Advanced Inter-/Multi-Disciplinary Graduate-Level Programs for Education, Research, and Training in Nanoscience and Nano
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Advanced Inter-/Multi-Disciplinary Graduate-Level Programs for Education, Research, and Training in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Offered at Osaka University Tadashi Itoh1, Hisazumi Akai2, Hisahito Ogawa3, Wilson Agerico Diño3, Satoshi Ichikawa3, Hiroaki Matsui3, Masato Ara3, and Keisuke Yoshiki3 1 Department of Materials Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-8531, Japan 2 Department of Physics, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-0043, Japan 3 Organization for the Promotion of Research in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-8531, Japan
ABSTRACT Nanoscience: an area that promises new understanding of nature with the aid of rapid progress of nanotechnology. Nanotechnology: the use of nanoscience to build new technologies that will change the world. Nanoscience and Nanotechnology have captured the attention of the public, government, and corporations. How they will influence our lives depend on how we prepare ourselves, and our successors. Here we present a brief outline of the efforts being taken at Osaka University since 2004, in order to prepare our future scientists, engineers, and leaders in the rapidly flourishing trans-/multi-disciplinary field of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. INTRODUCTION The emerging field of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology is leading to a technological innovation in the 21st century. The application of nanotechnology has enormous potential to greatly influence the scientific world in which we live. From general consumer goods, electronics, computers, information, and biotechnology, to aerospace defense, energy, environment and medicine, all sectors of the economy will be profoundly affected by nanotechnology. Advances in nanoscience and nanotechnology promise to have major implications for health, wealth, and peace in the upcoming decades. Knowledge in this field is leading to fundamental scientific advances. In turn, this will lead to dramatic changes in the ways that materials, devices, and systems are understood and created. Research and development in nanotechnology is likely to change the traditional practices of design, analysis, measurement, and manufacturing for a wide range of engineering products. This impact creates a challenge for the academic community to educate a variety of students (not only in the fields of science and engineering, but also other bioscience related fields) with the necessary knowledge, understanding, and skills to interact and provide leadership in the emerging world of nanotechnology. Nanoscience and nanotechnology do not fit within any of the conventional scientific disciplines. Thus, scientists and engineers developing nanoscience and nanotechnology need to be aware of a broader and continuously changing range of subjects than those included in the usual departmental curricula. For example, scientists interested in nanoelectronic devices should be aware of the types of functional nanostructures found in cells,
and familiar with the concepts and capabilities of colloid chemistry
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