This course offers an overview of synthesis techniques to produce various nanostructured materials, including quantum dots, carbon-based nanomaterials, metal-based nanomaterials, metal oxide nanomaterials, and superlattice nanocomposites. These synthesis techniques are categorized into chemical methods and physical methods. The chemical methods module discusses the general principles of nucleation and growth, as well as specific nanomaterial synthesis by reductions, calcination, precipitation, micelles, ion-exchange, sol-gel, electrochemical methods, etc. The physical methods module introduces various nanomaterials synthesis by solid-state processing, liquid phase processing, vapour phase processing, etc. In addition, this course also provides an introduction to the nanomaterial development, the fundamental properties of nanomaterials (i.e., quantum confinement, surface effect,
Brownian motion, electric double layer, etc.), and the basic solid-state physics for nanocrystalline materials (i.e., crystallography, defect structures, etc.). Advanced technologies for the material characterizations (i.e., XRD, TEM, SEM, EDS, XPS, DLS, etc.) are also discussed, particularly with specific examples of their applications for nanomaterials.