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The Interdisciplinary Education Group at the University of Wisconsin Madison Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) has a fabulous website with a wide variety of great resources for teaching about materials and the nanoworld at all levels. A favorite "corner" of this website that I refer to a lot in my own teaching is the library of so-called Resource Slides on a variety of topics. These Resource Slides are divided up into 36 topical Slide Shows and include wonderful graphics to use in class presentations. Slide Shows include:
- Amorphous Metal
- Defects
- DNA Barcode Methods
- Electrorheology
- LED applications
- Metals
- Nanowire Sensors
- oLED
- Piezoelectricity
- Scanning Microscopies
- Societal Implications
- Structure and Properties
- CD & DVD
- Diffraction
- Electronic Structure
- Ferrofluid
- Liquid Crystals
- The Nanoscale
- Nickel Nanowire Synthesis
- Periodic Properties and LEDs
- p-n junctions
- Semiconductor
- Solar Power
- Thermoelectric Devices
- Computer Technology
- DNA
- Electrons and magnetism
- Gold
- Lithography
- Nanotubes
- NiTi Memory Metal
- Photonics
- Quantum Dots
- Semiconductor Sensors
- Spectroscopy
- Unit Cells and Stoichiometry
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I use the graphics in many of these Slide Shows during class to illustrate the applications of many materials in working devices or more often to supplement the textbook I am using with more in-depth information on the structure and bonding in metals and semiconductors. Some of these slide shows are aimed at a very general audience and so could be used in a general chemistry course. But in other cases, I think they are more appropriate for an inorganic chemistry course in which the electronic structure of solids follows naturally from an in-depth discussion of molecular orbitals.
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