Issue 20 of Nanooze: This issue of Nanooze is more than just sliced bread. It is all about food and how it is being transformed using nanotechnology. Food is an essential part of our lives but also a part of our culture. Travel the world and ... Read More...

Issue 19 of Nanooze: In this issue of Nanooze we will explore nano-manufacturing and the ways that new technology has made it possible to create nanometersized objects and devices using a whole new set of innovative materials. A nanometer is one billionth (1/ 1,000,000,000) of ... Read More...

Issue 18 of Nanooze: What’s in a name? Organic? Hmm… Are we talking about foods that are, well, a bit more expensive but also better for you? Not exactly. Here, organic describes the types of molecules used to create Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (OLEDs). OLEDs are ... Read More...

Issue 17 of Nanooze: What is small? A nanometer is 1/1,000,000,000 (1 billionth) of a meter. Pluck a hair out of your head (one please) and look at it. A hair is 100,000 nanometers wide. Back about 20 years ago, the smallest transistor in a computer chip ... Read More...

Issue 16 of Nanooze: Ever look at a bug and wonder how that tiny little critter manages to do things like climb up walls and survive long periods of time without food or water? Life on Earth is full of examples of plants and animals that ... Read More...

Issue #15, “The Environment” Nanotechnology is a new field of science that lets us do things at the atomic scale. We can build stuff from the ground up, one atom at a time. It isn’t really a “new” science, just new to us—there has been ... Read More...

Issue #14, “Energy” is about as important as anything. It powers our digital gadgets, our cars, all sorts of things. It also powers us. There are different forms of energy—kinetic, potential, mechanical, chemical, electrical and thermal—and they all have some nanoscale component. Nanotechnology is also ... Read More...

Selected editions of Nanooze are available for download in Spanish in print ready PDF format. This is in addition to the Spanish language content on the Nanooze web site. Sorry, we do not print and distribute Nanooze in Spanish but you are welcome to download ... Read More...

Issue 13 of Nanooze completes our 4 part series on Chemistry, begun in conjunction with  of the International Year of Chemistry.  ( see issue 10, issue 11, issue 12) .The unifying theme of issue 13 is one of the 4 commandments that are basic to ... Read More...

Issue #12, "Molecules in Motion", is part 3 of our series on chemistry. The concept of molecules in constant motion manifests itself in many ways throughout nanotechnology and is  #2 on the list of the main concepts of nanotechnology which run through our explanations. Download, view, ... Read More...

Issue #11, "Molecules",  is the 2nd in our four part series on Chemistry. One of the most important concepts in nanotechnology is that molecules have size and shape (#3 on the four basic concepts of nanotechnology). Download , view, and print  Issue #11 as normal ... Read More...

Issue 10---Atoms---is the first of a 4 part series in honor of the International Year of Chemistry. "Everything is made of Atoms" is the first of the Four Commandments. Download, View, and print Issue #10 as normal PDF View Issue #10 as electronic book (flippable pages) As always, ... Read More...

Issue #9, "Space", covers interesting applications of nanotechnology to space exploration. Download, View , and Print  Issue #9 as normal PDF View  Issue #9 as electronic book (flippable pages) As always, you may request free classroom packs of any of the available issue of Nanooze (free ... Read More...

There are an enormous number of applications of nanotechnology to health and medicine. In fact, with the possible exception of electronics, medicine is the area where you are most likely to encounter nanotechnology in daily life. Issue #8, Nanomedicine, covers both current and future applications ... Read More...

Nanotechnology is all around us—and not just in our computers and iPods. It’s in our food, the air we breathe, and lots of the stuff we use every day. Nanotechnology is everywhere and you might be surprised to find out that it isn’t new. Even ... Read More...

What is self-assembly? Few things in life are free. It usually takes parts and tools and some energy to build stuff. But can you imagine a bunch of parts assembling into something all by themselves? Some molecules can actually self- assemble to make interesting structures, i.e., ... Read More...

The last issue in our three part series dedicated to the Five Senses. Issue #5 explores Hearing and Touch. Most of the time we almost forget about them but there are five of them—smell, sight, hearing, taste and touch. A stinky sock, pizza, Red Hot Chili ... Read More...

Issue 4--Part 2 of the 5 senses-- covers the senses of Smell and Taste. They should work well as supplemental and enrichment material in support of biological sciences in the middle school and high school curricula. Download, view, and print Issue #4 as normal PDF View ... Read More...

Issue #3 is the first of a three part series on the Five Senses and what is “nano” about them.  The sense of Sight is so important it gets an entire issue of its own. (see issue #4 and Issue #5 for the other senses). Each ... Read More...

Issue #2 is no longer available via download or print.