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.

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.

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

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

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