Overview: Conducting research in the laboratory particularly on the synthesis and analysis of functional nanomaterials as well as on their surface characterizations.
The course is designed for the Chemistry majors to be exposed to the most up-to-date development in the fields of nanomaterials and surface characterization on theory, on instrument design, on analytical skill, on new analysis methodology, and on novel analytical research results that warrant close tracking.
Students taking this course are expected to be aware of the novel development in nanomaterials/surface analysis that is related to the research presently carried out in the laboratory. In addition to exposures to a series of research papers in the related field, they will learn to develop research ideas, to conduct experiments to test the ideas, to organize based on chemical sense the data collected, to analyze the data collected so as to extract important chemical knowledge, to write papers about the research results, and to present the result in a seminar format.