Understanding the microscopic dispersion and aggregation of nanoparticles at nanoscale media has become an important challenge during the last decades. Nanoscale modeling techniques are the important tools to tackle many of the complex problems faced by engineers and scientists. Making progress in the investigations at nanoscale whether experimentally or computationally has helped understand th...

In this paper we argue that structural explanations are an effective way of explaining wellknown relativistic phenomena like length contraction and time dilation, and then try to understand how this can be possible by looking at the literature on scientific models. In particular, we ask whether and how a model like that provided by Minkowski spacetime can be said to represent the physical world...

In this work, we examine whether tenth-grade high school students (N = 197, age 1516) as well as first-year university chemistry students (N = 77, age 18-19) can make the connection between chemical reactions and chemical phenomena. We used nineteen physical and chemical phenomena, and asked the students at one stage to distinguish physical from chemical phenomena, and at another stage to state...