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This learning object, created by Barbara Liang of the Wisconsin Online Resource Center, discusses using nanosolutions to purifying water. There are several flash animations on different processes for obtaining this goal.

This glossary is provided by the Nanotechnology Applications and Career Knowledge Support Center (NACK Center) and includes definitions for nanotechnology related terminology. Terms include actin, adsorbate, allowed energies, anisotropic, anneal, antibodies, antigens, assembly, atomic force...

In this lab, presented by the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network, students will "explore how energy exchanges lead to solid-state phase changes at the macroscale and explore the applications of this nanotechnology." Additionally, students will have the opportunity to examine "various...

Teachers' Domain presents this video as part of a series on advanced technological education. This segment shows what goes on in a nanofabrication lab, as well as the basics of the nanotechnology industry. The top-down fabrication process of photolithography is shown, as well as the protective...

This video by Joan Johnson and Josh Rosen discusses the “nanotech boom in Berkeley, where researchers are working to unlock the potential of nanoscience.” The video runs 10:29 minutes in length. 

This page provides animated excerpts from Nobel Prize winning physicist Dr. Richard Feynman's presentation to the American Physical Society Meeting on December 29, 1959 that proposes "...maneuvering things atom by atom." The talk is considered by some to be the birth of nanotechology.

This learning object offers a brief summary of the impact of nanotechnology on automobile tires. Learners look at the future of cars, especially the safety and future of automobile tires.

This lesson, presented by the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network, covers scanning probe microscopes. A scanning probe microscope traces "surface features by movement of a very fine pointed tip mounted on a flexible arm across a surface." Students will experiment with using their index...

This website, hosted by the National Aeronautics Air and Space Administration (NASA), serves as a landing page for the organizations Robotics Alliance Project Mission, which exists "to create a human, technical, and programmatic resource of robotic capabilities to enable the implementation of future...

Although the case method has been used for years to teach law, business, and medicine, it is not common in science. Yet the use of case studies holds great promise as a pedagogical technique for teaching science, particularly to undergraduates, because it humanizes science and well illustrates...