Academics

Total Hours: 32

Credits: 3

Assessment: Closed-book Exam

I. Course Overview

Nanomaterials are among the most promising materials of the 21st century, with applications in IT, new energy, biomedicine, and environmental protection. This course provides fundamentals, frontiers, and applications, emphasizing synthesis, characterization, property tuning, and device development. It fosters innovative thinking and practical skills for future research and industrial work.

II. Detailed Syllabus

1. Introduction – Origin, properties, challenges

2. Surface physical chemistry – Surfaces, interfaces, adsorption, catalysis

3. Nanoparticles – Theory, types, synthesis, structure, properties

4. 1D nanostructures – Concepts, synthesis, structure, properties

5. 2D nanostructures – Concepts, synthesis, structure, properties

6. Nanomaterial properties and characterization – Techniques, stability, safety

7. Applications – IT, biomedicine, energy, environment

III. Reference

Guozhong Cao, Ying Wang. Nanostructures and Nanomaterials (translated by Xinglong Dong). Higher Education Press.