Nanotechnology & materials
William Taylor
Spearheads efforts to commercialize the "plasmatron," a pollution control device that converts diesel fuel to hydrogen, cutting nitrogen oxide emissions by up to 90 percent.
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Darrell Irvine
Crafts nanoparticles that would release chemicals inside the body to "program" immune cells to combat viral infections like HIV, to tolerate transplants, or even to destroy malignant tumors.
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Marcel Bruchez
Cofounded Quantum Dot to market the new imaging tool to biologists and drug developers
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Erik Scher
Works on inorganic semiconductor nanomaterials.
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Selena Chan
Designs nanotechnological tools to detect viruses, bacteria, and, for the first time, single molecules of DNA in medical samples.