1. Stone Age Copper & Bronze Age Iron & Steel Age Silicon AgeNanomaterials Age 1000-30 BC 2000 BC1000 BC20 th Century21 st Century Agricultural Revolution Industrial Revolution Information Revolution Cooking Construction Hunting Armor Jewelry Pottery Tools Manufacturing Transportation 1 st transistor 1 st integ circuit 1 st IC computer iPad Periodic Table (1869) Nanotech Revolution Lite & strong LED lights coating Hard drive

2. Why is nanoscience important?

3. When is Gold not Gold? 12 nm Gold particles looks Red!

4. A spherical particle that has a radius of about 8 atoms is a nanoparticle 2 nanometers But not a single atom!

5. Why this Change in Behavior? New Rules When We Go Very Small Easy to Cause Flow If it’s Small it is Difficult to Cause Flow ?

6. Even More Than Size = New Behavior! We can form Molecules or Chains or Solids made of Quantum Dots

7. But this is just the beginning! The biggest treasures are yet to come Material A Material B Material A Material B We will make materials that do not exists today - anywhere

8. Arkansas is #1 in Supplying Nanoscale Structures