MSE 4890 - [Colloids and Colloid Assemblies for Advanced Materials Applications]

3 credits.

Next offered 2014-2015. Co-meets with MSE 5890.

C. Liddell-Watson.

Recent global developments in the synthesis, modification, organization, and utilization of fine particles in nanotechnology and biotechnology fields. Underlying principles for control of particle characteristics such as mean size, shape, composition, internal homogeneous structure, layered, hollow, porous, and heterojunction structures. Methods for the formation of ordered and patterned particle arrays employed in advanced materials based on latex, ceramic colloids, metal nanoparticles, semiconductor quantum dots, nanocapsules, and miniemulsions. Applications in photonics, biolabeling, biological screening, drug delivery, catalysis, and magnetic recording.