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.