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Engineering Department > News & Features| 1 August 2007 The
Department's Nanoscience Centre Teenagers from across the UK
were offered a rare insight into the exciting and dynamic field
of Nanotechnology. Thirty school pupils came to the Department's
Nanoscience Centre at West Cambridge for a four-day residential
course organised by The Smallpeice Trust, an independent charity
which promotes engineering as a career. Cutting across many
scientific disciplines, nanotechnology explores the manipulation
of atoms and molecules to produce innovative products like cars
that never need polishing or self-adjusting sunscreen. Through a
combination of compelling lectures, challenging workshops,
stimulating, hands-on projects and site visits, experts in the
field introduced students to the extraordinary concepts and
practical applications of this rapidly expanding technology.
Students explored the nano-world using powerful electron
microscopes, creating macro-scale mo