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    Learner Reviews & Feedback for Nanotechnology: A Maker’s Course by Duke University

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    About the Course

    How can we create nano-structures that are 10,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair? How can we “see” at the nano-scale?
    Through instruction and lab demonstrations, in this course you will obtain a rich understanding of the capabilities of nanotechnology tools, and
    how to use this equipment for nano-scale fabrication and characterization. The nanoscale is the next frontier of the Maker culture, where
    designs become reality. To become a Nanotechnology Maker pioneer, we will introduce you to the practical knowledge, skills, and tools that can
    turn your nanotechnology ideas into physical form and that enable you to image objects at the nano-scale. This course has ...
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    May 27, 2020

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    In my undergrad I have learned about fabrication in the VLSI course, now I have got the gest of cooking. thank you for such a course, hope I will get some further help from rtnn.org & RTNN team.

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    Jul 13, 2020

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    Prof. Nan Jokerst is an outstanding faculty. She made this course interesting and outstanding among all other faculties. Thank You so Much Prof. Nan Jokerst Making Nanotechnology Interesting course.

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    By Aklima A A

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    Jun 30, 2023

    I strongly suggest this course to anyone interested in expanding their knowledge about nanotechnology. It was a genuinely enriching experience that helped me more effectively in my research field.

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    Mar 17, 2019

    I would like to express my thankfulness to you, for your wonderful lessons. I learned a lot of things from you. Your expertise and the way of teaching are quite fantastic. Many thanks again.

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    By shaik j

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    Nov 1, 2019

    some mistake questions in quizes rest is good

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    By Salma A

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    Jun 6, 2020

    As I have a keen interest in Nano-science specially Nanotechnology, this the best suited course for me. The collaboration of three renowned universities is just wonderful and they have done their best to arrange the course in a systemic and organized way. Besides the step by step approaches to the characterization and fabrication of nano-materials is easy to catch and learn. And also the demonstration after discussing the basic principle of a process helps a lot to understand the lessons as well as I have got the opportunity to have a look of these modern labs just staying at my home. So this is a great chance to pursue this course and having the practical knowledge at a time. I want to thank the Professors and beloved graduate students for their utmost try and passions for making me interested in this topic and I have now a desire to prepare myself for higher studies on Nanotechnology. I would conclude by saying this it has been a great experience and want to thank you all.

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    By Jerwin J E T

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    Jul 16, 2020

    I am already working as a chemist and I find this course beneficial as I hope to advance in my career. I plan to pursue master’s degree in nano-chemistry in the future and this course intensified my interest in the field. The lectures were easy to understand and I like the idea that the common tools used in nanotechnology are presented - including the basic theories, sample preparation, and instrumentation. Living in a third word country, the course made it possible for me to understand the basic operation of some nanotechnology equipment through video presentation. The instructors were also clear in explaining concepts and all the examples were on point. I highly recommend this course to anyone who wants to pursue a career in nanotechnology.

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    By Abhijeet B

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    Nov 1, 2018

    The course is well structured and takes you through the chapters in a seamless manner where each consecutive lesson makes sense. Additionally, it opened my eyes to a lot of physical characterization techniques, and their importance can be gauged by the glut of online research articles that depend on such characterization. I'm grateful to the course administrator, Duke University, UNC, NC State and Coursera for the approval of my financial aid, which enabled a Graduate Student like me to gain access to the best of resources when it comes to micro and nanofabrication. For any student interested in physical characterization, nanofabrication, advanced devices and microsystems, please take this course. You will not regret it.

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    By Edgar C L

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    Mar 28, 2018

    Basically, the course is well-organized. As a graduate student from the Philippines, I was able to gain understanding on the basic's of the nanotechnology tools and fabrication techniques that are helpful in the conduct of my thesis. I will be using SEM and TEM to characterize my nanotubes and chemical wet etching in the cleaning of my samples prior to fabrication of nanotubes. I would grow my nanotubes electrochemically. Hence, I also suggest that perhaps in the future, you can incorporate electrochemical techniques of nanofabrication such as electrodeposition, electrospinning, and electrochemical etching.

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    By Ingryd L

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    Jul 12, 2020

    PT: Achei este curso super interessante e muito bem organizado. As explicações e demonstrações são simples e super fáceis de entender. Fiquei muito feliz em aprender mais sobre as técnicas, definições e equipamentos que são usados na carreira que estou cursando, foi bem escalarecedor.

    IN: This course is very interesting and very well organized. The explanations are simple and of super easy understanding. I was happy in learn so much thing about equipment, definitions and techniques that are used in the career that I am following, it blowed my mind actually haha. Amazing!

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    By Meera

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    Jun 13, 2020

    Excellent course on Nanotechnology and its characterization which was meticulously planned for any Nanomaker to prepare nano particles with ease

    My Special thanks to Course Instructors ( Professors) for their detailed explanation about preparation of films, characterisation and lithographic techniques

    The Graduate students and Lab technicians demonstrated every technique by characterising a sample.

    It was a delightful online experience both theoretically and experimentally on how to prepare and characterize a nano material.

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    By Nero B

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    Apr 13, 2018

    This was a very informative course on Nano technology. It had me wondering things like "could I create a giant platform of (LaB6) lanthanum hexaboride crystals to excite electrons on earth and build a space station of sorts as an anode to pull them into outer space. Could I transport things in the particle beam? Space is already a vacuum could I focus a massive particle beam in space through giant magnetic lenses and travel through it? Can Ununpentium be implanted into a substrate? Like ion implantation...."

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    By Sunil L B S

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    Jun 24, 2018

    This is one of the basic course on the Nanotechnology and Nano-science for beginner and any student who want to learn about the basic of Nano-science and Nanotechnology ; instrumentation, techniques and methodology and the application and scope of this filled. The teaching methodology and the incorporation of animation and demonstration video on all related techniques helps me to visualize, how things works (The working principle). This is an most simple and interactive course on Nanotechnology.

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    By Mehdi H M

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    May 18, 2023

    Nanotechnology: A Maker’s Course is a course offered by Duke University, North Carolina State University, and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Coursera. The course is designed to teach the basics of nanotechnology and its applications in various fields. In one word, Nanotechnology: A Maker's Course is an exceptional educational experience that combines theory with hands-on experimentation, offering a captivating introduction to the world of nanoscience. Highly recommended!

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    By Kushagra N

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    Mar 1, 2018

    I want to thank the organizers and the Coursera community for making this course available world wide. Nanotechnology is an amazing field with lots of new stuff to learn about. Coursera and the RTNN has helped me throughout the course to gain insight into this field to a great extent.

    It would have been difficult for me to gain such knowledge in a region where I reside because of the lack of resources. I am truly thankful to all the instructors / Presenters for guiding me throughout.

    Regards.

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    By Zev G

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    Aug 11, 2020

    Very thorough and concise introduction to all the relevant aspects of nanotechnology in the modern day.

    Highly recommended for people interested in utilizing nanotechnology to make a change, only a little bit of science background (basic highschool physics, chemistry and mathematics) is needed to follow the course.

    It is also very well structured with a lot of hands-on demonstration using the actual equipment in their laboratories. This makes learning more realistic and applicable.

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    By 094-ME-2K20 G K

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    Mar 22, 2023

    Really good course with very qualified, proficient and competent mentors they helped me develop my skills from basics to advanced knowledge in this field and the practical lab component was also a very good approach to explain concepts as well as their real time application I can satisfactorily say that I have successfully acquired the skill taught by this course and will be pleased to apply it in my academic projects, internships as well as in my working field.

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    By Suhail H

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    Jan 3, 2020

    This course introduces a large variety of topics based on nanotechnology, both on analysis and fabrication. As a student, I was able to easily understand the informative yet succinct lectures. I especially appreciated that the processes or phenomena described were also clearly demonstrated. I am grateful to the makers of this course. Now I can better understand results of nano-scale analyses and have more insight about how they are conducted.

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    By Navid M

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    Feb 3, 2022

    I am a bachelor's student of materials science and in this course, I learned all the information needed for nanotechnology. In this course, learning was both theoretical and practical through filming from the laboratory, which allowed for complete learning. Now that I have completed this course, I have a lot of confidence in the subject of nanotechnology, so I thank all the professors and students who provided this course.

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    By Gardin M A S

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    Dec 31, 2020

    This course really amazing, the topic is the latest thing for materials research and the explanation video is easy to understand. Besides, it would help me mastering my mandatory courses at my home university and the demonstration really helpful to visualize all of those experiments since my university is closed due to this pandemic. At last, thank you for all of those peoples who contributing to this course's development.

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    By Jayachandra S Y

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    Apr 20, 2020

    A wonderful experience of online Coursera, detailed and in-depth training about the Nanotechnology: A makers Course, was very useful for Young Researchers and Scientists like us...I am glad and thankful to the whole team (Professors, Scientists and Researcher's ) and wish to congratulate Duke University, North Carolina State University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for offering such amazing Course.

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    By Anil D

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    Aug 13, 2020

    This is really a wonderful course and I have learnt so many things during the journey of this course. I think everyone who so ever is associated with Materials Science in one way or other must take this course and brush up their knowledge which very much required in the present scenarios.

    Prof.(Dr.) Anil Dhawan, School of Basic & Applied Sciences, Anand international College of Engineering, Jaipur(INDIA).

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    By Hassan A

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    Jan 12, 2022

    The course is well organised and the materials are delivered by top exprerts who explain and demonstrate there processes very well. Even though I used some of the equipment presented here before, still I benefited from the details of the instrument specifications that I did not know about before. highly recommended particularly if you are not an engineer and working on nanotechnology.

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    By Pavan K R

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    Jul 10, 2020

    I loved the course and content that was taught by various professors and students. I have learnt many new things regarding processing and designing of materials at nano-scale. Information regarding the transistors, processors and other nano materials (esp. nano-tubes) should have been taught. I thank all the professors and students who have taught us various elements along the course.

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    By santosh

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    Jun 9, 2018

    This course was amazing absolutely. The content was tailored great with graphic demonstration and it helped motivate to finish the course. I was hooked to this and finished it in 3 days. Now I'll definitely check out RTNN. I would love more of these types of courses in future, Anyone interested can start the course it gives very good theoretical knowledge and a practical observation.

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    By Kolemann L

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    Oct 18, 2021

    Fabulous course ! Learned so much about nanofabrication and nanocharacterisation. It was around 2-4 hrs of effort per week Would highly recommend, graduated with 100+ pages of notes. Wish they had more short essay/project-based/ applied research/methods integrated into the course with some synchronous/live feedback. Am now Inspired to puruse Master's Program in Materials Science !

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