Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)

Nanoparticles and Nanotechnology for Energy and the Environment Nanotechnology is a recent, revolutionary development in Science and Engineering. It aims at manipulating atoms, molecules, and nanometer-sized particles containing a few hundred to millions of atoms with the goal of creating new materials, devices. It will likely impact virtually all areas of the physical sciences, biological sciences, and health sciences. Nanoparticle research seeks to exploit the strong size dependence of the physical and chemical properties of nanometer-sized particles. Properties are usually significantly different from those of isolated atoms or molecules and from bulk material. This opens up the opportunity, for instance, to create materials and devices with entirely new properties.

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