MAT SCI 105 · MSE 105Principles of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Materials Science and Engineering · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Introduction to underlying science encompassing structure, properties, and fabrication of technologically important nanoscale systems. New phenomena that emerge in very small systems (typically with feature sizes below few hundred nanometers) explained using basic concepts from physics and chemistry. Chemical, optical, and electronic properties, electron transport, structural stability, self-assembly, templated assembly and applications of various nanostructures such as quantum dots, nanoparticles, quantum wires, quantum wells and multilayers, carbon nanotubes.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisites: Chemistry 20A, 20B, Physics 1C.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
MAT SCI 105
- CHEM 20AChemical Structure
- PHYSICS 1CPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity
- MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables
- PHYSICS 1APhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics
- MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables
- PHYSICS 1BPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields
- MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
- MATH 3BCalculus for Life Sciences Students
- CHEM 20BChemical Energetics and Change
3 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 36 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.