Sticky Fingers

Materials and Nanoscience

Plug a power cord into an outlet...

Make the cable inside the cord...

Connect a wire on a computer chip...

The drive for small

• medicine
• environmental cleanup
• electronics capabilities
• personal communications and computing

"Fat" Fingers

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set it free.”
- Michaelango

Subtractive Manufacturing

A Single Human Hair

How small is small?

Try to connect the wire where quantum mechanics reigns.

Van der waal’s forces

Practice Electrical Connections

• Learn to measure resistance in ohms.
• Practice reducing the resistance.

Things that are better small

• filters that can catch tinier pollutants
• circuitry that can be used in nanomedicine (cell repair, nanobots)
• materials improvements at the nanoscale

“There’s plenty of room at the bottom."