The course focuses on materials and related processes with at least one significant dimension in or developing toward the nanometer scale. Nanotechnology is both related to and differentiated from classical colloid physical chemistry and other older, well-defined technical disciplines. Fundamental physical and chemical phenomena, theoretical relations and concepts, processes and procedures, and instrumentation important in this size range will be considered and related to several currently important and rapidly developing technical areas such as catalysts, ceramics, electronics, optics, and biotechnology. The course features special modules and a term project related to these areas.
