CNF for STEAM Art Exhibit

We want to showcase your CNF for STEAM art and science projects at our PDC Cellulose Nanomaterials Forum at the University of Maine, August 26th-28th 2025! Email images of projects to marchelle.simms@maine.edu by July 15th. 

Try one of these sample projects using Nanocellulose

The opportunities to use CNF in the classroom for STEAM activities are endless, nanocellulose also provides captivating teaching opportunities while explaining all the cool science behind how it works.  Try incorporating some of these ideas into your curriculum:

• Puddling & Sculpting: Kids can get creative by mixing CNF with (or without) paint on plastic. Let the material fully dry, and then peel before creating planets, flowers, sun catchers, and more.
• Flexible Experiments: Let kids get curious by applying CNF with different artistic processes like air-drying, baking, microwaving, and even freezedrying to see how fast it can dry in different methods.
• Paper Mâché: Try using CNF as a material for paper mâché and add it to fabric, cardboard, leaves, pine cones, and other found objects and materials.
• Strength Training: Kids will love seeing how a humble material like CNF can have secret powers of strength! Apply it to wood, cardboard, fabric, eggs, and other fun materials.
• Slime Time: Did you know that anything you can do with regular school glue, you can do with CNF? Try making slime with CNF and dish soap.
• DIY Concrete: Add CNF to sand and make your very own batch of rockhard concrete. Even better? Add CNF to concrete and make it even stronger.