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Exploring Tools - Special Microscopes

"Exploring Tools - Special Microscopes" is a hands-on activity in which visitors use a flexible magnet as a model for a scanning probe microscope. They learn that SPMs are an example of a special tool that scientists use to work...
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Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network
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NanoDays kit
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Scientific Image - AFM Image of Polyethylene Plastic (false color)

Atomic Force Microcope image (false color) of polyethylene, a common plastic. • SIZE: Scale bar representes 2 µm • IMAGING TOOL: Atomic Force Microscope
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Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network
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Scientific Image - AFM Image of Polyethylene Plastic (black and white)

Atomic Force Microcope image (black and white) of polyethylene, a common plastic. • SIZE: Scale bar representes 2 µm • IMAGING TOOL: Atomic Force Microscope
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Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network
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Exploring Tools - Transmission Electron Microscopes

Exploring Tools - Transmission Electron Microscopes

"Exploring Tools - Transmission Electron Microscopes" is a hands-on activity in which visitors use a model of a transmission electron microscope to image an object by looking at its shadow. They learn that scientists use special tools and equipment to...

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Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network
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NanoDays kit
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CDs and DVDs as Diffraction Gratings (High School curriculum lesson)

The objective of this lab is to campare the diffraction behavior of light waves between a CD and DVD. CDs and DVDs contain regularly spaced micrometer sized features which can act like a diffraction grating. Using commercial electronic storage devices...
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Linked Products
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NanoFabulous

NanoFabulous, an exhibition developed by the University of Maryland, College Park Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) is on display at Port Discovery Children’s Museum in Baltimore, MD. The exhibit is designed to help children and their families understand...
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Linked Products
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Exploring Tools - Mystery Shapes

Exploring Tools - Mystery Shapes

"Exploring Tools - Mystery Shapes" is a hands-on activity in which visitors use their sense of touch to investigate hidden objects. They learn that researchers use special tools, including scanning probe microscopes, to detect and make images of nanoscale objects...

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Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network
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NanoDays kit
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Zoom into a Pencil Line of Graphene with an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) - Illustration

This illustration shows how an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) is used to image a line of graphene made by a pencil. The scale spans ten orders of magnitude, from the microscope and pencil to the atoms that compose the scanning...
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Linked Products
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