Prerequisites

-Materials Chemistry -Solid state physics

Chemistry requirement: take a quiz ath;p://www.sciencekids.co.nz/quizzes/chemistry.html If you get 15 out of 20 quesFons right, you should be OK; otherwise you should take some chemistry class before enrolling this class.

CHEE/ECE/MECE 5319 CHEE/MTLS/MECE 6319 ECE 6306

Course Schedule Introduc)on to Nanotechnology (1, 8/27) Bo4om-Up Synthesis

Nanowire synthesis (2, 8/29) Nanocrystal synthesis (3, 9/3) Carbon materials (CNT and graphene) (4, 9/5, Guest lecture: Dr. Jiming Bao) 2D Materials (5, 9/17, 7-9:30pm) Chemical TransformaFon( 6, 9/19, 7-9:30pm, Assign HW1)

Top-down Synthesis Nanolithography (7, 9/24) Nanoimprint lithography (8, 9/26) AFM and DPN (9, 10/1) Contact prinFng (10, 10/3, Assign HW2)

Midterm Review (11, 10/8) Midterm exam (12, 10/10) Nanomaterials for solar cells

Solar cell device physics (13, 10/15) Silicon solar cells and light trapping (14, 10/17) Thin lm solar cells (a-Si, CdTe, CIGS) (15, 10/22) Organic thin lm solar cells (16, 10/24)

Nanomaterials for Thermoelectric Fundamentals of thermal conducFvity, Seeback eect (17, 10/29) Nanomaterials for high ZT materials (18, 10/31, Assign HW3)

Nanomaterials for Energy Storage Overview of Ba;eries (19, 11/5) Li-ion ba;eries Anode (20, 11/7) Li-ion ba;eries Cathode (21, 11/12) Nanomaterials for High Capacity Ba;eries (22, 11/14) Supercapacitors (23, 11/19)

Nanomaterials for Biotechnology Neuron-probe interface (24, 11/21) Nanobiosensor (25, 11/26)

Presenta)ons (26-27, 12/3, 12/5) No class on 9/10 and 9/12 to a0end NanoChina Conference, will make up on follow week.

Course Schedule

Nanowire Synthesis

CHEE/ECE/MECE 5319 CHEE/MTLS/MECE 6319 ECE 6306

Reading uploaded: -Younan Xia and Peidong Yang, Advanced Materials 15, 353 (2003).

Some notes used in this lecture come from Prof. Yi Cuis class in Stanford.

Template Method

1) On Solid surface 2) Channels in Porous materials 3) Micelles and reversed micelles 4) ExisFng nanowires and nanotubes

ZY Fan, Nature Mater., 8, 648 (2009)

CdTe Deposi)on in AAO

Break