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This 3-page lab, from the Nanotechnology Applications and Career Knowledge Resource Center (NACK Center), focuses on physical vapor deposition and the use of a Cooke thermal evaporator to gain experience with the evaporation process. The background section covers concepts like crystal thickness...

The Northeast Biomanufacturing Center and Collaborative (NBC2) has created four laboratory manuals provided as downloadable pdfs. The Pichia pastoris - HSA Core Production System laboratory manual is 108 pages; it includes standard operating procedures, batch records, and competencies lists related...

In this lab activity from the Biotechnology Alliance for Suncoast Biology Educators (BASBE), students will use a compound microscope to examine a few simple plant and animal tissues and explore the idea of different cell types that specialize in their form and function. Students then submit a set of...

This resource, provided by Nanotechnology Applications and Career Knowledge Support Center (NACK Center), is a 22-page guide for a lab where students grow mung beans in solutions of nanoparticles. Through the lab, students will learn how to create nanoparticle solutions and gain experience nanoscale...

The Materials Science and Technology Teacher's Workshop (MAST) provides this lesson plan for students learning about polymers. The class will observe the physical properties of various plastics for rigidity, color, density and texture. The objective of the experiment is "to test and compare the...

The Materials Science and Technology Teacher's Workshop (MAST) provides this activity to illustrate the principles of energy transfer. The demonstration uses a balance, matches, soda cans and a firecracker to show how energy can transfer between light, sound, heat and kinetic energy. Potential and...

This lab, presented by the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure, introduces students to the concepts of scale and magnification using a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) image of a Blue Morpho butterfly wing. If educators do not have access to an SEM, images are included with the...

This 3-page document, created by the Nanotechnology Applications and Career Knowledge Support (NACK) Center at Pennsylvania State University, introduces students to the intermittent contact and non-contact modes of atomic force microscopy and their uses. Students will "understand and learn how to...

This 11-page lab guide, created by the Nanotechnology Applications and Career Knowledge Support (NACK) Center at Pennsylvania State University, is for a laboratory activity where students use Veeco ​SPMLab software for processing and analysis of scanning probe microscopy images. The lab guide walks...

This lesson, presented by the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure, covers the properties of water flow. Students will "observe and understand the way fluids interact with a stationary phase for example, chromatography paper." Next, students will create a list of questions they have...