{"id":34550,"date":"2017-02-14T16:46:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T00:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/nasa-and-mit-collaborate-to-develop-space-based-quantum-dot-spectrometer"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:52:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:52:34","slug":"nasa-and-mit-collaborate-to-develop-space-based-quantum-dot-spectrometer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/nasa-and-mit-collaborate-to-develop-space-based-quantum-dot-spectrometer","title":{"rendered":"NASA and MIT Collaborate to develop space-based quantum-dot spectrometer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-and-mit-collaborate-to-develop-space-based-quantum-dot-spectrometer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A NASA technologist has teamed with the inventor of a new nanotechnology that could transform the way space scientists build spectrometers, the all-important device used by virtually all scientific disciplines to measure the properties of light emanating from astronomical objects, including Earth itself.<\/p>\n<p>Mahmooda Sultana, a research engineer at NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, now is collaborating with Moungi Bawendi, a chemistry professor at the Cambridge-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, to develop a prototype imaging spectrometer based on the emerging quantum-dot technology that Bawendi\u2019s group pioneered.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/nasa-and-mit-collaborate-to-develop-space-based-quantum-dot-spectrometer\/\">https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/nasa-and-mit-collaborate-to-develop-...ctrometer\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A NASA technologist has teamed with the inventor of a new nanotechnology that could transform the way space scientists build spectrometers, the all-important device used by virtually all scientific disciplines to measure the properties of light emanating from astronomical objects, including Earth itself. Mahmooda Sultana, a research engineer at NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1617,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48887,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34550\/revisions\/48887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}