“Nanotechnology:  What’s the Big Deal?” introduces facts and dispels myths about the important field of nanoscience. At the ultra-tiny nanoscale, common materials can behave in unusual ways.  Scientists are working to understand this phenomenon and how it applies to our lives. 

In this exhibit you will see what a billion (and one-billionth) of something looks like. You can manipulate the size of a quantum dot to see its strange changing properties. You will also watch as floating molecules move themselves into an orderly pattern. These are just some of the amazing facts you will learn about nanotechnology.

Through a partnership with NISE Network, “Nanotechnology” will tour the Arkansas Discovery Network’s seven museum partners through 2011.

Arkansas Children’s Hospital has partnered with the Network by sponsoring three of the nanomedicine exhibits. Each of these components features information about research being conducted specifically in Arkansas in this important, new field.