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Nanotechnology For Students
Jim Mason, Executive Director
Oklahoma Nanotechnology Initiative
[email protected]
405-272-4420
www.oknano.com
The next “Big Thing” is very, very, very
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“Nanotechnology is an enabling
technology that will change the
nature of almost every humanmade object in the next century.”
-National Science and Technology Council -2000
This means… anything manufactured in Oklahoma will be
impacted by nanotechnology and it is happening more
quickly than most people might think!
WHAT IS NANOTECHNOLOGY?
Nanotechnology is the
manipulation of matter
at the nanometer*
scale to create novel
structures, devices and
systems.
Structures
(e.g.materials)
Devices
(e.g. sensors)
* 1 millimeter = 1,000 micrometers;
1 micrometer = 1,000 nanometers
Source: "Nanotech: The Tiny Revolution" by CMP Científica (November 2001)
Systems
(e.g. NEMS)
Nanotechnology …
• is already making today’s products:
– Lighter
– Stronger
– Faster
– Smaller
– More Durable
HOW SMALL
•Nanobatteries are
200 nm in diameter
2 billion could fit on
the surface of a nickel
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• Rice University NanoKids
• The NanoKids program is an educational
program headed by a Rice University
professor. The Web site includes a story
with NanoKids as the main characters. It
also includes fun activities for teachers to
use in teaching nanotechnology.
www.nanokids.rice.edu
Nanozone
• This is a great Web site for teachers to
use in educating children about
nanotechnology. The Web site has a link
for teacher resources that includes previsit and post-visit activities and
worksheets. The Web site also includes
videos, puzzles and games.
• www.nanozone.org
NASA’s Web site
• NASA’s Web site features a page that
explores the idea of nanotechnology. The
Web site includes a gallery of images,
diagrams, Power Point presentations and
videos. This could possibly be used for
middle school students, but definitely for
high school students.
• www.ipt.arc.nasa.gov/nanotechnology.htm
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• You Tube
• Excellent
UC Berekely Excellent
Nanobots
Nanomedicine
Richard Feyman
• USDA www.csrees.usda.gov/newsroom/partners/
21/nanotechnology.html
• Exploring the Nanoworld
National Cancer Institute
Nanomission
Nanotechnology for Students video
• http://www.oknano.com/video/Nanotechnol
ogy for Students.wmv
Videos
• “When Things Get Small”
• This is a 27-minute video covering many
important nanotechnology concepts in a
humorous and entertaining way.
www.ucsd.tv/getsmall
• “The NANO Revolution”
• Educators may request a free DVD copy of this
introductory video about nanotechnology aimed
at middle and high school students.
www.mrsec.virginia.edu
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More videos
• “Nanotechnology: What is it?”
• This short 1-minute video has a young boy and girl who
quickly introduce the concept of nanotechnology.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=2iSE6XlFXhA
• "The Twinkie Guide to Nanotechnology"
The Twinkie Guide to Nanotechnology is an entertaining
new video featuring scientist Andrew Maynard which
mixes the iconic American snack cake with humor to
unlock the mysteries of nanotechnology.
Printed Material
• "Big Things from a Tiny World"
12 page booklet from the National
Nanotechnology Initiative
Click here to view publication
Games
• “Nanoquest”
• A free, downloadable game where the player is shrunk to
so small that they find themselves in a “nanoworld.”, this
game is aimed at getting 13- to 15-year-old children
interested in nanotechnology. www.nanoquest.ie
• “NanoMission”
• This educational online game educates students on the
basics of nanotechnology. You must register before you
are allowed to download the game.
www.nanomission.org
Lessons for Teachers
• “What is Smaller than a Pygmy Shrew?”
• This lesson plan is from the University of Wisconsin and
designed to help middle school students better
understand the atomic world and the size, scale and
structure of objects in it. www.mrsec.wisc.edu
• “Ferrofluid: Nanomedicine”
• Middle school students will work together to explore
different methods of drug delivery, specifically focusing
on the possibilities of how cancer could be treated in the
future. www.mrsec.wisc.edu/Edetc/IPSE/educators
• “Giant Magnetoresistance”
• Students will participate in a hands-on activity where the
concepts of nanotechnology and GMR will be
introduced. This program is tailored for middle school
students. www.mrsec.wisc.edu/Edetc/IPSE/educators
• “Nanoarchitecture: Forms of Carbon”
• This is a two-day activity where students will discover
how the properties of materials change when atoms are
connected in different ways. This program is also aimed
at middle school students.
www.mrsec.wisc.edu/Edetc/IPSE/educators
Economic impact of nanotechnology
Market Size Predictions
(within six years)
$340B/yr Materials
$300B/yr Electronics
$180B/yr Pharmaceuticals
$100B/yr Chemical manufacture
$ 70B/yr Aerospace
$ 20B/yr Tools
$ 30B/yr Improved healthcare
$ 45B/yr Sustainability
$1 Trillion, growing to
$2.6 Trillion by 2014
*Estimates by industry groups, source: NSF and
LUX
So what does this have to do with me?
• The real winners in nanotechnology will be the
companies who adopt nano processes to improve their
existing and emerging products.
• In 2006, the Oklahoma legislature decided to leapfrog
over other states and help Oklahoma companies be
among the first to gain this competitive advantage by
creating the Oklahoma Nanotechnology Sharing
Incentive Act.
• In two years, Oklahoma has grown from 6 companies
involved in applications of nanotechnology to nearly 50
companies who are planning to utilize nanotechnology
for their products.
ONI VISION
• “Oklahoma companies
are world leaders in
creating new and
improved products
thorough applications of Nanotechnology.”
• Since 2006 we have grown from six identified
companies involved in nanotechnology to nearly
50 companies
The Nanotech Report
• Nanotechnology was incorporated into more
than $30 billion worth of manufactured goods in
2005, and this figure is projected to grow
exponentially to more than $2.6 trillion in global
manufactured goods by 2014.
• There are more than 1,000 nanotechnology
products currently on the market aimed at
improving consumers’ lives and another 400
products that include nano instruments and test
devices.
Nano shirt, slacks, tie, tennis racket, odor/ bacteria eliminating socks, nano
car wax, and 2004 Chevy Impala with nano enhanced side panels.
Products Anticipated
• 2004-7
burn and wound dressings, water filtration devices,
paints, cosmetics, coatings, lubricants, textiles, memory/storage
devices
• 2008-10 – medical diagnostics, displays, sensors, drug delivery,
composite materials, solid state lighting, bio-materials, nano arrays,
more powerful computers, protective armor, chem-bio suits, and
chem-bio sensors
• 2011-15
-- nanobiomaterials, microprocessors, new catalysts,
portable energy cells, solar cells, tissue/organ regeneration, smart
implants
• 2016 and beyond – molecular circuitry, quantum computing,
new materials, fast chemical analyses
Oklahoma Nano Legislation
• The 2006 Oklahoma Nanotechnology Sharing
Incentive Act established the Oklahoma
Nanotechnology Applications Project (ONAP)
which provides $2 million to OCAST to be used
to promote and provide incentives to further
“applications of nanotechnology”.
• 26 Oklahoma companies shared ideas through
white papers on how they would seek to
incorporate nanotechnology into their existing or
emerging products. The first five winners were:
Access Optics
•Access Optics makes the
lens for endoscopes and
other medical devices.
•The ONAP program allowed
them to develop a much
better glass-to-metal seal
using nanotechnology.
•They are the only
company in the world who
solved this problem and will
soon make the entire medical
device.
Martin Bionics/OrthoCare Innovations
Martin Bionics was funded
to develop a dry prosthetic
device using a superhydrophobic powder
exclusively licensed from
Oak Ridge National Labs
They are the only prosthetic
company who may have
solved this industry
problem.
Rupture Pin Technologies
Rupture Pin Technologies, manufacturers oil and
gas pressure relief valves
and is solving an o-ring
blow-out problem using a
new o-ring design and
Carbon nanotubes to provide
strength and flexibility. This
will allow them to become a
world leader in this industry.
High Quality, High Volume Carbon Nanotubes
• Southwest NanoTechnologies is fast
becoming the world
leader in high quality,
high volume, lower cost
carbon nanotubes using
an patented scalable
process that will allow
them to produce kilotons
rather than kilograms of
high quality carbon
nanotubes.
Carbon Nanotubes
• A single-walled
carbon nanotube
(SWNT) is unique
among solid state
materials in that
every atom is on
the surface.
• Structurally, carbon
nanotubes are 100 times
stronger than steel and
can conduct electricity
better than copper.
Carbon Nanotube Composites
• Nano Ridge Materials
has developed a
carbon nanotube
strengthened
composite that is 70%
stronger than metal
and 40% the weight.
• This very strong
composite has
potential for aircraft
replacement parts.
XetaComp
• XetaComp (Lawton)
manufactures nanoparticles of
titanium dioxide that enables the
production of a “clear”, nongreasy, non-oily sunscreen
called SunVex.
• Their nanoparticles may soon be
in many other skin care products.
2008 ONAP Awardees
• Four companies and four proof-of-concept
awarded a total of $1.5 million this month
• XetaComp Technologies – new personal
care products
• IMTEC - Dental Implant research
• EKIPS – Nano laser for Breathmeter
• Charlesson – Optic treatments with nanoparticles
Aerogel: the world’s lightest solid
Aerogel is an ultra-low density solid, a gel in which the liquid
component has been replaced with gas. Nicknamed “frozen
smoke”, aerogel has a content of just 5% solid and 95% air,
and is said to be the lightest weight solid in the world.
Despite its lightness, aerogel can support over 2,000 times
its own weight. One of the
current applications is as
insulation for space suits.
Insulation
• Nanoscale materials hold great promise as
insulators because of their extremely high
surface-to-volume ratio. This gives them the
ability to trap still air within a material layer of
minimal thickness. Insulating nanomaterials
may be sandwiched between rigid panels,
applied as thin films, or painted on as coatings.
• Pioneer Builders (of Drumright) now offers
Nanosulate spray-on insulation with an
equivalent r-value of 50.
ARC Outdoors –Broken Arrow
• ARC Outdoors utilizes nano silver in
making cloth for special purposes and
currently has a line of anti-microbial
clothing for hunters because the nano
silver cloth eliminates odor/scent. These
clothes are sold through Bass Pro Shops,
Cabalas and some Wal-Mart stores.
• ARC is working on developing a line of
hospital uniforms that also will be antimicrobial.
Nano Cable
• Nano Ridge Material and • The technology is based on
Boeing (Long beach) are
carbon nanotubes which
partners on a $5.75 million
conduct greater amounts of
Advanced Technology
electric current than copper
Program to develop Nano
while having only 1/6th the
Cable by 2010. Nano
weight.
Cable is a lightweight,
highly conductive, electrical • By 2010, the market for
wire and cable that could
conductive polymer cable
bring significant gains in
is expected to be 465
fuel savings, energy
million lbs per year, worth
efficiency and operating
$1.4 billion annually.
costs.
Nano Coatings
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Self-cleaning
Scratch-resistant
Anti-icing and anti-fogging
Antimicrobial
UV protection
Corrosion-resistant
Waterproofing
Anti Stain Coatings
• In 2002, Eddie Bauer apparel became the
first brand to employ Nano-Tex stain
resistance technology in its designs.
Nano-Tex has now expanded to bring
stain resistance to fabrics and other
interior finishes. Nano-Tex uses a process
that bonds to each fiber, making textiles
last longer, retain their natural feel and
breathe normally.
Behr Paints Offers NanoGuard
• Behr’s best line of paint uses
nanoparticles to provide a long lasting,
anti-fade, more durable house paint that
also prevents mildew.
Automotive Paint – Mercedes-Benz
• The 2007 MercedesBenz SL series cars
sport a protective
coating of
nanoparticles that
provides a three-fold
improvement in the
scratch resistance of
the paintwork.
Nanolight of Norman
• Nanolight, Inc.- Nanolight, Inc. is a high-tech
company whose mission is to research and
develop semiconductor nanofabrication
techniques for implementation in cutting-edge
infrared laser and detector systems. The
company also assists others with product
development efforts by providing epitaxialrelated services and acting as a distributor for
nanofabrication equipment.
Self Healing Composites
• Polymeric and composite
materials are subject to
weakening due to fatigue
cracking. A self-healing
composite has the
potential to defend
against material failure
due to fatigue and to
greatly improve product
safety and reliability.
Patent
6858659 - Office of Technology Management – University of Illinois
Urbana Champian
Study of 200 Commercial Nano Products
in medical and health fields
• Show enhanced platforms for drug development and
delivery
• Nanoparticles such as colloidal gold, Quantum dots,
liposomes, dendrimers and fullerenes are being used in
pharmaceutical drug discovery and formulations for
encapsulating drugs for drug delivery
• Other biophase materials offer promise for tissue
engineering products
Nanomedicine
• NanoBioMagnetics is an Edmond,
Oklahoma company that has
demonstrated the ability to move
nanoparticles through the body to specific
cells. In the future, companies like
NanoBioMagnetics anticipate being able to
attach a drug to the nanoparticle and then
deliver it reliably to the site of a cancerous
cell and kill it.
Nano Workforce Trends
• Before 2010, the market for
nanotechnology products and services is
estimated to reach $1 trillion in the U.S.
economy.
• This market will require anywhere from
800,000 to two million new jobs.
• Most of these workers will require at least
two year postsecondary degrees.
Nano Technician Training
• OSU- Okmulgee has developed a Nano Instrumentation
program that is included as an additional certification to
their Electrical Engineering Associates program.
• Tulsa Community College is offering electronic courses
for Nanotechnology and MEMS (Micro Electrical
Mechanical Systems).
• Oklahoma City Community College offers
a Nanotechnology and MEMS program.
• The Oklahoma State Dept. of Career and
Technology and OSU Okmulgee are
partnering on an NSF grant to create the
Oklahoma Nanotechnology Education
Initiative.
Nano Clearinghouse
• The Oklahoma Nanotechnology Website
www.oknano.com will continue to grow as a
one-stop clearinghouse for information with info
on:
• Grant opportunities and technologies available
• Infrastructure, resources and incentives available to
nanotech companies
• Collaboration opportunities
• Updates on current nano activities
• Oklahoma Nanotech companies
• Researchers involved in Nanotech research
• Nano information and Activities for students and
teachers
Getting Kids into Nano!