Nanoscience: technology and advanced materials

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Acquire knowledge of basic approaches to synthesize inorganic colloidal nanoparticles and their self-assembly in solution and surfaces
• Recognise the value of oligonucleotides in nanoparticle self-assembly.
• Understand the the physical and chemical properties of nanomaterials.
• Understand and describe the use of unique optical properties of nanoscale metallic structures for analytical and biological applications
• Demonstrate understanding characterization techniques for nanomaterials

Cognitive Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Be able to critically evaluate nanotechnology concepts and therefore be equipped to delve deeper into nanotechnology research

Lecture Content

• Introduction to Nanoscience
• Colloidal nanoparticles: Metal nanoparticles, semiconductor nanoparticles (quantum dots), perovskite nanoparticles, metal oxide nanoparticles, fundamentals of nucleation, influence of ligands in the crystal growth and colloids stabilization, synthesis of anisotropic nanocrystals.
• Spectroscopic characteristics of nanomaterials.
• Self-assembly of nanomaterials: Layer by Layer assembly, block copolymers, self-assembled monolayers, ionic self-assembly, DNA based self-assembly. Self-assembly of inorganic nanospheres

and anisotropic particles, superlattices, tip to tip assembly.

• Scanning Probe Microscopies.
• Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)
• Coulomb blockade effect
• Electron microscopies: Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM)

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

Yanglong Hou David J. Sellmyer (2017). Magnetic nanomaterials: Fundamentals, Synthesis and Applications . Wiley.

Caruso (2004). Colloids and Colloid Assemblies. Wiley.

Smart and Moore (2012). Solid state chemistry: An Introduction . Taylor and Francis group.

E. W. Wolf (2006). Nanophysics and Nanotechnology. Wiley.

(2022). World Scientific Reference on Plasmonic Nanomaterials.

Proctor et al (2016). An Introduction to Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes . 2016 CRC Press.

I. W. Hamley (2000). Introduction to Soft Matter. Wiley.

Fan Zhang (2015). Photon Upconversion Nanomaterials. Springer.

G. L. Hornyak, J. Dutta, H.F. Tibbals, A. K. Rae (2008). Introduction to Nanoscience. Taylor and Francis.

G.A. Ozin, A.C. Arsenault, L. Cademartiri (2009). Nanochemistry: A Chemical Approach to Nanomaterials. RSC Publishing.

G. Schmid (2004). Nanoparticles: From Theory to Applications. Wiley.

G. Cao (2004). Nanostructures and Nanomaterials. Imperial College press.

Pande et al . (2017). Carbon Nanomaterials Synthesis, structure, properties and applications . Taylor &Francis Group.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External