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What is a Nanometer?

By EPICS LSPM Team

Purdue University, West Lafayette

Join Laura and Martin on a wild ride through the milliworld and the microworld to reach the nanoworld. Along the way, they discover how small a nanometer truly is.

Abstract

Join Laura and Martin on a wild ride through the milliworld and the microworld to reach the nanoworld. Along the way, they discover how small a nanometer truly is.

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Credits

Brought to you by the Lego Scanning Probe Microscope team, an EPICS project at Purdue University.

The LSPM team's goal is to teach a wide audience the underlying principles driving the world-wide interest in nanotechnology by creating FLASH animations geared toward all ages and illustrating how a scanning probe microscope can be used to study objects at the nanometer scale.

This animation is part of a museum exhibit developed for Children's Museums. For more information about this exhibit please visit the Lego SPM website.

Cite this work

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

  • EPICS LSPM Team (2005), "What is a Nanometer?," http://nanohub.org/resources/90.

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Tags
  1. education/outreach
  2. K-12
  3. material science
  4. nano/bio
  5. nm
  6. scanning probe microscopy

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