Teaching Materials (141-160 of 168)

1. Wet Etching in Nanofabrication

   Teaching Materials | 11 Jan 2017 | Contributor(s):: Manuel Casillas, NNCI Nano

   This lab will help students understand how chemical reactions are used to create the specific shapes on surfaces of crystalline materials, which make up functional components within electronics. The fabrication of electronic devices is now reaching into the nanoscale with the capability of more...

2. Help or Hype: The Ethics of Bio-nanotechnology

   Teaching Materials | 11 Jan 2017 | Contributor(s):: Samantha Andrews, NNCI Nano

   This lesson explores the ethical concerns related to bio-nanotechnology. Bio-nanotechnology is the application of nanotechnology to living things. This ranges from the creation of pharmaceuticals to medical devices. While scientists have created many life-saving treatments ethical concerns,...

3. Mixtures and Nanotechnology

   Teaching Materials | 11 Jan 2017 | Contributor(s):: Joyce Palmer Allen, NNCI Nano

   The purpose of this unit is to help students make the connection that the classification of mixtures is based on the size of particles. This connects to two of the Big Ideas in Nanoscale Science and Engineering (Stevens, Sutherland, and Krajick 2009). ...

4. Silver Nanoparticle Synthesis, Spectroscopy, and Bacterial Growth

   Teaching Materials | 11 Jan 2017 | Contributor(s):: Pennsylvania State University, NNCI Nano

   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...

5. Introduction to Creative Problem Solving in Nanotechnology

   Teaching Materials | 10 Jan 2017 | Contributor(s):: Joseph Nunn, NNCI Nano

   This lesson serves as an introduction to the field of nanotechnology by discussing its real-world implications in light of current economic issues and conditions.  The lesson is performed using the Creative Problem-Solving format and serves as a method to encourage debate on current topics.

6. Silver Nanoparticle Socks

   Teaching Materials | 10 Jan 2017 | Contributor(s):: Pennsylvania State Univeristy, NNCI Nano

   This lab will allow students to use the pure silver nanoparticles they synthesize to create antibacterial socks. They will compare their socks with socks that have been treated with a commercial silver spray, socks that have been treated in a factory, and a control that was not been...

7. Small Scale Sculpting

   Teaching Materials | 09 Jan 2017 | Contributor(s):: Marilyn Garza, NNCI Nano

   This lab is analogous with some nanofabrication processes. This lab will help students understand some of the challenges encountered while making semiconductor chips and waveguides, both of which are found in electronic circuits.

8. Small Scale Stenciling

   Teaching Materials | 09 Jan 2017 | Contributor(s):: Marilyn Garza, NNCI Nano

   This lab is analogous with some nanofabrication processes. This lab will help students understand some of the challenges encountered while making semiconductor chips and waveguides, both of which are found in electronic circuits.

9. Making a Liquid Crystal Thermometer

   Teaching Materials | 09 Jan 2017 | Contributor(s):: Rano Sidhu, NNCI Nano

   Liquid crystals are matter that has properties between those of a liquid and a solid. Liquid crystals may flow like a liquid but have crystals like a solid.colors of the objects are Color is the outcome of various light properties: absorption, refraction, or reflection. In the case of liquid...

10. Is Measuring an Art or a Science?

    Teaching Materials | 09 Jan 2017 | Contributor(s):: Monica Hochstein, NNCI Nano

    Nanotechnology occurs on the scale of 1-100 nanometers (in one direction). There have been numerous predictions about the growth in nanotechnology production and its impact on  manufacturing in the near future. Manufacturing and commercial exchange of nano products will create a need for...

11. Powers of Ten with the Blue Morpho Butterfly

    Teaching Materials | 09 Jan 2017 | Contributor(s):: Nancy Healy, Marilyn Garza, NNCI Nano

    This activity is designed to help students understand the concept of scale and magnification when examining a Blue Morpho butterfly wing. The activity requires the use of a scanning electron microscope (SEM) but images are provided if there is no access to an SEM.

12. Seeing Nano: Using Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) to View Nano-size Objects

    Teaching Materials | 02 Dec 2016 | Contributor(s):: Samantha Andrews, NNCI Nano

    Nano-size objects are smaller than the wavelength of light and because of this they cannot be viewed with a light microscope.  Special tools are needed to see nanoscale objects, one of which is the scanning electron microscope. This activity will have students explore the types of images...

13. Electro-deposition of Copper on a Filter Template for Growing Nanowires

    Teaching Materials | 02 Dec 2016 | Contributor(s):: Francis Nguyen, NNCI Nano

    This lab is designed to help students understand the electro-plating process of growing nanowires. This experiment will use an electro-plating process to transfer metal ions in a solution to a template to produce nanowires. The electric field in the solution carries these ions and deposits them...

14. How Dry am I? Exploring Biomimicry and Nanotechnology

    Teaching Materials | 01 Dec 2016 | Contributor(s):: Elizabeth Davenport, Nancy Healy, NNCI Nano

    Through a series of activities, students will explore superhydrophobic properties of materials. This inquiry based lesson leads them through activities that has them compare and contrast physical properties of superhydrophobic coated materials with uncoated materials. In the process they will...

15. Synthesis and Stability of Silver Nanoparticles

    Teaching Materials | 01 Dec 2016 | Contributor(s):: Brandi Childress, NNCI Nano

     The purpose of this experiment is to conduct synthesis of silver nanoplates and explore their shape stability that affects optical property (referred to as localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR). Students will learn about the differences in physical properties and behavior at the...

16. An Easy (Bake) Approach to an Edible NanoLab

    Teaching Materials | 01 Dec 2016 | Contributor(s):: Joseph Nunn, NNCI Nano

    The purpose of the lesson is to get young students interested in basic nanotechnology  concepts associated with creating “wafers” used in chip fabrication in cleanrooms.  Cleanrooms are used to make nanoscale devices with the most common ones being chips used in electronic...

17. Using Modeling to Demonstrate Self-Assembly in Nanotechnology

    Teaching Materials | 01 Dec 2016 | Contributor(s):: Rocquel Stanley, NNCI Nano

    There are two activities in this lesson, the Fly Prison and the Water Maze.  The Fly Prison is a hands-on modeling activity designed to introduce students to the area of nanotechnology and give them a basic understanding of how researchers build very small devices by the self-assembly of...

18. Uncertainty Measurements and the Wavelength of Light

    Teaching Materials | 28 Oct 2016 | Contributor(s):: Chris Kaus, NNCI Nano

    This high school physics lesson is designed to help students understand how very small measurements can be made (even at the nanoscale) and how the accuracy of those measurements affects their results. In this lab, students will calculate the wavelength of a laser (on the nanoscale) using...

19. Silicon Solar Cell Efficiency: Comparing Input Power to Output Power of a Silicon Photovoltaic Cell

    Teaching Materials | 28 Oct 2016 | Contributor(s):: Oskar Cymerman, NNCI Nano

    This lesson is designed to help students find a measure of a solar cell’s power conversion efficiency, by studying output power (Pout) of a silicon PV cell and comparing it to the input power (Pin) of incandescent light bulbs illuminating the PV from a set distance. In this activity,...

20. Using Gold Nanoparticles for Bacterial Detection

    Teaching Materials | 28 Oct 2016 | Contributor(s):: Michael L. Falk, NNCI Nano

    This lab is designed to introduce students to gold nanoparticles and some of their applications. Students will create gold nanoparticles (GNPs) and learn the potential disease detection uses of GNPs, conduct research on modifying GNPs to be specific to other molecules, and complete a simulation...