Nanotechnology Evaluations
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This evaluation project accessed visitor interaction with the Materials Wall, part of a set of prototypes based around Nanotechnology created for MSI. The Material Wall consists of nine stations that each detail a different material. At each station there is a short interactive experiment for the visitor to do, brief (one or two sentence) instructions, an image and a short text that describe uses of the material, a list of real-world applications and a model of the atomic structure of the material. The main message of the Materials Wall is that everything is made from atoms, and that changes in atomic structure produce changes in a material’s properties.
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