Course

Unit 1

Introduction to nanomaterials: size dependence of properties surface to volume ratio and quantum confinement. Microscopic techniques to study nano structures – SEM, AFM TEM and STM. Spectroscopic techniques to characterize nanostructures – Raman, XPS, Auger, EDAX.

Unit 2

Synthetic approaches: colloidal, self-assembly (self assembled monolayers-SAMs) and electrostatic self-assembly, electrochemical methods (cathodic and anodic processes), sol-gel, Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) technique, chemical vapour deposition, plasma arcing and ball milling, lithography.

Unit 3

Electrical, optical, mechanical, chemical and magnetic properties of nanomaterials. Surface Plasmon resonance Fluorescence Resonance energy transfer (FRET).

Unit 4

Carbon clusters: synthesis, properties and biomedical applications of fullerenes, carbon nanotubes and graphenes. quantum dots, wells and wires (metallic and semiconducting) – preparation, properties and biomedical applications. Dendrimeric structures and their applications.

Unit 5

Biofunctionalization of nanomaterials – noncovalent assembly – covalent assembly – biofunctional nanomaterials – semiconductor nanoparticles magnetic nanoparticles. Applications of biofunctional nanomaterials optical and electrochemical sensing.

REFERENCES

1.Alexei Nabok, Organic and Inorganic Nanostructures, Artech House, Inc., 2005

2.Huangxian Ju, Xueji Zhang and Joseph Wang, Nano Biosensing, Principles, Development and Application, Springer, 2011.

3.M. Reza Mozafari (Editor), Nanomaterials and Nanosystems for Biomedical Applications, Springer 2007.

4.Zhong Lin Wang (Editor), Characterization of Nanophase Materials, Wiley VCH, 2000.