NANOTECHNOLOGY SEMINAR THE PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY AND ENGINEERING OF NANOTECHNOLOGY CHEN 481-505 SPRING 2012 Course Information Class room: 112 Jack E. Brown, Chem. Eng. Bldg. Class time: Friday 9:10 – 10:00 am Pre-requisite: None Instructor Information: Name: Jorge M. Seminario Research URL: http://research.che.tamu.edu/groups/Seminario/index-1.html Office: 239 JEB E-mail: seminario@tamu.edu Office hours: roughly 3:00-4:00 PM, after class. However, you are free to see me at any time; just make sure I see you if I am with some else in my office. The only times I am asking you to avoid looking for me is before class. I need to prepare it carefully. Virtual office hours: 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Just send me your question by e-mail and I will respond in a matter of seconds (through the web site) most of the times or in a few hours in case I am away or the question is difficult. Course Goals Basically the course has two main goals: 1) To introduce all students to the basics and tools of the exciting field of nanotechnology. This includes a review of the state of the art as well as discussions of present research such that presently or after graduation the student can be ready to work in this multidisciplinary field; and 2) Re-orient and re-tool students with nanotechnology approaches and algorithms to analyze, design, and simulate systems of their own interest or of their own research. The effort will focus on developing, modifying, adapting, and creating tools to solve specific problems in the field. Grading Project 1 Project 2 Project 3 30% 30% 40% The same formula is used for everyone. No student may obtain extra credit by special arrangement. Final grades are assigned as indicated below. I am not committed to giving a certain percentage of A's or F's to every class. The following table will give you a precise idea of your grade: From 90 to 100 A 80 89 B 70 79 C 60 69 D Less than 60 F Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Policy Statement The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a federal anti-discrimination statute that provides comprehensive civil rights protection for persons with disabilities. Among other things, this legislation requires that all students with disabilities be guaranteed a learning environment that provides for reasonable accommodation of their disabilities. If you believe you have a disability requiring an accommodation, please contact the Department of Student Life, Services for Students with Disabilities Cain Hall, Room B118, or call 845-1637. For additional information visit http://disability.tamu.edu The Texas A&M University Academic Integrity Statement “An Aggie does not lie, cheat, or steal or tolerate those who do” The Aggie Honor Code provides a standard of conduct in which each student promises not to lie, cheat, or steal and not to tolerate violations by others. I support the Aggie code and I assume the students do also. Remember that the honor system can be effective only if everyone supports it! For further information, please see the Academic Integrity Task Force, 2004 at http://aggiehonor.tamu.edu. In summary, do not cheat on exams, test, quizzes, or homework. Please spare me the difficulty of seeing those sorts of cases through the prosecution system. Bibliography No textbook but current journal articles in the field and lecture notes will be used as well as the following books as reference material. Here are two interesting books edited by the instructor: Jorge M. Seminario, Molecular and Nano Electronics, Elsevier, 2006 P. B. Balbuena and J. M. Seminario, Nanomaterials: Design and Simulation, Elsevier 2006. Other very important books are: Nanotechnology: Importance And Applicationsm, M.H. Fulekar, I. K. International Pvt Ltd , 2010 Nanotechnology in drug delivery, Melgardt M. de Villiers, Pornanong Aramwit, Glen S. Kwon, Springer, 2009 Nanotechnology: an introduction to nanostructuring techniques, J. Michael Köhler, Dr. Wolfgang Fritzsche, 2004 Nanotechnology: Fundamentals And Applications, Karkare, I. K. International Pvt Ltd, 2008 C. P. Poole and F. J. Owens, Introduction to Nanotechnology, Wiley, 2003. Jorge Kohanoff, Electronic Structure Calculations for Solids and Molecules, Cambridge, 2006 G. L. Timp (ed.), Nanotechnology, Springer-Verlag, 1998. Aviram, M. Ratner, and V. Mujica (ed.), Molecular Electronics II, NYAS, 2003. Introduction to Mesoscopic Physics, Yoseph Imry, Oxford University Press (1997) Molecular Electronics, James M. Tour, World Scientific; (2003) Modern Quantum Chemistry, A. Szabo and N. S. Ostlund, MacMillan, New York (1982) Molecular Quantum Mechanics, P. W. Atkins, Second edition, Oxford University, (1983) Silicon Quantum Integrated Circuits, E. Kasper and D.J. Paul, Springer Atoms, Molecules and Clusters in Electric Fields, G. Maroulis, Imperial College Press (2006) Gaussian 2009 Information Crystal 2006 Information VASP 2009 Information LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Program information Artificial Intelligence Methods Monte Carlo Methods Review of Basic Stuff from Materials: 1) Atomic and molecular 2) Electrical properties 3) Magnetic properties 4) Optical properties “Always read in advance the material for class” Class Outline: Paper Review, Presentations, and Discussions: Paper Review You must read each paper and turn in notes about each paper: Presenting students will show the paper as a ppt presentation for 20 minutes Discussion follows to help understanding of paper Goal is to use the paper for further research Presentations For the presenters: 1) Chose one or more papers regarding applications of nanotechnology to your assigned/selected topic 2) Prepare a ppt presentation of 20 minutes, containing. a. Title slide (title of your presentation and names of participants) b. Before the introduction, add at least one slide summarizing the research, include figures. c. Introduction (background, etc) d. Basic principles e. Work performed (add a reference to each figure that is not yours (use font 10-12)) f. Conclusions g. Your assessment of the work (how to improve it, follow up, analysis) h. Further research you suggest i. References 3) Send me the ppt in advance to get feedback 4) Decide who is (are) presenting for a total of 20 minutes PPT files of the presentations are due two days before the class in which you will present your assignment as indicated in the schedule shown below. Additional tips: Use figures that correspond with the concept or the text in the slide, do not use them to fill space. Use figures or graphs self-explanatory or a least put captions on them. Explain the concepts that are going to be used on the presentation Summarize your ideas and show it as key words or phrases using bullets. Do not use other presentations done in others classes. Do not choose one paper and copy exactly what it says; do a review of your project, looking up for information in other papers/books Summarize the work going on in your selected topic (motivation, relevance, preliminary work, actual work you want to explain, alternatives, and further research) You should cite the journal papers or any figure of the paper properly The citation of a paper or a figure on a paper should be in the following way: Examples, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 16448. Phys. Rev. Lett. 1996, 77, or Wang, D. L.; Li, K.; Teo, W. K. J. Membr. Sci. 1995, 105, 89. Suggestion: Choose papers from recent issues in Science or Nature Discussion (for the Audience): Listen and take notes on the prepared sheet with your review about the presentation (individually, attendance required, no make-ups) Interesting Topics See the Nanotechnology Class: http://research.che.tamu.edu/orgs/groups/Seminario/nanotechnology/ See the nanoMaterials page: http://research.che.tamu.edu/groups/Seminario/materials/ Additional Information from the materials class is here: Materials Solar Energy (material collected from undergraduate class in petroleum engineering) I strongly advise you to see the 14 topics prepared by the materials class of spring-2011. These presentations will allow you to browse the diverse areas related to nanotechnology. I also included important chapters from the material’s class that can help you further to refresh some basics stuff that I am sure you learn before. Example of Topics Applications of Nanotechnology to Process to control nanotubes chirality Nanotech applic.: Oil, gas industry Solar Cells; Chemistry & Surface chemistry Electromechanical oscillator Reservoir Engineering Nano-porous membranes in Gas separation Nano-Sensors; Microtubule dynamic instability Biodegradable Polymer Nanoparticles for drug delivery through mucosal Membranes Deliver chemicals to a specific location Biomedical sensing- biosensing Nano-robots Gas & oil industry Carbon-nanotubes Energy, Food production & sustainability Carbon-nanotubes Mechano-transduction; piezoelecctricity Nano-fabrics, Chemical Eng. Industry at IBM, Intel Industrial applications Nanowire photonics Semiconductor manufacturing techniques Nanotech in Agriculture Molec. Circuits using NDR composites Solid state Chemistry NEMs Graphene technology Food/ beverages industry, Consumer products Thermal conductivity Metal organic frameworks Nanotechnology in Daily Life Quantum mechanical devices, tunnel FETs Nanotech applic. Mechanical Nanotechnology in Aerospace Applications Self-ordered devices Nanotech applic: Pharmaceuticals Zeolites in the Petrochemical Industry Applications to genomics Sequencing Cancer Genomes Notice: these were topics chosen in earlier related courses. I am providing them just for reference. Any application of nanotechnology to engineering, especially chemical engineering is allowed. Also notice that the extent of chemical engineering has grown in recent years far beyond of traditional chemical engineering. Thus you have to be prepared to take the challenge, if you want to get a good job. Make-Up Policy There are NOT make-up presentations; if you have a proved emergency (properly documented and submitted to me as soon it is possible, i.e., the next class you are able to attend after the emergency) that does not allow you to attend the presentation; your next score will be used instead for the presentation you missed. If the emergency does not allow you to take the final presentation and if you have a valid reason your grade will be based on the ppt file that your group submitted. If you do not have a valid emergency, you will get a zero in the presentation. There are few situations in which a make-up of the final presentation has to be done; if so, please provide the needed information as soon as you can. The same rules also apply for other cases not explicitly considered as emergencies such as, jury duty, job interviews, or presentations of your research work in meetings. Consistent with University Student Rules, students are required to notify the instructor and provide supporting information if they have a problem to attend the presentations. If no documentation is presented after one week of the end of the emergency, you will receive a zero. If the absence is planned, you will need to provide the documentation in advance too. Please send me an e-mail if you have further questions. Attendance, Attendance is strongly suggested though not enforced. Please come on time. Day Date Class and Assignment Schedule Applications of technology to Fri 20-Jan Introduction Fri 27-Jan TBA-Presentation G1-G2 Fri 3-Feb TBA-Presentation G3-G4 Fri 10-Feb TBA-Presentation G5-G6 Fri 17-Feb TBA-Presentation G7-G8 Fri 24-Feb TBA-Presentation G9-G1 Fri 2-Mar TBA-Presentation G2-G3 Fri 9-Mar TBA-Presentation G4-G5 Fri 16-Mar TBA-Presentation G6-G7 Fri 23-Mar TBA-Presentation G8-G9 Fri 30-Mar TBA-Presentation G1-G2 Fri 6-Apr TBA-Presentation G3-G4 Fri 13-Apr TBA-Presentation G5-G6 Fri 20-Apr TBA-Presentation Fri 27-Apr TBA-Presentation G# = groups of 2 people G# = groups of 3 people group Evaluation Form - see below the items to be evaluated 1) Quality of slides: Figures in ALL slides Figures of proper size Balance figures-text Font-size (readable, ~20pt) Text in figures/tables similar to body text Figures are fully visible High quality figures/equations PPT long enough for 20 minutes Consistency of slide sequence Graphics helps to understand Background has a purpose material from others was PROPERLY CITED Slides conveyed the information to the audience? All slides are self-explanatory explain figures with text/captions use short sentences, bullets use all the space in the slide Try to show comparisons/differences spelling/grammar OK 2) INTRODUCTION: Educational Show motivation/relevance Showed prelim work Equations of basic theory Recent/relevant/attractive paper Additional information was searched Found work in favor Found work against Paper stands respect to the whole field 3) Oral presentation: FOOD WAS PROVIDED Dress code Eye-contact Interaction with audience Level/tone/clarity of voice Body posture/ Poise Expression/ Polite Confidence Coherency/ Convincing Use of filler words Q&A session Content level /depth /scope Knowledge of the subject/ state-of-the-art Sharpness Critical analysis All group participated in Q/A? Use of microphone/laser pointer Read off slides Rushed 4) Impact: Do the presenters help to further develop of the topic Speaker believes the topic Speaker adherence to topic Other alternatives shown Others doing controversial work Follow-up research Who will benefit Speaker contacted authors or other experts for unpublished material