Pollen photos using a Scanning Electron Microscope
Explore nanoscience with virtual labs and simulations
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Nano-World
A Showcase Suite for Technology-
Enhanced Learning
Florian Müller, Martin Guggisberg,
Helmar Burkhart and Tibor Gyalog
Email:Martin.Guggisberg@unibas.ch
Co-funded by the
Community programme
eContentplus
2. Outlook
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• Nanoscience Education
• Virtual Experiments: NanoSimulator
• Nano3D Visualization Tool
• Interactive NanoJoystick
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NanoScience
See the invisible
Co-funded by the
Community programme
eContentplus
4. x 90‘000
Eyes
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Electro Microscope
x 300
x 27‘000‘000
Light Microscope Atomic Force Microscope
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Real Nanoscience Laboratory
UHV Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) University Basel
Group of Prof. E. Meyer
http://www.nanoscience.ch
6. Virtual Experiments: NanoSimulator
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Swiss Virtual Campus Project
2000 - 2006
http://www.virtualcampus.ch/
• Single Molecule
• Electrochemistry
• Imaging /
3D Visualiation
• Friction
Download the NanoSimulator from:
http://www.nano-world.org
7. Fricton on the nanoscale
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The friction mode of the nanosimulator allows students to observe
atomic stick-slip.
This phenomena is well described in many actual nanoscience
publications.
Visit: http://friction.nano-world.org/
8. Tomlinson mechanism
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Explanation of stick slip phenomena
Simulations are based on an elastic deformation model
FN
FL v
9. Specific task for the students
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• Students have to fullfill specific taks and
write a report on.
• for example
10. Concrete task for the students
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Calculation of the torsional spring constant by FFM
10 nN
k= F/s
0.8 nm
11. Nano3D Visualization Tool
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Nano3D hides the complexities of the tool chain by
using a parameter-oriented webapplication
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13. Si 7x7 (111) low temperature
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Nano3D allaws students to work on true experiment data
Publication: M. Lantz et al.,Phys. Rev. Lett., 84(12):2642, 2000
14. nano3D Si(111) 7x7
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Exploring scientific data through 3D visualization
Size: 5.00 x 5.00 nm
16. Interactive NanoJoystick
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NanoJoystick follows a game-based learnig approach
Students control the movement of the virtual tip of a
scanning tunneling microscope
17. The game-based approach allows an intuitive
first contact with the field of nanoscience
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Science Days 2008
over 10‘000 visitors during 3 days
19. Nano-Switzerland < 300 atoms
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Size: 9.10 x 7.30 nm
non-contact AFM / UHV Microscope Basel, Group Prof. E. Meyer
M. Bammerlin 1999
20. Applet and Java Application
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Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/vexp/.
21. Problem oriented approach
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• Typical Questions:
• What is friction on the nano scale?
• What is energy dissipation at an atomic level?
• How can the energy dissipatation by measured?
• How can superlubricity be reached?
22. Nanotribology:
Examination of individual micro or
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nano-contacts
1-100nm
23. AFM on NaF(001)
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• contact mode imaging on NaF(001)
• observation of the atomic
periodicity
• steps area distorted in a range of 1
nm
⇒ 1 nm contact radius
1nm
24. Friction on the Nanometer-scale: Atomic-
Stick Slip
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Atomic stick-slip Friction loop
FN = 0.44 nN
Ediss = 1.4 eV
KBr(001)-crystal
(per slip)
25. Tomlinson model
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The tip is subject to:
1) periodic interaction with the underlying surface
2) elastic deformation of the cantilever
FN
FL v • In 1D the corresponding
potential energies are
represented by:
E0 xtip 1
V = − cos(2π ) + k eff ( xtip − x) 2
2 a 2
a sinusoid a parabola
27. 4. What is a virtual laboratory?
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An example:
The friction simulator at
Nano-World (University of
Basel) enables students to
simulate friction phenomena
on an atomic scale.