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Savannah, GA—The Department of Chemistry and Physics at Armstrong Atlantic State University has received a $100,000 National Science Foundation grant that will allow the university to implement the concept of nanotechnology throughout all levels of the chemistry curriculum. Investigators for the grant were AASU's Delana Nivens (assisant professor of chemistry), Will Lynch (associate professor of chemistry) and Ron Williams (professor of chemistry). "Nanotechnology
is a new and still emerging field of chemistry that takes advantages
of the special properties of matter when their sizes become very small,"
said Lynch. "Chemistry
and other science students will be initiated to the vast, novel, and
interdisciplinary nature of nanomaterials." Lynch
says there are many medical applications where nanoparticles containing
drug delivery systems are being designed for specific targets such as
cancer cells. This summer
the investigators are developing laboratories that will introduce this
expanding and exciting field to undergraduate students and faculty.
The grant is providing funding for summer salaries and the equipment
and supplies needed for the laboratories. June 2, 2003
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