Its a cold foggy day, but my I continue to move forward on this journey. Topic of the Day: Cancer Cells Two different methods were described to us aspiring students. It seems that cancer cells have different properties from regular cells. Therefore by changing the genetics of our nanoparticles, we are able to target the […]
The atomic force microscopy deals with creating images of the molecules and atoms. Yet personally, I have trouble understanding the concept of forces. Why would forces that attract atoms to each other all of a sudden reject when they are too close? Actually, I guess that does make sense. Molecules need a sense of interaction […]
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 […]