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Nanotechnology -- Study and teaching

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Foresight Institute: Nanotechnology

The Foresight Institute is "a nonprofit educational organization formed to help prepare society for anticipated advanced technologies." They offer this comprehensive webpage on nanotechnology, addressing why nanotechnology might be important to you, and providing information for the General Reader, the Technical Reader and other resources on technical issues, jobs, education, policy issues,...

https://foresight.org/nano-50-awards-announced/
McLean nanoPhysics

The McLean nanophysics group at Queen's University is mostly interested in studying nano-architecture and inverse photoemissions. The website presents the latest activities and updates of the group. Almost eighty publications are listed at the site, with links to downloads for most of them. The students in the group have also posted many of their masters' theses and other publications. Users can...

https://www.queensu.ca/physics/mclean-research-group/
MIT: Space Nanotechnology Laboratory

The Space Nanotechnology Laboratory (SNL) at MIT conducts research on nanofabrication, nanometer-accuracy x-ray optics fabrication, assembly and metrology, ultra-high resolution lithography, nanometrology, and nano-accuracy diffraction grating fabrication. SNL's pride and joy is the world's most advanced grating patterning tool, the Nanoruler -- a ruler with "ticks" only a few hundred billionths...

http://snl.mit.edu/
Nano.gov

Since 2000, the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) has brought together the numerous government agencies needed to advance research and development in the field of nanotechnology that " is taking place in academic, government, and industry laboratories across the United States." Visitors new to nanotechnology will find the tabs on the far right of the website to help explain the basics,...

https://www.nano.gov/
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Nano: For K-12 Teachers

As this informative page from the United States National Nanotechnology Initiative notes, there is an ongoing debate in STEM circles about how to teach nanotechnology. Should it have its own individual curriculum or should it be woven into the many curriculums from which it draws? While this site does not attempt to answer such questions, it does provide a huge range of resources for high school...

https://www.nano.gov/resources/education-and-outreach/teache...
Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion of Emerging Technologies

Sponsored by the Foresight Institute (a non-profit educational organization), the Nanodot site is designed to disseminate news and ongoing developments in the field of molecular nanotechnology. (For those unfamiliar with the rapidly growing field of nanotechnology, it is now considered one of the most important scientific developments of the 21st century, and at its essence is a process which...

http://nanodot.org/
nanoHUB.org: Simulation, Education, and Community for Nanotechnology

The nanoHUB was developed by the Network for Computational Nanotechnology and is funded by the National Science Foundation. For a thorough introduction to "What is a Nano?", visitors should go to the "About" section. Here they will find an excellent definition of nanotechnology that not only explains how big a nano is (one billionth of a meter, for those who didn't know already), but it also...

https://nanohub.org/
NanoTeachers: Bringing Nanoscience into the Classroom

Are you interested in bringing nanoscience into your classroom? Well, this website may be just the thing to help. Created by staff members at the Center for Probing the Nanoscale at Stanford University and supported with funds from the National Science Foundation, the site offers instructional materials for teachers. Most of the materials can be found in the Activities area. Here interested...

https://nanolabs.stanford.edu/education-outreach
Nanotechnology Now

This Web site provides an outstanding introduction to the world of nanotechnology. Many standpoints of the topic are discussed, from current and future applications to the "ethics of nanotechnology." Scattered throughout the site are historic, visionary quotes and excerpts from notable journals and publications. Transcripts of interviews with prominent researchers give readers an idea of the...

http://www.nanotech-now.com/nano_intro.htm
PSU Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization

As part of a collaborative effort between the National Science Foundation and a number of other institutions, the Penn State Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization is designed to incorporate nanotechnology into all levels of education and into industry applications. The materials on the site are divided into sections such as "Education", "Industry", "News", and "Resources". A good...

https://www.cneu.psu.edu
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