Students will learn about the differences in physical propoerties at the nanoscale as compared to the same materials at the macroscale. The students will demonstrate the appropriate use of a spectrophotometer and will convert between different units of measurement. This unit assists students in working with scale and unit conversion.

Developed by the Georgia Institute of Technology NNIN RET Program.

This lesson was developed with support of the National Science Foundation, NNIN and the NNIN RET Program.

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Pennsylvania State University, NNCI Nano (2017), "Silver Nanoparticle Synthesis, Spectroscopy, and Bacterial Growth," https://nanohub.org/resources/25654.

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1. characterization
2. chemistry
3. high school
4. K-12
5. material properties
6. nanoparticles
7. NNCI Educational Materials
8. silver nanoparticles
9. size and scale
10. Spectroscopy
11. synthesis