- Formation of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs)
- Deposition of SAMs by Langmuir-Blodgett methods
- Layer-by-layer (LBL) assembly

- Purifikation: chemical etching
- Funktionalization : approaches
- Separation and sorting: methods

- Formation of aggregates in solution
- Micelle techniques for nanoparticle synthesis
- Block copolymers

- General methods of making 1D structures
- Synthesis of nanotubes and nanowires by high temperature (CVD) methods:
  - mechanisms
  - furnace systems
  - film growth; effects of basic process parameters
  - methods for and limitations to structural control
  - VLS precipitation model

 - Thermodynamic model of cluster growth in solution
  (gas/liquid, liquid/solid)
- Diffusion-limited and reaction-limited growth regimes
- Theory of size broadening and focusing
- Examples

- Surface plasmon resonance (SPR): basic theory and
  effects of particle size and shape
- Example applications of SPR and surface-enhanced
  spectroscopy
- Plasmon-induced heating of metal nanoparticles

 - Important effects on fluid flows at micro/nano scales :
  Surface effects and rarefaction
- Modeling slip flows in micro/nanopipes
- Experimental measurements of slip for gas and liquid flows

- How to particles become charged in solution
- Modeling the electrical "double layer"
- Competition between electrostatic repulsion and VDW attraction forces (DLVO theory)
- Electrostatistics in small gaps
- Electrophoresis

- Definition of surface energy and work of adhesion
- Thermodynamic model of melting point decrease (suppression) of nanoparticles
- Melting point increase (superheating) under constraint
- Generalization to different geometries
- How to observe nanoscale melting