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7/10/09
Today was the day of our midterm presentations. Our project proposal was to find a successful way to treat HIV by finding a way to attack the virus and keep it from multiplying. The immune system is the body’s natural defense system against foreign substances. Cells that are part of this system are leukocytes, also […]
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7/14/09
Today, Victoria Vesna, one of the directors of the Science / Art Nanolab, presented the Daily introduction. We were then given about an hour and a half to work on our final project before lunch. After lunch, experiments were set up for us – FerroFluids and Photolithography. These hands-on labs directly showed me the connection […]
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7/13/09
Today’s daily introduction was about shapes in general, and classified under the category of shapes included shapes in nature. Crystals are atoms arranged in a specific packing sequence, and opals are clusters of nanospheres that reflect light. When you think about it, the solar system actually represents the shape of the atom. Our perception of […]
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7/16/09
Today, class started off with the last showing of “Look Around You.” We then had a guest speaker named Jim Gimzewski, who has become a well renowned scientist. Following this lecture, we were instructed to work in our project groups. The day was indisputably productive, allowing us to finalize and complete our animation and power […]
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7/15/09
“Incredible,” I thought. Right when I stepped into the Anechoic Chamber, I was immediately able to tell the difference. Everything outside the chamber was muffled, and the door was still open. The walls were made with a type of foam, placed in certain angles so sound would be able to bounce and reflect off from […]
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7/9/09
The day started off with a daily introduction. The topic for today was “Coming to Life.” Apparently, we live in what a lot of people call the Information Age. Materials have always been defined by their properties, and glass itself is actually considered a technology of its own time. Advances in materials have enabled us […]
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7/8/09
In the daily introductions today, I found out that the whole concept of nanotechnology is not new at all. It has dated back all the way to Leonardo Da Vinci’s time, in which we would perform dissections on dead human bodies, which was not really done at his time. The formation of movies regarding nanotechnology […]
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7/7/09
The day started off with a “Look Around You” video, which is a science fiction comedy. Later on in the day, we went downstairs in the CNSI building to go visit some labs, including our professor’s lab, Nano and Pico Characterization. We also stopped by electron microscopy and advanced optical/fluorescence imaging labs. In the fluorescence […]