This project began as a collaboration between Chemists and an Anthropologist at the Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology (CBEN) at Rice University. The chemists were seeking ways to make nanotechnology more accessible, easier to transfer and cheaper for use in unconventional locales, and the anthropologist was thinking about how Free/Open Source software has provided a template for different kinds of projects outside of software.
Together we created a paper that describes one particular process for making nanotechnology “vernacular”– making it easily accessible and re-usable in the widest possible number of settings. There are a number of different starting points to learn more about this project and others it relates to:
Our Paper
Resources on Nanotechnology for the Environment
Background on Free/Open Source Software
Scholarly works on Open Source, Engineering and/or Nanotech
Scholarly Works on upstream Public Engagenment with Science
Vernacular Science and Appropriate Technology
Water, Water Quality, Arsenic Poisoning
Basic Chemistry and Safety
