Lynn Diener
Mount Mary College, Health and Sciences Division, Milwaukee, WI 53222-4597
Brian McCall
Internships in Public Science Education and the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI 53706
J. Aura Gimm
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0281
This activity introduces students to a technology called microencapsulation. In the activity, students learn about special papers that use microencapsulation—such as grocery store receipts, carbonless lab notebooks, and some questionnaires—that they encounter every day. In this activity students perform a hands-on exploration of three-part carbonless copy paper, learning about the paper through their own personal observations.
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Citation
Diener, Lynn; McCall, Brian; Gimm, J. Aura. J. Chem. Educ.2009, 86, 464A.
Keywords
Applications of Chemistry; Dyes / Pigments; High School / Introductory Chemistry; Inquiry-Based / Discovery Learning; Laboratory Instruction
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