Lecture on Nanotechnology on October 3, 2001
CNSI Prof. James Heath

Provided by the Advanced Research Computing Cooperative through the UCLA School of Medicine
Duration: 1:01:00 minutes
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Source: CNSI

Building Things with Atoms: A Report From the Small Frontier on November 14, 2001
Dr. Donald Eigler
Regents Lecturer at the Department of Chemistry, UCLA

Provided by the Advanced Research Computing Cooperative through the UCLA School of Medicine
Duration: 1:05:34 minutes
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Source: CNSI

"Nanometerscale Architecture" on March 22, 2002
Sir Harold W. Kroto

Provided by the Advanced Research Computing Cooperative through the UCLA School of Medicine
Duration: 44:53 minutes
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Source: CNSI

Buckminsterfullerene, C60, the Celestial Sphere that Fell to Earth
Sir Harold Kroto, Sussex University

In 1985 an experiment, designed to unravel the carbon chemistry in Red Giant Stars, 
revealed the existence of C60 Buckminsterfullerene (the third allotropic form of carbon). 
The story of the discovery and the way its symmetry relates to the natural and physical 
world are described. This elegant cage molecule which has the same shape as a football 
heralds a new era of novel 21st Century Materials.                
Duration: 54:14 minutes
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Source: The Vega Science Trust

Nanotubes: Materials of the 21st Century
Sumio Iijima, NEC, Japan

The discovery of carbon nanotubes is one of the most exciting advances of the last part 
of the 20th century. These tubes (some 1000 time smaller than conventional carbon 
fibers) have tensile strengths ca 100x that of steel and conduct electricity like metals. 
They promise a revolution in structural and electrical engineering.
Duration: 58:48 minutes
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Source: The Vega Science Trust

Self-Assembly: Nature's way to do it 
Kuniaki Nagayama, University of Tokyo

Biology operates at two levels: the large scale one which we can see and the underlying 
microscopic one. The amazing way in which intermolecular forces cause protein arrays 
to self-assemble and thus enables Nature to fabricate the large scale components of 
living systems is described.
Duration: 58:12 minutes
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Source: The Vega Science Trust