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This lab, presented by the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure, introduces students to the temperature response of liquid crystals, and how they respond in different phases of matter. In addition to liquid, solid, and gas, the fourth phase of matter includes liquid crystals which "...

This resource, from the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure, is a module that covers mixtures and nanotechnology. The main idea of this module is to introduce the idea to students that the classification of mixtures is based on the size of particles. Students will also be prompted to...

This 5-page document, created by the Nanotechnology Applications and Career Knowledge Network (NACK) Center at Pennsylvania State University, serves as a guide for a laboratory activity where students "cast thin films of the block copolymer formed by the sequential polymerization of styrene and...

This lab, presented by the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure, introduces students to the interaction between plastics, nanotechnology, and the natural world. Students will "understand how nanoparticles in our oceans can carry toxic pollutants into our cells, and how this may...

In this lab, presented by the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure, students will "explore how energy exchanges lead to solid-state phase changes at the macroscale and explore the applications of this nanotechnology." Additionally, students will have the opportunity to examine "various...

This page from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) offers a set of tutorials, online tools, FAQs, and documentation to help users make full use of NCBI's bioinformatics tools. The tutorials, which target both new and veteran users, cover NCBI's BLAST and PSI-BLAST, the Entrez...

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 7-page lab guide, created by by the Nanotechnology Applications and Career Knowledge Network at Pennsylvania State University, features an activity where students "analyze the thicknesses of a series of aluminum thin films deposited in the Cooke thermal evaporator." The lab guide includes...