Chemistry of Everyday Things

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 11.05.07

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Overview
  2. Rationale
  3. Background
  4. Objectives
  5. Strategies and Activities
  6. Bibliography for Teachers
  7. Endnotes
  8. Appendix 1
  9. Appendix 2

Materials for the Future

Sally J. Martin

Published September 2011

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Endnotes

  1. Ball, Philip. Stories of the Invisible: A guided Tour of Molecules. Oxford University Press 2001
  2. Hoffmann, Roald and Torrence, Vivian. Chemistry Imagined: Reflections On Science. Smithsonian Institution Press 1993.
  3. Levi, Primo. The Monkey Wrench. Penguin Books1987
  4. Yaron, David and Leinhardt, Gaea and Karabinos, Michael. Shape, Transformation and Energy: Critical Resources for Thinking in Chemistry
  5. http://ww2.chemistry.msu.edu/faculty/reusch/VirtTxtJml/ploymers.htm (accessed July 2011)
  6. Ball, Philip. Made To Measure: New Materials For the 20 t h Century. Princeton University Press 1997
  7. Flinn ChemTopic T M Lab. #21 Polymers
  8. http://mrsec.wisc.edu/Edetc/EExpo/carbon/carbon/index.html (accessed July 2011)
  9. http://mrsec.wisc.edu./Edetc/cineplex/nanotube.index.html (accessed July 2011)
  10. Washington Post 10/25/2010. How and Why: Graphene seems valuable for computers, batteries and other uses.
  11. http://www.understandingnano.com (accessed July 2011)
  12. http://www.pitt.edu/-astar_reaserch. ( accessed July 2011)
  13. Friedli, A.C.; Schlager, I.R.; Wright, S.W. Demonstrating Encapsulation and Release: A New Take on Alginate Complexation and the Nylon Rope Trick. Journal of Chemical Education July 2005

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