Material Self-Assembly Over All Length Scales

3 Credits

Students are introduced to interdisciplinary nanoscience and nanotechnology. This course shows how nano-and micrometer-scale building blocks with a variety of shapes, compositions and surface functionalities can be assembled spontaneously into unprecedented and functional nanostructures. Examples of self-assembly systems discussed in this course include self-assembled monolayers, layer-by-layer self-assembly, microsphere self-assembly, and block copolymer self-assembly.