Howard University Quantum Express
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“People can’t do what they can’t imagine”. The QuantumExpress is about expanding the scientific imagination of people from K to Gray. The QuantumExpress is a mobile science theme park exhibiting some of the latest science and technology at the nano dimension in a variety of disciplines. The NanoExpress is part of a major campaign designed to provide information on the current state of research and development in nanotechnology. It also aims to promote the dialogue between the world of science and the general public. What is nanotechnology? The study and applications of things or structures that are less than one hundred nanometers (1 nanometer = 10-9 meters or one-billionth of a meter) in size. Essentially this is the study of the “super small” (length scale comparisons: diameter of human hair ~ 100 µm or 100,000 nm).
Introduced in the summer of 2006, the QuantumExpress is a mobile laboratory launched through the Howard University Nanoscale Science and Engineering Facility (HNF), The QuantumExpress presents the complex, fascinating world of quantum materials to the general public from K-Grey. The campaign was designed to provide information and training on the current state of research and development potential in nanotechnology. It also aims to promote the dialogue between the world of science and the general public.
The QuantumExpress is a mobile van with 208 square feet of lab space designed to facilitate hands-on experiments, but is also capable of doing quantum technologies research. Undergraduate and graduate lab assistants help supervise experiments. The youngest visitor to date has been two weeks old and our oldest visitor has been 92. Experimental areas include: Introduction to Passive Nanoparticles, Introduction to Self Assembly, Introduction to Micro and Nanofabrication, “Chips are for Kids”, Instruments for NanoScience, Shape Memory Alloys and Soft Lithography.
We have a full schedule of events that include training, visits to elementary, junior middle, and senior high schools, national conferences, senior civilian civic clubs, Boy and Girls Scouts meetings, Lego Clubs, etc. The QuantumExpress is also used by several advance level college courses.
Introduced in the summer of 2006, the QuantumExpress is a mobile laboratory launched through the Howard University Nanoscale Science and Engineering Facility (HNF), The QuantumExpress presents the complex, fascinating world of quantum materials to the general public from K-Grey. The campaign was designed to provide information and training on the current state of research and development potential in nanotechnology. It also aims to promote the dialogue between the world of science and the general public.
The QuantumExpress is a mobile van with 208 square feet of lab space designed to facilitate hands-on experiments, but is also capable of doing quantum technologies research. Undergraduate and graduate lab assistants help supervise experiments. The youngest visitor to date has been two weeks old and our oldest visitor has been 92. Experimental areas include: Introduction to Passive Nanoparticles, Introduction to Self Assembly, Introduction to Micro and Nanofabrication, “Chips are for Kids”, Instruments for NanoScience, Shape Memory Alloys and Soft Lithography.
We have a full schedule of events that include training, visits to elementary, junior middle, and senior high schools, national conferences, senior civilian civic clubs, Boy and Girls Scouts meetings, Lego Clubs, etc. The QuantumExpress is also used by several advance level college courses.
