"MEANWHILE, in South Korea, Turkish chemist Cafer T. Yavuz is designing new materials from oxide and organic building blocks to address environmental challenges. Yavuz represented Turkey in 1997 in Montreal and in 1998 in Melbourne, Australia, winning a silver and bronze medal, respectively. He is now an assistant professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science Technology (KAIST).

International Group Meeting on Environmental Applications of Microbial-Nanomaterial Interactions between KAIST and UCLA January 19, 2011 - The research groups of Shaily Mahendra, PhD, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering at UCLA and Cafer T. Yavuz, PhD, assistant professor, Graduate School of Energy, Environment, Water, and Sustainability of KAIST are holding a videoconference today at the California NanoSystems Institute. The two groups will discuss current and future research in order to stimulate collaborative research in the areas of environmental and biological applications of novel materials. The Institute for the NanoCentury at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has had a Memorandum of Understanding with CNSI to cooperate on research since 2008.

Discovery's Science Channel had our nano rust project covered in their "Nano water" episode along with MIT's Francesco Stellacci's nano sponges that soak up spills. Click the following link to view the video:http://science.discovery.com/videos/brink-package-nano-water.html

Finding me from the blog post I wrote in May, Times Higher Education included my comments in their story about the recent Elsevier spam email. Click here to read the full story. It starts like this: 24 July 2008 By Chloe Stothart Spam messages calling for research papers could lead to loss of personal details, says Chloe Stothart Most e-mail frauds are concerned with selling fake Viagra or persuading people to send their bank details to a beleaguered, fictional politician on the other side of the world. But, in a new development, the fraudsters now want your research papers.

The Esquire magazine selected our rust and edible oil method for making magnetite nanocrystals as one of the "Six Ideas That Will Change The World". Listed as the 3rd, it was dubbed "The Pollution Magnet". The article appeared in their "BEST & BRIGHTEST 2007" section. The others ideas are: Breaking Down the Firewall by the Citizen Lab (UToronto) Electronic Skin by Stéphanie Lacour (Princeton) Machines That Fix Themselves by Hod Lipson Burying Our CO2 by Kurt Zenz House (Harvard) The Next Plastic by Geoffrey Coates (Cornell)

In a Forbes/Wolfe Nanotech Report (on 12.27.06, 8:30 AM ET), Josh Wolfe listed our work as one of the "Top Five Nanotech Breakthroughs Of 2006" under the title "Nanomagnets to clean up drinking water". Click here to view the article.