Nanochemistry

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Course objectives

Proposing and explaining how the principles of chemistry could be applied to the bottom-up synthesis of advanced functional materials and hierarchical construction principles, by using molecular/nano-scale building blocks programmed with chemical information.

Course enrolment requirements and entry competences required for the course

None.

Learning outcomes expected at the level of the course (4 to 10 learning outcomes)

After teaching process, the student should:
- Know the characteristics of basic nanostructures and methods for analyzing their morphology;
- Be able to apply the principles of chemistry in the so-called ”bottom-up” synthesis, in which the molecules or particles of nanometer dimensions as building elements, ”programmed” to spontaneously self-organize, organize themselves in a hierarchical structures;
- Be able to explain the relationship between structure / dimensionality and specific properties as well as functionality of nanostructures, for the given examples;
- Be able to assess the applicability of nanostructures in scientific research and new technologies.

Course content broken down in detail by weekly class schedule (syllabus)

Starting ideas of nanochemistry. Creating nanostructures.(3). Specifics of nanostructures: surface, size, shape, and self-organization (3). Examples of nanostructures of carbon, silicon, metals and metal oxides and organic nanostructures (6). Synthesis of organized nanostructures (4). Hierarchical systems (2). Experimental characterization techniques (4). Selected examples of properties of nanostructures - fundamental and practical significance of the ”size and shape effect”(6). Bio-nano interface: nanochemistry as a link between the natural and life sciences (2).

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