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CHEE 4301
Nanomaterials and
their characterisation

Contact Hours and Venues

Lectures:
Tuesdays 10:00am 10:50am @ 03-262 and
Wednesdays 1:00pm 1:50pm @ 82D-301

Tutorials

Lecture 1
Introduction
Professor Jin Zou
Contact details: Office Room 75-108
Telephone: 3346 3195
Email: j.zou@uq.edu.au

Lecturers/Head Tutors

Professor Jin Zou (j.zou@uq.edu.au)

Dr Zhigang Chen (z.chen1@uq.edu.au)
Dr Barry Wood (b.wood@uq.edu.au)
Professor Michael Yu (c.yu@uq.edu.au)
Dr Meihua Yu (m.yu2@uq.edu.au)
Dr Xiaodan Huang (x.huang@uq.edu.au)

Dr Bobbie Sutton (bobbie@alumni.cmu.edu)

Dr Zhigang Chen (z.chen1@uq.edu.au)

Fridays 3:00pm-5:50pm @ 50-N301

Lab Practice of Thermoelectric Nanostructures

Fridays 3:00pm-7:00pm @ various places (week 6 to
week 9)
Will be grouped in one hour session, and there will be
4 groups in each session.

3:00pm-4:00pm (W6: G1-4, W7: G4-6, W8: G7-9, W9: G10-12)

4:00pm-5:00pm (W6: G4-6, W7: G7-9, W8: G10-12, W9: G1-3)
5:00pm-6:00pm (W6: G7-9, W7: G10-12, W8: G1-3, W9: G4-6)
6:00pm-7:00pm (W6: G10-12, W7: G1-3, W8: G4-6, W9: G7-9)

Topics/Contents of the Course

Nanomaterials Characterization
Crystallography
Diffraction (X-ray and Electron)
Electron Microscopy (Scanning and Transmission)
Composition Determination (EDS, EELS, and XPS)

Nanomaterials
Properties, Fabrication and Application

Type of Nanomaterials
Thermoelectric nanostructures
Semiconductor and functional nanostructures
Carbon nanomaterials
Nanoporous materials

Nanomaterials for energy, environmental and

biological applications

Learning and Consultation Schedule

Each week, a face-to face
consultation (Wednesday
afternoons between 2- 4
pm) is arranged for you to
meet with lecturers who
teach in that week. Open
door policy is arranged for
the face-to-face
consultation,
To effectively make
consultations, it is better
to email your questions to
lecturers. I am sure that
you will get timely
response!

Textbook & References

Textbook
No particular text book recommended

Concepts to be learnt
All concepts to be learnt will be outlined in the lecture
notes

References
Journals: Nature, Science, Advanced Materials, Nano
Letters, Materials Today (all these journals have online versions at UQ)
Listed Reference Books
Recommend Internet Websites

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Teaching & Learning Methods

Lectures
Blocks of lectures will be presented by experts in the
appropriate fields. Emphasis will be highlighted in
lectures.

Laboratory Practices
Students will undertake laboratory sessions where
synthesis, characterisation and property measurement
of thermoelectric nanostructures will be learnt.
Students will be introduced to computer modelling of
crystal structures of different materials.

Tutorials
Students will answer relevant questions.

Assessments (Grades v Percentages)

Grade 7 = 85-100
Grade 6 = 75-84
Grade 5 = 65-74
Grade 4 = 50-64
Grade 3 = 45-49
Grade 2 = 20-44
Grade 1 = 1-19

Failed

ExaPetaTeraGigaMegaKilometre
MilliMicroNanoPicoFemtoAtto-

1015
1012
109
106
103
1
10-3
10-6
10-9
10-12
10-15
10-18

T1: Crystal structure tutorial (week 2) 3%

T2: Crystal structure modeling (week 3) 10%
T3: Diffraction tutorial (week 4) 3%
T4: XPS practice (week 5) 5%
T5: Nanomaterials for energy applications (week 10) 3%
T6: Electron microscopy (week 11) 3%
T7: Nanoporous for H/B applications (week 12) 3%
Laboratory practices report (weeks 6 9) 25% (Please use
TURNITIN to check your report before hand it in!)
Final examination 45%
Note: The 30% of total weight in the Final Exam (representing 2/3
of the final exam) is the Identity Verified Assessment, therefore a
minimum of 40% must be achieved in the designed overall
30% in the Final Exam to receive a passing grade from the
course (as required by the university!

Laboratory Report and its Format

Why do we write reports/papers/theses?

In this course, 30 marks in

the Final Exam is the Identity
Verified Assessment.

Note:
All grades & percentages
are recorded, so please
work hard to achieve a
high percentage in your
grade!

The Prefixes for a Given Unit:

1018

Assessments

quintillion
quadrillion
trillion
billion
million
thousand

Provide information
Describe a process and the results

Format of a Lab Report

Cover page Identify yourself

Title What the experiment is about
Introduction - Aims
Procedure What you did
Results What you got
Discussion What it all means
Conclusion The final answer
References - When necessary, references
should be cited.

Use TURNITIN to check your report

Any plagiarism will be heavily penalized. A university
advice on plagiarism can be found in
http://www.uq.edu.au/myadvisor/index.html?page=2988

Size Matters
1 Nanometre (nm) = 10-9 metre (m)

thousandth
millionth
billionth
trillionth
quadrillionth
quintillionth

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Human Hair via Nanofibres

What Did the Policy Maker Say

Hair
Neal Lane, the chief
science advisor to
former president
Clinton and a former
director of the National
Science Foundation.

What Did the Nano-Pioneer Say

ultimately--in the great

future--we can arrange the
atoms the way we want; the
very atoms, all the way down!
What would happen if we could
arrange the atoms one by one
the way we want them

New solutions to meet new challenges

Energy
Water
Food
Environment
Disease
Terrorism/war
Education
Crime
Poverty
Population

1998

What Did the Nano-Pioneer Say

The science of building small was

first introduced in 1959 by Richard
P. Feynman in a lecture titled
There's Plenty of Room at the
Bottom.

Richard Feynman (1918 1988) who won the 1965

Nobel Price in Physics
for his fundamental work
in quantum electrodynamics in 1947 (in fact,
he spent eight years
preparing this
publication).

If I were asked for an area of

science and engineering that
will most likely produce the
breakthroughs of tomorrow,
I would point to nanoscale
science and engineering.

Richard Smalley (1943 2005) who won the 1996

Nobel Prize in Chemistry
for his discovery of
fullerenes in 1985.

In a lecture Nanotechnology
and the Next 50 Years,
Smalley predicted that, with
the right advances in
technology, a nanometresized solar cell could be built.
Such devices could
potentially provide for the
world's energy needs in the
year 2050.

Nanotechnology Investment US Gov

U.S. Focuses on commercialization and strengthening
environmental, health, and safety research

https://pubs.acs.org/cen/government/88/8815gov1.html

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Merrill-Lynch Nano Investments

Innovation of Nanotechnology

Automobile

Computer

Nanotech

1969

2025

2081

clients online, outlines the emerging field and said investment

1886

1939

1997

Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Nanoscience: Study of the unique properties that
emerge when system sizes approach nanometrescale dimensions.
Nanotechnology: The creation of functional/smart
materials, devices, and systems through control of
matter at the scale of 1 to 100 nanometres, and the
exploitation of phenomena at this scale.
Nanoscience and nanotechnology encompasses:
Sciences (Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Materials,
Medicine)
Engineering (Mechanical, Chemical, Materials,
Environmental, Metallurgical, Electrical, Biological, )

Why Nanomaterials

Why Nanoscience
Small structures exhibit novel and unique properties,
due to their significant fractions of surfaces/
interfaces.
Nanoscience is to understand their fundamentals
How they form?
Why do they have certain properties?

Explore material properties and device functions

beyond those that we presently know or even
consider possible.
Nanoscience is therefore an exciting new field that
brings together the traditional disciplines of physics,
chemistry, biology, materials science and
engineering.

Examples

Ability to manipulate, control and build

materials at the atomic and molecular level
Provide novel affinity, capacity, and selectivity
because of their unique physical, chemical
and biological properties.

Computer memory
made of nanowires

Transportation to
the space station

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Geometrical Classification

Nanomaterials

Nanomaterials stand for materials that have a size

between 1 100 nm.
Geometrically, nanomaterials may be considered
as low (< 3) dimensional materials.
Because of their tiny in size, nanomaterials have
their own characteristics.

Small
Lightweight
Novel properties
Multifunctional
Hierarchical
Smart

fullerenes
quantum dots,
nanoparticles,

One dimensional
nanotubes, nanorods,
nanoblets, nanowires,
nanofibres,

Nanomaterials
Nanostructured
materials
nanocomposites,
quantum wells/wires,
thin films,

Nano- via Nanostructured- Materials

Nanomaterials

Zero dimensional

Two dimensional
nanosheets,
nanofilms,

Summary of the Lecture

Nanostructured Materials

Overview of the course

Planning
Topics
A brief overview of the field of nanomaterials

0D

1D

2D

2D

1D

0D

Nanostructured materials are

bulk materials with modulated
structures in 0 to 3 dimensions...
Size constraint (confinement) <
100nm at least in one
dimension...
Significant volume fraction
(>1%) of interfaces.