Nanotechnology in undergraduate education / Kimberly A.O. Pacheco, Richard W. Schwenz, Wayne E. Jones, Jr., editors ; sponsored by the ACS Division of Chemical Education.

"This text grew out of a symposium on nanotechology held at the American Chemical Society national meeting in August of 2007 ..."--P. 2.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

-- Course and curriculum innovations. Nanotechnology items for ACS exams standardized tests / T. Holme -- Seeding nanoscience throughout the undergraduate chemistry curriculum / B.H. Augustine -- Integration of nanoscale science and technology into undergraduate curricula / S. Iyer -- Big emphasis on a small topic: introducing nanoscience to undergraduate science majors / R. Schwenz -- Nanoscal laboratory experiences. X-ray diffraction / R. Macaluso -- Development of hands-on nanotechnology content materials: undergraduate chemistry and beyond / S.C. Larsen -- Laboratory modules on environmental impacts of nanotechnology / J. Zhang -- Scanning tunneling microscopy and single molecule conductance: novel undergraduate laboratory experiments / E.V. Iski -- Evolution of a nanotechnology lab for 1st year college students / K. Winkelmann -- Integration of nanoscience into the undergraduate curriculum via simple experiments based on electrospinning of polymer nanofibers / N.J. Pinto -- Exploring the scanning probe: a simple hands-on experiment simulating the operation and characteristics of the atomic force microscope / A. Layson (Teeters) -- Benchtop nanoscale patterning experiments / T. Odom.