Experience Nanotechnology

THE EXPERIMENTS

The kit contains 14 experiments that help you understand the effects of nanotechnology:

• Experiments to obtain the lotus effect
• Hydrophobic surfaces on wood and stone
• Hydrophobic surfaces on textiles
• Hydrophilic surfaces: “invisible ink” on glass
• Scratch-resistant coating on wood
• Nanocoating for fire protection
• Electrical conductivity of glass through indium tin oxide
• Photocatalysis with titanium oxide
• Ferrofluids in the magnetic field
• Density separation with ferrofluid
• Identification of colloids through the Tyndall effect
• Production of nanoscale gold
• Memory metal – atom movements in the nano-dimension
• Spitting fire with small particles

THE DEMO OBJECTS

5 more demonstration objects illustrate other topics of nanotechnology:

• Play of colours on surfaces: hemisphere with flip-flop effect
• Pregnancy test: gold particles identify biomolecules
• From sand to chip I: silica sand
• From sand to chip II: rock crystal
• From sand to chip III: silicon wafer