CHEM 587 A: Nanomaterials Chemistry and Engineering

Rigorous overview of fundamental chemical and physical concepts important to nanomaterials science and engineering. Focus on luminescent, plasmonic, magnetic nanomaterials. Students will learn basic concepts prevalent in the nanomaterials literature, and develop rigorous mathematical understanding of fundamental principles that govern many of the advanced materials that are currently under development in the field. Prerequisite: CHEM 455; MATH 207; and CHEM E 326; recommended: classical physics, quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, and ordinary and partial differential equations Offered: jointly with CHEM E 535; Sp.