| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/N67497/01 |
| Title: |
PPA: WHY MOBILE TELEPHONES DEPEND UPON CERAMICS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Freer, Professor R |
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| Department: |
Manchester Materials Science Centre |
| Organisation: |
UMIST |
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PPE PreFEC |
| Starts: |
01 October 2001 |
Ends: |
30 April 2003 |
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20,366
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Electronics |
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In order to show that ceramics are much more than just cups and saucers , mobile telephones will be used to demonstrate that ceramics are essential for high tech, everyday life. An interactive, hands-or exhibit will be developed to show how mobile telephones send messages to each other, without the messages becoming scrambled; the role of ceramics will be highlighted through a large model of a mobile telephone which can be opened and the parts examined. Real ceramic components for mobile telephones will be shown and the display will try to answer questions including: how are the ceramics made? , what are they like inside? , are they really any different to bone china? . A touch-screen computer monitor will be used to provide images of the ceramic magnified many thousands of times, revealing individual grains and rows of individual atoms (at very high magnification), The supporting teachers pack will be used to encourage school students to explore many principles and concepts encountered in National Curriculum Key Stages 2 and 3 Science, and Design and Technology.
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