How do you become a professor at a research-oriented institution? What is the application like and what steps should you take in your graduate/post-doctoral career to get there? The Center for…

What's so special about benzene? Why CAN benzene form nanothreads when compressed under high pressure? What's special about the nanothread structure? Dr. Roald Hoffmann provides his insight as a…

Dr. Roald Hoffmann relates his journey in chemistry, academia, teaching, and art to CNC graduate students/post-docs.

The Center for Nanothread Chemistry presents Professor Vincent Crespi's discussion on Nanothread discovery.

The Center for Nanothread Chemistry Presents Professor Elizabeth Elacqua's discussion on life as an Assistant Professor.

Here we talk about our Paris-Edinburgh (P.E.) press which we use to synthesize milligram-sized quantities of nanothreads at exceedingly high pressures. (Credit for video and narration:…

A team has, for the first time, discovered how to produce ultra-thin "diamond nanothreads" that promise extraordinary properties, including strength and stiffness greater than that of today's…

For the first time, scientists led by John V. Badding, a professor of chemistry at Penn State Univ., have discovered how to produce ultra-thin "diamond nanothreads" that promise extraordinary…