Nano for Kids

UnderstandingNano Website Offers Lesson Plans for Educators

The Understandingnano website has posted 5 new nanotechnology lesson plans in time for the 2010-2011 school year. The site now offers lesson plans for both high school and middle school grade levels on three topics: Introduction to Nanotechnology, Nanotechnology in Medicine, and Environmental Nanotechnology.

Each lesson plan includes a corresponding student handout and all plans are available for anybody to use. Interested educators and students can find these lesson plans at the following url: http://www.understandingnano.com/nanotechnology-lesson-plan.html

Earl Boysen, co-author of Nanotechnology For Dummies from Wiley Publishing, began the UnderstandingNano website in 2007 to provide easy to understand explanations of nanotechnology concepts and applications to the general public. Since that time the site has attracted professional researchers in nanotechnology related fields, students, teachers, and others, who find the articles and data on the site useful and informative.

For additional information contact: Earl Boysen at earl@understandingnano.com

Droid does more than just cellphones!

Previews of new Android pad computers on YouTube. Most in the $100. range. Plans revealed a marketing campaign for most of them in September. Take a look - many comparison videos to guide you in purchasing.

The Android pad computers connect to the Internet with WI-FI and could be an inexpensive method for developing nations to supply to K-12 schools for e-learning.

15$ Android Slatecomputer- with screen add $50.!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGYHH16XTks&feature=player_embedded

NIST sponsored Video of Micro nanobot competition for kids

http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/cmp/eetimes_robotics_20100329/#/14/OnePage

The NanoArt 2009-2010

International Online Exhibition (4th edition) is officially open.

150 works authored by 42 artists from 15 countries were submitted for this edition.

We encourage teachers and parents to view the artworks created from these powerful electron microscopic scans of materials at this very small scale of science, which is not visible to the human eye.

As you view the artworks and scroll down the page, you will see the NanoART for Kids link included.

Teachers/students are encouraged to visit our 2010 projects page for more details on participation in the NanoArt k12 program.

You are also invited to participate in our new program with...

our new project partner Aspex Corporation

who has offered to provide SEM scans for students

of objects from the natural world such as

insects, leaves, flowers, seeds, fingernails, hair, etc.

Learn how to receive FREE SEM SCANS for your classroom, courtesy of ASPEX.

View their Sample Gallery

HEXBUG Nano Swarms Toys”R“Us & RadioShack Stores Nationwide

October 20th, 2009

GREENVILLE, Texas - (Business Wire) Innovation First International, a global leader in educational and competitive robotics products and consumer robotics toys, today unveiled the HEXBUG Nano – a tiny, 1.75 inch energetic micro robotic bug that uses the physics of vibration and robotic intelligence to skitter along and explore its environment on smooth surfaces.

Planned as a series for collectors, the first release is the Nano Newton Collection of five unique bugs for kids 3 years old and up, and is now available for $7.99 each at Toys”R“Us stores nationwide and online at Toysrus.com, RadioShack and online at www.hexbug.com/nano. Additionally, Toys”R“Us is exclusively offering the HEXBUG Nano Habitat Set, which allows users to configure customizable mazes for the industrious creatures.

HEXBUG Nano fanatics interested in the lore of science and discovery can visit www.handandstars.com to earn points by answering science quiz questions, register their collection using the unique serial numbers included inside each test tube style package, and achieve global status and prestige in an online game that requires players to use scientific principles to build their own virtual Nano.

”HEXBUG Nano fascinates children and adults alike with its lifelike behavior while it exposes them to concepts such as cause-and-effect, momentum, center of gravity and randomness,“ said Joel Carter, vice president, marketing, Innovation First International. ”The Nano is also the first generation of HEXBUG Micro Robotic Creatures that is collectible and extends the user experience online with a world that reinforces the fun and fascination behind science and discovery through a variety of online challenges and game-play.“

Powered by a tiny motor and 12 fixed, angular legs, the industrious insect switches direction upon coming into contact with an object in its path, and possesses an uncanny sense of balance, flipping to its feet when turned on its back. Continuing to pay homage to its scientific heritage, the HEXBUG Nano family will include five unique collections, each named after an accomplished scientist. Each collection will include five distinct series, representing key scientific discoveries realized during the time period of its collection. For example, the Newton Collection, available today, includes Gravity, Orbit, Motion, Calculus and Refraction as its five series. Each Series includes five individual bugs, some of which are common while others are very rare, so collectors will need to be on the lookout for certain high point value creatures. There are also extremely rare bugs known as Mutations, which will appear from time to time. Additional collections and series will be unveiled in 2010.

HEXBUG Micro Robotic Creatures meet the most stringent safety regulations put into action by the new CPSIA law, designed with the underlying intention of protecting children and the environment from poisonous products.

About Innovation First International

Innovation First International, a privately held corporation, was founded on the belief that innovation very early in the design process is necessary to produce simple and elegant product designs. Innovation First began producing electronics for unmanned mobile ground robots, and is now an industry leader in the hobby, competition, education and toy markets. The company’s award winning Vex Robotics Design System, HEXBUG Micro Robotic Creatures and IFI Robotics span the education, consumer and business-to-business markets. In 2007, the company launched www.RobotEvents.com, an online portal dedicated to the advancement of educational and competitive robotics, which provides comprehensive information on the latest robotics competitions, educational workshops and information for teachers and mentors. The company also created the VEX Robotics Competition in 2007, designed to give a diverse group of students the chance to celebrate their accomplishments and share their passion for robotics with each other. Leveraging the company’s core competency in electrical and mechanical engineering, the RackSolutions division works closely with all major computer OEMs to provide custom mounting solutions and industry-wide rack compatibility for data installations of all sizes. In 2009 the company added offices in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom to better serve the global marketplace. With an advanced in-house metal fabrication plant, distribution center, and corporate office located together in a 13 acre complex in Greenville, Texas, the company is poised to continue on a rapid growth path. Please visit www.innovationfirst.com for additional information.

http://www.hexbug.com/news/

NanoART for KIDS has been launched...

The first two paintings have been posted. The students are from Kindergarten and Grade 5.

http://nanoart21.org/nanoart2006/index.php?cat=15

Click on the painting to open for larger view and click again and more information from the student.

We encourage teachers to view the albums to gain an understanding of the beauty of science at the nanoscale and then read the following article.

New Resource for students and teachers

Germany

Nano art gallery slide show of scans show the natural beauty at the nanoscale of science

http://te.ina-kassel.de/index.php/nanoart_gallery.html

NanoArt for Kids program opens the window

to this tiny scale of science for K-12 students

Children learn by exploring their world and will now be able to see a tiny version of our world that looks quite different with powerful microscopes to challenge their imaginations

Nacogdoches, TX – August 13, 2008 - The NanoArt K12 program has been launched by Cris Orfescu, artist and scientist from NanoArt21.org in collaboration with Judith Light Feather, artist and founder of The Nanotechnology Group Inc., which provides support to group members for the facilitation and development of innovative Nanoscale Science education globally.

The purpose of this worldwide program is to stimulate creativity and expand the visionary imaginations of our children through innovative education activities to promote a new paradigm unifying the art-science-technology intersections at the nanoscale. Size matters in all scales of science and textbook publishers have not included the nanoscale of science in their subject matter for K-12 students. Universities are now offering teachers workshops in various areas of the country to explain nano science to high school students in hopes that they will introduce new material into their classrooms.

NanoArt is a new discipline which combines art with science creating paintings and sculptures at molecular and atomic levels. Scientists use chemical or physical processes to explore the surfaces, composition and interaction of elements at the nanoscale, which can now be viewed and manipulated with powerful research tools like scanning electron (SEM) scanning tunneling (STM) and atomic force microscopes (AFM). These scientific images are then captured and further processed, using different digital techniques. Since these tools are too expensive for primary grade classrooms we will be providing weblinks to sites that the children, parents and teachers can explore.

Nano means ‘dwarf’ and a nanometer is 1 billionth of a meter which is too small to see with the human eye. This unique introduction to the K-12 students showcasing the beauty of nature at this tiny scale of science is designed to stimulate their imagination and curiosity strengthening the desire to learn more science, technology and engineering (STEM) courses as they move through the primary grades and enter high school.

Art is the perfect media for this first introduction as the visual scans naturally challenge the child to recognize patterns in the shapes they are familiar with in their everyday reality. You will soon discover when viewing the scans provided that many familiar shapes will appear within the scans that can be further developed through drawings, paintings and sculptures, which can be submitted for the NanoArt K12 online exhibition. All compositions will be grouped online by age/grade level for the viewers.

Nanoflower scan for art ‘Nano Wisdom’ oil pastel painting

In preparing for this launch Light Feather developed an oil pastel painting from the nanoflower scan (shown above) that would serve as an example of an image that was reflected in the patterns. ” I could have created a flower, a bear, or a monkey as the example, but my imagination saw the owl as the predominant shape that resonated with my mind. I have titled it "Nano Wisdom" as the energy of the owl has always been noted in Native American cultures to honor wisdom and 'wisdom keepers.' In moving forward to present this science to our young children and the research that will result in new technology we will need this wisdom,“ she said.

It is our intention that the NanoArt for Kids will open the door for teachers to explore the outsource materials being created and include some of the visual elements and experiential online labs in their classrooms in the future.

You can download the PDF file of the recommended modules for exploration and the Form for submitting your child's artwork.

Send your questions to k12@nanoart21.org or Judith.LightFeather@TNTG.org

Source: The NanoTechnology Group NanoNews Division

www.TNTG.org

www.NanoArt21.org

Danville grant aimed at helping teachers learn more on nanotechnology

McClatchy-Tribune Information Services -- Unrestricted (August 12, 2008)

Aug. 12--A grant from federal government will help area teachers learn more about nanotechnology.

The Institute for Advanced Learning & Research received a $191,593 grant from the U.S. Department of Education for professional development opportunities, according to a news release.

The grant provides money for the Institute to coordinate nanotechnology-themed programs so that students from kindergarten through 12th grade are exposed to the emerging science of nanotechnology.

"It is critical that our students have early and consistent exposure to emerging science and technology fields if they are to be competitive in the 21st century knowledge-based economy," Julie Brown, the Institute's director of academic and outreach programs, said in the release.

U.S. Rep. Virgil Goode helped with landing the grant for the Institute.

"I am glad that I was able to help secure this grant for the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research so that teachers in the Danville area can become 'best practice' experts in the field of nanotechnology and prepare their students for the possibility of pursuing careers in this area of the 21st century economy," Goode said in a prepared statement.

The Institute will work with Northwestern University's Materials World Modules program, the University of Virginia, Penn State University and Virginia Tech, along with other nanoscience experts, to develop a teacher-training program.

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MEMS & Nanotechnology for Kids Wins 2008 IPPY Book Award

Proving that "small is cool," book that aims to inspire kids about the possibilities of next-generation science and engineering is honored by Independent Publisher for best Juvenile/Young Adult Non-Fiction.

Scottsdale, AZ (PRWEB) June 4, 2008 -- MEMS & Nanotechnology for Kids, written by Marlene Bourne and published by Scottsdale-based Bourne Research LLC, is a bronze medal recipient of the 12th Annual Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Award in the Juvenile/Young Adult Non-Fiction category. Honoring the best independently published books of the past year, more than 3,100 entries came from 16 countries around the world; winners included works from renowned publishers such as Afton Historical Society Press, Harvard University Press and Yale University Press.

"What (the book) does is encourage a student's natural sense of wonder by taking a close look at some of the things in his or her life that might normally receive little more than a passing thought," writes the Virginia Journal of Science Education. "The detailed and colorful images are powerful."

MEMS & Nanotechnology for Kids provides a basic introduction to today's coolest technologies. It explores what we can find at the micro- and nano-scale, and then takes a look at various MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems) devices and nanomaterials; readers learn how they work and why they're useful in all kinds of products. Although written for students ages 11-14 to inspire interest in science and engineering, younger children and adults may also benefit from the easy-to-read explanations.

Printed by Sentinel Printing Company of St. Cloud, Minnesota, MEMS & Nanotechnology for Kids also recently won Gold in the Central Minnesota Printing Professionals 2008 Galley of Superb Printing, a prestigious honor among printers.

MEMS & Nanotechnology for Kids (ISBN: 9780979550560; Price: $24.95) is available online at Amazon.com; signed copies of the book can be purchased at www.bourneresearch.com. Bulk discounts are available; please contact Bourne Research at 480-695-0521 for details.

About Bourne Research

Bourne Research LLC is a trusted source of business and market intelligence for global leaders seeking strategic information on emerging technology trends and their business impact. Its founder, Marlene Bourne, is a highly respected industry analyst with nearly 15 years of experience following the development of emerging technologies, and is internationally recognized as one of the leading experts on MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems) and its convergence with nanotechnology. For more information, visit www.bourneresearch.com.

Support Project OLPC for developing nations

Learn about the solutions for education in developing countries that can only be accomplished with the OLPC program. Most of these villages do not have electricity and can only use the OLPC version of the laptops that have the handcrank. The ability to provide opensource curriculum in any language is also an important benefit of the OLPC laptop project. Join us this year to start the final phase to provide global access for innovative education.

The OLPC project is now ready for content and a new laptop is being developed for the project in India

See the Laptop for $10 press release below.

Teachers, Programmers and Developers can also help us provide nano science education as content in the laptops. Visit the Outreach Programs listed for K-12 that are published under the creativecommons attribution 2.5 license and qualify for inclusion under the OLPC guidelines.

Educators page: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Educators

Teachers, programmers and developers interested in volunteer opportunities:

(a) Online, open-source, wiki-textbooks, math and science projects, dictionaries, geographies, histories, social studies, health and nutrition courses, and translations into indigenous languages. These materials can be customized for a particular region or group of children or for more general use throughout the OLPC world; Go to OLPC Content wikipage: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Educators#Contribute_content

(b) Software applications not otherwise available on laptops for children that will enhance the general usefulness of laptops in every location. This could be, for example, educational games; collaborative and archiving tools; or artistic, video and graphic tools; Go to OLPC Developers Programwikipage.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developers_Program

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Getting_involved_in_OLPC

All materials and peripherals developed with OLPC Foundation support must follow open source formats and standards and be available without fee for use by any child with an OLPC-provided laptop.

Now, $10 laptop for students

29 Jul, 2008, 2028 hrs IST, IANS

NEW DELHI: After displaying its prowess in developing the world's cheapest car, India is on track to rolling out the world's cheapest laptop computer that could cost as low as $10, a top official said here on Tuesday.

Minister of State for Human Resource Development D Purandeswari said research was being conducted to develop the laptop, especially for use by students, which will cost all of $10.

"Research in this direction is being already carried out at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras," she told the e-India annual summit on information and communication technologies.

The laptop, when produced, will prove to be a breakthrough device that could solve the problems of low computer literacy and e-learning not only in India, but also the world over, she added.

Earlier this year, India's Tata Group had unveiled the "Nano" that was touted as the world's cheapest car costing all of $2,500 and the announcement had grabbed global headlines.

The cheapest laptop available today is at least 10 times costlier. The "Xo" sold by the Massachusetts-based non-government organization 'One Laptop Per Child Foundation' sells for $188.

The foundation, started by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) alumnus Nicholas Negroponte, aims to supply the low cost machines to the governments of developing countries for them to source it to school children.

But the Indian government rejected the offer in 2006, calling it an experimental model.

"India must not allow itself to be used for experimentation with children in this area," the human resource ministry had stated then.

However the project was taken up by the Reliance Anil Dhirubahi Group to be implemented as a pilot in Maharashtra's Khairat village.

Under this initiative, Reliance Communications will provide net connectivity, backbone, logistics, and support to the OLPC initiative. "The initiative aims at covering over 25,000 towns, and 6,00,000 villages in the country by 2008."

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Now_10_laptop_for_students/articleshow/3303030.cms

Editors note: This new project will help us tremendously in getting laptops to children in Africa and around the world.

Robotics students could be future tech leaders

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Dave Trumble

Wednesday April 23, 2008

Seeing the future is not as unusual as it may sound. Over the last 20 years I’ve been involved with a number of initiatives that permit me to see the future through the eyes of students. In my case it’s high school students over the last five years.

In 2004 I was offered the privilege of becoming involved in FIRST Robotics. For those that don’t know much about the group, it’s the equivalent of a sports team, but the goal is not shooting hoops or scoring touchdowns, but via the same teamwork principles, building a robot with the most cutting-edge technology available. They achieve a variety of goals depending on the rules of the game, which change year by year. Just as with a sports team, the basics have to be purchased by the school or obtained via some level of fundraising / sponsorship.

FIRST Robotics is the culmination of a vision set out by Dean Kamen and Dr. Woodie Flowers; a vision set out to get young people to compete just as hard at being successful in science, technology and engineering as they do in various sports. FIRST is the acronym for ‘For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology’. When you see young people successful at this or anything else, it encourages them to reach beyond to new levels of achievement. I believe we’re being permitted a sneak peek at the future where these people hold the promise of helping to overcome the challenges that exist to a sustainable future.

The future is often painted with dark clouds on the horizon, and it’s easy to see why this is the case; energy issues, global climate change and loss of jobs overseas to mention a few.

In its simplest form the tasks these students are given use supplied materials, with the help of experienced mentors, to build a robot that will accomplish the desired task. This is done in concert with at least two other teams, while competing against threes other teams on a playing field. When you consider the answers to the many issues facing society in the early part of the 21st century, will be overcome by skills that will be found in the world of science and technology, it’s easy to see the playing field may be the incubator of some of the solutions we’ll need so badly. Of course this will integrate with many other disciplines such as medicine, education, skilled trades and socially conscientious leadership in government and business.

When all this is combined with teamwork and the natural energy our students have, along with the FIRST principle of Gracious Professionalism, you begin to see when these students are released into the world they will be the problem solvers. Many other principles guide the behaviour of the students and mentors; positive re-enforcement, innovation and where I get to participate, health and safety. Teams can focus on winning numerous awards, or simply on winning the competition.

Viewing, for example, a team with a desire to win the safety award is an exemplary opportunity to look into what a young mind can do when challenged to go outside of anywhere they have been before.

As a member of the Safety Advisor team since 2004 I’ve witnessed not only our own KDSS team win the safety award at the Greater Toronto Regional FIRST Robotics Competition through outstanding outreach, to observing teams from LaSalle and Peterborough create safety programs that would satisfy the needs of most companies, large or small. Make no mistake, the drive to win the other awards available is just as intense and shows the very same promise for the future success of these students, as they strive to make life better for all of society.

Our students at all levels of education are capable of the most incredible accomplishments, but when a program such as this has opened the door to over 20,000 students, the result can only be broadly beneficial.

Since the initial Robotics program at the high school level started in the early nineties, we’ve seen the program extend to the elementary level where students are challenged to not only build much smaller robots using Lego, but have used nano-technology in their build programs. This is the same nano-technology now being used in advanced cancer treatment.

I am pleased to see the future through these young people, and in full recognition that our sustainable future is the hands of a wide and varied number of skills and disciplines, make no mistake these students will be at the leading edge of overcoming society’s challenges.

http://www.kincardinenews.com/Opinion/394484.html

News from Nobelprize.org on new educational game

February 22, 2008

From the first X-ray images that allowed us to look inside our bodies to unravelling the complex machinery that lies at the heart of heredity, the Nobel Prizes have recognized many of the major achievements in scientific and medical imaging. Revisiting any of these individual Prizes provides an informative snapshot of the state-of-the-art thinking in imaging at the time of the award. However, an all-together more instructive and revealing vision of how imaging has advanced over the decades can be provided by tracing the development of the field along the path from one Nobel Prize to another.

With this in mind, we have created a new production entitled Imaging Life that combines articles, images and video to reveal the stories behind the advancement of scientific and medical imaging through the Nobel Prizes - some of which you will find listed below. Navigating the timeline allows you to trace the individual paths of illumination that led to each milestone in imaging and see how related Nobel Prizes have changed our view of ourselves and the world around us.

If this leaves you with an appetite to discover more about imaging, you will find plenty more relevant articles, videos and games on Nobelprize.org, examples of which can also be found below. As always, please let us know your opinion of what you find on Imaging Life and Nobelprize.org, or any suggestions for how we might improve the site.

Adam Smith

Editor-in-Chief

IMAGING LIFE

From atoms to X-rays and from magnetism to microscopes, take a trip along the timeline to see how Nobel Prize-awarded breakthroughs in imaging have changed how we view the world around and within us.

Visit Imaging Life »

http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/physics/imaginglife/

NASA Ames Research Center

Fly by Math and Line Up with Math

Web site invites students in Grades 5-9 to use hands-on math to avoid air traffic conflicts.

Interactive student/teacher resources

http://smartskies.nasa.gov/

Rice Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology

K-12 Outreach programs

Education Overview

The goal of our educational outreach and human resource programs is to cultivate a future workforce experienced with using science and engineering at the nanoscale to solve problems in biological and environmental engineering. CBEN’s educational outreach activities are coordinated by Dr. John Hutchinson (jshutch@rice.edu), Director for Education and Dr. Carolyn Nichol (cnichol@rice.edu), Associate Director for Education. CBEN faculty members and students contribute substantially to these programs.

http://cben.rice.edu//education.cfm?doc_id=5014

MIT adapts free online courses for high schools

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has created a new web site with free online resources that aim to improve science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) instruction at the high school level. "Highlights for High School," which builds on MIT's OpenCourseWare (OCW) initiative, is designed to inspire the next generation of engineers and scientists and to serve as a valuable tool for high school teachers. OCW publishes educational materials under an open license that encourages their reuse, redistribution, and modification for noncommercial purposes.

New secondary-school web site contains OpenCourseWare resources for teaching STEM disciplines

Read the story at

http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/index.cfm?i=50758;_hbguid=2fe71869-7611-4edb-8f76-1d460f3866e9

Visit the new site:

Highlights for High School organizes thousands of MIT introductory course materials into a format that is more accessible for high school students and teachers. The site also features more than 2,600 video and audio clips, animations, lecture notes and assignments from actual MIT courses and aligns them to the Advanced Placement topics in Biology, Calculus and Physics.

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/hs/home/home/index.htm

Watch the video:

http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/hs/ocw_highlights_intro.wmv

Too Small to See: Zoom into Nanotechnology Exhibition

Sciencenter

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z-4b85IzuT8

It's a Nano World traveling museum Exhibit

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hV4v5G2m9UM

Learning Nanotechnology :: NanoMission

Action Adventures in the Nano world.

NanoMissiontm the world's first scientifically accurate interactive 3d learning game based on understanding nano-sciences and nanotechnology.

More... http://www.playgen.com/home/content/view/30/26/

The players are challenged in imaginative environments that promotes learning about: Molecular building, Nano-Imaging, Creation of Nano-devices, Nano-medicine, Quantum Behaviour, Manipulating Electrons and Nano-Materials.

Primarily focused on 12-18 age range - the game is also a valuable and fun way to learn about nanotechnology irrespective of age. Available online for the PC and through retail for PlayStation Portable.

PlayGen are seeking sponsorship to complete the PC version of the game. Sponsor(s) will get in-game advertising and tailor made version of the game for distribution.

Founded in 2001 by gaming industry experts, PlayGen is a London based game development studio with a strong and growing track record in developing serious games for training and learning purposes. See http://www.playgen.com

RESEARCHERS CATCH MOTION OF A SINGLE ELECTRON ON VIDEO

To observe the motion of an electron, an elementary particle with a mass that is one billionth of a billionth of a billionth of a gram, has been considered to be impossible. So when two Brown University physicists showed movies of electrons moving through liquid helium at the 2006 International Symposium on Quantum Fluids and Solids in Kyoto, they raised some eyebrows.

Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news100354343.html

Watch the VIDEO

Link: http://physics.brown.edu/physics/researchpages/cme/bubble/Movie.mpg

Saltwater as clean fuel and possible cure for cancer using nanoparticles

Watch the video

http://www.wkyc.com/video/player.aspx?aid=35660&bw=

WATER for Fuel

WATCH AMAZING FOOTAGE OF HOW NANOTUBES FORM

A team of scientists led by the Department's Dr Stephan Hofmann have successfully produced live video footage that shows how carbon nanotubes, more than 10,000 times smaller in diameter than a human hair, form.

Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news97943572.html

Watch Video 1

http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/stories/2007/Nanotubes/HofmannS1.mp4

Watch Video 2

http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/stories/2007/Nanotubes/HofmannS2.mp4

Molecular handshake (film) -- http://www.fkf.mpg.de/kern/videos/videoV1.mpg

Source: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Bionanotechnology videos

Cellular Visions: The Inner Life of a Cell, an eight-minute animation created in NewTek LightWave 3D and Adobe After Effects for Harvard biology students.

The animation shows a number of molecular machines — ribosomes, motors, and more — working to move molecules and structures around a cell, and even to create the structures. It also shows a lot of membrane events, and molecules working with and through membranes, and a few organelles. It shows the molecules in their real molecular structure — these are renderings of experimental data, not artists' conceptions.

New narrated version

http://lifeboat.com/inner.life.of.a.cell.narration.shtml

How DNA transcription works. North Dakota University

http://lifeboat.com/ex/videos#z450

Might we all live 100 years longer? 1000?

(Presentation by Aubrey de Grey, Oxford 2005)

Aubrey de Grey, British biogerontologist and founder of SENS, controversially claims to have created a roadmap to defeat biological aging.

TED Conferences

23 min 31 sec - Oct 18, 2006

www.ted.com

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-709798984456209279&hl=en

RNA interference in action.

Aubrey de Grey

http://lifeboat.com/ex/videos#1000_years

Roadmap project to 2099 - A visual trip through the 21st Century.

Roadmap by http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/~pesti/roadmap/

Nanotechnology - Age of Convergence.

Visualizes how nanotechnology will be used to repair and upgrade our bodies. Charles Ostman was the "Nanotech Visionary" behind this.

http://lifeboat.com/ex/videos#z450

Productive Nanosystems: From molecules to superproducts. An 86.1 MB high resolution version is also available.

Programmable dermal display (10 MB) designed by Robert A. Freitas Jr and Gina Miller. Learn more about this animation! You may also watch it as a Quicktime movie instead.

http://lifeboat.com/ex/videos#z450

Discovery: Future 2057

Site includes a game, puzzles, videos. Future of medicine, space elevator, transportation, military, communication, news and more with most of the predictions based on nanotechnology discoveries.

Interactive experience.

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/2057/2057.html

Forming Carbon Nanotubes

A team of scientists, including researchers at Cambridge University, have successfully produced live video footage that shows how carbon nanotubes, more than 10,000 times smaller in diameter than a human hair, form. The video sequences show nanofibres and nanotubes nucleating around miniscule particles of nickel and are already offering greater insight into how these microscopic structures self-assemble.

These two videos show how the nickel reacts a process called catalytic chemical vapour deposition. This is one of several methods of producing nanotubes, and involves the application of a gas containing carbon (in this case acetylene) to minute crystalline droplets referred to as "catalyst islands" (the nickel).

In conditions appropriate to creating nano-fibres, the catalyst was squeezed upwards gradually as carbon formed around it. When the application of gas was reduced to create single-walled nanotubes, the carbon instead lifted off the catalyst to form a tubular structure.

http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/special/20070301/

Watch "Cellular Visions: The Inner Life of a Cell", an eight-minute animation created in NewTek LightWave 3D and Adobe After Effects for Harvard biology students

Narration has been added to "Cellular Visions: The Inner Life of a Cell"

at http://lifeboat.com/ex/videos#the_inner_life_of_a_cell

New narrated version perfect for the classroom

http://lifeboat.com/inner.life.of.a.cell.narration.shtml

The animation shows a number of molecular machines -- ribosomes, motors, and more -- working to move molecules and structures around a cell, and even to create the structures. It also shows a lot of membrane events, and molecules working with and through membranes, and a few organelles. It shows the molecules in their real molecular structure -- these are renderings of experimental data, not artists' conceptions.