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1. NNCI Outreach Demonstration Guide

   10 Feb 2020 | | 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.  ...

2. Turning Fruit Juice into Graphene Quantum Dots

   06 Jan 2020 | | Contributor(s):: John Gomm, NNCI Nano

   Graphene, a sub-nanometer thick sheet made of carbon, was isolated just over a decade ago (2004), yet swiftly won the Nobel Prize for Geim and Novoselov in 2010 for its properties of high strength, conductivity, and transparency. Students will replicate the procedure used to isolate graphene...