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Omni Nano Volunteers at CNSI High School Nanoscience Workshop Making Solar Cells from Juice

Everyday Nanotech: Making Solar Cells Out of Cranberry Juice

In today’s Nanotechnology workshop at the UCLA/CNSI High School Nanoscience Program at UCLA, STEM teachers from all over the Greater Los Angeles Area learned about “Making Solar Cells from Cranberry Juice,” a fun experiment. The teachers learned about chemistry with everyday things, such as juice. The workshop aimed to help teachers grow interest in their

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High School Teachers Learn about Biopolymers at UCLA CNSI High School Nanoscience Workshop

K-12 Science Teachers Bring Nanostructured Biopolymers to the Classroom

About 15 teachers from High Schools all over the Greater Los Angeles Area participated in today’s workshop on “biopolymers,” led by PhD graduate students at UCLA California NanoSystems Institute as a part of the UCLA/CNSI High School Nanoscience Program.  As usual, at the end of the workshop, each teacher received materials/supplies to perform the lab

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Omni Nano Inspires Education in Nanotech at UCLA CNSI Nanoscience Workshop in Energy Storage

Teachers Learn About Electrochemical Methods to Store Energy

About 20 teachers from all over the Greater Los Angeles Area participated in today’s workshop for the Nanoscience Program at UCLA California NanoSystems Institute on “supercapacitors,” a hybrid concept between a battery and a capacitor. These devices can store a lot of charges/energy (like a battery) and deliver it very fast (like a capacitor). This

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Omni Nano Volunteers and Inspires at UCLA CNSI High School Nanoscience Workshop

Nanoscience Workshop Training for Science Teachers on Water Purification

This month, Omni Nano participated in the nanoscience training for high school science teachers at the UCLA California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) focused on qualitative and quantitative methods to purify water from a number of contaminants, such as copper ions and bacteria.  About 20 teachers from all over the Greater Los Angeles Area participated and received

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Omni Nano Works with UCLA CNSI Nanoscience Education Program to Educate High School Teachers

Omni Nano Volunteers at UCLA CNSI High School Nanoscience Program

Omni Nano is excited to start volunteering at the UCLA California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) High School Nanoscience Program. At this program, high school science teachers from the Greater Los Angeles Area learned about various Nanoscience topics, which adds to their curriculum for better student preparation for jobs and careers in nanotechnology. At the end of

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