Incomplete list of questions on the lecture:

• Definition of nanoscaled material by European Commission (and BMBF)
• Appropriate physics definition(s)
• Why using electrons for imaging?
• How does a TEM work in principle?

• What is EDX?
• What is EELS?
• How does a SEM work?
• How does STM work?

• How to measure the local density of states?
• How does AFM work?
• Which information the MFM provides?

• How to synthesize clusters in general?
• Why adiabatic expansion works for synthesis of NPs?
• How does a mass spectrometer work?
• What are 'magic numbers'?
• Why particular structures are more stable than others?

• What is the general idea of the Jellium model?
• Which quantum numbers do exist in the Jellium model?

• What in an exciton?
• Which length scale is relevant for optival properties of semiconductors?
• What is a plasmon?
• Which plasmons can be excited in nanoparticles?
• How to manipulate the plasmon resonance in NPs?

• Why ferromagnetism is surprising?
• What is the reason for domain formation?
• What determines the domain wall thicknesses?
• What is superparamagnetism
• Are there size effects in the magnetism of clusters?
• How to measure individual nanomagnets?

• What is a molecular magnet?
• What is giant spin approximation?
• Which macoscopic quantum effect appears in molecular magnets?
• What is Landau-Zener tunneling?
• What is the LIESST effect?

• Why there are so many carbon allotropes?
• Which rules are relevant for fulleren formation?
• How to synthesize fullerens? ... and carbon nanotubes?
• Electronic band structure of CNT? Why some CNT are metalic and others not?
• What is a van Hove Singularity?
• How to measure electronic properties of CNT?
• Why people are interested in CNT?