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CHEE 4301
Nanomaterials and
their characterisation
Tutorials
Lecture 1
Introduction
Professor Jin Zou
Contact details: Office Room 75-108
Telephone: 3346 3195
Email: j.zou@uq.edu.au
Lecturers/Head Tutors
Nanomaterials
Properties, Fabrication and Application
Type of Nanomaterials
Thermoelectric nanostructures
Semiconductor and functional nanostructures
Carbon nanomaterials
Nanoporous materials
Concepts to be learnt
All concepts to be learnt will be outlined in the lecture
notes
References
Journals: Nature, Science, Advanced Materials, Nano
Letters, Materials Today (all these journals have online versions at UQ)
Listed Reference Books
Recommend Internet Websites
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Laboratory Practices
Students will undertake laboratory sessions where
synthesis, characterisation and property measurement
of thermoelectric nanostructures will be learnt.
Students will be introduced to computer modelling of
crystal structures of different materials.
Tutorials
Students will answer relevant questions.
Grade 7 = 85-100
Grade 6 = 75-84
Grade 5 = 65-74
Grade 4 = 50-64
Grade 3 = 45-49
Grade 2 = 20-44
Grade 1 = 1-19
Failed
ExaPetaTeraGigaMegaKilometre
MilliMicroNanoPicoFemtoAtto-
1015
1012
109
106
103
1
10-3
10-6
10-9
10-12
10-15
10-18
Note:
All grades & percentages
are recorded, so please
work hard to achieve a
high percentage in your
grade!
Assessments
quintillion
quadrillion
trillion
billion
million
thousand
Provide information
Describe a process and the results
Size Matters
1 Nanometre (nm) = 10-9 metre (m)
thousandth
millionth
billionth
trillionth
quadrillionth
quintillionth
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Hair
Neal Lane, the chief
science advisor to
former president
Clinton and a former
director of the National
Science Foundation.
1998
In a lecture Nanotechnology
and the Next 50 Years,
Smalley predicted that, with
the right advances in
technology, a nanometresized solar cell could be built.
Such devices could
potentially provide for the
world's energy needs in the
year 2050.
https://pubs.acs.org/cen/government/88/8815gov1.html
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Innovation of Nanotechnology
Automobile
Computer
Nanotech
1969
2025
2081
1886
1939
1997
Why Nanomaterials
Why Nanoscience
Small structures exhibit novel and unique properties,
due to their significant fractions of surfaces/
interfaces.
Nanoscience is to understand their fundamentals
How they form?
Why do they have certain properties?
Examples
Computer memory
made of nanowires
Transportation to
the space station
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Geometrical Classification
Nanomaterials
Small
Lightweight
Novel properties
Multifunctional
Hierarchical
Smart
fullerenes
quantum dots,
nanoparticles,
One dimensional
nanotubes, nanorods,
nanoblets, nanowires,
nanofibres,
Nanomaterials
Nanostructured
materials
nanocomposites,
quantum wells/wires,
thin films,
Zero dimensional
Two dimensional
nanosheets,
nanofilms,
Nanostructured Materials
0D
1D
2D
2D
1D
0D