Nanomaterials

This specialization covers materials engineered at a scale where size itself changes behaviour: quantum confinement and the dominance of surface area, bottom-up and top-down synthesis routes, and the principal classes -- nanoparticles, nanowires, carbon nanotubes, graphene and other two-dimensional materials. Expect characterisation by electron microscopy, AFM and diffraction, and attention to dispersion, agglomeration and nanotoxicity.