News & Updates

A recent Chicago Sun-Times article highlights the role of spherical nucleic acids (SNAs), created by IIN Director Chad Mirkin, in creating a pipeline of new … Read More ›

In new LaboratoryEquipment.com article, IIN Director Chad Mirkin explains how SNAs created at Northwestern are leading the next wave of therapeutic treatments, allowing clinicians … Read More ›

Research by IIN Director Chad Mirkin and Amy S. Paller, MD, Chair of Dermatology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, is highlighted in a recent … Read More ›

IN researchers discover new approach to creating affordable, high-powered catalysts to aid in clean energy conversion and storage. Method could lead to new optical … Read More ›

The “transformative” contributions to chemistry and nanotechnology of Teri Odom, IIN Associate Director and the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry at … Read More ›

Teri W. Odom, IIN Assoc. Director and the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Prof. of Chemistry at Northwestern, was named one of three … Read More ›

Pittcon TV speaks to Chad Mirkin, recipient of the Ralph Adam’s award, and Shana Kelley, from the University of Toronto, to talk about the meaning … Read More ›

Chad A. Mirkin will receive the 2018 Harrison Howe Award from the Rochester Section of the American Chemical Society (ACS).

Mirkin, the director of the … Read More ›

IIN Director Chad Mirkin received the Ralph N. Adams Award on February 28, 2018 at Pittcon, the premier annual conference and exposition on laboratory … Read More ›

A new Northwestern technique for constructing metamaterials “is a breakthrough in particle architecture,” says Chad Mirkin in a Big Ten Network Live article.

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Chad Mirkin and Chinese Academy of Sciences Professor Lei Jiang have been named recipients of the prestigious 2018 Nano Research Award.

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At TheNation.com:

Sir Fraser Stoddart is hoping to revolutionize the mining industry with a new technique for extracting gold that does away with poisonous … Read More ›

At Newsweek.com:

“In a huge achievement spanning both chemistry and physics, scientists have found a way to create entirely new classes of material that can bend oncoming … Read More ›

Northwestern Professor Emily A. Weiss will receive the 2018 Early-Career Award in Experimental Physical Chemistry from the Physical Chemistry Division of the American Chemical … Read More ›

IIN Director Chad A. Mirkin received the 2017 Nano Today Award for his pioneering research on spherical nucleic acids: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/nano-today/news/nano-today-award-2017-winner-announced. The award was … Read More ›

An international team led by Northwestern Chemistry Professor Nathan Gianneschi demonstrated that liquid-cell transmission electron microscopy can directly image the motion of micelles at the nanoscale … Read More ›

In honor of Madam Curie’s 150th birthday on November 7th, The Journal of Physical Chemistry (JPC) published an article recognizing her as the first female author … Read More ›

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY – The International Institute for Nanotechnology invites applications for a tenure-line faculty position at the level of Associate or Full Professor commencing as … Read More ›

Northwestern Professor Teri Odom is one of three 2017 ACS Nano Lectureship Award winners, along with Professor Hui-Ming Cheng of the Shenyang National Laboratory … Read More ›

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2017/february/podcast-his-bonds-transformed-science/

We are very pleased to announce that Nathan C. Gianneschi, a world-class nanomaterials researcher, will join Northwestern University as the Jacob & Rosaline Cohn … Read More ›

Congratulations to Chad A. Mirkin, this year’s recipient of the Dickson Prize in Science! Last week, Professor Mirkin visited Carnegie Mellon University to accept the … Read More ›

The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation has selected Northwestern University as one of the 11 recipients of the 2017 Beckman Scholars Program Award. The Beckman … Read More ›

Thank you President Obama for your service, and for acknowledging the great work at the International Institute for Nanotechnology!

President Barack Obama honored four members of Northwestern faculty with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers earlier this month.

Mechanical engineer Sinan … Read More ›

Our Nobel Laureate, Sir Fraser Stoddart, was given the key to the city during the Evanston City Council Meeting on January 9, 2017. He … Read More ›

This Administration’s final meeting of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) was held on January 6, 2017 in Washington, D.C.

An … Read More ›

The application deadline for the summer REU program is fast approaching! For more information, including a link to an application, visit: http://www.iinano.org/northwestern-university-nanotechnology-reu.

Congratulations to Chad A. Mirkin, this year’s recipient of the Dickson Prize in Science!

Read more about the award and Professor Mirkin here: http://www.cmu.edu/dickson-prize/.

We share, with great pride, images of Sir Fraser Stoddart in Stockholm this week for the Nobel Prize … Read More ›

Join us online early tomorrow (Thursday) morning at 4:00 a.m. (11:00 a.m. CET) for a live stream as Northwestern’s Sir Fraser Stoddart joins Jean-Pierre Sauvage … Read More ›

http://www.iinano.org/northwestern-university-nanotechnology-reu

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2016/12/photo-president-obama-fraser-stoddart-white-house-nobel-day

http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/53137/20161129/low-cost-wearable-lab-on-the-skin-patch-monitors-health-through-sweat.htm

https://digitallearning.northwestern.edu/article/2016/11/17/video-making-experts

http://www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=45211.php

http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/nanotechnology-chad-mirkin-northwestern-seeking-medical-cancer-cures-with-tiny-spherical-nucleic-acids-sunday-sitdown/

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2016/11/couples-podcast-second-chance-encounter/

Chad A. Mirkin has been awarded the 2016 RUSNANOPRIZE for his invention of spherical nucleic acids (SNAs), tiny structures used around the globe for … Read More ›

Monica Olvera de la Cruz selected to receive the 2017 Polymer Physics Prize for her “outstanding contributions to the theoretical understanding of polymers and … Read More ›

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EVANSTON – Sir Fraser Stoddart, Board of Trustees Professor of Chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at … Read More ›