The goal of the IFN is to create cross-disciplinary modular materials to incorporate in the K-18 continuum. To that effect surveys of materials already created will be done as well as a survey of capstone concepts that can be better explained using nanoscience. This information will also be used ion the development of a nanoscience curriculum will be developed.
Inventory of Nanoscience Modules, January 2008
| Surface-to-Volume Ratio: Nucleation | ||
| Professor: | M. Gomez, et. Al. | |
| Type: | Laboratory Experience | |
| Level: | Varied (undergrad) | |
| Status: | Final stages of testing | |
| Explanation: | Students will explore the phenomenon of surface-to-volume ratio of CO2molecules using different particle size of silica. Other concepts: Equillibrium, Le Chatelier Principle, Kinetics, Forces | |
| Particle in the Box: Quantum Dots | ||
| Professor: | A.-R. Mayol | |
| Type: | Laboratory Experience | |
| Level: | Upper Undergraduate | |
| Status: | Final stages of testing | |
| Explanation: | Student will explore the energy spectrum using LED technology | |
| Light Emitting Diodes (LED's) | ||
| Professor: | Univ. of Wisconsin & A.-R. Mayol | |
| Type: | Learning Modules | |
| Level: | Varied | |
| Status: | Field tested, ongoing | |
| Explanation: | Student will explore the energy spectrum using LED technology | |
| Powers of Ten | ||
| Professor: | Hernández | |
| Type: | Demonstration | |
| Level: | Varied | |
| Status: | Field tested, ongoing | |
| Explanation: | Students will use scale to explore powers of ten | |
| Self-Assembly | ||
| Professor: | Marin | |
| Type: | Laboratory Experience | |
| Level: | Varied | |
| Status: | Development stage | |
| Explanation: | Student will use silica particle and test the self assembly characteristics using up to date equipment | |
| Synthesis and Characterization of Nanoparticles | ||
| Professor: | Marin, A.R. Mayol, L. Fonseca | |
| Type: | Laboratory Experience | |
| Level: | Varied | |
| Status: | Development stage | |
| Explanation: | Students will characterize nanotubes, quantum dots and other nanoparticles using the TEM | |
| Computational NanoScience | ||
| Professor: | A.R. Mayol | |
| Type: | Research Assignment | |
| Level: | Upper Undergraduate | |
| Status: | Development stage | |
| Explanation: | Students will use NanoHub to perform special project using calculations | |
| Adsorption | ||
| Professor: | Hernández | |
| Type: | Laboratory Experience | |
| Level: | High School | |
| Status: | Development stage | |
| Explanation: | Students will use activated carbon to observe adsorption of vegetable dyes | |
| Physical and Chemical Adborption | ||
| Professor: | Hernández, A. R. Mayol, C. Cabrera | |
| Type: | Learning Module | |
| Level: | Varied | |
| Status: | Development stage | |
| Explanation: | Student will use animations to understand the difference between chemical and physical adsorption and the interpretation of isotherms by altering different variables | |
| Dislocation Motion and Strengthening Mechanisms | ||
| Professor: | UPRM PREM Team led by Dr. Jeannette Santos UPRM | |
| Type: | Laboratory Experience and Teaching Module | |
| Level: | High schools and undergrads | |
| Status: | Developed and tested | |
| Explanation: | Glycerin is used to represent dislocation sliding along a slip system while aluminum pegs are used to simulate obstacles. | |
| Memory Alloys | ||
| Professor: | UPRM PREM Team led by Dr. Jeannette Santos UPRM | |
| Type: | Laboratory Experience | |
| Level: | High schools and undergrads | |
| Status: | Field tested, ongoing | |
| Explanation: | Nitinol wires are used to demonstrate martensitic transformation. Effect of temperature on twinning is discussed | |
| Carbon Polymorphism | ||
| Professor: | UPRM PREM Team led by Dr. Jeannette Santos UPRM | |
| Type: | Demonstration | |
| Level: | High schools | |
| Status: | Field tested, ongoing | |
| Explanation: | Construction of diverse forms of carbon structures: diamond, graphite, C60 and CNTs to infer properties from crystal geometry and symmetry | |
| Scientific Notation and Nanoscale | ||
| Professor: | UPRM PREM Team led by Dr. Jeannette Santos UPRM | |
| Type: | Workshop | |
| Level: | Intermediate and high schools | |
| Status: | Field tested, ongoing | |
| Explanation: | Use of paper-cutting to demonstrate the nanoscale starting from the macroscale | |
| LEDs and Related Phenomena | ||
| Professor: | UPRM PREM Team led by Dr. Jeannette Santos UPRM | |
| Type: | Laboratory Experience | |
| Level: | High schools | |
| Status: | Field tested, ongoing | |
| Explanation: | Use of GaP/GaAs LEDs to study effect of reversed/forward biases, light wavelengths and measurement, differences between p- and n-type semiconductors, and introduction to quantum dots | |
| Diffraction | ||
| Professor: | UPRM PREM Team led by Dr. Jeannette Santos UPRM | |
| Type: | Laboratory Experience and Teaching Module | |
| Level: | High schools and undergrads | |
| Status: | Field tested, ongoing | |
| Explanation: | Use of green and red lasers with dot-patterned slides to demonstrate Braggs' law and phase identification. Introduction to Scherrer's equation | |
| Synthesis of Gold Nanoparticles | ||
| Professor: | UPRM PREM Team led by Dr. Jeannette Santos UPRM | |
| Type: | Teaching Module | |
| Level: | High schools | |
| Status: | Developed | |
| Explanation: | Flash animation on laboratory synthesis of gold nanoparticles | |
| Atomic Force Microscopy | ||
| Professor: | UPRM PREM Team led by Dr. Jeannette Santos UPRM | |
| Type: | Demonstration | |
| Level: | High schools | |
| Status: | Field tested, ongoing | |
| Explanation: | Magnetic probe strip used to study domains on a simulated layered magnet. This is used to demonstrate the principle of atomic force imaging | |
| Crystallinity of Solids | ||
| Professor: | UPRM PREM Team led by Dr. Jeannette Santos UPRM | |
| Type: | Demonstration | |
| Level: | Undergrads | |
| Status: | Field tested | |
| Explanation: | Metallic glass and steel balls are used to demonstrate amorphous and crystalline arrangements of atoms. Amorphization at the nanoscale is discussed | |
| Point, Linear and Surface Defects | ||
| Professor: | UPRM PREM Team led by Dr. Jeannette Santos UPRM | |
| Type: | Demonstration and Workshop | |
| Level: | High schools and undergrads | |
| Status: | Field tested, ongoing | |
| Explanation: | Steel balls encased into an Plexiglas box are used to demonstrate compact arrangements, vacancies, dislocations and grain boundaries | |
| "Mega" Nanotubes | ||
| Professor: | UPRM PREM Team led by Dr. Jeannette Santos UPRM | |
| Type: | Workshop | |
| Level: | High schools | |
| Status: | Field tested with 120 students | |
| Explanation: | Tube balloons are used to construct 15 ft tall "nanotubes" and covalent bonds are discussed. | |
| Solar Cells | ||
| Professor: | UPRM PREM Team led by Dr. Jeannette Santos UPRM | |
| Type: | Demonstration | |
| Level: | High schools | |
| Status: | Field tested, ongoing | |
| Explanation: | Toy cars are used to demonstrate photoelectricity and hydrogen production | |
| Nanoparticles in the Nervous System | ||
| Professor: | E. Rosa-Molinar | |
| Type: | Laboratory Experience | |
| Level: | Graduate and Advanced Undergraduate | |
| Status: | Ongoing | |
| Explanation: | In this laboratory the students will measure the extent and the patterns of dye-coupling using a mixture of Qdot nanocrystals, polyamindoamine dendrimers, or branched-chain polymers, to carry the fluorescent and nanogold probes, and brightly fluorescent and aldehyde-fixable gap-junction-permant and/or –impremant dyes such as low molecular and high molecular weight dextrans which can be taken up into neurons. The purpose of the laboratory is for the study to apply fundamental cellular and tissue specific principles to fully understand the cellular transport mechanisms (i.e. diffusion, non-specific endocytosis) of naoparticles in the living intact vertebrate nervous system. | |