Princeton Public Library is set to host NanoDays, presentations and hands-on activities about atoms, molecules and nanoscale, at 12 to 4 p.m. March 30.
Princeton University faculty, graduate students and library volunteers, are set to present information about materials science and the nanoscale -the scale of atoms and molecules. Scheduled programs demonstrate the special and unexpected properties found at the nanoscale, examine tools used by nanoscientists, showcase nano materials with spectacular promise, and discuss technology and society.
Polymer scientist and Princeton’s Chemical and Biological Engineering department chair Rick Register is set to present many properties of polymers at hands-on tables.
Expert in materials science simulations, Thanos Panagiotopoulos and his group will present computer simulations of materials in the nano world.
Also from the university’s Chemical and Biological Engineering Department, Rod Priestley is set to engage visitors with a nano-presentation, drawing from his expertise in nano-confined polymers and polymers glasses.
Anthony Novembre will demonstrate the electron microscope and create images in real time.
Leaders from the Electrical Engineering Department will also present, including semiconductor and materials scientist Antoine Kahn.
Bob Cava from the Chemistry Department will demonstrate ceramic superconductors that he and his group invented. Jason Petta, expert in nanowire properties, and his group will be demonstrating nano amazing materials.
Mike Mcalpine and his students will demonstrate piezo electric materials and new 3D printer technology.
NanoDays is organized by the Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network and takes place nationally this year from March 30-April 7.
This event is co-sponsored by the Princeton Center for Complex Material, a National Science Foundation funded research center dedicated to addressing fundamental problems in science and engineering and multidisciplinary materials research and education of the highest quality.
More information is online at princetonlibrary.org.
