Nicole Schutt, our science department chair, and I visited the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering (JSNN) this morning and it was amazing! As described on its website, the JSNN:
"...has been established as an academic collaboration between North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Both Universities are classified by the Carnegie Foundation as “research universities with high research activity.” JSNN builds on the strengths of the two universities in the basic sciences and in engineering to offer an innovative, cross-disciplinary graduate program that will train scientists in various emerging areas of nanoscience and nanoengineering."
We visited with the Nanoscience Department Chair, Dr. Daniel Herr (check out his TED talk) and were treated to an incredible tour of the facility. I've embedded the images we saw on the walls of the facility that came from the Helium Ion Microscope at JSNN and thought you would enjoy them.
An etching of Einstein on a nano level. If you put fifty of these images together you would have the width of hair. pic.twitter.com/xR7JPLL9p0
— David Skeen (@MSDirectorSkeen) March 26, 2014
Another fruit fly's foot (3/4) pic.twitter.com/DfehricOJs
— David Skeen (@MSDirectorSkeen) March 26, 2014
One hair on a gecko's foot. Explains a lot about how they move. (4/4) pic.twitter.com/tYcZAsa1xg
— David Skeen (@MSDirectorSkeen) March 26, 2014
Amazing!
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