Building Block Set - Nanoparticles

These half-nanoparticles feature a Lego bottom that can click onto a Lego build plate or a 3D-printed Lego-style build plate. The purpose of this design is to use the surface and nanoparticles to create a teaching tool for talking about catalyst chemistry. This design is to scale with 2mm for the model equals 1 Angstrom in the real world, and the radius of the platinum atoms being 1.39 angstroms (Therefore, the sphere size after being printed is ~5.56mm).

This design is a combination of 2 designs shared under the copyright licenses' "Creative Commons (4.0 International License) Attribution-NonCommercial" and "Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike".

The nanoparticles are available here.
https://www.printables.com/model/398836-educational-models-of-plasmonic-metal-nanoparticle/files

The Lego bottom is created from this 3D printable Lego design, which is available here.
https://makerworld.com/en/models/83010?from=bambulab.com#profileId-88517

We have also designed some additional pieces with magnets to help show how molecules can bind/break on nanoparticle surfaces. These designs are to scale. The first design is a single site that can attach anywhere on the lego-style board. The second design utilizes a current nanoparticle design that we have above, but adds different areas where molecules can be inserted in an attempt to show the different places that a molecule can bond to the surface. We also have a surface that provides a scaled-up version of one side of the nanoparticle. This is to scale with the zeolite cages and molecules, so it is more atomically correct size-wise while providing a close-up of the different site types. The corresponding molecule designs can be found in both "Accessories to Designs" and "Alkene Molecule Models to scale two sizes (Ethene/Ethylene, Propene/Propylene, cis-2-butene & trans-2-butene)" sections in our Thingiverse page.

Final design developed by Samantha Hoffman, Ella Farrell, & Lucas D. Ellis.