Nanoscientists create iphone app for exhibition

A group of researchers from UCL have created an iphone game as part of their entry for the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition. The exhibition showcases cutting-edge research and is part of a wider festival of science to mark the Society's 350th anniversary. The team from the London Centre for Nanotechnology, UCL Chemistry and UCL Physics & Astronomy created the game as part of their exhibit about the mysteries of water. They worked with a software development company to design Waterfall, an iphone application which teaches players about ice and nanoscience. Waterfall is part of 'A Molecule's Eye View Of Water', their exhibit examining the properties of water at the nanoscale through simple demonstrations, videos, games, and interactive computer simulations. Professor Angelos Michaelides (London Centre for Nanotechnology and UCL Chemistry) said: "We wanted to make a game that was both fun to play and taught the player some of the basic principles about the structure of ice. "To do this we teamed up with the Koolistov software development company and developed a fun game in which the user builds an ice crystal out of individual water molecules.