INTRODUCTION TO NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
History, background and interdisciplinary nature of nanoscience and nanotechnology, challenges of Rechard Feynman, scientific revolutions, nanosized effects surface to volume ratio, examples of surface to volume ratio, atomic structure, Bohr atomic model, molecules and phases, introduction to classical physics and quantum mechanics, importance of nanoscale materials and their devices.
CLASSIFICATION OF NANOSTRUCTURES
Zero dimensional, one-dimensional and two dimensional nanostructure materials - classification of solids: conductor, semiconductors, insulator, types of semiconductor, doping, diodes, current flow in semiconductors, ceramics and nanocomposites, quantum size effect(QSE) in 1D, 2D, 3D nanomaterials, quantum dots, nanowires, nanotubes, nanosheets, top down and bottom up approach.
BIOMIMETICS AND BIOMATERIALS
Biomimetics: Biomimetics: lessons from nature – Introduction, Industrial significance, Lessons from nature and applications, overview of various objects from nature and their selected functions, Lotus effect, Velcro effect, biologically inspired mechanisms, Biologically inspired structures and tools, biological materials.
Biomaterials: Introduction, Classification of Biomaterials, Biomaterials as implant in human body, characterization of biomaterials.
INTRODUCTION TO NANOMATERIALS AND DEVICES:
Types of nanomaterials: Metal nanoparticles eg Au, Ag, Cu, Pt and their application as FETs. Metal oxide nanoparticles TiO2, ZnO, SnO2 and their application in solar cells, MEMS based gas sensors, Semiconducting Cadmium and Selenide quantum dots bio imaging, Carbon based nanomaterials and their applications in FETs, MOSFETS, sensors and actuators , Silicon based nanostructures and their application in single electron electronics used as tips for AFM and Field emission microscopy, magnetic and ceramics nanomaterials and their application.
INTRODUCTION TO NANOTOXICOLOGY:
Nanomaterials pollution – Nanomaterials in Environment - Toxicology of Airborne – Effect of Nanomaterials in the environment. Safety and pollution Control techniques-handling, storage, packaging, transportation and disposal.