ETES03 · 7.5 credits · Basic level (G1X) · Inget huvudområde
LiU Summer Academy: Nanotechnology - Sustainability Challenges and Social Impact
Status unknown
97%
passed the latest ordinary exam
TEN1 · 24 Jul 2026 · 30 students
98%
passed the ordinary exams, all sittings over the last 5 years
TEN1 · 143 students
3%
Harder than 3% of courses at basic level
Compared with 874 courses at the same level, ordinary exams over the last three academic years. 89 students.
Exam
TEN1 Written examination
- 5
- 4
- 3
- U
Ordinary exams
98% passed · 143 students
- 97%30
- 100%32
- 100%27
- 96%27
- 96%27
Re-exams
No sittings with at least 5 students.
- Get 4 or 5: 45% (143 students)
Other modules
Partial exams, hand-ins and labs. They are not part of the figures at the top.
Hand-in or lab
PRA1 Active participation in the student conference
- G
- U
Main rounds
85% passed · 143 students
- 60%30
- 100%32
- 70%27
- 96%27
- 96%27
Later rounds
100% passed · 20 students
- 100%12
- 100%8
- Pass a later round: 100% (20 students), compared with 85% (143 students) on the ordinary exam
Hand-in or lab
UPG1 Laboratory tour
- G
Main rounds
100% passed · 143 students
- 100%30
- 100%32
- 100%27
- 100%27
- 100%27
Later rounds
No sittings with at least 5 students.
Other module
KTR1 Optional written tests
- G
Main rounds
100% passed · 143 students
- 100%30
- 100%32
- 100%27
- 100%27
- 100%27
Later rounds
No sittings with at least 5 students.
About the course
Aim
The overall aim of this course is to give students an introduction how the advanced technology can be realized at nanometer-scale, and nanotechnology's impact on the global market and a sustainable societal development.
On completing the course, the student should be able to:
- describe the recent development of nanotechnology in several emerging fields for sustainability.
- discuss particular societal and business perspectives as well as the nanotechnology value chain, related to entrepreneurship, commercialization, challenges and the translation from early innovation stage to market.
- analyze the benefits and risks of nano-products,
- explain how nanotechnology may have a significant impact on the sustainable development of society.
Content
The course intends to give students a broad perspective on this quickly developing area within science and technology, without becoming embroiled in complicated scientific details and mathematics. Lectures will cover the following aspects:
What is Nanotechnology, and do people need it?
- Size matters – A general introduction on the definition of nanotechnology as well as the problems expected to solve by nanotechnology for the sustainability challenges of the future development
- The fundamental science behind nanotechnology
- The development of tools for synthesis and characterizations of materials and devices at the scale of nanometer
Emerging applications of nanotechnology – Opportunities and challenges
- Faster and smarter electronics using nanometer-sized and structured materials and devices, and future quantum computers
- C-based nano-functional materials
- Nanotechnology for the sustainable energy and environments
- Engineer materials for mechanical enhancement – Lighter and stronger
- Innovative sensor technology – Let machines be more intelligent
- Soft-matter nanotechnology – To create new life forms with better healthcare, medicine, and food products, etc.
From basic research to entrepreneurship in nanotechnology
- The business of nanotechnology – Entrepreneurship, the challenge in translation from research to market, and commercialization
- Industrial and society issues – Benefits and risks for products with the implementation of nanotechnology in the global market, and the use of clusters to create value chains from industry to society
- The future of nanotechnology
- Examiner
- Wei-Xin Ni
- Scheduled hours
- 66 h
- Main field of study
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