Chemistry plays a significant role in the emerging interdisciplinary fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology. The nanoscale refers to materials with dimensions on the scale of nanometers (a thousandth of a thousandth of a thousandth of a meter). Control of the material world at the scale of atoms and molecules can produce materials with fundamentally different properties and behavior and has been touted as the next technological revolution. Some questions we will consider include: What nanotechnology already exists? What makes nanomaterials special? How can they be prepared? What tools can be used to study such materials? Three class periods and one laboratory period per week.

Prerequisite: Previous chemistry or physics background. No specific course is required but you should have experience doing and recording laboratory work.

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Class	Lab
Nanochemistry Basics	Electrochromic Prussian Blue Thin Films. See using our multimeters. See required lab notebook format and using our multimeters. Come to lab with table of contents started and written purpose and method sections.
Consumer Products Electrochromic Prussian Blue report due	Octadecanethiol Monolayer on Silver (main experiment, start this first) and Microcontact Printing of Thiols (an extension of the main experiment but begin the PDMS preparation while the ethanol is evaporating in the main experiment) and Electroless Deposition with Alkanethiol Treatment. Arrive with purpose and method for each experiment written in your notebook on a different page. Each of the three experiments will have their own actions and observations and data and image sections. Be sure to plan how these thiol experiments fit together. During lab rename your water drop image files to something easier to remember as you record them. Your drop images for inclusion in your notebook will be placed here. Get protractor here. Indicate on the image where you measured the angle. Movie: Background information (self assembly)
Metal Nanoparticles Alkanethiol reports due	Three Syntheses of Gold Nanoparticles and Sodium Borohydride Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles and Microwave-assisted Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles. Arrive with purpose and method for the five experiments each written on a different page. Since you will be doing five syntheses you can only spend 30 minutes on each during lab. Be sure to plan how these metal nanoparticle experiments fit together. Each of the five syntheses will have their own actions and observations and data and graphs sections. Write a combined conclusion section for the five experiments in which you answer the questions as you summarize and make comparisons. Your notebook should indicate on the spectra where you measured.
Nanowires and Barcodes Gold and Silver Nanoparticles report due, five syntheses with one conclusion.	Begin Synthesis of Nickel Nanowires. Arrive with purpose and method written in your notebook. See using our multimeters. You should get as far as obtaining the XRD in the filter or at least leaving the labeled sample to be run. Watch an XRD sample being run so you will know how to use the instrument on your own next week.
Photonics	Continue Nickel Nanowires (5 minutes) on the same page as your earlier work for this experiment but include a new date. Cover the disc in 6 M NaOH in a plastic beaker. Begin PMMA Nanospheres - Synthesis (2 hours). Arrive with purpose and method just for the synthesis written in your notebook on a new page. What are the important variables? Be sure to get to the after the synthesis part today. You will work in one of four groups. Finish Nickel Nanowires during the 40 minute PMMA reaction. Prepare XRD sample and obtain the free nanowire XRD. Do visible microscopy and prepare labeled SEM sample. SEM images for your lab notebook will be stored here. Measure lengths in SEM images using ImageJ. Your notebook should indicate where you measured. Begin PMMA Nanospheres - Stoke's Law Determination of Particle Size (10 minutes). Arrive with purpose and method for the Stoke's Law experiment written in your notebook on a new page. Include the initial photograph in your lab notebook with date and time and showing the full tape height as scale. Your notebook should indicate where you measured.
Semiconductors, Metal Oxides, and Piezoelectricity Nickel Nanowires report due	Start Hydrothermal Growth of ZnO Nanorods - Synthesis (10 minutes). Arrive with purpose and method for the synthesis written in your notebook on a new page. You will need more than one person in your group and groups should set up the synthesis with two glass squares. Leave the prepared tubes next to the oven for inspection. Begin PMMA Nanospheres - Self-Assembly and Photonic Band Gap Determination (10 minutes). Arrive with purpose and method written in your notebook on a new page. You did the dilution step last week. This week set up the constant temperature evaporation. It is likely that you will need to try this experiment more than once. Begin PMMA Nanospheres - Synthesis of Inverse Opal Photonic Crystals (10 minutes). Arrive with purpose and method written in your notebook on a new page. The samples you saved in microcentrifuge tubes last week will already be centrifuged for several hours. This week carefully remove most of the remaining liquid and leave the sample open to dry. Continue PMMA Nanospheres - Stokes Law measurements (5 minutes). Photograph needed every 3 or 4 days that includes the full tape height as scale. Measure distances using ImageJ. Your notebook should indicate where you measured. Do you need to start a new tube?
Field Effect Transistors	Finish ZnO Nanorods measurements (two hours). Continue on the same page as your earlier work for this experiment but include a new date. In each group, one of you will do XRD, UV, and methylene blue measurements on one slide, and the other will do SEM and PEC (bulk electrolysis and cyclic voltammetry) measurements on the other slide. For actions and observations you only need the measurements you did, but data, graphs and conclusions will require you to exchange data and include the results from all six measurements on your duplicate slides. Your notebook should indicate where you measured. SEM images for your lab notebook will be stored here. Continue PMMA Nanospheres - Stokes Law measurements. Data needed every 3 or 4 days. Measure distances using ImageJ. Your notebook should indicate where you measured. Show instructor your data table to see if you need to start a new tube.
Carbon Nanotubes ZnO Nanorod report due	Continue PMMA Nanospheres - Synthesis of Inverse Opal Photonic Crystals (20 minutes). Continue on the same page as your earlier work for this experiment but include a new date. Load dry sample in boat, add TEOS, put boat in tube furnace. Continue PMMA Nanospheres - Optical Diffraction and SEM Determination of Particle Size (40 minutes). Continue on the same page as your earlier work for this experiment but include a new date. Measure visible spectrum. If you do not see a visible absorption peak, set up another evaporation for a better diffraction result. Prepare labeled sample for SEM. Get SEM images for your lab notebook here. Measure lengths in SEM images using ImageJ. Your notebook should indicate where you measured. Continue PMMA Nanospheres - Stokes Law measurements. Data needed every 3 or 4 days.
Polymers and Block Copolymers	PDMS Soft Lithography (two hours). Arrive with purpose and method written in your notebook. Start this experiment first so PDMS can cure. Do the optical transform and either the CD or DVD. Be sure to use the side with the features as the mold. Be sure to take data on the original samples while the PDMS is curing. Your notebook should indicate where you measured. Continue PMMA Nanospheres - SEM Determination of Inverse Opal Hole Size (10 minutes). Continue on the same page as your earlier work for this experiment but include a new date. Prepare sample for SEM. Get SEM images for your lab notebook here. Measure lengths in SEM images using ImageJ. Your notebook should indicate where you measured. Continue PMMA Nanospheres - Optical Diffraction. If you did another trial, measure visible spectrum. Continue PMMA Nanospheres - Stokes Law measurements. Data needed every 3 or 4 days
Photovoltaics PDMS Soft Lithography report due	Titanium Dioxide Raspberry Solar Cells (90 minutes). Start this experiment first! See using our multimeters. Finish PMMA Nanospheres - Inverse Opal Properties (10 minutes). Test properties. Finish PMMA Nanospheres - Optical Diffraction. If you did another trial, measure visible spectrum. Continue PMMA Nanospheres - Stokes Law measurements. Data needed every 3 or 4 days.
Quantum Dots TiO2 report due	Synthesis of Zinc Copper Indium Sulfide Quantum Dot Nanoparticles. Your notebook should indicate on the spectra where you measured. Synthesis of Cadmium Sulfide Nanoparticles. Your notebook should indicate on the spectra where you measured. Continue PMMA Nanospheres - Stokes Law measurements. Data needed every 3 or 4 days.
Electrons and Magnetism Quantum Dot reports due	Synthesis of Colloidal Magnetite Nanoparticles (ferrofluid). Finish by preparing a sample for XRD. Continue PMMA Nanospheres - Stokes Law measurements. Data needed every 3 or 4 days.
LEDs and OLEDs Ferrofluid report due	Organic Light Emitting Diodes. Finish PMMA Nanospheres - Stokes Law measurements. Select class samples for AFM.
Scanning Probe Microscopies oLED report due	Meet in AFM lab to run class samples.
Societal Implications PMMA reports due. Remember to show your work (you need to include how and where you measured the data on the images!) Use the combined results in your conclusions. A main goal is to compare your four size determinations.	Cleanup (empty counters and drawers and make sure everything is labeled). Build balloon model of CNT.