Nanotechnology physical chemistry course

What may be a brave new world with which to inform and challenge our students The nanoworld. This is a real and present challenge to provide the best information possible. What this means is that we need to do our best at the time, to incorporate the principles that seem to dictate the behavior of nanomaterials into our physical chemistry courses. (Notice in this discussion other than right now the word nanotechnology will not be mentioned.) Nanoscience and nanochemistry are phrases we should be using to discuss this area. Here again we as chemists are our own worst enemies by not presenting... 

Hands-on nanotechnology content materials based on semiconductor quantum dot nanociystals were developed for use in a broad range of educational settings including undergraduate major and non-major chemistry courses, an upper level undergraduate chemistry laboratory course and outreach activities for K-12 and general public audiences. The focus is the colorful trend exhibited by cadmium selenide (CdSe) and cadmium selenide sulfide (CdSCxSi.x) quantum dots, which is correlated with the physical size of nanosized quantum dots. This visual trend illustrates one of the central themes in nanoscience that physical properties often depend on size at the nanoscale. 

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