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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?

II. Manipulating atoms

Photo credit: Laurence Fragnol/ CCSTI Grenoble

VIDEO
Seeing and manipulating the invisible: the scanning tunnelling microscope (Nano, the next dimension).
The invention of the scanning tunnelling microscope in 1981 was a genuine revolution:
at last, we could acquire images of matter on the atomic scale. (Length: 3'20")

VIDEO
Nanofactory, the molecular plant

Conveyor belts and carriers, and on the production line… atoms! This is what a molecular factory used to manufacture products atom by atom might look like. (Length: 4'47")

HANDS-ON EXHIBIT
The size of the instrument
The tools currently used by researchers are much larger than atoms and this does not make their work any easier. Try to build a structure in Lego® wearing boxing gloves!

HANDS-ON EXHIBIT
The bonding effect possessed by matter
Test the bonding effect possessed by matter. Build a small structure, but be warned:
the blocks will stick to your tools. Improving instrumentation is a great challenge today.

HANDS-ON EXHIBIT
The haptic or force-feedback arm
Using this electromechanical device, you can feel and hear the forces and sounds at work in the nanoworld.

Biochip display
Presentation of different types of biochip: DNA chip, lab-on-a-chip, cell-on-chip.

Carbon nanotubes display
Presentation of an enlarged molecular model of fullerene and samples of materials based on carbon nanotubes.