CHEM 524 Interfaces for Chemistry, Biology and Nanotechnology

Interfaces, the thin boundaries where two phases meet, are where most of the interesting chemistry, biology, and nanoscale behavior actually happens, and this graduate course treats them as a unified physical problem rather than a collection of separate phenomena. You work through the intermolecular forces that hold these boundaries together, move from 2D Langmuir films up to 3D self-assembled structures like micelles and liposomes, and learn how force-based, optical, and nonlinear spectroscopic techniques actually probe them. It draws heavily on physical chemistry and ties directly into surface science, soft matter, and nanotechnology research, useful if your thesis touches sensors, membranes, or anything where what happens at a surface matters more than what happens in the bulk.