An inquiry approach is a method often used in science education. The question bank provides an initial list of questions about nanoscience and places where their...
Nanoscience involves the study of chemical and physical changes that happen at the nanoscale. Researchers and scientists are interested in the nanoscale, because when many materials...
Making materials that are stronger yet lighter (less dense) is an on-going challenge for materials scientists. It’s hard to make a strong, durable material without adding...
Electrospinning is an extensively studied and widely applied method for nanofibre production. It produces long, continuous fibres with diameters ranging from a few nanometres up to...
Researchers and scientists are interested in the nanoscale, because when many materials get down to these tiny sizes, they start to behave differently and novel properties...
Nanofibres are an exciting class of nanoscale materials. Individually, nanofibres are so small they’re hard to imagine or to visualise, but when collected together, they form...
Revolution Fibres is a high-tech start-up company that produces commercial quantities of electrospun nanofibre. They are one of a few companies worldwide and the only company...
This resource provides explanations of the key concepts encountered when exploring nanoscience – the ‘basics’ that every student should understand. Atoms and elements Microscopes Nanoparticle structure...
‘Nano’ means small, right? Sort of. To scientists, ‘nano’ doesn’t just mean small. It means almost unimaginably small. A nanometre (nm) is a billionth of a...
Position: Director of the Electron Microscope Unit, the Mark Wainwright Analytical Centre, UNSW, Sydney. Field: Nanotechnology. When we first interviewed Dr Richard Tilley he was a...
A nanometre is a billionth of a metre. Nanoscale can refer to things less than 100 nanometres in size, or to materials so small that they...
Position: Professor of Nanotechnology, School of Food and Advanced Technology, Massey University Field: Nanotechnology Richard Haverkamp is Professor of Nanotechnology in the School of Food and...
Position: Associate Professor Senior Lecturer, Victoria University of Wellington and MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology. Field: Physics. Physics at work and play Dr Ben...
Nanoscale silicon quantum dots are being developed in New Zealand. They will be able to locate and show up cancerous cells in humans, and deliver drugs...
Scientists at Victoria University of Wellington are making new shapes of nanoparticles. These will help reduce poisonous emissions from car exhausts by making catalytic converters in...
In a corner of a laboratory at Massey University’s Institute of Technology and Engineering, plants are growing under bright lights. They look out of place amongst...
Professor Richard Haverkamp and Dr Aaron Marshall are chemical engineers at Massey University, Palmerston North. They have created nanoparticles and catalysts that will help the future....
Position: Associate Dean (Research and Innovation), School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria Univerity of Wellington. Field: Organometallic Chemistry and Carbon Nanotubes. Professor John Spencer was...
Nanotechnology is possible partly because tools have been developed to ‘see’ particles of matter a nanometre (nm) across, or smaller. That’s less than a billionth of...
Nanoscience is a field of science that is often given a specific starting date – 1959. It was an idea that had to wait for new...
In this activity, students use modelling clay to construct different shapes (sphere, cube, cylinder) and calculate surface area:volume ratios with the aim of trying to develop...
In this activity, students realise that they are growing up in a world in which nanotechnology could have a huge impact and explore some of the...
In this activity, students collect and record data and use it to create 2D and 3D images of an unseen surface. They will then understand some...
In this activity, students investigate the pattern of magnetic fields on a fridge magnet. This will give them an idea of the principle behind scanning probe...
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