NANOKOK Thematic module in Nanoscience (17+ cr)

· general and fundamental ideas and concepts of nanoscience, and connections of them to traditional sciences such as physics, chemistry and biology.

· main experimental methods utilized in nanoscience, and safety regulations related to the equipment and laboratory environments used in them: clean room, laser safety, chemical safety, biosafety.

· Data analysis: error propagation and statistical analysis, including large datasets and fitting of the dependencies.

· principles and technical realizations of main imaging techniques for nanoscale.

· efficient reading of the scientific articles, writing a scientific report and preparing and performing a scientific presentation.

After taking/studying the module student

• understands the outline of the interdisciplinary nanoscience and perceives how it involves fields of physics, chemistry, and molecular and cell biology.
• understands the effects of a restricted (nanoscale) size and recognizes the main properties of common nano-objects.
• can categorize the phenomena in nanoscale and size-classes of nano-objects
• understands the fundamentals of the theoretical and experimental techniques in nanoscience. Knows the pros and cons of each used technique as well as approximations involved in them. Can choose the most optimal technique for their purposes.
• can use the most important measurement and analysis methods, and knows the safety rules involved with the used equipment as well as laboratory environments.
• can utilize the most common methods for data analysis of large data sets, and knows how to maintain, analyze and interpret statistical data for fitting of the correlations.
• can describe the principles, as well as pros and cons, of each of major nanoscale imaging techniques, and based on this can choose the most optimal imaging techniques for their purposes.
• can describe the main research areas of Nanoscience Center, knows how to search information from scientific literature, especially on the field of nanoscience.
• can interpret the obtained experimental or theoretical results and is able to describe the results in a clearly written report and by short concise presentation.
• can independently deepen their knowledge on nanoscience.

Science knowledge from high school and basic university level studies or similar knowledge from at least one or more of the traditional natural sciences (Phys, Chem, Bio). Bachelor level knowledge from one of the natural sciences is recommended