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Chemistry

Using Gold Nanoparticles for Bacterial Detection

Subject: Biology, Chemistry, Physics

Audience: High School

This lab is designed to introduce students to gold nanoparticles and some of their applications.

The Blood Glucose Monitor

Subject: Biology, Chemistry

Audience: High School

Students are introduced to glucose monitors, how these biosensors are being improved with naotechnology, and they test glucose levels.

The Effects of Gold and Silver Nanoparticles on Brine Shrimp: A Toxicology Study

Subject: Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science

Audience: High School, Adult

Students will synthesize and prepare serial dilutions of gold and silver nanoparticles in order to determine their individual toxicity on brine shrimp. The brine shrimp are used as a model organism to examine the potential toxicity effects of nanoparticles.

Coffee Break with Nanoscience: Film Formation and "Coffee Rings"

Subject: Chemistry, Physical science

Audience: High School, Adult

This lab explores issues that engineers and scientists face in working with thin film i.e., dealing with two phenomena that work against them: cracking and the coffee ring effect.

Synthesis and Stability of Silver Nanoparticles

Subject: Chemistry

Audience: Adult

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).

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

Subject: Chemistry

Audience: Adult

This lab is designed to help students understand the electro-plating process of growing nanowires.

Small Scale Sculpting

Subject: Chemistry, General Science, Physical science

This is a two part of inquiry-driven labs designed to help students understand the process of patterning materials through selective exposure and development of films.

Small Scale Stenciling

Subject: Chemistry, General Science, Physical science

Audience: Middle School

This is a two part of inquiry-driven labs designed to help students understand the process of patterning materials through selective exposure and development of films.

Making a Liquid Crystal Thermometer

Subject: Chemistry, Physical science

Audience: High School

This lesson is designed to introduce liquid crystals, a fourth state of matter.Students will understand liquid crystals in relation to different phases of matter and learn the process of temperature based color change of the LQs

Nanotechnology Invention and Design: Phase Changes, Energy, and Crystals

Subject: Chemistry

Audience: High School

This lab is designed to help students understand the nanoscale effect of various energy inputs on the crystal lattice of a smart material, Nitinol

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