Click HERE to download the updated course program

It is a multidisciplinary course designed for PhD students (Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Pharmacy, Medicine, etc.) who are starting out in Nanomedicine.

Nanotechnology is a broad scientific field that involves the creation and use of materials and devices at the level of molecules and atoms. Nanomedicine is an emerging field that is expected to yield highly specific medical treatments for preventing disease and improving health.

Click HERE to download the course registration form

REGISTRATION AND GRANTS

Deadline for registration is October 12. The fee is 150 euros (includes lunches and coffee breaks). You can register here.

Grants will be available for PhD students to cover the registration fee. Closing date for application is October 7. Final results will be known October 13.

For more information, please contact Isabel Machado – isabel.machado@inl.int – Tel.: 253140112

Click HERE to download the provisional course program

It is a multidisciplinary course designed for PhD students (Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Pharmacy, Medicine, etc.) who are starting out in Nanomedicine.

Nanotechnology is a broad scientific field that involves the creation and use of materials and devices at the level of molecules and atoms. Nanomedicine is an emerging field that is expected to yield highly specific medical treatments for preventing disease and improving health.

Click HERE to download the course registration form

REGISTRATION AND GRANTS

Deadline for registration is October 12. The fee is 150 euros (includes lunches and coffee breaks). You can register here.

Grants will be available for PhD students to cover the registration fee. Closing date for application is October 7. Final results will be known October 13.

For more information, please contact Isabel Machado – isabel.machado@inl.int – Tel.: 253140112

Malvern Instruments and the Birck Nanotechnology Center at Purdue University will jointly host a one day symposium on 21st September 2011 examining the application of light scattering techniques in the characterization of nanoparticles.

The symposium will take place on the Purdue Campus at West Lafayette, Indiana and is designed for scientists who manufacture, process or formulate nanoparticles, and those working with liposome and biomolecule applications in the area of drug delivery.

During the day expert speakers from Purdue and Malvern Instruments will discuss the application of chromatography, dynamic light scattering, static light scattering and electrophoretic light scattering in the characterization of nanoparticles. Typical application examples include: micelle formation and surface interaction; biomolecular structure and stability; suspension stability; and molecular weight determination.

The key focus for the symposium will be to demonstrate how different analytical techniques provide the information needed to advance nanotechnology.

About Malvern Instruments
Malvern Instruments is a market leader in measuring performance controlling material properties. These include particle size, particle shape, zeta potential, molecular weight, size and conformation, rheological properties and chemical identification. Malvern delivers the systems, support and expertise that ensure the analytical integrity and productivity needed to drive research, development and manufacturing.

Malvern’s measurement solutions for scientists, technologists and engineers advance continually through customer collaboration. Complementary materials characterization systems deliver inter-related measurements that reflect the complexities of particulates and disperse systems, nanomaterials and macromolecules. Combining intelligently implemented technologies with in-depth industry applications knowledge and support, Malvern provides customers with the competitive advantage they demand.

Headquartered in Malvern, UK, Malvern Instruments has subsidiary organizations in all major European markets, North America, China, Japan and Korea, a joint venture in India, a global distributor network and applications laboratories around the world.

SOURCE: Malvern Instruments

The Institute of Nanotechnology, CERAM and the Materials KTN have teamed up to present a two-day Workshop on the application of bioactive glass and ceramics at the nanoscale to healthcare and high-tech industries.

The use of novel nanoceramics is rapidly growing in a variety of healthcare and medical applications such as orthopaedics, regenerative medicine, dentistry, biosensing, controlled drug release, high performance coatings and functionalised biomaterials, due to their excellent properties and biocompatibility. High performance, functional and sensor ceramics are also finding use in the electronics and associated industries.

The Workshop, which will run over two days on 12th and 13th October 2011, will feature presentations from leading international experts in the field and will take place at CERAM’s headquarters in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, which is easily reached by road or public transport. On the first day an optional tour of CERAM’s extensive analytical facilities, including the Surface Science and Medical Materials laboratories, will be available.

Pricing

• Register online >>
• Venue >>

Any enquiries regarding the Workshop should be directed to Gemma McCulloch – gemma.mcculloch@nano.org.uk.

Technology Focus

The extraordinarily large surface area on the nanoparticles presents diverse opportunities to place functional groups on the surface. Particles can be created that can expand/contract with changes in pH, or interact with anti-bodies in special ways to provide rapid ex-vivo medical diagnostic tests. Important extensions have been made in combining inorganic materials with polymers and in combining different classes of polymers together in nanoparticle form.

Advanced analytical techniques allow us to measure structure at ever-decreasing length scales. Computer simulations of the events occurring during particle formation have also benefited us in developing control strategies to produce structured particles.

Course Objectives

• Introduce the diversity of polymer particle sizes, shapes, and chemical composition with structural control at the nano scale
• Describe how particles can be made from either reactive or non-reactive processing techniques, including emulsion polymerization and self assembly

The second part focuses on characterization (analysis and verification) and the wide range of application areas of economic importance. The objectives are to:

• Demonstrate how particles can be characterized by modern instrumental techniques
• Discuss the multitude of applications for polymer nanoparticles
• Provide an interactive learning experience through the use of individual and group exercises and case studies

Course Content

Polymeric nanoparticles are predominantly prepared by wet synthetic routes. Several industrial processes will be described. Emphasis will be placed on the type of polymers and morphology structures that can be synthesized using each process. Controlled radical polymerization will be explored for their ability to provide structural control of polymer chains.

A brief overview of suspension and dispersion-precipitation polymerization relevant to nanoparticles is included. Emulsion polymerization methods are provided to allow a more detailed presentation of reactive and non-reactive pathways to nanoparticle formation.

A section of the course is dedicated to polymeric nanoparticles characterization. Of critical importance is the measurement of particle size, bulk and surface chemical composition. Importantly, the internal structure of the particles can be measured by combinations of microscopy and thermal analysis. All techniques will be presented for their utility toward polymeric nanoparticles characterization.

The last part of the course is focused on the applications of polymeric nanoparticles. The most traditional field of application is waterborne paints, adhesives, and coatings. The details of some formulation and application issues will be presented. Of more recent emergence is the field of redispersible latices and pressure sensitive adhesives.

A recent boom in the range of application of polymeric nanoparticles is the sector of biotechnology, and more specifically biomedical products. These include the critical delivery of sensitive drugs and medical diagnostics. Last but not least, polymeric nanoparticles have found their ways in EMO devices.

All through the course practical problems will be solved both individually and in groups.

Course Outline

Synthesis

• Polycondensation polymerization
• Radical polymerization
• Living polymerization
• SFRP, ATRP, RAFT for controlled radical polymerization
• Problem solving
• Suspension and dispersion-precipitation polymerization
• Emulsion polymerization
• Semi-batch and batch processes
• Single stage and multistage products
• Problem solving
• Micro-emulsion and mini-emulsion
• Nanoencapsulation in direct and reverse phases
• Self-assembly
• Directed assembly
• Patterned substrate effects
• Solvent removal processes
• Problem solving

Characterization

• Size and size distribution
• CHDF, Capillary Hydro Dynamic Fractionation
• MALS, Multi Angle Light Scattering
• DLS, Dynamic Light Scattering
• Field flow fractionation
• UAC, Analytical Ultra Centrifugation
• SEM, TEM, AFM, microscopy techniques.
• Problem solving
• Surface composition
• Surfactant titration
• XPS, X-ray Photon Spectroscopy
• ITC, Isothermal Titration Calorimetry
• Internal structure, TEM, STXM, thermal analysis
• Problem solving

Applications

• Waterborne paints
• Adhesives
• Coatings
• Redispersible latices
• Pressure sensitive adhesives
• Biotechnology
• Biomedical products
• Drug delivery
• Medical diagnostics
• Problem solving
• Electronics
• Magnetics
• Optoelectronics

Summary

We will start with the fascinating history of this technology from ink production in ancient China and Greece to the Bible printing by Gutemberg in Mainz and to the current manufacture of optical fibers, carbon blacks, filamentary nickel, pigments and fumed silica through valiant Edisonian research. Opportunities for aerosol synthesis of functional materials are highlighted. An overview of flame and hot-wall reactors for synthesis of metal, alloys, ceramics as well as their composites is given. Fundamental physical and chemical phenomena that control these processes are presented along with engineering design principles combining fluid and particle dynamics.

Emphasis is placed on scalable flame reactors that dominate both by value and volume today’s manufacture of nanostructured materials. In particular, it is highlighted the versatile flame spray pyrolysis process for synthesis of metal/ceramic particles for catalysts (CeO2/ZrO2, Pt/Al2O3, TiO2/SiO2) biomaterials such as translucent and radio-opaque Ta2O5/SiO2. Synthesis of solid nano- or hollow micro-particles of Bi2O3, CeO2 or Al2O3 by combustion spraying of solutions, emulsions or slurries will be shown along with process design criteria. Next, the course highlights specific cases for hot-wall synthesis of selected metals (Al, Bi, Pd and Zn) and even co-production of solar H2. Scale-up will be discussed showing how design correlations are developed with reactors of various sizes along with principles for synthesis of aggregates and agglomerates. Gas-phase coating with oxide or carbon films will be discussed.

Technology Focus

A scalable, dry technology for synthesis of high purity nanoparticles with closely controlled characteristics is presented. This is advantageous over classic wet chemistry technologies (sol-gel or precipitation) as it does not use their multiple processing steps (e.g. washing, drying, calcination etc.) and high volumes of liquid byproducts. In addition, particle collection is easier from gas than liquid streams, high purity products (e.g. optical fibers) with unique morphology (e.g. fumed silica) and phase composition can be made in the gas-phase Today industry uses dry technology for manufacture of carbon blacks and simple oxides after several years of evolutionary research. As a result, it is practically impossible to use these units for synthesis of functional inorganic (mixed ceramic or metal-ceramic) nanoparticles without going through the same costly and time-consuming cycle as shareholders have no patience or stomach for it.

Recent major breakthroughs in understanding aerosol processes have placed dry synthesis of nanoparticles on a firm scientific basis allowing now production of these materials in appreciable volumes and competitive prices creating renewed interest in dry processes and products. The focus now shifts to product performance rather than mere particle characteristics through close interaction of particle specialists with end users. Special emphasis is placed on the degree of particle agglomeration and its control as well as on nanoparticle morphology and even layered composition.

Objective

This course will introduce aerosol process technology and show its accessibility and potential for manufacture of functional nanoparticles. It will go through its history to show how it survived the “death valley of scale-up” from laboratory to manufacturing for selected products. The most important theories will be presented along with tangible examples so one can use them for a specific product with systematic reasoning and use of the pertinent literature. Diverse examples will be given through analyzing and discussing a number of old and new products and processes using dry technologies in a relaxed atmosphere and through motivating lectures.

Course Contents

1. Overview and History (1h)

Nanoparticles: Origins, Significance and Applications. The evolution of industry for manufacture of carbon blacks, fumed silica, pigmentary titania, ZnO, filamentary nickel, optical fibers and, most recently, for metallic and ceramic nanoparticles. Flame and hot-wall reactors.

2. Fundamentals (1h)

Definitions and Particle size Distribution. Brownian Motion and Particle Diffusion. Thermophoretic Sampling and Particle Characterization. Aerosol Coagulation in the Continuum and Free-Molecular Regimes, Self-Preserving Distributions, Agglomeration, Fractal-like Particles. Critical, Kelvin or minimum Particle Size, Condensation and Nucleation.

3. Principles for Process Design and Operation (1.5h)

Controlled flame synthesis of nanoparticles. Chemistry affects particle characteristics. Reactor design by computational fluid and particle dynamics. Process Scale-up and correlations. Aggregates and Agglomerates.

4. Novel Products and Applications (2.5h)

4.1 Flame-made catalysts for DeNOx removal (V2O5/TiO2), polymer synthesis (TiO2/SiO2) and chiral pharmaceuticals (Pt/Al2O3) manufacture, automotive CeO2/ZrO2 and Pt/Ba/Al2O3.
4.2 Sensors: Flame synthesis of sensing particles (Pt/SnO2 and TiO2) and their direct deposition of highly porous, self-assembled lace-like or cauliflower-like films.
4.3 Mixed ceramics: Stable ZnO Quantum Dots for UV-filters by doping with silica, Dental nanocomposites (non-agglomerated SiO2) or Translucent Ta2O5/SiO2 in polymer matrices.
4.4 Hot-wall reactors for metal (Bi, Pd, Al, Zn) and non-oxide (AlN, B4C) nanoparticles and even for co-production of solar H2.
4.5 Coatings: Carbon or ceramic oxide films on titania or silica nanoparticles.

Who Should Attend

The course is aimed for scientists (chemistry and physics) and engineers (chemical -mechanical) in research and development of processes involving fine particles for batteries, films, phosphors, catalysts, polishing, medical and dental nanocomposite materials (prosthetics), pigments, optical fibers, precious metals (Ag, Au, Pt, Pd), sunscreens, cosmetics, fuel cells, solar energy storage.

Technology Focus

The small scale and the one dimensional structure of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are directly related to their unique properties which find more and more applications as the understanding and progress in synthesis continue to advance. CNTs represent an exemplary system where the bottom-up approach to synthesis results in perfect structures with sizes less than 10nm, a range which remains inaccessible for advanced projection lithography techniques.

Applications of carbon nanotubes range from reinforcement of composites or conductive plastics to electrodes for batteries or flat screens, field effect transistors, chemical and bio sensors and electromechanical memory.

In recent years, the demonstrated ability to grow a variety of semiconductor, oxide and other inorganic materials in the form of nanowires with controlled properties and orientation also provides a competitive avenue for applications in logic, memory, data storage, sensors, instrumentation and others. Interestingly, growth of the inorganic nanowires and carbon nanotubes by chemical vapor deposition follows a common basis of vapor-liquid-solid mechanism.

This course first introduces the fundamental properties of carbon nanotubes and inorganic nanowires and then focuses on applications.

Course Outline

Carbon Nanotubes:

• CNT Structures: SWNT, MWNT
• Properties
• Synthesis (CVD, HiPCO, Large scale…..)
• Applications
  • Overview and recent progress
  • CNT/polymer composites
  • Conductive Nanotube Films
  • Fuel Cell Electrodes
  • Field Emission for Flat Panel Displays
  • Others

Inorganic Nanowires:

• Introduction and why one dimensional nanowires
• Growth techniques, Vapor-liquid-solid technique
• Various nanowires
  • Silicon and Germanium
  • Oxides and nitrides
  • metallic nanowires
  • III-V nanowires
  • Other nanowires
• Applications
  • Electronics
  • Optoelectronics
  • Sensors (chemial, bio…)
  • Energy sector
  • Others

Building on CNSE’s pioneering graduate-level program – which was also a global first when it commenced in September 2004 – the bachelor’s degree curriculum, features a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary, and truly innovative instructional portfolio centered on scholarly excellence that taps into CNSE’s international academic leadership in nanoscale engineering and science.

The undergraduate curriculum harnesses the unparalleled intellectual and technological resources of CNSE’s Albany NanoTech Complex, which is the most advanced nanotechnology research enterprise at any university in the world. With more than $6 billion in public and private investments, and the participation of more than 2,500 scientists, researchers, engineers, faculty, and graduate students from leading global corporations and top research universities, CNSE offers undergraduate students a world-class experience working with, and learning from, the top innovative minds in the academic and industrial worlds.

Both the bachelor’s degree in nanoscale engineering and the bachelor’s degree in nanoscale science offer an academically rigorous preparation for students intending to pursue scientific, technical, or professional careers in nanotechnology-enabled fields or graduate studies in nanoscale engineering or nanoscale science, as well as other physical sciences or interdisciplinary sciences such as materials science, physics, biophysics, chemistry or biochemistry. As a result, graduates will demonstrate the technical and professional proficiencies necessary to enable the identification, description, discovery, experimental investigation, and theoretical interpretation of nanoscale phenomenon and, as a result, become highly successful scientists, researchers, educators, and leaders in the global innovation economy of the 21st century.

The importance of these programs is best captured in the multi-billion dollar National Nanotechnology Initiative, signed into law by the U.S. President in 2004, which calls for the creation of the “laboratory and human resource infrastructure in universities and in the education of nanotechnology professionals” to prepare the U.S. workforce for the 21st century innovation economy. This need is supported by practically every study, report and analysis published by governmental bodies, corporate organizations, academic entities and think tanks across the globe, including the National Science Foundation, which forecasts the need for more than 2 million nanotechnology professionals at all employment levels in the U.S. by 2014, with another 5 million nanotechnology jobs worldwide in related fields and disciplines.

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http://cnse.albany.edu/PioneeringEducation/UndergraduatePrograms.aspx

Monday 4 July: Introduction to nanomedicine – challenges and opportunities
Tuesday 5 July: Nanotechnologies for regenerative medicine and tissue engineering
Wednesday 6 July: Nano-Diagnostics
Thursday 7 July: Nano-Biosensors
Friday 8 July: Nano-Pharmaceuticals

Cost: £265 per day (students £135); £1195 5 day rate (students £595)

Students can enrol for one day, more than one day or for the whole week. For more details go to www.conted.ox.ac.uk/nanoss6

and

UK: University of Oxford – Postgraduate Certificate in Nanotechnology

Drawing on Oxford’s well-established and universally recognised reputation for nanotechnology research and teaching, the Postgraduate Certificate is a unique part-time, online course for those seeking a thorough introduction to nanotechnology.

It is designed for scientists, researchers, production managers and technical managers within health and pharmaceutical industries, electronics, engineering, materials, manufacturing, food science and regulatory bodies and provides insights into the very latest advances in knowledge, skills and techniques in nanotechnology. The course is ideally suited to full-time employees who seek to gain an academic qualification in the field of nanotechnology. It is taken predominantly online, meaning that it is accessible to anyone in the world with Internet access.

The Postgraduate Certificate comprises three modules all of which can be taken as separate, stand-alone courses:

Module 1: The Wider Context of Nanotechnology
Module 2: The Fundamental Science of Nanotechnology
Module 3: Fundamental Characterisation for Nanotechnology (including a practical weekend in Oxford)
Innovative study methods are employed, including real-time online tutorials, access to state-of-the-art equipment for materials characterisation and use of the University of Oxford’s extensive electronic library resources.

This is what past students had to say about the course:

“Although my background is in physics by education and electronics by career, by taking this course it has been instrumental in me obtaining a research post”

“Excellent resources and well informed tutors were clearly the strong point of the course.”

For further details of the Postgraduate Certificate in Nanotechnology, visit our website: http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/nanopgc2011

Programme: session 2 (20 December, 9.30-12.00 GMT)

Time (GMT)/ Event Speaker
9.30- 9.45 System Check, welcome participants, about ICPC-NanoNet Lesley Tobin
9.45-10.15 Prof Dr Aldo Di Carlo, Univ. of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy
10.15- 10.30 Discussion
10.30-11.00 On the nanomorphology of polymer solar cells Dr Nadia Camaioni, CNR-ISOF, Italy
11.00- 11.15 Discussion
11.15-11.45 Influence of alkoxy side groups on photovoltaic performance of PPE-PPV based materials. Dr Daniel Ayuk Mbi Egbe, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
11.45- 12.00 Discussion

About the speakers

Prof Dr Teketel Yohannes Anshebo, University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, http://www.sc.aau.edu.et/, http://portal.ictp.it/energynet/african-school-on-nanoscience-for-solar-energy-conversion
Prof. Dr Aldo Di Carlo, Associate Professor, Head of the Opto&Nanoelectronics group (OLAB), Dept. Electronics Engineering, Univ. of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy http://www.optolab.uniroma2.it/team/staff/aldo-di-carlo.html

Prof. Dr Carlo Taliani, Institute for Nanostructred Materials Studies, ISMN-CNR Bologna Division, Bologna, Italy http://www.bo.ismn.cnr.it
Dr. Nadia Camaioni, Istituto CNR-ISOF, Bologna, Italy http://www.isof.cnr.it/indexeng.html

Dr Daniel Ayuk Mbi Egbe, Linz Institute for Organic Solar Cells(LIOS), physical Chemistry Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria http://www.ipc.uni-linz.ac.at/index.html

Other related events

3-7 May 2010, African School on Nanoscience for Solar Energy Convergence, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

How to register:

To sign up for the Nanotechnology for Solar Energy workshop go to www.icpc-nanonet.org
For more information contact the organiser Ineke Malsch postbus@malsch.demon.nl
Workshop participants must be registered users of ICPC-Nanonet (www.icpc-nanonet.org). Registration is free.
Numbers are limited to the first 25 registrations.
About ICPC-Nanonet:

The ICPC-Nanonet project is funded by the European Union under FP7 for four years, from June 2008. It brings together partners from the EU, China, India, Russia and Africa and aims to provide wider access to published nanoscience research and opportunities for collaboration between scientists in the EU and International Cooperation Partner Countries.

For further information about the ICPC-Nanonet project contact the project coordinator Lesley Tobin, Lesley.tobin@nano.org.uk, visit the website at www.icpc-nanonet.org or browse the free open-access nano publications archive at www.nanoarchive.org.

More information:

http://www.icpc-nanonet.org