Nanochemistry Course Goals and Outcomes

1. NanochemistryCourse Goals and Outcomes By the end of this course students will: understand periodic trends and their relation to the properties of nanomaterials, be able to explain bonding in nanomaterials, describe the role of quantum mechanics in nanotechnology, interpret basic spectroscopies for ID and analysis of nanomaterials, be able to find, read, and interpret current literature relating to nanomaterials. This course will provide students with basic background in physical and inorganic chemistry necessary for an advanced understanding of nanomaterials. Students must have completed two semesters of general chemistry, two semesters of university physics, at least one semester of calculus, and the two layer courses in nanotechnology. This outline assumes that basic organic chemistry is covered in the layer courses. If it is not, then students must complete at least one semester of organic chemistry. Definitions. Students should be aware of what is meant by materials chemistry—that is the study of bulk properties, versus nanomaterials, which can be considered (whatever the common definition decided upon by the committee). Part of this should include a discussion of the difference of scale. Typically in chemistry we discuss macro and microscale and how physical properties vary accordingly. Nano does not intrinsically imply a smaller sample, but refers to the size of the “grains” of material in the sample. The term is used more to describe a class of materials, at least in the context of this course specifically, and the minor in general. Note on the figures: All figures were either created specifically for this project or were taken from FSF GNU copyrighted materials. The GNU project allows for free use and modification so long as the user does not print more than 100 copies for profit.This course will provide students with basic background in physical and inorganic chemistry necessary for an advanced understanding of nanomaterials. Students must have completed two semesters of general chemistry, two semesters of university physics, at least one semester of calculus, and the two layer courses in nanotechnology. This outline assumes that basic organic chemistry is covered in the layer courses. If it is not, then students must complete at least one semester of organic chemistry. Definitions. Students should be aware of what is meant by materials chemistry—that is the study of bulk properties, versus nanomaterials, which can be considered (whatever the common definition decided upon by the committee). Part of this should include a discussion of the difference of scale. Typically in chemistry we discuss macro and microscale and how physical properties vary accordingly. Nano does not intrinsically imply a smaller sample, but refers to the size of the “grains” of material in the sample. The term is used more to describe a class of materials, at least in the context of this course specifically, and the minor in general. Note on the figures: All figures were either created specifically for this project or were taken from FSF GNU copyrighted materials. The GNU project allows for free use and modification so long as the user does not print more than 100 copies for profit.

2. Bonding and Periodicity