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>> I love learning about things that, blows my mind [laugh]
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>>When I was 8 I was in an inventors fair.
My invention was called Edgy paper,
and it was basically paper with a foam border around it.
It basically prevented you from getting a paper cut.
In seventh grade you mixed chemical A with chemical B
and you got some Silly Putty sort of substance at the end.
I was like, this is amazing.
Science is awesome and from that time on,
that day in seventh grade, I can say from that time
on I knew I wanted to be a scientist.
As it comes in they mix together and the channels break off
>> I have to understand it, it's a puzzle
and I need the solution, I need the answer to the puzzle.
I may invent something in the future,
but no more Edgy paper, we're done with that.
[laugh] You pick up the tip and you dip it in the ink --
>> There is still one tip on there.
>> Well nanoscience is technically anything
under 100 nanometers and to give you an idea of how big that is,
the width of a human hair is about 80 thousand nanometers
so about 800 times larger than a nanoparticle.
They're so small that you can't even see them.
I had always been interested in the smaller scale stuff,
molecules and atoms and that kind of thing
and so I was just fascinated and I just thought, I've got to get
into this, I've got to know more.
Once you get a taste of it you just want to know more.
>> Because see here you have the B cosine on the bottom
and here the B cosine --
>> Well from the time I was little I was always good
at math and science.
I loved it.
It was the most relative subject and the most interesting to me.
>> Here the average diameter of the crystallites
in angstroms would be 100 nanometers or 1000 angstroms.
>> Using mathematical equations is a very good way to know what
to expect from a nanoproduct.
Sunscreen has nanoparticles in it, and drug delivery systems,
cancer treatments, drug coatings on things like stents
for you heart, the electronics industry making your smart phone
and your iPod ever smaller.
I dropped the tip in here, it was bound to happen.
>> Nanotechnology is right on the cutting edge of everything
and I wanted to be a part of it and try it out and see
if I liked it, and it turns out that I love it
and I think I'm pretty good at it [laugh].
I'm interning with a company called Optomec
They basically develop new printing technologies.
A lot of what they do is printing electronics
but they also can print biological materials
like polymers, enzymes, proteins,
DNA, that kind of thing.
My education has helped with my internship a lot.
It's nice to go into a lab of an internship
and know what they're talking about and be able to say yeah,
I can do that for you.
Hi, how's it going? Pretty good. Release the camera...
>> It's nice to hear somebody tell you how it's done and get
to actually work on it and do it.
It's very good at solidifying what you've been learning.
Or if you come across that concept in class
and you have done something similar, it's very helpful
to see it done right in front of you rather
than read it out of a textbook.
And we'll want to look inside the lumen of the tip and make sure...
>> My internship will definitely help me get a job.
The school part helps to understand
that you know what you're talking about
and the internship part kind of lets them know
that you can execute what you're talking about,
that you actually can apply things that you know
to real life circumstances.
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>> When I first said oh I'm going to do nanoscience I kind
of got like, oh that's nice, because a lot of people are
like so, what's nanoscience?
You know no one really knows what that is.
My favorite part of nanoscience is to get
to see the future a little bit.
When you're doing nanoscience you get to see what's coming
down the road five, ten years from now.
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