Transcript    3.1.10 .B Describe concepts of models as a way to predict and understand science and technology. 3.1.10.D Apply scale as a way of.

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3.1.10 .B Describe concepts of models as a way to
predict and understand science and
technology.
3.1.10.D Apply scale as a way of relating concepts and
ideas to one another by some measure.
Apply dimensional analysis and scale
as a ratio.
Convert one scale to another.
3.8.10.C Evaluate possibilities consequences and
impacts of scientific and technological solutions.
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Explain how small a nanometer actually
is.
Identify how on a nanoscale size certain
properties are affected
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The study of objects and phenomena at a very
small scale, roughly 1 to 100 nanometers (nm)
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A grain of sand is 1 million nm, or 1 millimeter, wide
An emerging, interdisciplinary science involving
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Physics
Chemistry
Biology
Engineering
Materials Science
Computer Science
Source: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/s2s/latest/bialt1/src/WhatIsNano/images/molecule.gif
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Consider a human hand
skin
white blood cell
DNA
nanoscale
Source: http://www.materialsworld.net/nclt/docs/Introduction%20to%20Nano%201-18-
atoms
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Current CD and DVD media have storage scale
in micrometers
New nanomedia (made when gold selfassembles into strips on silicon) has a storage
scale in nanometers
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That is 1,000 times more storage along each
dimension (length, width)…
…or 1,000,000
times greater
storage density
in total!
Source:6Images adapted from http://uw.physics.wisc.edu/~himpsel/nano.html
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Station 1: Exploring rxns
Station 2: Exploring measurements
Station 3: Exploring forces
Station 4: Exploring Liquid Crystals
Station 5: Exploring Solutions
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What is nano? Where else do you think this
technology will be used, and why? What was
your favorite activity today? Why?