywhere, from cancer drug delivery, to solar cells. My favorite part of nanotech is its wide applicability, which is increasingly leading to interdisciplinary research – biologists working with chemists, chemists working with physicists… You get the picture. When the artificial barriers between disciplines come down, all you have is the process of doing science, and you find that what we really have in common is curiosity.

If you’re interested in learning more about nanotechnology, try this link to Northwestern University’s DiscoverNano website. There is nano research going on at Linfield, both in my research group, and in Dr. Crosser’s (Physics), so if you want to get your hands dirty (well, not literally, I hope) you should talk to us.