•  Practical information
   plan of the exhibition
•  The visit
•  Photos of the exhibition
•  The travelling exhibition
•  Exhibition credits

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THE EXIBITS

Ready for a journey into the nanoworld?
Films, multimedia and hands-on exhibits explain the nature of these nanotechnologies, which let us manipulate atoms to manufacture objects and materials with astonishing properties. They also offer food for thought about the ethical issues raised by the use of nanotechnologies.

I. Step into the nanoworld

II. Manipulating atoms

III. They are already among us!

IV. Does the future need us?

I. Step into the nanoworld

Photo credit: Laurence Fragnol/ CCSTI Grenoble

The self-cleaning lotus
Guess why there is a lotus pool at the entrance to an exhibition about nanotechnologies! A clue: the lotus leaf is self-cleaning… The answer is in the exhibition!

VIDEO
Zoom in on the invisible
A giddying, 45-second zoom in / out from the scale of the Universe to the atomic scale and vice versa. (Length: 1'30")

HANDS-ON EXHIBIT
The 5 types of atomic bond

Pull on each red ball to compare the strengths of the different bonds that group atoms into molecules: which is the strongest?

HANDS-ON EXHIBIT
Atomic table football
If the ball were an atom and the football table a few nanometres long, could you hit the ball? Another demonstration of the strength of atomic bonds.

HANDS-ON EXHIBIT
Quantum uncertainty
It is impossible to know both the speed of an electron moving around the nucleus of an atom and its position. Find out yourself!

HANDS-ON EXHIBIT
Brownian motion
Move the balls in the cylinder. You can be certain they will fly about and bounce off each other to produce an irregular movement, like atoms on a nanometric scale.

MULTIMEDIA INSTALATION
Nanojourney
A fascinating journey through decimals. You can take three different trips: a plunge into the body, a plunge into matter and a plunge into light.