UK-Japan Young Scientist Workshop 2006 "Nanoworld Explorers"
The 2006 UK-Japan Young Scientist Workshop was held at the University of Surrey from Monday, July 31 until Friday, August 4. The workshop for post-16 students from schools in Britain and Japan was devised and organised by The Clifton Scientific Trust with the University of Surrey. The students lived and worked together in small international teams on real-life science-related projects, guided by university specialists, to develop their own thinking and questioning. Projects included:
- sleep-clock gene research
- global environmental monitoring by satellite
- nanotechnology
- the health/ethical consequences of global warming
- "water for life", the challenge of providing clean water in emergency situations in developing countries.
The 2006 Workshop built on the success of the 2004 workshop held at the Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto. The workshop was supported by the DTI Office of Science and Technology, the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, Japan 21 and JAL, and was endorsed by the Embassy of Japan.
The following page is for the team working on nanotechnology - the "nanoworld explorers".
The Surrey Hosts
| Science leaders: | Professor Jeremy Allam |
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| Dr Riz Khan | |
| Facilitator: | Yoji Miyajima |
| Research Scientists: | Stephen Lyth |
| Dr. Yann Tison | |
| Dr. David Cox |
The Visitors
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| Shinnosuke Kakimoto | Rakuhoku Prefectural Senior High School, Kyoto |
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| Hiroaki Sasaki | Rikkyo School of England |
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| Nicholas Bunce | Dartford Grammar School |
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| Rosemary Pike | George Abbot School, Guildford |
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| Ryo Hatayama | Ritsumeikan High School, Kyoto |
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| Hiroyuki Tashiro | Kyoto University of Education attached Senior High School |
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| Rina Takashima | Horikawa Municipal Senior High School, Kyoto |
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| Shaun Miller | St Benedicts School, Bury St Edmunds |
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| Calum Leslie | Hinchley Wood School, Esher |
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1We wrote some pictures on a piece of silicon with a "pen" that can write lines only a few nanometers wide. Click on the images to see them full-size.
2FIB=Focussed Ion Beam: we used gallium ions focussed onto a spot a few nanometers in size to "write" these pictures onto a flat piece of silicon. The high energy gallium ions knock out some of the silicon atoms at the surface, leaving a small hole. The beam is moved around to make the desired pattern. These images were viewed with a scanning electron microscope which is attached to the FIB machine.
3AFM=Atomic Force Microscope: this can measure features even smaller than a nanometer. It works "like a blind person reading Braille".
43D AFM = Atomic Force Microscope: the third dimension shows the depth of the features milled by the FIB during the writing process.
More pictures:
(I'll load these up over the next few days)
| A bug's life... |
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| Diatoms | |
| Pollen-nation: | |
| Yoji through the microscope! | |
| Carbon nanotubes |
Our presentation
Here is our powerpoint presentation on nanotechnology.
Resources
- Here is the Welcome & Introduction sent to schools ahead of the visit
- Here is the talk "Introduction to Nanotechnology" by Jeremy Allam
- Here is the introductory talk by Riz Khan
- Here is the Nanotechnology Questionnaire
Diary
| What we're doing today... | |
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| Sunday | We've arrived! Time to get to know each other. |
| Monday | Welcoming speeches. More getting to know each other. Introductory lectures on nanotechnology and our projects. There's a lot of new things to try and understand. |
| Tuesday | We're doing "Nanolithography" today - making patterns and pictures where the smallest features are just a few nanometers (a billionth of a meter) wide. First, we are designing patterns in the Computer Aided Design Laboratories. Then doing nanoscale lithography with a "Focussed Ion Beam". |
| Wednesday | Day trip to Oxford |
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Taking images of our nanostructures with different microscopes: optical microscope, Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), and Atomic Force Microscope (AFM). |
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Preparing our presentations for the afternoon. We have 20 minutes to describe to the other participants what we've done. |
| Saturday | Returning home. Sayonara! See you again! |
