Question which may guide you through nanoscience

• How does society and politics define "nanoscaled material"
• How will a physicist define nanoscale physics?

• Why using electrons for imaging?
• How does a TEM work in principle?
• What is EDX?
• What is EELS?
• How does SEM work?
• How does STM work?
• How to measure the local density of states of a material?
• How does AFM work?
• Which information is given by MFM?

• Explain one way to synthesize clusters?
• 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?
• Why the lattice of some metals expands upon nanoscaling while it shrinks in others?
• Why the gecko does not fall off the wall?
• What is the general idea of the Jellium model?
• Which quantum numbers do exist in the Jellium model?

• What is an exciton?
• Which length scale is relevant for optical properties of semiconductors?
• What is a plasmon?
• Which plasmons exist/are relevant 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 and NPs?
• How to measure individual nanomagnets?

• 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?