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Wolfgang Sigmund -

• Nanoparticle synthesis (nanotubes, nanorods, nanoscrolls, nanospheres, unfilled, opened, filled, or coated) (pictures will follow)
  
• Surface forces for nanoparticles (pictures will follow)
  
• Smart Nanoparticles and smart nanoparticle systems (pictures will follow)
  
• Nanoparticle processing (slide about fundamentals)
  
• Nanopatterning of surfaces
  
• Directed self-assembly of nano-objects into 2-d and 3-d structures (Nanoweaving of cellular nanomaterials)
  
• Non-viral vectors (synthetic nano-objects) for gene delivery
  
• Complexity in bio-nano systems