The Next Big Thing: Nanotechnology - for iPod/iPhone
By The Open University
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Description
How - and why - would you build a machine 10,000 times thinner than a human hair? This album features experts discussing the paradigm shift that is occurring in science. Scientists are learning to manipulate atoms on the scale of a billionth of a metre and control them to perform specific tasks. They can emulate biological and chemical systems to fabricate machines that will destroy cancer cells in the body, giving us nano-drugs of the future; and IBM is using nano-technology for information storage on a molecular scale. There are many other applications which will have a significant impact on the way we live. This album also provides an introduction to quantum computing and quantum mechanics. The material forms part of The Open University course S250 Science in context.
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The Next Big Thing: Nanotechnology | A short introduction to this album. | 12 4 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- The Next Big Thing: Nanotechnology | Transcript -- A short introduction to this album. | 12 4 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 3 | VideoThe Next Big Thing | Atomic scale engineering – facts and the fiction. A panel discussion chaired by Colin Blakemore. | 18 5 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- The Next Big Thing | Transcript -- Atomic scale engineering – facts and the fiction. A panel discussion chaired by Colin Blakemore. | 18 5 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 5 | VideoThe Future is Bright | The panel discuss the huge range of potential applications, from nano-computers to nano-devices to clean the body's arteries. | 18 5 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- The Future is Bright | Transcript -- The panel discuss the huge range of potential applications, from nano-computers to nano-devices to clean the body's arteries. | 18 5 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 7 | Video"Buckyballs": Triggering a Nano-Revolution | The exciting discovery in 1985 of an unknown form of carbon, the building blocks of today's nano world. Introducing the Electron and Scanning Tunnelling Microscopes in Cambridge. | 18 5 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- "Buckyballs": Triggering a Nano-Revolution | Transcript -- The exciting discovery in 1985 of an unknown form of carbon, the building blocks of today's nano world. Introducing the Electron and Scanning Tunnelling Microscopes in Cambridge. | 18 5 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 9 | VideoQuantum Mechanics | How we can re-position atoms one by one to build a structure, and the tools needed to do it. | 18 5 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- Quantum Mechanics | Transcript -- How we can re-position atoms one by one to build a structure, and the tools needed to do it. | 18 5 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 11 | VideoRobots in Our Bodies? | How we can begin to engineer nano-particles to fix medical problems inside the body. | 18 5 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- Robots in Our Bodies? | Transcript -- How we can begin to engineer nano-particles to fix medical problems inside the body. | 18 5 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 13 | VideoThe New Machine Age | The future of nano-technology; this mechanical revolution will emulate biological systems. | 18 5 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transcript -- The New Machine Age | Transcript -- The future of nano-technology; this mechanical revolution will emulate biological systems. | 18 5 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Brilliant short course
I highly recommend to anyone with an interest in nanotechnology to give it a watch. It has very passionate and inspiring individuals from variety of backgrounds relating to nanotechnology.
