TCD Launces Nanoscience Degree

A new nanoscience undergraduate degree programme was launched last week by Trinity College Dublin The course entitled ‘Nanoscience – Physics and Chemistry of Advanced Materials’, jointly run by the Schools of Chemistry and Physics, will provide students with a deep understanding of the science of advanced materials such as superconductors, polymers and lasers found in new technologies that underpin the nano revolution. The first intake of students will be in 2011.

“This degree course offers the opportunity to future students to get a well rounded and excellent grounding in some of the most relevant and advanced science in the world today. It is an area that will revolutionise our world and sustain the knowledge economy in Ireland,” explained the Head of School of Physics, Professor John Donegan.

Nanoscience belongs to both physics and chemistry, therefore students will gain a solid grounding in these subjects as well as mathematics in the first two years. Students will then specialise in nanoscience in the third and fourth years, spending time in a nanoscience laboratory where they will be introduced to a wide range of techniques for the formulation and characterisation of nanomaterials. Students will have access to CRANN’s state of the art facilities.

“Graduates of this new nanoscience degree will be strongly sought-after in the knowledge economy where their interdisciplinary training in physics and chemistry will give them a clear edge in solving real life problems in high-tech industry,” concluded Head of the School of Chemistry, Professor David Grayson.

For more information on the degree go to: www.tcd.ie/Chemistry/nanoscience/

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