I bid you hello from Rivendell II. I’m just taking a minute to document a bit of our successful effort to reverse-engineer what the AOU did to both Thodkin and myself.
Probing behavior at the nanometer/molecular scale affects nearly every endeavor involving nanotechnology. Breakthroughs here allowed us to gear up newly funded labs for primary scientific research as well as engineering teams working toward various manufacturing objectives. We’ve been able to fully determine environmental impact, and evaluate toxicity by manipulating and characterizing structures beyond our previous capabilities. A new generation of local probes of molecular function combine optical/electrical/magnetic signals to access dynamic phenomena. Some know this as the ‘Cross Cutting Initiative ‘ for which we brought together some of our ‘super-brights’ to develop nanoscale measurement tools that have produced the next wave of innovation in probes of molecular function. We’ve enabled many research teams within RII with our success.
Combining approaches for probing single molecule properties helped with realizing synergies of collaborations across a diverse set of fields. Successes include the development of new scanning probe microscopies, combining atomic force microscopy and fluorescence, approaches to 3-D analysis in polarization-resolved total internal reflectance and improved optical tomography. Of course, other successes cannot be revealed.
I’m sorry if this is too brief…
M.
