Materials Science – brick by brick

Lego bricks (and similar) are a fantastic was to make learning fun and help to understand often complex scientific concepts.

This page will act as a page to signpost great activities that link Lego to Materials Science.

1. Making lab equipment out of Lego (Link: LEGO IDEAS – Materials Science and Engineering – Applied Electrochemistry and Corrosion Research Lab )

This link will send you to a page developed by the Applied Electrochemistry and Corrosion laboratories at Boise State University (in the USA) that include building instructions to make models of a variety of lab equipment out of Lego bricks. Model include an atomic force microscope (AFM), scanning electron microscope (SEM), transmission electron microscope (TEM), X-ray diffractometer (XRD), metallographic preparation bench, tensile tester (termed ‘MTF‘ on the link), thermometric gravitational analysis (TGA) equipment and a potentiostat.