Northeast STEM Net

(cont.) ... STEM STAR Daniela Wilson tells @Wired: "Today we are a step closer to making it science fact." bcove.me/0ed3yogf

STEM STAR D. Wilson tells @Wired: Nano jet engines seeking out disease & administering drugs to sick cells may seem like science fiction...

CHECK IT OUT: Smaller Magnetic Materials Push Boundaries of Nanotechnology: nyti.ms/zVBiYh

CHECK IT OUT: Smaller Magnetic Materials Push Boundaries of Nanotechnology: nyti.ms/zVBiYh

DID YOU KNOW? carbon nanotubes may replace silicon in electronic products?

DID YOU KNOW? many people are very excited about the possibilities created by nanotechnology, but much of the excitement is based on theory

DID YOU KNOW? nano materials are both lightweight and extremely strong

CHECK IT OUT: the inventors of the scanning tunneling microscope won a Nobel prize. ow.ly/9XNhe

STEM STARS Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer invented the scanning tunneling microscope, a key instrument in nanotechnology studies.

CHECK IT OUT: see a diagram of a scanning tunneling microscope ow.ly/9XMW7

CHECK IT OUT: a new method of nano-printing ow.ly/9XMLB

DID YOU KNOW? It will be years before nano factories become a reality. ow.ly/9XLSc

STEM STAR Robert Freitas Jr says Nanofactory's products would have every atom in exactly the right place & be made from strongest materials

CHECK IT OUT: The nano factory of the future, a compact molecular manufacturing system, could build large-scale, atomically precise products

DID YOU KNOW? Understanding how motor proteins move material around in cells can help scientists learn how 2 make more efficient big motors.

STEM STAR: Paul Weiss, @UCLA, says the nano-car can help scientists learn why tiny motors in nature are so efficient. ow.ly/9XKJe

STEM STAR: Syuzanna Harutyunyan's nano car is a molecule with a long body & a paddle at each corner. ow.ly/9XKdE

CHECK IT OUT: many scientists working with nanotechnology seek to mimic nature.

DID YOU KNOW? protective clothing & filtration masks may not protect workers from invasive nano-particles? ow.ly/9XFep

DID YOU KNOW? keeping nanotubes in a liquid solution lowers the risk of inhalation, & may make it safer to work with nano-materials.