The NanoLands Project

The NanoLands Project was an SL project sponsored by the UK’s National Physical Laboratory. I made several exhibits for the NanoLands (on contract), including:

  1. an animated display explaining the principles of SIMS (Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy),
  2. an animated exhibit about the principles of the AFM (Atomic Force Microscope),
  3. an exhibit illustrating methane flowing through a carbon nanotube (relating to research done at NPL),
  4. a display explaining what a nanometer is, visually,
  5. an exhibit about MOSFETs (the kind of transistors found in most modern chips), with animations, audio narration and a musical soundtrack,
  6. an exhibit about the C-60 molecule (buckminsterfullerene, the “buckyball”), and
  7. an exhibit about carbon nanotubes with animations, audio narration and a musical soundtrack.
Principles of Atomic Force Microscopes
Principles of Atomic Force Microscopes
Methane Exhibit
Methane Exhibit
Nanometer exhibit
Nanometer exhibit
MOSFET exhibit
MOSFET exhibit
C-60 Molecule Exhibit
C-60 Molecule Exhibit
Carbon nanotubes exhibit
Carbon nanotubes exhibit
NanoShow
NanoShow

I also helped manage the NanoLands during their first six months of being open to the public (from September 2007 to March 2008), which included blogging at the NanoLands website and promoting The NanoShow, a series of public seminars on nanotechnology.

During that time, I also set up the mansion where The Naked Scientists (a weekly BBC Radio science show) broadcasted live into SL for many years.

Naked Scientists listening area
Naked Scientists listening area