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Michael E. Mackay |
Professor of Chemical Engineering |
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"Nobody believes a theory, except the person who
did it. Everyone believes an experiment, except the person who did it." This quote is attributed to Albert Einstein and
perfectly describes the angst of an experimentalist… |
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Welcome
to www.nanoeverything.com
Department of Chemical
Engineering & Materials Science Adjunct
Professor Department of Physics and Astronomy East Lansing, MI,
48824, USA Telephone (517) 432-4495 (department 355-5135) E-mail mackay@egr.msu.edu Fax (517) 432-1105
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Research Synopsis (words) or Research Synopsis (picture) We have a NIRT, check it out at NIRTeam.com. How big is a nanometer? Click here
to find out. Click
the NanotechKids
link to see Prof. Mackay's talk on nanotechnology to elementary school
children. There were many questions, all of them very good. See
my talk at the IPPSR
on Nanotechnology and energy OK, by popular demand here's the video
of our lab! (Careful its 18.2 MB in size, so, you really have to want to see
it....) If you don't want to view the video here's a schematic of our laboratories. Directions to my office Link to ChE 891/2 – Experimental methods in nanotechnology I teach a course on Nanoscale Characterization, click here to
learn more |
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Was Einstein wrong? Read our paper
in Nature Materials to see if he was! (Nature Materials 2, 762–766 (2003)) Also see the "views" in Nature
and Nature
Materials. Was Stokes wrong? Read our paper in
Nano Letters where we find that
nanoparticles diffuse on the order of 100 times faster than predicted by the
Stokes-Einstein relation! (Nano Letters
ASAP web Release (2007)) Last updated 31
January 2007 |
OK, now was Flory wrong? Read our paper
in Science where we show that any
nanoparticle can be dispersed in a polymer as long as a couple of rules are
followed. (Science 311, 1740-1743
(2006)) Were we wrong? Read
our paper in
Nano Letters where we show that even
though nanoparticles are soluble in bulk polymers they strongly segregate to
interfaces when in a thin film and self assemble into unique structures. (Nano
Letters 7, 484-489 (2007)) Also see the “News and
Views” in Nature Materials (Nature Materials 6,
260-261 (2007)) |
“nanotechnology” written in binary is 01101110 01100001 01101110 01101111 01110100 01100101
01100011 01101000 01101110 01101111 01101100 01101111 01100111 01111001, humans
seem smarter than this….
