Crystal

Scanning Electron Microscope image of common table salt crystals. • SIZE: Scale bar representes 100 µm. • IMAGING TOOL: Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)

Scanning Electron Microscope image of white sugar crystals. • SIZE: Scale bar representes 100 µm. • IMAGING TOOL: Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)

Scanning Electron Microscope image of Epsom Salt crystals. • SIZE: Scale bar representes 20o µm. • IMAGING TOOL: Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)

"Exploring Products - Nano Food" is a hands-on activity exploring how nanotechnology may be used in food products. Visitors investigate how the size of salt crystals may allow for lower sodium, but still full flavor foods.

This is a scanning electron microscope image of a photonic crystal. The periodic arrangement of the holes in the material controls the movement of light within the crystal. A photonic crystal's highly ordered and repetitive structure affects the way light...

This is an optical microscope image of a liquid crystal (Cromlyn in water). The colors are created by molecular variations or changes in the crystal's thickness. Liquid crystals have properties of both liquids and solids: Although they can flow like...

"Snowflakes" is a public presentation that introduces nanoscale science through the subject of snowflakes. Visitors learn that the complex structure of snowflakes results from the nanoscale arrangement of water molecules in an ice crystal, and that snowflakes are examples of...