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This talk will provide a viewpoint of these new scientific opportunities and challenges in the context of practical performance and cost metrics. It will also offer new approaches to manipulate entropy change in liquid media for the purpose of energy conversion.

Understanding Waveguides: Light at the Nanoscale

13 Feb 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Marilyn Garza, NNCI Nano

There are three lessons for this activity that help students understand how light can travel through a waveguide for communication purposes. Students will first explore the angle of refraction. Next they will create a gelatin waveguide to explore issues associated with light and waveguides....

Water Filtration and Purity of Water - Getting Down to the Nanoscale

13 Feb 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): David Mann, NNCI Nano

This is a three part lesson which begins with familiarizing students with SI prefixes and the nanoscale. In Lesson 2 students test a local water supply. It is designed to be used as an extension to classroom activities related to treating foul water for consumption. This activity should...

Ultra-flexible Organic Electronics

13 Feb 2020 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Tomoyuki Yokota

I will present the application of our ultra-flexible organic electronics.

3 min. Research Talk: Identifying the Dimensionality of Crystal Structures

12 Feb 2020 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Franco Vera

Today, researchers worldwide have identified over 100,000 distinct bulk materials. The underlying dimensionality of these materials is not always clear however, and as such researchers have sought to identify stable, lower dimensional materials derived from the bulk parent structures. A team of...

ECE 595ML Lecture 11: Maximum-Likelihood Estimation - Basic Principles

11 Feb 2020 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Stanley H. Chan

NNCI Reference Sheets

11 Feb 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Joyce Allen, Nancy Healy, NNCI Nano

This is a series of 5 reference sheets for high school students that have a summarized version of important concepts for courses in: Physics, Physical Science, Chemistry, Biology, and Genetics. These are two sided, with one side introducing nanotechnology and the other containing facts,...

What's the Smallest Thing You Know? A Size and Scale Activity

10 Feb 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Joyce Allen, NNCI Nano

This lesson is designed to have elementary level students develop an understanding of size and scale. It uses the book What’s Smaller Than A Pygmy Shrew? by Robert E. Wells to help students see that a pygmy shrew is among the tiniest of mammals and that a ladybug is even...

Understanding Wave Motion and Power Loss

10 Feb 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Richard Moore, Angela Berenstein, NNCI Nano

This lab is designed to help students understand how light waves interact with matter. This activity is analogous to light traveling through optical media having different indices of refraction (densities). This is a two part lesson. In part 1 students use slinky and snaky toys to explore wave...

NNCI Outreach Demonstration Guide

10 Feb 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Nancy Healy, NNCI Nano

This compendium of demonstrations includes 17 activities that can be used to demonstrate topics to students and the general public. They are useful for science festivals, family science nights, and science cafes. ...

PhysiCell model with SBML intracellular model

10 Feb 2020 | Tools | Contributor(s): Randy Heiland

Each cell will have its own intracellular (metabolic) model that will affect the microenvironment.

ECE 595ML Lecture 10: Minimum Probability of Error Rule

10 Feb 2020 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Stanley H. Chan