530120 Johdatus nanotieteeseen / Introduction to nanoscience, Spring 2005

• Introduktion till nanovetenskap

Teaching time: spring 2005 29.3 - 12.5 ti, to 10-12 ( exercise time to be agreed on). First lecture 29.3 (the earlier info of 22.3 is cancelled due to travel). Place: Accelerator Lab. seminar room (Pietari Kalmin katu 2) Extent: 3 study weeks (3 ov). Duration: about 7 weeks Lecturer: Prof. Kai Nordlund Teaching assistant: M. Sc. Jani Kotakoski Description The course gives an introduction to nanoscience. It can be held in English on request. The material will be in English in any case. Content description Nanoscience and -technology is currently a very hot topic in research. It signifies science and technology which is based on materials with dimensions in the range 1 - 100 nm at least in one dimension. It has only recently become possible to manufacture such structures in a controlled manner, and hence they may enable entirely new types of applications. This introductory course will give an overview of the main directions in nanoscience, present a few already existing applications, and make a critical presentation of some of the wildest visions in nanotechnology. Literature Lecture notes and other handed-out material Background info can be found e.g. from the following books: E. L. Wolf: Nanophysics and Nanotechnology (Wiley-VCH Verlag, Weinheim, Germany, 2004), ISBN 3-527-40407-4 Charles P. Poole, Frank. J. Owens, Introduction to nanotechnology (John Wiley & sons, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA, 2003) ISBN 0-471-07935-9 One copy of both books is available in the Kumpula library (non-lendable) handbook section.

Grading

The essay should be 5-10 pages with 12pt font not counting figures and references. Essay topics will be given by the lecturer, but students may also select their own. Students already working on nanoscience may choose a topic related to their research work, but not one which is exactly their own topic. The essay must be written independently. Essays based on a single reference will as a rule not be given a top grade.

Lectures

Exercises

Exercises can be returned to Jani during lecture or to a box in the usual place in Physicums cumlab lobby.

Exam

Planned (not necessarily final) list of contents

2. Nanoparticles

2.1. Physically manufactured nanoparticles

2.2. Chemically manufactured nanoparticles

3. Carbon: nanotubes and nanowires

3.1. Fullerenes

3.2. Carbon nanotubes

4. Nanofilms

5. Quantum dots

6. Quantum mechanics and electronic properties of nanostructures

7. Self-assembly and cathalysis

8. Polymers

9. Bionano

10. Atomic-level assembly and nanomachines

Suggested and taken essay topics

For topics which have to some extent been treated during the lectures, the essay obviously should go clearly deeper than what was described by the lecturer.

Essays should have proper references to the original sources of information. Web page references should be used only if the material in the web is not published in some proper journal, and used with great caution (they might just be written by some high school kid with no deeper understanding of the field...)

Topic (approximate title)	Taken by	Returned?
Melting of nanoclusters	Krister Henriksson
Reverse Hall-Petch relationship: simulation and experiments
Theory of conductance in nanotubes	Martin Zumsande
Nanotube ropes and bundles	Niklas Juslin
Buckypaper/carbon nanotube paper
Endohedral fullerenes: science and applications	Juha Kalliopuska	X
Fullerene chemistry
Giant magnetoresistance: theory	Olli Lehtonen
Giant magnetoresistance: materials
Nanoindentation
Quantum dots	Kirsi Nevalainen
Quantum corrals	Juha Samela
Optical effects in nanoparticles	Kaija Vanhala
Quantum well lasers
Single electron transistors
Josephson FET's
SQUID's
Coulomb blockade thermometer
Nanoscale electric motors	Tommi Järvi
DNA as as a building block for nanostructures
Biomimetic polypeptides	Kristoffer Meinander
Biomimetic nanostructures	Viljami Pore
Block copolymers
Artificial proteins
Labs-on-a-chip
MEMS accelerometers
F1-ATPase and F0F1 ATP Synthase

Alustava sisältökuvaus:

Nanotiede ja -teknologia on tällä hetkellä erittäin kuuma aihe tutkimuksessa. Sillä tarkoitetaan tiedettä ja teknologiaa joka perustuu materiaaleihin joiden perusosat ovat kokoluokkaa 1 - 100 nm ainakin yhdessä ulottuvuudessa. Tällaisia rakenteita on pystytty hallitusti valmistamaan vasta aivan äskettäin, joten ne voivat mahdollistaa aivan uudentyyppisiä sovelluksia. Kurssin aikana annetaan yleiskatsaus nanotieteen pääsuuntauksiin, esitellään muutama jo olemassaoleva sovellutus, sekä käsitellään kriittisesti nanoteknologian villeimpiä visioita.

Laskuharjoitukset, esitelmä ja loppukoe.

Luentomonisteet.

Kurssi pidetään englanniksi pyydettäessä. Laskuharjoituksiin ja kokeisiin voi vastata suomeksi, ruotsiksi, englanniksi tai saksaksi.

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