Lily thought of the idea of nano monuments. She researched famous monuments and statues as well as shapes/structures. She designed how the structure would look on the outside and the mock up photos to how the pieces would look in a museum, on a desk, ect. She also made the Powerpoint. Edward created the inner […]
The Sci | Art 2009 program was a very interesting new experience for me. I’d never gone to this kind of summer program and especially coming alone for two weeks on a college campus. I wasn’t sure what to expect or for that matter how much we would do and see. But they had everything planned […]
Harry Potter and the half-blood prince was not bad but not great. I never read the books so i guess thats why i was kinda lost and had some confusion, but i’d seen every movie. Though maby i was just expecting more or something different but threw out the movie there were random scenes to […]
FerroFluids!! A magnetic liquid that we manipulated with a small magnet. I found todays experiments very interesting and fun. Though making it was a slow process, it had to be exact and done according to the directions like baking. One thing off and the whole experiment could go wrong. The time and patience was worth […]
Today we were introduced to the more artistic part of this course. Rita and Gao talke about shapes in nature, engineering, and art.We then moved onto Einstein and Newtons theories on gravity and the speed of light and how the two didn’t match up if the sun were to go away. Later we went into […]
So today was veryyy cool . We got more into the art part of this and i really liked the labs we went to. We saw Olivia’s hair through the scanning electron microscope which went as fast as her splitting it off and then right into the machine. The technology was pretty cool, touch screen, […]
YESS its friday!! today was pretty chill and not as busy as earlier in the week. We had lectures this morning and then did out midterm presentations. There were some pretty good, unique ideas. Since we didn’t visit any labs today i’ve got no pictures for you. We then got to see the Desma kids […]
So today we learned how they’re using nano-technology in medicine. One nanometer is equal to one billionth of a meter. Did you know the nose can smell 25 parts per million in the air? We also went into quantum dots again which is clusters of semi-conductors, single oxcitation, and multi-color emission. If its 2nm then […]
Today we went to the microscopes labs and learned bout the different types and got to look through them. A few types included compound, electron, field ion (visualize atom) scanning tunneling function (structure). Three types: the Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), the Transmission Electron Microscope where the electrons go through the sample and detectors receive electrons […]