Tag: Philip Demokritou

  • Nation & World

    Disinfecting your hands with ‘magic’

    Harvard researchers have devised what they hope is a better way to disinfect hands, using tiny aerosolized nanodroplets of water and nontoxic disinfectants that not only leave hands sterile, but use so little water the hands stay dry.

    7 minutes
    Nano-enabled platform to clean hands.
  • Nation & World

    At Harvard Chan School, nano safety is no small concern

    Philip Demokritou, director of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Center for Nanotechnology and Nanotoxicology, sat down with the Gazette to talk about the aims of the center, its recent work on novel nanoparticles, and the potential benefits of a safer-by-design approach.

    8 minutes
    Philip Demokritou.