Carbon Nanotubes

The world's largest carbon nanotube?  At close to 100' tall, the structure filled Drexel's Bossone Research Center!

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LN2 Ice Cream

Who has time to sit around and wait for ice cream to freeze?  Visitors will have the chance to help make ice cream with liquid nitrogen, which quickly brings the temperature down to -321°F (-196°C or 77K) and into waiting cups as fast as it can be mixed!

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Learning By Doing

Kids of all ages will learn about materials from Drexel and UPenn faculty and students, through hands-on demos, guest lectures, and round-table discussions.

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Electronic Nose

Couldn't make it to the 2011 event?  Don't worry - everyone is invited to the 2012 Philly Materials Science and Engineering Day.  It's free and open to the public!

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Almost everything around you - the clothes you wear, the dishes you eat from, the computer you use, the bike you ride or the car you drive - is made of stuff. Materials science is the study of stuff: what it's made of, how it works and what we can do with it.

Philly Materials Science and Engineering Day will introduce the general public to materials that are stronger, smaller, cleaner, and smarter than ever, all featured materials in the MAKING STUFF series.