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Penrose Tilings
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This web page contains two applets that allow the user to create Penrose tilings with rhomboids. The first applet requires the user to construct the tiling for themselves while the…
http://merganser.math.gvsu.edu/david/penrose/
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A Nanotube Space Elevator
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In this short video, adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, Neil deGrasse Tyson describes the amazing tensile strength of carbon nanotubes and how they might be used to construct a space…
https://oeta.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/oer08.sci.engin.systems.eleva...
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Nanotubes and Other Forms of Carbon
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This set of videos, from the University of Wisconsin, show visualizations of the forms of carbon: graphite, graphine, diamond, fullerene, and nanotube. For each of the these forms, a…
https://chemistry.beloit.edu/edetc/cineplex/nanotube/index.html
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Spinning Carbon Nanotubes Spawns New Wireless Applications
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This news article from the University of Cincinnati describes how long carbon nanotubes grown in its labs are spun into threads, and how these threads can function as an antenna.…
https://www.uc.edu/news/articles/legacy/enews/2009/03/e9743.html
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STM at Sljus
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This site, from Lund University in Sweden, offers a description of the institution's extensive work with scanning tunneling microscopy. The page also gives the history of the device…
http://web.archive.org/web/20111203113932/http://www.sljus.lu.se/stm/Non...
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Cornell News: New Nanoguitar
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This news article provides information about the newest version of the “nanoguitar” created at Cornell University. The article describes how a radiofrequency laser beam resonates the…
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/1997/07/worlds-smallest-silicon-mechani...
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Strange Matter
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At this site from the Ontario Science Center, complete with lively graphics and sound, you can explore the science of materials. To get started, zoom in on a soda can, all the way…
http://www.strangematterexhibit.com/index.html
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Dr. Ko van der Weele’s Recent Research
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This website provides an introduction to recent research on fluids and granular materials. A video, entitled "Leaping Shampoo," shows shampoo being poured onto a surface where the…
https://thalis.math.upatras.gr/~weele/weelerecentresearch_mainpage.htm
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Make-a-Flake
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Explore symmetry and snowflakes at this site by Barkley. On the screen, a piece of paper will be folded for you, and all you have to do is cut away whatever you like with the…
http://snowflakes.barkleyus.com/
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Ripples on Icicles
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Publisher: University of Toronto: Experimental Nonlinear Physics Group
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This website, from the University of Toronto, provides a discussion of the instability that gives rise to ripples on the surface of icicles. A description of this instability is…
http://web.archive.org/web/20120305200943/http://www.physics.utoronto.ca...
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