Nanoscience

Russell Sage College
This web site is intended as a resource for teachers and students, at both the high school and the undergraduate college level. Click here for a detailed description of our NSF funded project. Follow the links in the right pane to download laboratory modules. We are beginning the second year of our project to incorporate nano-scale teaching and learning into the curriculum at Russell Sage. In the first year, we adapted some of the materials posted on this University of Wisconsin website for our own use. A core group of students developed our starting set of lab modules (listed to the right), and in the process became very familiar with the chemistry and physics of some nanoscale materials, and some of their nanotechnology applications. These students will introduce the initial modules to other students in a variety of undergraduate chemistry and physics courses starting in the Fall 2009 semester. In this second year, we will begin developing our own unique modules (tied in with INVEST) and expanding the reach of this project to students and teachers in as many disciplines as possible. NEW! Click here to download a copy of our lab module on Atomic Force Microscopy for General Physics I.	Titanium Dioxide Solar Cell Preparation of a Fuel Cell Periodic Properties of Light-Emitting Diodes Building the LED Reference Box Replication of Surface Structures with Polydimethylsiloxane Synthesis of Colloidal Gold Synthesis of Aqueous Ferrofluid Preparation of an Organic Light Emitting Diode Synthesis of Nickel Nanowires Cadmium Sulfide Nanoparticles Octadecanethiol Monolayer on Silver Microcontact Printing of Thiols Cholesteryl Ester Liquid Crystal Thermometer

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Russell Sage College

This web site is intended as a resource for teachers and students, at both the high school and the undergraduate college level. Click here for a detailed description of our NSF funded project. Follow the links in the right pane to download laboratory modules.

We are beginning the second year of our project to incorporate nano-scale teaching and learning into the curriculum at Russell Sage. In the first year, we adapted some of the materials posted on this University of Wisconsin website for our own use. A core group of students developed our starting set of lab modules (listed to the right), and in the process became very familiar with the chemistry and physics of some nanoscale materials, and some of their nanotechnology applications. These students will introduce the initial modules to other students in a variety of undergraduate chemistry and physics courses starting in the Fall 2009 semester. In this second year, we will begin developing our own unique modules (tied in with INVEST) and expanding the reach of this project to students and teachers in as many disciplines as possible.

NEW! Click here to download a copy of our lab module on Atomic Force Microscopy for General Physics I.

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