Click Your Nanoparticles

Click your way to student engagement.

“Teaching Techniques” discusses issues of concern to educators. The primary focus of the column is innovative and interesting approaches to teaching. The standard lecture is a timehonored tradition in academia. It can be an effective and efficient way to convey factual knowledge and key concepts in medical imaging education. However, it is not without shortcomings. A lack of student interaction...

Do nanoparticles in liquorice damage your heart?

Your click decides your fate: Inferring Information Processing and Attrition Behavior from MOOC Video Clickstream Interactions

In this work, we explore video lecture interaction in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), which is central to student learning experience on these educational platforms. As a research contribution, we operationalize video lecture clickstreams of students into cognitively plausible higher level behaviors, and construct a quantitative information processing index, which can aid instructors to be...

Catalytically efficient palladium nanoparticles stabilized by "click" ferrocenyl dendrimers.

1,2,3-Ferrocenyl triazole ligands generated by click reactions in dendrimers bind Pd(OAc)2 with a systematic one-to-one stoichiometry as monitored by titration using the ferrocenyl redox sensor attached to the triazole ring, and the dendritic PdII complexes formed are best reduced by methanol to form palladium nanoparticles of designed types and sizes that show excellent efficiency and selectiv...

Design of liquid-crystalline gold nanoparticles by click chemistry.

Mesomorphic alkyne-based first- and second-generation dendrons were grafted onto gold nanoparticles carrying azide groups under click reaction conditions. The nanoparticles decorated with the dendrons displayed liquid-crystalline properties and good thermal stability.