John McLean

  • Vanderbilt University

    New technique maps twin faces of smallest Janus nanoparticles

    Vanderbilt chemists have developed the first method that can rapidly and accurately map the surfaces of tiny particles that possess two chemically distinct faces. The findings have broad potential applications ranging from drug delivery to video displays. Read More

    Sep 26, 2011

  • Vanderbilt University

    Going underground in search of new drugs

    Every few months, chemist Brian Bachmann sheds his white lab coat, collects his flashlight, helmet, surgical gloves and knotted rope, puts on old clothes and hiking boots and heads to a nearby cave. Bachmann, an assistant professor of chemistry at Vanderbilt, has combined his industrial experience in… Read More

    Feb 1, 2011