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Nanochemistry: The Development and Implementation of a New Graduate Elective at the Middle Eastern Technical University in Turkey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Michael Pitcher
Michael Pitcher*
Affiliation:
[email protected], METU, Chemistry, n/a, Ankara, n/a, 05631, Turkey
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Abstract

It seems that a day cannot pass without reading a headline in the popular press or scientific magazines extolling the potential of nanotechnology and nanoscience. The excitement is justifiable and the new generation of researchers and workers in this discipline will need a whole new range of skills and vocabulary to understand and progress this exciting field and for it to reach its full potential. In higher education and research establishments around the world most nanoscience or nanotechnology courses and textbooks, that have been developed, have been done so by engineering or physics departments and approach the subject from that perspective. The interdisciplinary nature of nanoscience, however, also includes chemists, which until recently have had to rely on these courses and books to gain an insight into this rapidly developing field. This has changed in the last year, or so, with exciting new books being published by chemists and aimed at chemistry students of all levels, In addition, chemistry departments around the world, are beginning to develop nanochemistry classes, particularly at the graduate level. Presented here is the structure and content of a new graduate elective that has been offered at the Middle Eastern Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey. This course was offered for the first time in spring 2006 and is designed primarily to introduce and equip chemistry graduate students with some of the skills and tools needed to contribute to the growing nano related research interests that are burgeoning on campus, in the country and in the world. The design of the course, the textbook used, comments from the students, etc are discussed.

Keywords

nanoscaleself-assemblybonding
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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 931: Symposium KK – Education in Nanoscience and Engineering , 2006 , 0931-KK05-02
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 2006

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