The National Science Foundation forecasts that the global market for nanotechnology-related products and services will reach $1 trillion by 2015. A variety of these products can be produced exploiting the unique properties of nanostructured fluids and nanoparticles.

Central to the goal of developing nanotechnology-related products is our ability to manipulate and control the nanostructured fluids. Understanding the properties of nanostructured fluids and the methods for their preparation and structural characterization are key both to their direct utilization in applications and for their exploitation for creating other nanoparticulate systems and devices.

The goal of this professional course is to introduce the fundamentals and applications of structured fluids and nanoparticles to industrial scientists and engineers and those with managerial responsibility for research.

First, the fundamental physical chemical principles that govern the formation and properties of structured fluids will be considered.

Second, important experimental techniques that can be used to characterize the properties of structured fluids and nanoparticles, particularly the nature of molecular organization and structure at the nano, meso or micro scales will be reviewed.

Third, the synthesis and funtionalization of nanoparticles, their assembly into one, two or three dimensional materials and their applications in various fields will be discussed.

Fourth, numerous applications of structured fluids and nanoparticles in the area of novel materials synthesis, biomedicine and biotechnology, and environmental stability will be discussed. Throughout the course, effort will be made to provide a molecular and intuitive understanding of the field accompanied, wherever necessary, by quantitative models.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This course is intended to provide an understanding of the physical chemical principles underlying structured fluids, important experimental techniques for their characterization and most importantly, areas of practical applications exploiting structured fluids. The following groups of researchers and industrial scientists and engineers will find the course of value to them:

biologists, physicists, chemists and engineers interested in gaining exposure to the field of structured fluids including their physical chemical foundations and experimental characterization methods for adapting them in their own research activities;
engineers and scientists in the pharmaceutical, food, cosmetics, personal care products, and materials technology industries, who are interested to learn how structured fluids can be exploited to create new products or processes of relevance to their industries;
managers responsible for research and development activities or process engineering who would like to gain an appreciation of the potential benefits that can emerge from the use of structured fluids for creating new products or processes.

Registration required:

Yes

Free:

No