SENSORS AND NANOTECHNOLOGY

Chemical Engineering

About this course

Nanotechnology and sensors are broad, interdisciplinary areas that encompass (bio)chemistry, physics, biology, materials science, electrical engineering and more. The present course will provide a survey on some of the fundamental principles behind nanotechnology and nanomaterials and their vital role in novel sensing properties and applications. The course will discuss interesting interdisciplinary scientific and engineering knowledge at the nanoscale to understand fundamental physical differences at the sensors. By the end of the course, students will understand the fabrication, characterization, and manipulation of nanomaterials, sensors, and how they can be exploited for new applications. Also, students will apply their knowledge of nanotechnology and sensors to a topic of personal interest in this course.

SEMESTER START DATE: March 30, 2025

Contact Hours per Week: 3

Day & Time: TBD (will be announced by mid-December)

TEACHING STAFF:

Lecturer: Professor Hossam Haick, email: hhossam@technion.ac.il
TA: Vivian Darsa Maidantchik, email: viviand@campus.technion.ac.il, schedule online reception hours by email

ABOUT PROFESSOR HOSSAM HAICK

Hossam Haick is a Full Professor and an expert in the field of nanotechnology, sensors, and non-invasive disease diagnosis. Prof. Haick is the recipient of the prestigious Marie Curie Excellence Award, ERC Award, and the FP-7 Health Award. He is also the recipient of more than 42 international honors and prizes for his achievements, including a Knight of the Order of Academic Palms (conferred by the French Government) and the “List of the World’s Top 35 Young Scientists”, and the Discovery Award of the Bill & Melinda Gates. Prof. Haick is the founder and the leader of a European consortium of eight universities and companies for the development of advanced generation of sensors for disease diagnosis. He also serves as an associate editor of the two journals and serves as an advisory consultant to the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) – the world's authority for chemical information - a senior scientific advisory member of several national and international companies and institutes, and as a scientific evaluator in the European Commission.

Expected learning outcomes

Nanotechnology and sensors is a course for people who are interested in learning about novel sensing tools that makes use of nanotechnology (a technology that relies in the regime between one to hundred nanometers, viz. billionths of the meters) to screen, and monitor various events in either our personal or professional life. Together, we will discover the fascinating world of nanoland that bumps up against the basic building blocks of matter. As such, we will lay the groundwork for infinite innovative applications in every part of our daily life, starting from in-vivo and ex-vivo diagnosis and treatments of diseases, continuing with quality control of goods and environmental aspects, and ending with monitoring security issues. In this endeavor, we will learn how to fabricate such new tools, how to characterize them, how to control them, and how to integrate them in the various applications.