Introduction to
Nano-science and Nano-technology
SCI 382U and PH 382U
Last updated: September 10, 2023
This is an on-line class only, no classroom
meetings, but you can meet with me at office hours, see below (when we both
wear masks unless the in-door mandate/recommendation has been lifted by then)
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the same seats in each class.
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Lecturer: Peter Moeck, Dr. rer. nat.
(Crystallography), PhD
Professor of Physics
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 12:00-12:30 pm and by appointment
Office Location: SRTC, room 404, pmoeck at pdx.edu
Tel. 503 725 4227, but I do prefer to communicate with my students per e-mail or in person (right after class is fine)
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When augmented by biophysics and
structural/molecular biology, classical materials science and engineering
(MSE) becomes an exciting avenue for approaching the fields of nano-science and
nano-technology. You must learn a bit about the classical MSE field, and some
of the elementary physical (mostly quantum mechanical) principles in order to
appreciate the interdisciplinary nature of nanoscience. An early paper (J.
Mater. Educ. 36 (2014) 77-96) describes the course goals and my reasoning behind teaching was
originally. A more recent paper as
organizer and main speaker at an IEEE nanotech conference sums up what I have
learned teaching nanotech classes at the 300 level and preparing teaching
material for this course for more than a decade. As you can see, I moved away
from some form of “workforce training”, which a community college should do, to
exercises in critical thinking that will help in lifelong learning.
As for the usage
of “information technology in class” and multi-tasking, research
shows that it does more harm than good. It is also like passive smoking; even
the students who want to concentrate on the lecture get distracted by it. So
find some way of dealing with that please amongst yourself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awAMTQZmvPE
This course is pretty rigorous as far as general science education classes go. Rigorous instruction “… requires students to construct meaning for themselves, impose structure on information, integrate individual skills into processes, operate within but at the outer edge of their abilities, and apply what they learn in more than one context and to unpredictable situations.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigour
We consider the field of nano-science and nano-technology as a technoscience, i.e. include ”… the technological and social context of science. Technoscience recognises that scientific knowledge is not only socially coded and historically situated but sustained and made durable by material (non-human) networks.” Technoscience - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Techno-science has been identified with “what happens to the sciences once an engineering mentality gets hold of them” and “theorizes things as simple so as to render a world that is subject to technical control” [A. Nordmann, “Vanishing friction events and the inverted Platonism of technoscience,” In: Research Objects in their Technological Setting, B. Bensaude Vincent et al., London, Routledge, 2017, pp. 56–69]. By means of an embracing of the techno-science label, real nanotech achievements that made it onto the covers of high-status scientific journals can often be summarized as “we made a nanowidget” in the real world rather than just simulated it [R. A. L. Jones, ”What has nanotechnology taught us about contemporary technoscience?,” In: “Quantum Engagements: Social Reflections of Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies”, T. Zülsdorf et al., eds., IOS Press, Amsterdam, pp. 13–26, 2011].
What the course attempts to clarify is that nano-science as
such is pretty cool, and MUCH more than the moving around of atoms and
molecules on a metal surface in ultrahigh vacuum at exceedingly low
temperatures with the help of a scanning tunneling microscope tip.
I do not require my students to purchase any book.
First, there is so far no STANDARD 300 level text book on introductory
nano-science and nano-technology. However there are many books on: 'classical
materials science and engineering as the epitome of interdisciplinary', so if
you want to know about the MSE approach, I recommend:
R. W. Cahn, The Coming of Materials Science, Pergamon, 2001, only about $ 60, but covers an enormous range, i.e. essentially the whole field plus its historic context up to the establishment of nano-science and –engineering, my personal recommendation !!
There is some kind of an “undergrad textbook”
with material for a whole year: Introduction
to Nanoscience & Nanotechnology, G. L. Hornyak,
H. F. Tibbals, J. Dutta, and J. J. Moore, CRC Press,
Boca Raton 2009, it is actually two books in one as there is also Introduction to Nanoscience and Foundations of Nanotechnology available
separately from the same publisher by the same authors. What I personally do
not like about this book is its somewhat excessively long prose; physicists often like to make
their arguments with formulae (i.e. some special kind of unambiguous poetry) and derive where something interesting is
coming from by combining a bunch of other formulae. Also whenever there are
several authors and the editor did a less then perfect job (or when there were
several editors that were not all experts in the field), there is often overlap
between chapters. There are some mistakes and misconceptions, and way too much
uncritical emphasis around the unsubstantiated conjectures of Drexler (3D
printing at the atomic level, assemblers, molecular manufacturing), and
Kurzweil (singularity scenario, longevity escape velocity), for my liking. So
this book is NOT recommended by me at
the 300 level. Nevertheless, I will use some of their figures.
Another recent textbook, Science at the Nanoscale, An Introductory Textbook, by C. W. Shong, S. C. Haur, and A. T. S. Wee, (Pan Stanford Publ. 2010) does not have these problems. It is similar to C. Binns, Introduction to Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Wiley, 2010, which is a really good read at bedtime. Concentrating more on the physical aspects of nanotech and being consistently at a higher level that the two better undergraduate nanoscience textbooks above (so more suited for a beginning graduate student in physics), a pretty good textbook is E. L. Wolf, Nanophysics and Nanotechnology, An Introduction to Modern Concepts in Nanoscience, 2nd enlarged Edition, Wiley-VCH, 2006.
A very nice introduction to the physics,
chemistry, and biology, and engineering at the nanometer scale for graduate
students is S. M. Lindsay, Introduction
to Nanoscience,
A mixture of what is in the
books above, classical materials science and –engineering and some very basic
introductory quantum mechanics is what we are going to cover.
The approach taken in this
course follows a successful course on nanomaterials at
To highlight a certain aspect
of MSE, it is customary to depict the MSE tetrahedron with one of the four
equal vertices up (making them in effect not-quite equal to highlight the
effect that one aspect has on the other aspects), e.g. S. M. Allen and E. L.
Thomas, The Structure of Materials, Wiley, 1999.
This course will also be a little bit biased towards atomistic structure, because I believe with Samuel M. Allen and Edwin L. Thomas that there is a common set of principles governing the structure and properties of many different types of materials .. an understanding of these principles forms the foundation of a modern education in the field of materials science and engineering .. Facility with crystallography is a primary skill for communication in materials science and engineering.
Along similar lines, Bernhardt Wuensch defines materials science as being primarily about the relation between the structure of matter and its properties and materials engineering as being primarily about the modification of properties and performance during processing, and after with the manufacturing process.
One may, thus, define the materials science and engineering super-discipline loosely as being about communications between (materials) scientist and (materials) engineers. Surely a common scientific language is needed for this communication to happen. As far as the crystalline state is concerned, this language is classical crystallography and its words are the crystallographic core concepts. Generalized crystallography deals with the structure of condensed matter in general. It is “the science of structures at a particular level of organization, being concerned with structures bigger than those represented by simple atoms but smaller than those of, for example, the bacteriophage.” This definition predates the well established definition of nano-science and nano-technology by some 25 years. Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria and possess diameters on the order of 30 nm. Generalized crystallography is, therefore, the structural basis of nano-science and nano-technology.
What this course tries to achieve:
- To give an overview of the
whole field of nano-science and nano-technology to all interested PSU students
and anybody interested from the Greater Portland Area
- Illustrate some simple
physical laws of structure-property-size-shape relationships of crystalline
engineering materials at the nanometer scale
- Help you study applications
that involve nano-structured materials
- Allow you to develop your capabilities to critically evaluate
nanotechnology related news claims / distinguishing real progress from hype
- Help you build a healthy
foundational outlook for life-long learning.
For all of that, you have to learn some
materials science and –engineering first and also cover a few basics of
crystallography, but you will get
this from a genuine crystallographer (i.e. me), so the emphasis is on the
correct usage of the core concepts!
Grading for the zoom version
20 % attendance (same absentee rules apply as
below for in-class version)
50 % classroom participation: i.e. answering my questions, asking questions yourself, you volunteering
answering a question from a fellow student, from that I will get a good idea on
which grade I should give you later on – it requires that everybody has her or
his camera on almost all of the time
30 % final essays – not written
by a chatbot and without the assistance of one please, due Monday before noon
December 4, 2023 per email attachment (or earlier - but definitively not later
without exceptional good justification)
Breakdown of final
grade in case we move back to class room teaching:
20 % attendance, it is OK to miss up to two classes for any reason, more only if really good justification is provided with a comprehensive paper trail/documents to back your story up
35 % written exam
(full 2 hours session for that day), Monday, November 1, at the regular class
time, to be returned in class the following Monday and to be collected after
you had a good look at it, discussed grading issues, … if you want to have
another look at it when your received your final grade, come to my office
during office hours on Tuesday December 14, but let me know in advance that
you are coming
Final essay (45%):
due on Monday, December 5, OK to
send it in per email attachment as the class won’t meet on that day
For this final essay, read
this article, http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/8148/8148counterpoint.html,
think about it for some time, write up to three or four pages on what you think
who won the argument and most importantly why. For a well balanced argument,
you should also consider reading and thinking about some of the background,
e.g. http://cohesion.rice.edu/naturalsciences/smalley/emplibrary/sa285-76.pdf,
http://www.softmachines.org/wo
You may also like to explore
an apparently worldwide conspiracy by guess who, (of course some rouge US
government officials backing mad scientists and the rest of the world not
noticing): Drexler, K. E. (2004). Nanotechnology: From Feynman to
Funding. Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, 24(1), 21–27. doi:10.1177/0270467604263113,
click here), read the
great theoretical physicist R. P. Feynman himself http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/feynman.html
and perhaps to counterbalance what that really wise man has said - even some BS
from HS-central: https://foresight.org/
and https://www.su.org/ also click here).
Especially if you aspire to become a physicist or physics teacher, I would very
much like you to read what is at the latter link and make an assessment to the
very best of your knowledge of modern physics).
Also you may like to find out
for yourself who is a real scientist and who might just be and eloquent
charlatan, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cW7ZHyZxc0,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybR4l7F83_U.
As Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra said: “One sees a lot when one looks
carefully.”
You may like to include into
your essay why exact definitions matter. Some three to four pages should
suffice; more concise is always better in life than using too many words and
repeating oneself needlessly. It would also be nice to have some graphs,
illustrations, a list of references, … is short anything that makes for a good
essay.
The course was originally
designed as a part of a sequence of three lecture courses (and one laboratory
course) dealing with the incremental, evolutionary, and radical varieties of
nanotechnology. The team behind this development would like to take 5 minutes
of your time to make our case https://vimeo.com/57510106.
Lecture Plan and Downloads
Note that this plan may
change as we progress.
"Go make yourself a plan - and be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan - for neither will come right." - Berthold Brecht
“Life is what happens to you while you're busy
making other plans.”
John Lennon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rnq1NpHdmw
John Oliver, spot on our topic
although nanoscience is not singled out, about 20 minutes, after that a
discussion of these power point slides http://web.pdx.edu/~pmoeck/intro-nano-class-2018/science
is not broken.ppt,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XAHjm6Vy5k Testing multiple hypotheses with Akaike Information Criteria, 31 minutes
superseding null
hypothesis testing, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zZYBALbZgg,
8 minutes
Five
Sigma - Sixty Symbols https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThP51oPttS0
14 min, concerning the 5 sigma result on the Higgs boson
http://web.pdx.edu/~pmoeck/intro-nano-class-2018/nanotech_intro.ppt
http://web.pdx.edu/~pmoeck/intro-nano-class-2018/Moores
laws.ppt
http://web.pdx.edu/~pmoeck/intro-nano-class-2018/narrow_AI.ppt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz_x-YfydCM&t=17s
BBC, The Jan Hendrik Schoen story
with English subtitles, about 45 minutes,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz_x-YfydCM
with subtitles, transcript at the BBC website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2004/hendrikshontrans.shtml,
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2058-7058/22/05/37/pdf, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6n_scandal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfDoml-Db64
high resolution in three parts,
about 43 min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Riio1eKOSKg
why did it go on for so long 38:30 min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsSuhP60qnI
how to loose a PhD (part III of the series)
The high priest of transhumanism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyFYFjESkWU in
discussion with Dr. Niel deGrasse Tyson, 21 minutes,
his so called “methodology” explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1km56ka9Gnw,
less than three minutes,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PRLsRYMBIg
(45 minutes just talk, no moving pictures, but good subtitles)
and
something to be analyzed in class from the
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploratory_engineering,
i.e. “the process of
designing and analyzing detailed hypothetical models of systems that are not
feasible with current technologies or methods, but do seem to be clearly within
the bounds of what science considers to be possible within the narrowly defined
scope of operation of the hypothetical system model” exploratory engineering read out from this source :https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Kim Eric Drexler, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQHA-UaUAe0&t=52s, starts at about 5:30 (or alternatively https://media.pdx.edu/my-media, My Channels / View channels I am a member off), the exploratory-nano-engineer-in-chief (anti-scientist) being introduced by the general AI scare-monger-in-chief and former stand-up comedian, https://nickbostrom.com/papers/future.pdf, about 55 minutes, 480 dpi
Exponential Technology Literacy:
Nick Bostrom's Paperclip
maximizer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgrCG8PT6og
3 min
Nick Bostrom himself -
The Simulation Argument (Full): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnl6nY8YKHs&t=138s
23:30 min
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Explains the Simulation Hypothesis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmcrG7ZZKUc
8 min
Simulation Theory
Debunked https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp0p8nXrAkw
6:30 min
Theological Implications
of the Simulation Hypothesis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J4B3YI-Grs
7 min
ATP synthase in action, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpzp4RDGJI
5 min
The Future of Medicine:
CRISPR, Drug Prices & Gene Therapy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdMJdTbhLpQ
1 hour vice documentary
Ron Vale (UCSF, HHMI) 1:
Molecular Motor Proteins, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RUHJhskW00&t=361s, 35 min
Misinformation: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5jtFqWq5iU
Nanofactory Animation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqyZ9bFl_qg,
5 min,
there are several things not quite
right in these movies and in what has been said, by the end of the course you
should be clear on all of these “ambiguities” or “screw ups” and have a much
better understanding of progress in the applied sciences and engineering in general
the real molecular machines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_tYrnv_o6A
6 min, will it be possibly to build these machines (or better versions of them)
by Drexler’s atomically precise manufacturing principles???
Theranos –
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/us-v-elizabeth-holmes-et-al “Elizabeth Holmes and Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani are charged with two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and nine counts of wire fraud. …” https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-theranos-trial-elizabeth-holmes-the-charges-and-what-else-to-know-11625865236
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7Fx-9NKsVU
Elizabeth Holmes: '
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to2GSibbrv0&t=182s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to2GSibbrv0&t=2023s
full 1:15 hour
Funding a
Sociopath: the Theranos
story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUFHEZOfQ0k,
11 min, skip first minute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUW9wvm797I
analysis of an interview with E. Holmes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx6Vu02SUSY
1:45 min, investing in the CEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMQlj9TZQfE&t=50s
Erika Cheung, a former
employee having a taste of an American Nightmare after living the American
Dream, 16:50 min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBV7HRGM7ns
'The Entrepooneur'
boy and his CO molecule: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSCX78-8-q0,
1:30 min
how the movie “boy and his atom” was
made: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA4QWwaweWA,
5 minutes
http://web.pdx.edu/~pmoeck/intro-nano-class-2018/STEM%20movement%20of%20Si%20atoms.ppt
http://web.pdx.edu/~pmoeck/intro-nano-class-2018/single.avi
http://web.pdx.edu/~pmoeck/intro-nano-class-2018/double.avi
Future Technologies and their
Possible Impacts: Utility Fog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F_SRwrCF6Q
6:30 min
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016 “for the design and synthesis of molecular
machines”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfB4NHDI83Q
(no subtitles: https://nobelmedia.akamaized.net/flashcontent/announcement_2016_che_02_496.mp4),
1:40 to 2 min, then 3:40 to 17:00, interview over the phone up to 28, interview
with Professor Sara Snogerup Linse,
Chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry from 31:30 to 39:40 (alternatively https://nobelmedia.akamaized.net/flashcontent/announcement_2016_che-interview_01_496.mp4,
7:30 minutes
http://web.pdx.edu/~pmoeck/intro-nano-class-2018/nobel%20prize%20chemistry%202016.ppt,
contains also material from the 2017 and 2021 Chemistry nobel prizes
Nobel lecture: Sir J.
Fraser Stoddart, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7DqCz0nQzU
35:30 min
Optical Tweezers and the
2018 Nobel Prize in Physics - Sixty Symbols: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjXLJMUrNBo,
12:30 min
Francis Villatoro (2011, Nov. 9). A
four-wheeled molecule moving on a metal surface driven by the absorption of
light https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5JgJsjq3Q4
5 seconds
Proteins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvTv8TqWC48,
7 minutes, From DNA to Protein https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3fOXt4MrOM,
4.30 min
From DNA to protein - 3D, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG7uCskUOrA,
3 min, how the ribosome is formed (Life Science - Protein synthesis
(Translation) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmrUzDYAmEI
6 minutes
make up your own mind when you
compare what you have seen in the so called nanofactory
with the actual Molecular basis of life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpHaxzroYxg,
20 min,
The Inner Life of the Cell - Protein
Packing, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdmbpAo9JR4,
4 minutes, how DNA is taken to expose single strands https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SGoDIkscXg,
5 minutes, ATP synthase: Structure and Function https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_cp8MsnZFA,
4 minutes, ATP Synthase in Action https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2my52zQA6k,
5 min,
Nobel Prize in chemistry 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc97ATQvVow&t=1358s,
from 3:15 to 13:30, questions 16:12 to 22:40, more by the lady expert who made
the introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ecpiWFOCvU
(8 minutes), phone calls from Stockholm https://youtu.be/lSrPOWgtkh4,
https://youtu.be/b1jQCTh1hUs, 6
minutes, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56JVASBh3x0
(3 minutes)
Special treat Frances Arnold: New enzymes by evolution, one year before she won the Nobel
Prize: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05r-FLGtsEQ
39 minutes, 2016 Millennium Technology Prize to Frances Arnold - Directed
evolution, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es86W2sYl3I
5:15 min
How Enzymes Work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk14dOOvwMk
5min
note that there is no Nobel Prize for Biology, the prizes
were for bio-nano-science and – technology
Nobel Prize in physics 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaLDsBS5jVE,
optical tweezers between minutes 5:30 and 8:30, Kinesine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAva4g3Pk6k, 2 minutes
(a moving kinesin molecule: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbycQf1TbM0
3:30 minutes, please ignore the reference to intelligent design at the very
end), after that the other half of the 2018 Physics Nobel prize also related to
nanoscience, from 25:00 to the end, interview of a committee member
Laser Cooling - Sixty Symbols https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drnq_6ffTbo
9 min
http://web.pdx.edu/~pmoeck/intro-nano-class-2018/nobel
prizes chemistry physics 2018.ppt, some more explanations on the 2018 Nobel
prizes in Chemistry and Physics
Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqwFR5AmpZ4
35 min total, start 1:33, forward 2:35 – 15:10, questions: up to 25:30, but not
interesting, 28:26 interview with a committee member.
James Allison's Cancer Research Breakthrough
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySG2AwpSZmw
4:30 min
http://web.pdx.edu/~pmoeck/intro-nano-class-2018/nobel
prize medicine 2018.ppt, some more explanations on this 2018 Nobel prize
Nobel memorial Prize of the Sveriges
Ricksbank in Economics (given by the
http://web.pdx.edu/~pmoeck/intro-nano-class-2018/economics
nobel memorial prize 2018.ppt, some more
explanations on the 2018 Nobel memorial
prize in economics
Nobel Prize Chemistry 2021, Announcement of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i8w9xqhgaY,
from min 6:10 to 16 and 30 to end
a seminar at a
TEDxHouston 2011 - Wade Adams - Nanotechnology and Energy, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GFst2IQBEM,
25 min
Ben Goertzel - Approaches Towards a General Theory of General AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LzI-UB-3YU (2021) https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15100
Some more bull_S… by a very
successful computer scientists in a lecture at the
An Introduction to Molecular Nanotechnology with Ralph
Merkle |
Nano-bio
The Central Dogma of Biology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kOGOY7vthk
3 min
Cell Signals (Full length) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89W6uACEb7M
14 min
Inner Life of the Cell (Full Version
- Narrated) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzcTgrxMzZk
8 min
Genome Editing with CRISPR-Cas9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pp17E4E-O8
4 min
Inner mitochondrial membrane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdF3mnyS1p0,
5 minutes
Cell division https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_tYrnv_o6A,
5 minutes
Drew Berry: Animations of unseeable
biology, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFCvkkDSfIU,
Astonishing molecular machines: Drew
Berry at TEDxSydney https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfB8vQokr0Q
14:30 min
CRISPR: Gene editing and beyond: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YKFw2KZA5o
IMMUNOTHERAPY: The Path to a Cancer
Cure (For Clinicians https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbFjiWOBErA
8:45 min connected to Nobel prize Medicine 2018
Ron Vale (UCSF, HHMI) 1: Molecular
Motor Proteins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RUHJhskW00,
35 minutes
Mitochondria: the cell's powerhouse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkYEYjintqU,
5:20 min
Electron Transport Chain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdF3mnyS1p0
8 minutes
Organelles of the Cell (updated) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKmaq7jPnYM
30 min
Science - Amazing Process of
Photosynthesis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFaBpVoQD4E
5 min
Inorganic nano
Seeing atom within a nanoparticle in
3D by electron tomography: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqLlgIaz1L0
2:30 min
MOSFET:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stM8dgcY1CA, 8 minutes
Short introduction for this course:
A more detailed introduction for a higher level course: http://web.pdx.edu/~pmoeck/phy381/definitions-illustrations%20nanotech.pdf,
121 slides
Simple quantum mechanics
Position momentum uncertainty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7bzE1E5PMY
15 min
Quantum Mechanics: Animation
explaining quantum physics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVpXrbZ4bnU
26 min
Quantum Nanoscience — Gerard
Milburn, ISS2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_SzNRtD5Gw
1hour
Popular Science Documentaries:
Nanotechnology devices of the Future
Miniature (Microscopic) hi tech smart technology (no captions) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtMqB38cq5k
1 hour 7 min, 2016
Nano
at NASA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a2WBmvoXlI 29:30 min
Lectures by well-known scientists
Strange Materials with Mark Miodownik, https://youtu.be/GEWFJiMK6CE,
1 hour
Nanoscience can change our future
for the better | Heiner Linke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtW25luCuJ8
17 min
Frances Arnold: New enzymes by
evolution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05r-FLGtsEQ,
38 min
Daniel Nocera: Energy for 1 X 6 Billion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVWgghOJQWQ
1 hour 11 min (or alternatively https://media.pdx.edu/my-media, My Channels / View channels I am a member off)
Harnessing Energy from the Sun for Six Billion People https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLo9blxbb7k 1 hour 20 min
Future Nobel Prize in Chemistry: A Complete Artificial Photosynthesis: Fuels from Sunlight, Air and Water https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJmAGaZZXPY 50 min 30 sec
Dr Dan Nocera - Frontiers of Science
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8awjL2SBSo
1 hour 25 min
Fuels from Sunlight Using
Nano-Materials https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arralDshQrY
1 hour 2 min
Einstein, Nanoscience, &
Superconductivity by Marvin Cohen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WC7OMA0l6k
35 min
Neil Champness
Nanoscale Machines: Building the Future with Molecules https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJW3KfjM2aw&t=56s
59 min, 2016 (some facts are misstated; The Feynman lectures are mistaken for
Feynman’s 1959 after dinner talk)
The Artificial Intelligence
Breakthroughs of The Last Five Years - Rob Fergus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAz-MWby9Vk
36 min
Materials Science at the
Intersections of Nanotechnology, Life Sciences and Medicine. https://youtu.be/xKZR2Gvf6TU, 50
minutes, Subra Suresh - Dean of Engineering , Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Ashutosh Sharma, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLg1lbbOvZA
Dr. Wade Adams: Nanotechnology and
the Future of Energy, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chJRdn1DOx0,
31 minutes, Associate Dean of the School of Engineering at
Rice University
Investigating the dynamics of
molecular machines using automated electron microscopy, Bridget Carragher, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWUBRT0V_xo
47 min
Some Advances in Nanotechnology at
Nanoscience at Work: Creating Energy
from Sunlight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jhl07psn9QA
1 hour Paul Alivisatos,
Paul Alivisatos:
Nanoscience - Potential and Threats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWBVSw_d-0g
56 min
Richard Jones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNr7mTjbH0E,
1 hour 15 min
Nanotechnology, Creation and God. | Prof Russell Cowburn, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UepCFseK_os
21 min
Panel discussion from
Investigating the dynamics of
molecular machines using automated electron microscopy, Bridget Carragher, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWUBRT0V_xo
47 min
The surprising strengths of
materials in the nanoworld | Julia Greer | TEDxCER https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjHYHY_IkUk
13 min
What is graphene: Aravind Vijayaraghavan at TEDxManchester https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIL5iPGN7QQ
18 min
Around Moor’s law
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
The End of
John Hennessy, “
No
Wally Rhines CEO Mentor Graphics
discusses the end of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKc2DodTLm4
23 minutes total (end of
Some propaganda: Peter Diamandis on
ENGRI 1110: Nanotechnology
Quantum mechanics
Quantum Wave Function Visualization https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKr91v7yLcM
11:30 min subtitles are included in all movies of this series
Quantum
Operators https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZie2QC5Jbc 22 min
Quantum
Tunneling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF7dDt3tVmI 6:20 min
Schroedinger's Equation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvvkomcmyuo
9 min
Social and religious aspects
Yuval Harari: "Techno-Religions
and Silicon Prophets", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6BK5Q_Dblo,
1 hour 23 min,
Michael Behe
- Lee Strobel - Molecular Machines Disprove Evolution (Irreducible complexity)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7WwO1iETuw,
9 minutes
Sophia from Hanson Robotics talks
with Shawn 2018.03.21 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGD1hceK6DA
10:30 min
Humanoid Robot Sophia - Almost Human
Or PR Stunt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fnCQC7bLs0
10:30 min
Watch Sophia the robot walk for the
first time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCFQkB-KLsE
1:40 min
Two AI robots Sophia & Han
debate the future of humanity - Rise 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCP2iiP7YTg
19 min
Exploring Sophia’s multiple
intelligences https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F28PzoeDn4
26:40 min
Singularity or Bust [Nov 3, 2013, Full Documentary] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owppju3jwPE
47 min
The Dangers of Artificial
Intelligence - Robot Sophia makes fun of Elon Musk - A.I. 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzdY3gwE0WQ
12 min
Consciousness Central 2018 - Program
5 with Sophia the Robot, David Hanson, Julia Mossbridge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wozYnQO3Qto
53 min
#CIIE
Xinhua AI anchor presents CIIE news reports
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB29ZVDOFfU&feature=youtu.be 1:30 min
Bruce Duncan - Talks with the
World’s Most Sentient Robot, Bina48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwOFWABbfW8
21.30 min
Bina 48 Meets Bina Rothblatt - Part
One https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYshJRYCArE
4:30 min
Bina48 + Bruce Duncan - Diversity in
AI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=089UCS6BrGQ
24 min
Flagella - The incredible molecular
machine made me stunned! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IkY12o9clA
2 min, no comments
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_5FToP_mMY
10 minutes from nova “intelligent design trial Tammy Kitzmiller, et al. v.
Brain hacking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awAMTQZmvPE,
14 min or alternatively https://media.pdx.edu/my-media,
My Channels / View channels I am a member off)
Obsolete By 2030 - Humans Need Not
Apply! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHc63Xgc0-8
50:20 min
Relativity Fraud ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PolFadm-lgU
24 minutes, from somebody who insist that the Christian bible is superior to
science as a way of gaining knowledge about the world
Shoshana Zuboff
/ Keynote: Reality is the Next Big Thing - Elevate Festival 2014https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QwPHinDdOc
27 min, new capitalistic reality (no subtitles)
Message from Prof. Shoshana Zuboff to the participants of reclaim autonomy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4E08ok-eDQ
11 minutes
A Discussion of Artificial Intelligence with John Searle and Luciano Floridi,
https://youtu.be/b6o_7HeowY8,
start at minute 7, then 1 hour 16 minutes, then about 30 minutes discussion
less interesting (New York Book review of Kurzweil’s how to create a mind)
Philosophy around artificial
intelligence, John Searle with Ray Kurzweil in the audience;
"Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence" | Talks at Google, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHKwIYsPXLg,
1 hour 10 min, Kurzweil discussion 38:40 to 46 min
The Real Reason to be Afraid of
Artificial Intelligence | Peter Haas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRzBk_KuIaM,
12:30 min
our world in 2030 according to
Michio Kaku, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQMXxXotKBA,
1 hour 18 minutes
definitions-illustrations nanotech,
download, get the slides and have an opinion on the subject before you come to
class, so that we may have a discussion, there should also be a discussion on a
few slides on public perception of controversial scientific-technical issues in
general .
What is materials science and
engineering? Where is it coming from? What distinguished materials science a
science and engineering form other disciplines? download lecture manuscript
here free itunes video from a seminar at the
Department of Materials at Oxford University,
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/itunes-u/department-of-materials/id425665707 also
on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEWFJiMK6CE last lecture of the course,
differences between animate matter and inanimate matter, there is much to learn,
… and nano-materials science and engineering is a good career choice for
anybody interested in applied interdisciplinary science)
(and by the same
scientist/lecturer/BBC broad caster:
http://www.richannel.org/christmas-lectures/2010/2010-mark-miodownik)
The nano-core concept of topology,
which goes together with size, shape and dimensionality into the center of the
Materials Science and Engineering tetrahedron.
some classical physics scaling with
length, some very basics facts about quantum mechanics, application of some
simple quantum mechanics to simple potentials, the hydrogen atom, hydrogenic
atoms, other atoms, also to molecules and solids which uses bits and pieces of
a general review of atomic bonding and their relation to physical properties,
free iTunes movies on quantum mechanics from Oxford University,
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/itunes-u/quantum-mechanics/id381702006
Introduction to
geometrical-structural Crystallography, ideal structure, download lecture
manuscript here, real structure, download lecture manuscript here, generalized
crystallography
(by the way: nano-structured metals
deform differently since the concept of a dislocation is no longer useful, have
a look at this paper from the Materials Research Bulletin)
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Three papers in support of the
understanding of the Quantum Mysteries: Mermin 1981
(before experimental verification), Mermin 1985
(after the first successful verifications of the Bell theorem/violations of the
Bell inequalities that demonstrate that either locality or reality or both have
to be abandoned if we want to keep counterfactual definitiveness / the way we
do science by induction), and Mermin in 2012, (QBism) a philosophical viewpoint concerning observer
created reality). I hope to convey that quantum mechanics doesn't follow our
common logic (i.e. set theory), and as a result offers a great opportunity for
nano-materials engineering.
“If, in some cataclysm, all of
scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to
the next generation of creatures, what statement would contain the most
information in the fewest words?
I believe it is the atomic
hypothesis (or the atomic fact, or whatever you wish to call it) that all
things are made of atoms — little particles that move around in perpetual
motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but
repelling on being squeezed into one another. In that one sentence, you will
see, there is an enormous amount of information about the world, if just a
little imagination and thinking are applied.” Richard P.
Feynman, 1963
some more resources
Nobel Prize physics 2016, topology
explained https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO8esJuQIMs,
6 minutes
Courtesy of Prof. Dr. rer. Nat. habil. Michael Hietschold,
Technical University Chemnitz, Germany, here
are his slides from the special guest lectures
courtesy of em. Prof. Pavel Smejtek, here are the
lecture notes on superconductivity
some interesting movies on crystallography can be found at http://www.geo.arizona.edu/xtal/movies/crystal_movies.html
some more basic crystallography can be found at http://xrayweb.msg.ku.edu/notes/symmetry.html
a whole book on
crystallography in open access: M. O'Keeffe and B. G. Hyde, Crystal Structures
I: Patterns and Symmetry, freely accessible as *.pdf files at http://www.public.asu.edu/~rosebudx/okeeffe.htm
a whole course on X-ray
crystallography http://macxray.chem.upenn.edu/course/
courtesy of Prof. K. H.
D. H. Bhadeshia of Cambridge University in the U.K., Worked examples in the Geometry of Crystals,
the 2nd edition, published in 2001 (updated 2006), is now available for free download from this site. The book deals with the mathematical crystallography of
materials. It is intended for use by students and by anyone interested in phase
transformations or interfaces. ISBN 0-904357-94-5, published by the
some crystal structure
movies: http://www.msm.cam.ac.uk/phase-trans/2003/MP1.crystals/MP1.crystals.html
United Kingdom Royal
Society and Royal Academy of Engineering joint report on Nanoscience and nanotechnologies: opportunities and uncertainties,
29 July 2004, http://www.nanotec.org.uk/finalReport.htm
Modern electron microscopes as crystallographic instruments,
a seminar I gave at
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Second
movie of the course with Spanish subtitles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed4_Sa8h9Cc&t=225s some 45 minutes with Spanish subtitles
---------------- possibly no longer available, but
in higher quality than the second movie of the course
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xBfOS2cmJ0 15 minutes, 360 dpi, one of three
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuxnbUVHP_k 15 minutes, 360 dpi, two of three
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oT8PXwkfjM 15 minutes, 360 dpi, three of three
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Some stuff (essentially BS in my humble opinion – but some people do think that way), not to be taken too
seriously
Ralph Merkle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdKyf8fsH6w
Ray Kurzweil: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bis0euOhy58, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uIzS1uCOcE
Singularity,
robots/human mix: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR57633ztYc
Recommending pills to make it up to the singularity so that
you can life forever in the new nanotech world http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcbbr8ZhoFs
Do you want to life forever? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtHgIJ6kalk
Michio Kaku: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=219YybX66MY
see also https://nickbostrom.com/ethics
The
ultimate BS science fiction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqyZ9bFl_qg
By the way, here is Arthur von Hippel’s 1956 vision for the
then emerging field of materials science and engineering: ”… instead
of taking prefabricated materials and trying to devise engineering applications
consistent with their macroscopic properties, one builds materials from their
atoms and molecules for the purpose at hand.”
That are good
definitions for nano-science and nano-engineering and a German-American
Materials Scientist was their originator more than half a century ago. (The
only important bit missing in this quote is that due to nano-structuring there
are novel properties, the grand master was sure very aware of that!!)
A. R. von Hippel,
“Molecular Engineering”, Science, vol. 123 (issue 3191), pp. 315-317, 1956; MIT
Techn. Rep. 101, October 1955; Molecular Science and
Molecular Engineering, Technology Press of MIT Press and Wiley & Sons,
Very
worthwhile reading: http://phase1.nccr-trade.org/images/stories/publications/IP9/ed.Nanotechnology%20Introduction%20v9%20march2009.pdf
If you want to know more about
nano-materials science and engineering, watch a video from the BBC at http://www.vega.org.uk/video/programme/3
Finally, my teaching philosophy for this course:
“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together
to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to
long for the endless immensity of the sea.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry