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2005 Nuggets
Materials Matter: It's a Nanoworld After All
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Through our partnership with Philadelphia's nationally renowned science museum The Franklin Institute, the museum show Materials Matter: It's a Nanoworld After All has been produced and distributed to 22 (roughly equal numbers of small, medium and large) science museums nationwide. Also provided are demonstrational materials and supplies to equip a show for a year at each museum. This 60-minute cart-based interactive exploration has been viewed by an estimated 300,000 (many of them school-aged) visitors in 2003. The show includes demonstrations and macro-scale models that explore the "micro" mechanisms behind the unusual and surprising "macro" behavior of materials such as aerogels, shape-memory alloys, polymers, electronic ink, and zeolites. A CNS development team consisting of six graduate students and six faculty members worked with five members of the program development staff at The Franklin Institute to develop the show. Two copies of the show reside at Penn State and are used by CNS to present the show locally. We are currently working to produce a second museum show on nanotechnology, Our Bodies: The Ultimate Nanotechnology Factory, to be distributed in the fall of 2004.
