The document summarizes a seminar on nanotechnology and electron microscopy. During the seminar, participants were introduced to the nano scale world ranging from 500 to 10 nanometers. They conducted experiments staining materials like gold with temperature and pressure to observe new properties. Samples were then viewed under a scanning electron microscope to see formations at the nano level, like how particle behavior differs based on location. Nanotechnology allows studying and manipulating processes at the tiny nano scale, though viewing filaments with the SEM was unsuccessful for the participants.

1. 2st Summary- Nanotechnology and Electron Microscopy Dr. Wilfredo Otaño February 12, 2015
During the Seminar of Nanotechnology and Electron Microscope we were introduced into the nano world which consists of
the things that are within the radius of five hundred to ten nanometers scale. (Afterwards we were taken to a series
of.stations in the nanotech field that complied of small processes like the creation of material through an equipment that
could stain with a certain material in our example we used gold and through the conditions of temperature and pressure to
see the results of the stained material. Once the material was stained it could add on some properties of the metal like
boiling point, conductivity and others. In order to see the formation of fibers, we had to look through the Scanning Electron
Microscope (SEM). We also learned other concepts on the nano scale like the behavior of particles in layers because the
more inner the particles are their behavior with be different to those on the outer side. Dr. Otaño said that the particles that
are in the surface will behave differently than those that are in the core of any material just because they have more
superficial area. We also saw some allotropes of the carbon atom that could be in a graphite or diamond, but recently
discovered from the graphite when a thin amount is taken. This thin layer of graphite can have many new purpose of
conductivity of electricity in nano scale for future investigations. Nanotechnology can be complicated but interesting in the
matter that the processes that take place in such scale are able to be studied and worked upon. Even though we
successfully prepared our sample we weren’t able to see the filaments on the SEM.
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