Making nanoscience accessible to the blind.(OF MATERIAL INTEREST)

When it comes to research at the nanoscale, vision is not necessarily an advantage. The subjects are so small, no one can see them. To encourage people with visual impairments to pursue fields in nanotechnology, educators at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) have developed a way to craft accurate, detailed, and touch-friendly models of nanoscale objects like carbon nanofibers, allowing students to "see" those objects for the first time.

While students have learned from abstract models of chemical structures for decades, the new technique creates 3-D versi