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Size Matters-Student Materials
This unit of five lessons provides student materials for an introduction to nanoscience, focusing on concepts related to the size and scale, unusual properties of the nanoscale, tools of the nanosciences, and example applications.
Clear Sunscreen-Student Materials
This unit of five lessons provides student materials for a comparison of traditional and nanosized sunscreens for effectiveness as full-sprectrum skin protection against long-wave ultraviolet light.
Fine Filters-Student Materials
This unit of four lessons provides student materials for an investigation and comparison of water filtration technologies, including nanofiltration using a new generation of membranes.

Nanotechnology – NanoLeap
How Can a Gecko Walk on a Ceiling?
What Do We Mean When We
Speak About Surfaces in Contact?
What Are Your Ideas About Small Sizes?
What Do We Learn When We Look More Closely?
What Types of Forces Can Hold Objects Together?
How Much Force Is Needed to Make an  Object Stick? What Factors Affect the Strength
of Force Acting on an Object?
How Do We Measure Forces at the Nanoscale Level?
Why Is Merely Looking not Enough?
How Can a Gecko Walk on a Ceiling?


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Digital Textbooks and Free Computers