Question: What made you go in to researching in to nanoparticles

Eliza Hunt answered on 11 Dec 2020:

Thanks for your question Fhahim! Before my PhD I didn’t know much about nanoparticles, and didn’t have much experience of working with them.

In the first ‘training’ year of my PhD, lots of academics pitched project ideas to us, and one of them involved using nanoparticles for drug delivery. I thought the project looked really interesting, the nanoparticles used in the project include quantum dots and carbon dots – the cool thing about these nanoparticles is that they are both really fluorescent – this webpage tells you a bit more about fluorescence. https://kids.kiddle.co/Fluorescence#:~:text=Fluorescence%20is%20the%20light%20given,is%20a%20form%20of%20luminescence.

I liked the idea of working with these materials, and doing some other types of chemistry alongside this.