Teaching
Chemistry 2131-001: Organic Chemistry I
Course Goal: Students in this course should endeavor to develop an understanding of the important fundamentals of organic chemistry. This includes a general appreciation of bonding, structure, and reactivity. Students will also begin to understand the characteristics and reactions associated with different functional groups that are common in organic chemistry.
Chemistry 2132-001: Organic Chemistry II
Course Goal: Students in this course should endeavor to develop an understanding of the important fundamentals of organic chemistry. This includes a general appreciation of bonding, structure, and reactivity. Students will also continue to understand the characteristics and reactions associated with different functional groups that are common in organic chemistry. In addition, different characterization techniques such as IR and UV-vis spectroscopy, mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance will be introduced in this course.
NANO 8060/CHEM 6060: Nanomedicine
Goal: This course will focus on basic principles of design, synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials for medical applications.
Course Objectives: The course will cover general nanoparticle characteristics, common biological barriers, factors affecting nanoparticles-biological systems interactions, and recent advances in nanoparticle design within the context of biomedical applications. Moreover, students will be introduced to specific topics such as nanotoxicology, imaging, diagnostics, therapeutics and translating nanotechnology-platforms into the clinic.
NANO 8060/CHEM 6060: Bio- and Nanostructures Self-Assembly
Goal: This course will introduce and discuss the emerging and burgeoning fields of self-assembly and nanotechnology. The goal is to provide and expose students with the terminology, concepts, creative ideas, and current developments in both fields mentioned above.
Course Objectives: This course discusses the physical, chemical and biological principles of self-assembly. Students will apply those principles to understand a range of examples in molecular self-assembly and nanochemistry. Nature offers a lot of ways of creating nanostructures. We will take a look at some of those examples and how these bio-nanostructures can be used for designing more complex hybrid nanostructures. Moreover, students will be introduced to basic modeling techniques to model nanoscale systems and self-assembly. Finally, several applications of self-assembled bio- and nanostructures in a wide variety of areas that include, but not limited to, energy, catalysis, medicine, biotechnology, and optics will be discussed.