Nanoscience involves the study of chemical and physical changes that happen at the nanoscale. Researchers and scientists are interested in ...
Researchers and scientists are interested in the nanoscale, because when many materials get down to these tiny sizes, they start ...
A nanometre is a billionth of a metre. Nanoscale can refer to things less than 100 nanometres in size, or ...
In this activity, students collect and record data and use it to create 2D and 3D images of an unseen ...
Nanoscience is a field of science that is often given a specific starting date – 1959. It was an idea ...
An inquiry approach is a method often used in science education. The question bank provides an initial list of questions about nanoscience and places where their ...
Making materials that are stronger yet lighter (less dense) is an on-going challenge for materials scientists. It’s hard to make a strong, durable material without adding ...
Electrospinning is an extensively studied and widely applied method for nanofibre production. It produces long, continuous fibres with diameters ranging from a few nanometres up to ...
Nanofibres are an exciting class of nanoscale materials. Individually, nanofibres are so small they’re hard to imagine or to visualise, but when collected together, they form ...
Revolution Fibres was a high-tech start-up company that produced commercial quantities of electrospun nanofibre. They were one of a few companies worldwide and previously the only ...
This resource provides explanations of the key concepts encountered when exploring nanoscience – the ‘basics’ that every student should understand. Atoms and elements Microscopes Nanoparticle structure ...
‘Nano’ means small, right? Sort of. To scientists, ‘nano’ doesn’t just mean small. It means almost unimaginably small. A nanometre (nm) is a billionth of a ...
Position: Director Electron Microscope Unit and Professor in the School of Chemistry, University of New South Wales, Australia. Field: Nanotechnology. When we first interviewed Dr Richard ...
Position: Professor Emeritus, Nanotechnology, School of Food and Advanced Technology, Massey University Field: Nanotechnology Richard Haverkamp was a Professor of Nanotechnology in the School of Food ...
Position: Professor, School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington and Principal investigator, MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology. Field: Physics. Physics at ...
Nanoscale silicon quantum dots are being developed in New Zealand. They will be able to locate and show up cancerous cells in humans, and deliver drugs ...
Scientists at Victoria University of Wellington are making new shapes of nanoparticles. These will help reduce poisonous emissions from car exhausts by making catalytic converters in ...
In a corner of a laboratory at Massey University’s Institute of Technology and Engineering, plants are growing under bright lights. They look out of place amongst ...
Professor Richard Haverkamp and Dr Aaron Marshall are chemical engineers at Massey University, Palmerston North. They have created nanoparticles and catalysts that will help fuel the ...
Position: Former Associate Dean (Research and Innovation), School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington. Field: Organometallic Chemistry and Carbon Nanotubes. Emeritus Professor John ...
Nanotechnology is possible partly because tools have been developed to ‘see’ particles of matter a nanometre (nm) across, or smaller. That’s less than a billionth of ...
In this activity, students use modelling clay to construct different shapes (sphere, cube, cylinder) and calculate surface area:volume ratios with the aim of trying to develop ...
In this activity, students realise that they are growing up in a world in which nanotechnology could have a huge impact and explore some of the ...
In this activity, students investigate the pattern of magnetic fields on a fridge magnet. This will give them an idea of the principle behind scanning probe ...
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