Target audience

Master Program Chemistry (Chemie) and Polymer Science, Course n° 21238.

Lecturers

S-Jun.-Prof. Annabelle Bertin (50%), Jun.-Prof. Marcelo Calderon (50%).

Language

English.

Credits

3 SWS.

Outline part inorganic nanomaterials

• Introduction to chemical nanotechnology
• Synthesis, properties and biomedical applications of inorganic nanoparticles:

1. Metal NPs: gold, silver
2. Metal oxide NPs: iron oxide, zinc oxide
3. Silica-based NPs
4. Quantum dots
5. Carbon-based NPs

• Nanoscale characterization
• Nanotoxicity

Book recommendations

1. Nanoparticles: From Theory to Application. Edited by Gunter Schmid. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2nd Completely Revised and Updated Edition, 2010, ISBN: 978-3-527-32589-4.
2. Nanochemistry : A Chemical Approach to Nanomaterials. Edited by Geoffrey A Ozin, André Arsenault and Ludovico Cademartiri. RSC Publishing, Cambridge, Second Edition, 2008, ISBN: 978-1-84755-895-4.