Nano WorkshopBy Jesus and Ivonne

This second workshop was the best I had in the literature course of RISE Program. It

was about nanotechnology; the study of controlling of matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Nanotechnology deals with structures between 1 to 100 nanometer, and their findings have contributed greatly to the developing of our technology. In this seminar, I learned about microfuidics, a field that develops miniaturized technologies for manipulating the flow and reaction of small amounts of fluids. Today, the efforts of this technology are being made to integrate an entire laboratory’s worth of analytical instrumentation onto a single chip to produce a “lab on a chip” . I also learned about Photolithography. This technique is used to create patterns for chips, and it includes: E-beam Lithography, Optical Lithography, Top bottom approach, and Bottom up approach. In the lab, I put into practice my new knowledge and made a Jell-O chip. The purpose was to learn how chips are made, but using cheap materials. My chip had the shape of a frog, and I enjoyed the seminar and learned a lot. Questions:1. What could be the negative effects of the “lab on a chip”? If there is any.2. Could the adding of multiple chambers to a chip reduce in some way the chip’s effectiveness?3. Is it possible to make a chip that could diagnose many diseases in humans with a simple drop of blood?