ChE 499: Special Topics: Introduction to Nanotechnology

The Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering

The College of Engineering

Spring 2009

Instructors: Dr. Lloyd L. Lee

Email: Dr. Lee

URL= http://www.csupomona.edu/~lllee/

SYLLABUS

WEEK	TOPIC	BOOK/ AUTHOR	READING	HOMEWORK
1	March 31th Cesar Chavez Day Overview of Nanotechnology	---	Feynman 1959 Lecture	* Report on Feynman (due 4-8 )
2	Fullerenes, Carbon Nanotubes	Drexler/Booker	Eric Drexler: Engines of Creation 1986 (Entire Book) Eric Drexler: Chap.7. Engines of Healing (Only Chap.7) Download Lecture 1: Introduction to Nanotechnology	* Report on Eric Drexler (Chapter 7) (due 4-13 )
3	Carbon Nanotubes	Booker	Booker: Chapter 4 on Carbon Nanotubes. Download Lecture 2: CNT and Fullrenes	* Report on Booker-Boysen (Chapter 4) on fullerenes and carbon nanotubes (Due 4-20 )
4	Aerogels	Class notes	Download Lecture 3: Aerogels Download Reading: How to Make Aerogels	* Report on Making Aerogels (Due 4-29 )
5	Nanobiotechnology Nanomedicine, Medical Nanotechnology Zeolites	Booker	Booker, Chapter 11 on Medical Applications Download Lecture 4: nanomedicine lecture
6	Nanofluidics, NEMS, Laboratory-on-a-chip Zeolites	Class notes	Download Nanomedicine URLs from NIH Download Lecture 5: zeolites lecture Download Whitesides: Scientific American Download Lecture 6: dendrimer lecture	Midterm Reports (due 5-11 before 5:00pm ) Midterm Presentations: Groups A,B,C, & D (due 5-13) (10 points) Each group has 15 minutes to present your Powerpints. (10 points) Midterm Exam (due 5-8 ) * Report on Booker (Chapter 11) on nanomedicine. (Due 5-11 )
7	Starburst Dendrimers	Class notes	Download nano-microfluidics lecture
8	Starburst Dendrimers	Class Notes	Chapter 10	* Report on Booker, Chapter 10, Nanomedicine (5-27 )
9	May 25th Memorial Day Nanomedicine	Booker & Boysen	Download Dendrimer review by Tomalia 1990	* Report on reading Tomalia paper of 1990 (6-3 )
10	Self-assembled monolayers	Ulman:Ultrathin Organic films	Chapter 3.3 Download self-assembled monolayers lecture	Final Report due (6-5)
	Final Oral Presentation		Wednesday June 10th 9:10am-11:10am	Each group will present Powerpoint for 20 minutes on the three (3) cases of your nanostructure. We start with group E, then D, C, B, A (in reverse order). Please adhere to the time limit! (No overtime!!!)