Reading assignments and lectures
Try to read or scan some of the following articles week by week. Right-click (PC) to download PPTs.
Lesson 1: History of Nanotechnology
- Opening page, history, applications, impacts - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanotechnology
- Nanotechnology portal - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Nanotechnology
- There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom - http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/feynman.html
- The Nanotechnology Revolution - http://www.thenewatlantis.com/archive/2/keiperannotated.htm
- Lecture 1 - Fishbine Nanotechnology Course
- NANO Magazine - "What is Nanotechnology?"
Lesson 2: Fundamentals of Nanoscience
- Structure of matter - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecule
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_bond
- Lecture 2 (PPT) - NanoAnatomy
- Lecture 2 (PPT) - Emergence
Lesson 3: Crystallography and Material Structure
- Nanostructures (catalog page) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanostructures
- Lecture 3 (PPT) - Materials Science
- Bravais lattice
Lesson 4: Traditional Materials
- Polymers and plastics
- Metals and alloys
- Ceramics and glasses
- Composite materials
- Nanoparticles
- Biomolecules
Lesson 5: Nanostructures
- Aerogel
- Biomolecules
- Carbon structures
- Dendrimers
- Hydrogels
- Nanoparticles
- Nanowires
- Quantum dots
- Self Assembled Monolayers (SAM)
- Thin films
Lesson 6: Size dependent properties
- Surface area to volume
- Number of atoms in a particle
Lesson 7: Nanocarbon
- Size dependent properties - see course website links, and Nanotechnology for Dummies
- Lecture 5 (PPT) - NanoCarbon
Lesson 8: Silicon fabrication
- Nanotechnology for Dummies
- Self assembly and fabrication - http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Nanotechnology/Self_assembly
- Robust Self-Assembly Using Highly Designable Structures - http://www.foresight.org/Conferences/MNT6/Papers/Hogg/
- Self Assembly and Nanotechnology - http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/nano4/whitesidesAbstract.html
- Molecular self-assembly - http://www.esi-topics.com/msa/
Nanofabrication facilities
- Cornell NanoScale Facility - http://www.cnf.cornell.edu/
- NNUN Multimedia - http://www.nnun.org/
- SNF Home - http://snf.stanford.edu/
- PSU Nanofab - http://www.nanofab.psu.edu/
- UCSB Nanofabrication - http://www.nanotech.ucsb.edu/
- The Caltech Nanofabrication Group - http://nanofab.caltech.edu/
- Carnegie Mellon Nanofabrication Facility - http://www.ece.cmu.edu/research/dssc/nanofab/
- The Center for Nanofabrication and Molecular Self-Assembly (NAMSA) - http://www.nanofabrication.northwestern.edu/
- The Molecular Foundry - http://foundry.lbl.gov/facilities/nanofab.html
- NFC - Nano Fabrication Center - http://www.mtl.umn.edu/
- Stanford Nanofabrication Facility - http://www.nnin.org/nnin_stanford.html
- CNT - Center for Nanotecnology - http://www.ipt.arc.nasa.gov/
Semiconductors and MEMS
- The Future of Nanoelectronics - http://www.technologyreview.com/NanoTech/17420/
- Semiconductors and Modern Living - http://science.uniserve.edu.au/school/quests/semiwq.html
- Ratner, Ch. 9, and pp. 78 - 80
- Lecture 7 (PPT) - semiconductors
- Lecture 7 (PPT) - semiconductor devices
Lesson 9: Surfaces and Thin films
- Surfaces
- Interfaces
- Thin films
- Surfaces and interfaces - http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Nanotechnology/Physical_Chemistry_of_Surfaces
- Lecture (PPT) - Surfaces and Interfaces
Lesson 10: Materials Characterization and Analysis
- Nanotechnology for Dummies
- Tools and instrumentation (catalog )- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_materials_analysis_methods
- Evans Analytical Group - http://www.eaglabs.com/
- Nanolab Technologies - http://www.nanloab.com/
- Lecture (PPT) - AES
- Lecture (PPT) - XPS
Lesson 11: Midterm and Guest Lectures
- Take home midterm
- Lectures (TBD)
Lesson 12: Commercialization of Nanotechnology
- Semiconductors and electronics
- Automotive
- Aerospace
- Biomedical devices
- Nanomedicine
- Clean energy technology
- Consumer packaged goods
- Advanced materials
Lesson 13: Bionano and Nanobiotechnology
- Nanotechnology for Dummies
- Nanomedicine and nanobiology - Nanotechnology and Society - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_nanotechnology
- The Promise and Perils of Synthetic Biology - http://www.thenewatlantis.com/archive/12/tuckerzilinskas.htm
Lesson 14 - Careers in Nanotechnology
- Biomedical
- IEEE
- NANO A-Z
Lesson 15: Clean Energy Technology
- Global energy use
- Fossil fuels and the carbon cycle
- Clean energy technology
- Photovoltaics
- Batteries and fuel cells
- Lecture (PPT) - Cleantech
Lesson 16 - Advanced topics in NANO
- Synthetic biology
- Lecture (PPT) - Synthetic Biology
- 4D printing
- Quantum computing
- The Quantum Computer - http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~westside/quantum-intro.html
- Quantum computation: a tutorial - http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~schmuel/comp/comp.html
- How Quantum Computers Will Work - http://computer.howstuffworks.com/quantum-computer.htm
- Smart matter
- Nano-Bio-Info convergence
- Lecture (PPT) - Angstromology
- Lecture (PPT) - Nano-Bio-Info
- Gordon Moore 'An Update on Moore's Law' - http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/speeches/gem93097.htm
Lesson 17 - Project three presentations
- Group presentation
- Final paper
- Research paper review
- Vocabulary and concepts
- Course highlights and takeaways
Final exam and vocabulary list
General Reading
Drexler, K. Eric, “Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology”; 1987. Doubleday; New York, NY: 298 pp. (11.00 pb) (PDF) - Right Click to Download.
Drexler, K. Eric and Peterson, Chris, “Unbounding the Future: The Nanotechnology Revolution”; 1991. William and Morrow Company Inc.; New York, NY: 304 pp. (10.00 pb)
Ball, Phillip, “Designing the Molecular World: Chemistry at the Frontier”; 1994. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ: 376 pp. (63.00 hc) [Hamilton Books 13.00/(5-15)]; [21 (5-10)]
Crandall, B. C. and Lewis, James (Eds.), “Nanotechnology: Research and Perspectives”; 1992. MIT Press; Boston, MA: 381 pp. (55.00 hc) [49.00 (3-7)]
"NANO - the essentials: Understanding Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
