TRAINING AND DIFFUSION OF THE NANOTECHNOLOGY FROM RESEARCH SEEDS

Abstract

Nanotechnology involves the characterization, manufacture and / or manipulation of structures, devices or materials, which have at least one dimension, sizes between 1 and 100 nm. At this scale, the resulting material exhibits better properties significantly different from those presented by the same material on a macroscopic scale, contributing in this way to the improvement of our quality of life, essentially in the diagnosis and medical therapy, energy production, molecular computation and structural material. That is why, increasingly, groups belonging to academic sectors (universities and colleges), and the community in general, are interested in learning about Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, which day by day are gaining national and international spaces . One of the ways to contribute to the dissemination and training in these areas is from the universities, through the creation of student research seeds in the areas of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, linked to research groups working on these areas. This paper presents the experience of the Nanostructured Magnetic Materials Research Seedling, assigned to the Science and Characterization of Materials research group of the Physics program of the Universidad del Atlántico, in its diffusion and training activity in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. The structure, the main topics of the research seed, its mission and its objectives are analyzed. It is emphases on the training, socialization and research activities of the research seed, as well as on the dissemination and research results of itself.

Keywords

• Nanotecnología
• universidad
• semillero
• formación y divulgación.