Nanoscience: A historical perspective

Lectures by R. Díez Muiño and P. M. Echenique

Information on the course 'Nanoscience: A historical perspective' is saved here. This course is included in the 'Master in Nanoscience' of the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU.

The files contained here pretend to be just supplementary material to the contents of the course. Therefore, in some cases, their resolution may be not as good as could be.

1st session, October 2nd 2007

General information on the Course
(including suggested topics for the seminar series)

2nd session, October 3rd 2007

Lecture on Social and Economic Context of Nanoscience

Movies used during the lecture:
NanoFactory, (YouTube)
When things get small , Ivan Schuller (UCSD)

3rd session, October 4th 2007

Technological Impact of Nanotechnology

4th, 5th, and 6th sessions, October 9th-11th 2007

What are we made of?
(in Spanish; English version, to be posted soon; 84Mb)

7th, 8th, and 9th sessions, October 16th-18th 2007

The history of surface science

Movies used during the lecture:
Solvay conference, a home-made movie shot by I. Langmuir (YouTube)

10th and 11th sessions, October 24th-25th 2007

The rise of Nanotechnology

12th and 13th sessions, October 30th-31st 2007

How the structure of DNA was discovered
with the unvaluable collaboration of Amand Lucas,
University of Namur (Belgium)

14th, 15th, and 16th sessions, November 6th-8th 2007

Clusters and nanostructures

Final remarks

Movies used during the lectures:
Frankenstein, a movie by Thomas Edison (YouTube)
A street arab, a movie by Thomas Edison (YouTube)
Quantum dot synthesis at MIT (YouTube)

last updated on March 2008