Outreach and Education
Bio-inspired Super-strong Carbon Materials
Prof. Rodney S. Ruoff
Scitizen, 2 August 2007
Our work in the July 26, 2007 issue of Nature demonstrates a materials platform that can be further tuned through chemistry to perhaps yield super-strong but lightweight structures with many applications. Structures in living systems offer us “bio-inspiration”, and with that in hand, we can discuss how to take advantage of the superb intrinsic stiffness and strength of nanostructures such as a single layer of graphite, by configuring them in 3-dimensional space in the right way, and with the right molecular glue between them.
In Focus: Research at Princeton
FRS 120: Materials World [ST] , Spring 2005
First offered as FRS 122, Spring 2003
NASA Educational Television:
The NASA SCI Files
The Case of the Great Space Exploration
The Tree House Detectives dial up Ms. Dana Novak at the University of California at Santa Barbarato learn how mussels and bloodworms are helping scientists invent newself-healing materials for spacecraft.
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Seminars and Lectures
J. J. Hermans Lectureship, October 2003
H. J. C. Berendsen, Laboratory of Biophysical Chemistry
University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Hosted by the University of North Carolina-Chapel
Hill
Complex Materials Seminars, Spring 2004
Princeton University
19th Annual National Educator's Workshop
Held October 16 – 20, 2004 at Arizona State University and Phoenix Area Industry. For more information, visit MST-Online.
18th Annual National Educator's Workshop
Held October 19 - 22, 2003 in Newport News and Hampton, Virginia. For more information, visit MST-Online.
BIMat-Sponsored Short Courses, 2003
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"Nanoscale Design of Materials"
NSF Summer Institute on Nano
Mechanics and Materials
August 25 - 29, 2003
Northwestern University
"Nanoscale Mechanical Characterization:
The Theory and Practice of Contact Probe Techniques"
NSF Summer Institute on Nano
Mechanics and Materials
August 11 - 15, 2003
Northwestern University
"Nanotechnology and Multifunctional Materials:
Bio/Nano Structures, Multiscale
Designs and Multiphysics"
4th International Symposium on MEMS and Nanotechnology
Society for Experimental Mechanics
May 31, 2003
Charlotte,
North Carolina
Academic Courses for 2003/2004
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FRS 128: Materials World [ST], Spring 2004
First offered as FRS 122, Spring 2003
(Princeton University)
Courses in Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials
(Northwestern University)
BIMat Summer Internships
BIMatis committed to giving talented undergraduate students the opportunityto train in areas related to bio-nanotechnology through a variety ofeducational and outreach activities. Competitive internshipopportunities were made available to undergraduate students in the Summers of 2003, 2004, and 2005. All of the selected students conducted their respective internships in residence at NASA LaRC, working closely with NASA scientists on research projects related to biomimetics and nanotechnology.
Meet our 2007 interns!
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Meet our 2005 interns!
Meet our 2004 interns!
Meet our 2003 interns!
