Nearly fifty years have passed since American physicist Richard P. Feynman asked "Why cannot we write the entire 24 volumes of the Encyclopedia Brittanica on the head of a pin?" and introduced the concept of nanotechnology. Now, this dream story has been come true. The students are provided with an educational grounding in the principles common to nanomaterials in this course, before they research a specialized field of nanomaterials engineering.

This course is open as the class of

"Advanced Course on Interdisciplinary Engineering 4"

for Master's Course students and

"Advanced Course on Interdisciplinary Engineering D"

for Doctoral Course students.

The mission in this course is to promote research and education on physical and chemical properties in nanometer-sized materials required for the development of nano-science and -technology. The core competences in which we seek to excel are syntheses of nanomaterials by bottom-up and top-down methods, atomic and electronic structural characterizations in nanomaterials, and measurements of specific properties in nanomaterials originating from surface and quantum size effects. We seek to identify fundamental principles and methodologies for nanomaterials science and technology and possibilities of diverse applications.

The course consists of three core subjects of "syntheses of nanomaterials", "nanomaterials characterizations" and "properties in nanomaterials". Each of the subjects is lectured for 20 hours.

Syntheses of nanomaterials covers synthetic methods of new functional nanomaterials in liquid phases.

Nanomaterials characterizations covers both fundamentals and practices of microscopy and spectroscopy.

Properties in nanomaterials introduces electronic and optical properties of semiconductor quantum dots and their application to photonic materials. The all lectures include examples or applications.