2nd Summary- Nanotechnology & Electron Microscopy - Wilfredo Otaño February 6, 2015We were shown two labs in the Mathematics department. The first lab was the Material laboratory where we

observed different nanoparticle element sheets and decided to use an Aluminium sheet for our trial. After taking

the sheet and moving to the next lab we were shown how to use an atomic isolation cabin.The process was

simple in hands on terms but quite complicated at the moment of analyzing the subatomic world; electrically

neutral Argon was introduced in order for the voltage to ionize these atoms and created plasma. This electrical

discharge accelerated the cathode target and traveled to the substrate to settle. The layered substrate was

analyzed in the Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). With this we observed layers of the sputtered sheet

compounds which would be later on tested for conductivity and other physical properties. In the same

microscope we observed how different strands could manifest themselves, the . We did not manage to observe

such a difference between the heated sheet and non-heated sheet since I believe the SEM was having difficulty

reading the plaque with the gold conductor.Our technique will specifically help target threads in materials where

traces of the element are visible in abundance in order to chemically analyze pure properties. From cancer

specific bots to gene therapy, we observe how this is a growing field which faces even more problems with the

concern of the mesoscale, which is infinitely small.