Surface Science and Nano technology
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The official GTU curriculum for Surface Science and Nano technology (subject code 2743003) as prescribed for CE · Semester 4 divides the course into 8 units, covering 37 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2743003)Unit 1 Introduction
- Overview of properties of nanostructures and nanomaterials
- How the performance of nanomaterials come about: size
- structure- Mechanism-property-performance pathway
Unit 2 Important catalytic materials
- Nanostructured metals like Pt, Pd and Fe, nanostructured ceramics like silica
- silicate and alumina
- pillared clays
- colloids and porous materials (viz. mesoporous materials)
Unit 3 Mesoporous materials
- synthesis & characterization
- properties and applications (with suitable examples)
- unipore size
- bimodal pore size
- supramolecular chemistry
- synthesis ( micelar rods)
Unit 4 Synthesis of Nano Structure
- Template based nano synthesis
- Electrochemical deposition and Electrophoretic deposition
- Colloidal dispersion filling
- Melt and solution filling
- Deposition by centrifugation
- Converting through chemical reactions
- Electro spinning
Unit 5 Supercritical Fluids
- Physicochemical Properties
- Thermal Conductivity
- Purification and Extraction
Unit 6 Nanoporous Materials
- mesoporous materials
- nanomembranes and carbon nanotubes
- AgX photography
- smart sunglasses, and transparent conducting oxides
- molecular sieves
Unit 7 Surface phenomena
- Introduction to Adsorption
- Desorption and Condensation
- catalysis and Surfactants at solid-liquid interfaces
Unit 8 Catalysis
- At Solid Surfaces (Heterogeneous Catalysis)
- Interfacial synthesis (Phase transfer Catalysis)
- Bio and Synthetic Enzymes
- Active Sites
- Molecular Mechanisms
- Molecular simulations
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