Nanoscience (NANOSCI)
The mission of the graduate Certificate Program in Nanoscience (CPN) is to educate students in nanoscience disciplines and applications. This graduate certificate program is designed to address the need for an interdisciplinary graduate education in nanoscience that extends beyond the traditional disciplines and skills that are taught within existing departments. In this program, graduate students are educated and mentored in classes, labs and research projects by faculty from many disciplines. Current focus areas within nanoscience that are currently represented at Duke include: i) synthesis of nanostructured materials, ii) fundamental properties of nanostructured materials, iii) nanodevice fabrication and applications, and iv) advanced characterization of nanostructured materials and devices. The disciplines span the physical sciences, engineering, and basic biological-science disciplines that are relevant to nanoscience; the program includes faculty from departments within Arts and Sciences, the Pratt School of Engineering, and the Medical School. Member departments in include: Biology, Biochemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Cell Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, and Physics.
For additional information, visit the Web site: http://www.cs.duke.edu/nano/, or contact Professor John Reif (reif@cs.duke.edu) or Professor Stephen Teitsworth (teitso@phy.duke.edu).
Requirements
To be awarded a Certificate in Nanoscience, a student must:
1) be enrolled in the Certificate Program in Nanoscience for at least two years; have a Nanoscience Advisory Committee appointed and approved by the Nanoscience Director of Graduate Studies; complete the requirements for a PhD in their department, with a PhD thesis committee containing at least one member of the core Nanoscience faculty;
2) take the following required courses:
(a) the single semester course Nanoscience 310. Foundations of Nanoscale Science and Technology or approved substitution elective course,
(b) the single semester course Nanoscience 201. Nanoscience Laboratory or approved substitution elective course,
(c) take the single semester course Nanoscience 312. Nanoscience Graduate Seminar and have regular attendence at the Nanoscience Graduate Seminar throughout the period of the student's enrollment in the Certificate Program in Nanoscience;
(d) take a one semester elective course or three one-month short courses chosen from an approved list of Nanoscience elective courses at Duke University; and
3) complete a project of duration approximately one to two months (the project and its duration must be pre-approved by the student's Advisory Committee) in association with a research group in Nanoscience outside the student's dissertation group, to be described by a written report or poster presentation (for example, an experimental student in physics may take a rotation in another laboratory at Duke University, while a theoretical student in physics may do a project in a software laboratory).
310. Foundations of Nanoscale Science and Technology. This course is the introductory course for the Graduate Certificate Program in Nanoscience (GPNANO) and is designed to introduce students to the interdisciplinary aspects of nanoscience by integrating important components of the broad research field together. This integrated approach will cross the traditional disciplines of biology, chemistry, electrical & computer engineering, computer science, and physics. Fundamental properties of materials at the nanoscale, synthesis of nanoparticles, characterization tools, and self-assembly. Prerequisites: Physics 62L and Chem 21L or instructor approval. C-L: NANO 200 pending in COMPSCI, CHEM, and PHYS. Instructor: Dwyer. 3 units. C-L: Electrical and Computer Engineering 310
312. Nanoscience Graduate Seminar. Series of weekly presentations by internal and external speakers on topics in Nanoscience. Each student is required to present one seminar on an appropriate research topic. Instructors: Lazarides and LaBean. 1 unit. C-L: Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science 312
316. Bionanotechnology. Covers nanotechnology, bionanotechnology, introductory structural biological, molecular bioengineering, DNA computing, molecular electronics, and related fields, with a focus on the design, fabrication, use and development of systems with molecular-scale components. Previous knowledge of chemistry or macromolecular structure is not required. The course is appropriate for graduate students and advanced undergrads engineering, computer science, materials science, chemistry, and biomedical fields. Instructor: Labean. 3 units.
Elective courses in Nanoscience:
Biochemistry
222. Structure of Biological Macromolecules
Biology
295S. Physical Approaches to the Living Cell
Biomedical Engineering
207. Transport Phenomena in Biological Systems
220L. Introduction to Biomedical Engineering
247. Drug Delivery
Cell Biology
251. Molecular Cell Biology
Chemistry
304. Separation Science
311. Biological Chemistry
321. Inorganic Chemistry
326. Transition Metal Ion Reactivity and Mechanisms
328. Synthesis and Synthetic Methods in Inorganic/Organometallic Chemistry
331. Organic Chemistry
334. Physical Organic Chemistry
336. Bioorganic Chemistry
348. Solid State Chemistry
Computer Science
222. Nanocomputers
230. Design and Analysis of Algorithms
250. Numerical Analysis
260. Algorithms in Computational Biology
296. Molecular Computing, Biomolecular Nanotechnology
Mathematics
224. Scientific Computing I
225. Scientific Computing II
226. Numerical Partial Differential Equations I
229. Mathematical Modeling
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
208. Introduction to Colloid and Surface Science
209. Soft Wet Materials and Interfaces
211. Theoretical and Applied Polymer Science
265.2 Interaction of radiation with nanostructured matter
310. Nanomechanics: From Molecules to Materials
Physics
246S. Physical Approaches to the Living Cell
307. Introduction to Condensed Matter Physics
310. Advanced Solid State Physics
346. Introduction to Electronic Nanophysics
