Molecules-to-Materials: Foundations for Nanochemistry

This course will extend the concepts and skills acquired in second year courses containing strong principles of physical, inorganic, and/or organic chemistry as their basis; This course will introduce the concepts of molecular-level, building-block logic supporting the concepts of 'Bottom-up' and Supramolecular chemistry leading to a stronger understanding of the development of materials and their properties from a nanometer-scale perspective; This course will blend recent and current research activities from selected peer-reviewed literature articles exemplifying Nanochemistry and/or Nanomaterials Science with a focus on analysing their fundamental principles. The physical chemistry of interfaces and its role in Nanochemistry; Molecular assembly as a tool-kit for materials design at the nanometer scale; and/or the principles of Supramolecular chemistry as a principle supporting the 'Bottom-up' approach to Nano-scale systems. Application of these principles to recent and current topics associated with Nanochemistry, Nanomaterials science, and/or Bionanotechnology.