The Atomic Scale Design Network (ASDN.NET) is an educational web portal devoted to exchange of information, ideas, data, methodology, and software on education in atomic and nano scale materials structure and properties. The participation in the forum is free.

We welcome everyone who is interested to learn about or contribute to education in the structure and properties of materials at atomic and nanoscale. Why education about atomic structure is so important? Because all materials are made from atoms, whether it is a brick, a rare diamond or even french fries. Atoms are the bricks of Mother Nature. Depending what kind atoms and how many are bound together by chemical bonds, van-der-Waals forces or just hang out together without making any connections except bouncing into each other once in a while we get all substances from air and water to rocks and all forms of life creatures including ourselves. So, is it worth to learn about atoms? - Sure, it does! And what about Nano? Well, by joining ASDN and visiting our web pages you will find out what make nano scale materials so special and why people talk so much about nanotechnology. Let the fun of learning begin! Go through our pages and links provided to other web sites, which we recommend and if you wish to join us let us know how you wish to contribute in one (or a few) of the following categories:

• Sponsor
  Organizations or individuals which share our passion and desire to enhance the public knowledge of the fundamental structure of the materials and nanotechnology can contribute with their support by providing software, expertise or cash contributions and we will be happy to provide our acknowledgement in the form of advertising and marketing.
   
  
• Guru
  People who are familiar with materials and their properties at atomic scale we will gladly accept different type of educational materials in any format, texts, presentations, and movies. As long as our reviewers will find them suitable, our team of designers will adapt them to the format of our web site and they will be displayed once they are ready. All accepted materials will be acknowledged and we will have different prizes and rewards for our contributors.
   
  
• Student
  Although we will try our best to answer all questions that we may get about our educational materials, we will have a limited number of ASDN students, namely those who will sign up to provide feedback to our educational materials and tools which we will make available at and through our web portal and network.
   
  
• Reviewer
  Educational materials need to be reviewed by experts. Although we do not provide any warranty to the information presented at our web site. We certainly want it to be accurate and will do our best to correct promptly any mistakes or typos once we are notified. Signing up as a reviewer at our web portal you will help to enhance it value to the community.
   
  
• Reporter
  To be our reporter you don't need to be an expert in journalism. We will appreciate any forms of news relevant to our web site from other media sources. We will ask our reviewers and gurus to check their value and our team will make them available at our web site. Sure, enough you can write your own essays as well.
   
  

By joining ASDN you agree and understand that any information you submit will be displayed at our web site and freely distributed to others expressed an interest in joining our forum. Therefore, no confidential information or copyrighted materials (unless you are the copyright owner) should be submitted. The ASDN supervisors are not responsible for the content of any information sent to the forum.