International Institute for Nanotechnology

Announcing the 2025 Kabiller Prize and Award recipients. Three pioneering scientists advancing nanoscience and improving human health. Meet this year’s honorees: bit.ly/Kabiller2025 Hear them speak at the IIN Symposium in October: bit.ly/44jea6F

Cancer. Diagnostics. Programmable materials. One @NorthwesternU breakthrough is shaping it all. #SNAs power cancer drugs and diagnostics at over half the world’s top hospitals—and launched structural #nanomedicine. 🧪💜 #NUChemImpact 🔗 bit.ly/Mirkin-Impact

Chad Mirkin and team show how to build colloidal crystals with intentional defects and cavities using DNA-guided nanoparticle assembly. This strategy could enable new optical, sensing, and catalytic materials. Read it today in Advanced Materials: bit.ly/3Uo2auU

We are proud to celebrate IIN faculty member Mercouri Kanatzidis, who has been awarded the 2025 Albert Einstein World Award of Science by the World Cultural Council. A well-deserved recognition for a truly transformative researcher.

“We just scratched the surface.” After a year as chair of @NUChemistry, Omar Farha returns to Nanoscape to discuss MOFs, sustainability, and the future of nanotechnology. 🎧 New episode is LIVE. Listen at iinano.org/podcast or wherever you get your podcasts.

What are MOFs? Why do they matter? Professor Omar Farha broke it down in one of our most popular Nanoscape episodes — and he’s back tomorrow with more! 🎧 Catch up now: bit.ly/44Tmbzq

Check out our latest article from @NUChemistry and @IINanoNU in @JPhysChem where we discuss how real time density functional tight-binding models can be used to study plasmonics from a more quantum perspective. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Researchers from @TempelaarTeam and @UWMadisonChem found that a centrosymmetric #crystal—once thought incapable of #chirality—can act chiral. This unexpected behavior could lead to new light-controlling tech, from sensors to optical displays. news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025/0…

What does it take to solve gigaton-scale challenges? Professor Vinayak Dravid (@ProfDravid) explains how nanoscience + nature work together in the latest Nanoscape. Listen: iinano.org/podcast or wherever you get your podcasts. #Nanoscience #Sustainability

Structure is the secret. In today’s ACS Nano perspective, Chad Mirkin and a team of scientific leaders explain how carefully engineered nanomedicines could make treatments safer, smarter, and more effective. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

🎧 New Episode! How do you extend the life of organs outside the body? Jarad Mason, Harvard chemist and former @MirkinGroupNU postdoc, shares how nanotech solutions, like oxygen-loaded porous water, change the game. 🔗 iinano.org/podcast or wherever you get your podcasts.

Pushing boundaries at the nanoscale: Join us in celebrating IIN Director Chad Mirkin, recipient of the 2025 Nadrian C. Seeman Nanoscience Prize — honoring a lifetime of innovation at the nanoscale. bit.ly/4jVnnao

A new perspective from Chad Mirkin (@CHADNANO), Milan Mrksich, and Natalie Artzi (@NatalieArtzi) charts a bold future for precision nanomedicine. Out now in Nature Reviews Bioengineering: nature.com/articles/s4422…

What if you could program disorder into a crystal lattice? The Mirkin lab’s (@CHADNANO) latest breakthrough uses DNA to engineer cocrystals with both order and correlated disorder. Now in Science Advances: science.org/doi/full/10.11…

A team led by Professor Vinayak Dravid demonstrated how researchers can pull carbon directly from the air using changes in humidity, now with materials at a fraction of the cost. @nuancecenter | @ProfDravid spr.ly/6013Fs8xb

🎧 New Episode! Roel Tempelaar joins Nanoscape to discuss his quantum research that challenges textbook assumptions — and how jazz piano shaped his approach to science. 🎙️ Listen now: iinano.org/podcast or wherever you get your podcasts. @TempelaarTeam @NUChemistry

Northwestern Engineering Professors John Rogers, Igor Efimov, and Yonggang Huang have created the world's smallest pacemaker—one that is powered by light and dissolves naturally in the body. spr.ly/6010FwjkE