Cool Links

Nano in the Valley & Beyond

• NDSU-Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering
  www.ndsu.nodak.edu/cnse
• UND-Physics Department Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
  www2.und.edu/~nano
• NNIN – National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network
  www.nnin.org/index.html
• Foresight Nanotech Institute
  www.foresight.org

What is a Nano?

• When Things Get Small
  www.ucsd.tv/getsmall
  Introduction into the world of nanotechnology
• Powers of Ten
  micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html
  Travel from outer space all the way down to the universe of electrons and protons
• The Nano Car
  www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_LOpYg1eOw
  How big is a nanometer?

Nano applied to real life

• Video Journey into Nanotechnology
  nano.cancer.gov/resource_center/video_journey.asp
  National Cancer Institute video introducing nanotechnology's role in the cancer battle
• National Geographic Interview
  www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0606/feature4/multimedia.html
  An interview with the photographer from the Nanotechnology article as featured in the June 2006 National Geographic issue.
• Nano-Products
  www.nnin.org/nnin_nanoproducts.html
  Real world applications of nanotechnology

Great images

• NSF Screensavers
  www.nsf.gov/news/overviews/nano/screensaver.jsp
  National Science Foundation has free screensavers available for download
• Small Images
  www.time.com/time/photoessays/2006/microscopy_small_world
  Interesting images from TIME
• Sandia MEMS Image Gallery
  mems.sandia.gov/scripts/images.asp
  MEMS images from Sandia National Laboratories

Newsletters and Magazines

• Nanobites Newsletter
  Nanobites-Volume II (pdf)
  
• Nanooze
  www.nanooze.org
  Magazine for kids with exciting news about math, science and nanotechnology
• Nano Tsunami
  www.nano-tsunami.com
  Nanotechnology newsletter
• Small Times
  www.smalltimes.com
  News about MEMS, Nanotechnology, Nanoparticles, Microsystems and Nanotechnology Stock

Nobel Prizes

• Fullerene Award
  www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1996/press.html
  1996 award in Chemistry for fullerenes (buckyballs).

Past, Present and Future of Nanotechnoloy

• There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom
  www.zyvex.com/nanotech/feynman.html
  Richard Feynman gave a speech back in 1959 that sparked some great minds to think small!
• Prey by Michael Crichton
  www.crichton-official.com/prey
  Is this novel from 2002 fact or fiction?
• Space Elevator
  www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3401/02.html
  Will your future vacations include outer space?

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