1. History of physics and chemistry of nanostructures, nanoparticles and their basic properties, terminological limit of 100 nm and its justification.
2. Binding energy and individual stability of nanoparticles, reduction of melting temperature for small particle sizes.
3. Changes in equilibrium concentration for small particle sizes and Ostwald ripening.
4. Chemical reactivity of nanoparticles.
5. Formation of nanoparticles by bottom-up mechanism.
6. Adhesive interactions between nanostructures as a result of collective van der Waals interactions - Hamaker's microscopic summation method, Derjaguin's approximation.
7. Lifschitz macroscopic theory of van der Waals interactions between nanostructures.
8. Superparamagnetism of nanoparticles.
9. Electronic structure of nanoparticles - basics of band theory.
10. Quantum confinement and its implications for the behaviour of nanostructures.
11. Blue shift of optical absorption spectrum in quantum nanoparticles (dots).
12. Plasmonic oscillations of the electron gas in nanostructures.
2. Binding energy and individual stability of nanoparticles, reduction of melting temperature for small particle sizes.
3. Changes in equilibrium concentration for small particle sizes and Ostwald ripening.
4. Chemical reactivity of nanoparticles.
5. Formation of nanoparticles by bottom-up mechanism.
6. Adhesive interactions between nanostructures as a result of collective van der Waals interactions - Hamaker's microscopic summation method, Derjaguin's approximation.
7. Lifschitz macroscopic theory of van der Waals interactions between nanostructures.
8. Superparamagnetism of nanoparticles.
9. Electronic structure of nanoparticles - basics of band theory.
10. Quantum confinement and its implications for the behaviour of nanostructures.
11. Blue shift of optical absorption spectrum in quantum nanoparticles (dots).
12. Plasmonic oscillations of the electron gas in nanostructures.