Get Students Mesmerized With Photonic Crystals & Self Assembly
January 25th, 2010 // 10:01 am @ admin
Self-assembly alone is by no means a novel idea. Human beings are self-assembled for starters. That’s right, back when you were still in the womb your body, in a quite miraculous manner, simply knew how to assemble itself. And it doesn’t stop there. The earth is self-assembled. The universe is [...]
Category : Blog & Nanotechnology
How Big Is A Nanometer?!
January 20th, 2010 // 2:02 pm @ admin
Here at NanoScienceKits.org, we work at a very tiny level; the nano level. At the nano level, we work in a measurement called a nanometer. A nanometer is one billionth of a meter. A meter is about 39 inches long or 3.28 feet. If you were to write a billion as a number it [...]
Category : Blog & Nanotechnology