Nanotechnology

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Nanotechnology

• Program Focuses on
• -gt design, fabricating and controlling materials,
  components and machinery with dimensions on the
  nanoscale (0.1 100 nm)
• Specialization in -gt Nanophysics and
  Nanomaterial
• -gt Nanobiotechnology

http//nano.aau.dk
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Nanotechnology

• Teaching about 50 courses 50 project work
• (-gt in
  groups )
• 2 years MSc program (30 ECTS/semester)
• First 2 semesters Courses and Project work
• Final 1-2 semester Master thesis -gt Master of
  Science in Engineering (MSc)
• -gt possible to take single courses or subjects
  within the program
• -gt Combination of courses from the two
  specializations are possible

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Nano Physics and Materials
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• Courses
• -gt Optoelectronics
• -gt Semiconductor Physics
• -gt Nano-composites
• -gt Polymer Chemistry
• -gt Nano-optics
• -gt Surface Science
• -gt Multiscale Modelling and Simulation
• -gt Nano-electronics

Nanowire FET
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Recent projects
Nano Physics and Materials

• -gt Nanostructures in solar cells
• -gt Nanoengineered Graphhene
• -gt ZnO conducting transparent films
• -gt Nanowire field effect transistors as sensors
• -gt Nanostructured surfaces as antireflecting
  coatings
• -gt Light emitting semiconductor nanostructures
• -gt Plasmonic nanostructures

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Nanobiotechnology

• Courses
• -gt Reaction Engineering
• -gt Advanced Gene Technology (High throughput
  screening)
• -gt Molecular Electronics
• -gt Molecular Modeling
• -gt Reactions on surfaces
• -gt Mass Spectroscopy
• -gt Self Organizing Biostructures (drug delivery
  systems)
• -gt NMR Spectroscopy

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Nanobiotechnology

• Recent Projects
• -gt Cadmium Biosensor
• -gt Design and production of new peptide
  antibiotics and proteins in E. coli and yeast
• -gt Antimicrobial Peptides and their action
  towards bacteria
• -gt Electrostatic trapping and alignment of
  nanoparticles
• -gt Peptide Surfactant Production and
  Characterisation of KA6
• -gt S-layer proteins and their use as a biosensor
• -gt Design of surfaces for tissue engineering
• -gt Quadruplex DNA for molecular electronics
• -gt DNA-AMP interaction studies with SPR
• -gt Construction of DNA-Nanoparticle conjugates
  for application in molecular electronics and
  biosensing
• -gt Development of a novel biosensor for fast
  cardiac marker detection in blood samples

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Nanotechnology

• Network of collaboration partners for projects
  available
• -gt Within this University
• -gt Structural material group
• -gt Biotechnology department
• -gt Chemistry department
• -gt stem cells laboratory (Health science)
• -gt External
• -gt Aalborg hospital
• -gt several companies such as Novozymes,
  Danisco, Radiometer,...
• -gt several groups at different danish and
  european universities

-gt http\\homes.nano.aau.dk\fp\AAU-Nano-education