
The Esquire magazine selected our rust and edible oil method for making magnetite nanocrystals as one of the "
Six Ideas That Will Change The World". Listed as the 3rd, it was dubbed "The Pollution Magnet". The article appeared in their "BEST & BRIGHTEST 2007" section.
The others ideas are:
Breaking Down the Firewall by the Citizen Lab (UToronto)
Electronic Skin by Stéphanie Lacour (Princeton)
Machines That Fix Themselves by Hod Lipson
Burying Our CO
2 by Kurt Zenz House (Harvard)
The Next Plastic by Geoffrey Coates (Cornell)