COURSE UNIT TITLE

: NANOTECHNOLOGY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MME 5028 NANOTECHNOLOGY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR ERDAL ÇELIK

Offered to

Nanoscience and Nanoengineering
Nanoscience and Nanoengineering
Industrial Ph.D. Program In Advanced Biomedical Technologies
Biomedical Tehnologies (English)
M.Sc. Metallurgical and Material Engineering
Metallurgical and Material Engineering

Course Objective

In recent years, nanotechnology has become one of the most important and exciting forefront fields in physics, chemistry, engineering and biology. It shows great promise for providing us in the near future with many breakthroughs that will change the direction of technological advances in a wide range of applications. With this aim, physics of the solid state, methods of measuring properties, properties of individual nanoparticles, carbon nanostructures, bulk nanostructured materials, nanostructured ferromagnetism, optical and vibrational spectroscopy, quatum wells, wires and dots, self-assembly and catalysis, organic compunds and polymers, biological materials, and nanomachines and will be discussed in this course.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To define the importance of nanotechnology and relationships in the range of chemistry, physics, biology, electronic and nanomaterials
2   To develop theoretical and experimental abilities in nanomaterials such as individual nanoparticles, carbon nanostructures, bulk nanostructured materials and catalysis, organic compunds polymers and biological materials
3   To provide how to characterize and fabricate nanoparticles, nanomaterials and nanofilms with multifunctional properties
4   To learn on nanostructured ferromagnetism, optical and vibrational spectroscopy, quantum wells, nanowires and nanodots, self-assembly and nanomachines
5   To communicate and work together easily with who from engineering, science and medicine disciplinaries with his gained knowledge

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction: - Project assignements and brief explanations - Presentation of nanotechnolgy and related historical perspective
2 Physics of the solid state: - Structure - Energy bands - Localized particles
3 Methods of measuring properties: - Introduction - Structure - Microscopy - Spectroscopy
4 Properties of individual nanoparticles: - Introduction - Metal nanoclusters - Semiconducting nanoparticles - Rare gas and molecular clusters - Methods of synthesis
5 Carbon nanostructures: - Introduction - Carbon molecules - Carbon clusters - Carbon nanotubes - Applications of carbon nanotubes
6 Bulk nanostructured materials: - Solid disordered nanostructures - Nanostructured crystals
7 Mid-term exam
8 Nanostructured ferromagnetism: - Basics of ferromagnetsim - Effect of bulk nanostructuring of magnetic properties - Dynamics of nanomagnets - Nanopore containment of magnetic particles - Nanocarbon ferromagnets - Giant and colossal magnetoresistance - Ferrofluids
9 Optical and vibrational spectroscopy: - Infrared frekans aralığ - Introduction - Infrared frequency range - Luminescence - Nanostructures in zeolite cages
10 Quatum wells, wires and dots: - Kuantum nanoyapıların hazırlanması - Boyut ve boyutlandırma etkileri - Eksitonlar - Preparation of quantum nanostructures - Size and dimensionality effects - Excitons - Single-electron tunneling - Superconductivity
11 Self-assembly and catalysis: - Self-assembly - Catalysis - Nature of catalysis - Surface area of nanoparticles - Porous materials - Pillared clays - Colloids
12 Organic compunds and polymers: - Introduction - Forming and characterizing polymers - Nanocrystals - Polymers - Supramolecular structures
13 Biological materials: - Biological building blocks - Nucleic acids - Biological nanostructures Nanomachines and nanodevices: - Microelectmechanical systems - Fabrication - Nanodevices and nanomachines - Molecular and supramolecular switches
14 Presentation of term projects

Recomended or Required Reading

1. C.P. Poole and F.J. Owens, Introduction to nanotechnology, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Publication, USA, 2003.
2. W.A. Goddard, D.W. Brenner, S.E. Lyshevski and G.J. Iafrate, Nanoscience, Engineering and Technology, CRR Press, USA, 2003.
3. P.M. Ajayan, L.S. Schadler and P.V. Braun, Nanocomposite Science and Technoloy, Wiley-VCH, Verlag, GmbH Co. KGaA, Weinheim, 2003.
4. H. Chik and J.M. Xu, Nanometric Superlattices:Non-lithographic Fabrication, Materials, and Prospects , Materials Science and Engineering R 43 (2004) 103-138.
5. B. Bhushan, Handbook of Nanotechnology, Spinger-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2004.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Reading the related parts of the course material each week, attending the course and participating in class discussions are the requirements of the course. Any unethical behavior that occurs either in presentations or in exams will be dealt with as outlined in school policy. You can obtain the graduate policy at www.fbe.deu.edu.tr.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 PRS PRESENTATION
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE PRS * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) PRS * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Attendance of students will be evaluated.

Assessment Criteria

Mid-term exam 25 % + Project 25 % + Final exam 50 %

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

Students must be attended to course.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

erdal.celik@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Friday, 14:00-16:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 4 52
Preparing assignments 1 25 25
Preparation for midterm exam 1 30 30
Preparation for final exam 1 40 40
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 192

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.15
LO.25
LO.354433
LO.43
LO.5434

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