Objectives and outcomes
The aim of the course is to acquire basic knowledge of nanotechnology, nanotubes and graphene structures. Acquiring knowledge about the basic types of interaction of charged particles with carbon nanotubes and graphene structures as one type of characterization of nanostructures. Learning about the properties of nanotubes and their specificity.
Lectures
Introduction to solid-state physics (structure, energy gaps, localised particles). Measurement methods in nanotechnologies (structure, microscopy, spectroscopy). The properties of individual nano-particles (metal nano-systems, semiconductor nano-particles, rare gas and molecular systems, methods of synthesis). Carbon nano-structures (molecules of carbon, carbon systems, carbon nano-tubes). Granular nanostructured materials (solid disordered nano-structures, nano-structured crystals). Nano-structured ferromagnetism (ferromagnetism basis, the impact of granular nanostructures on magnetic properties, dynamics of nano-magnets, the content of nanocavities of magnetic particles, nano-carbon ferromagnet, giant magnetoresistance, ferrofluids). Optical and vibrational spectroscopy (infrared frequency range, luminescence, nano-structures in the zeolite cages). Quantum wells, wires and dots (preparation of quantum nanostructures, effects of dimension, excitons, the single-electron tunneling, superconductivity). Self-construction and catalysis. The organic composite materials and polymers (formation and characterisation of polymers, nano-crystals, polymers, supra-molecular structure). Biological materials (biological building blocks, nucleic acids, biological nanostructures). Nanomachines and nanodevices (micro-electromechanical systems, nanoelectromechanical systems, molecular and supra-molecular switches).
Research work
Nanotubes and their properties. Nanotube geometry, chemical structures and physical properties. Channeling of particles through nanotubes. Theories of ion channeling. Doyle-Turner approximation. Dynamic polarization. One-fluid model, two-fluid model, extended two-fluid model. Curvature of nanotubes.