纳米科技是在80年代末，90年代初逐步发展起来的前沿、交叉性新兴科技领域，也是21世纪最前沿，最富有活力的学科领域之一，是继信息技术和生物技术之后，又一深刻影响人类和社会经济发展的重大技术，它的迅猛发展将在新世纪影响到几乎所有的工业领域，有些甚至产生革命性的变化。纳米科技研究的深入发展和产业化的迅速推进对高水平研发人员和高级技术人才提出了越来越迫切的需求，世界发达国家已经在全面部署纳米科技的教育，以期为形成现实生产力做准备。本课程正是为了顺应这一发展潮流而开设的前沿交叉课程，将全面向学生介绍纳米材料的合成、组装、分散、改性及复合的基础知识和最新发展动态；阐述纳米材料的微观结构、形态控制、性能表征及应用；纳米生物学、纳米医学、纳米生物器件与系统等领域的重要进展等。本课程的特色是：材料与生物相交叉，基础与应用相融合，创新与探索相贯通，讲解与研讨相结合。通过相关教授的最前沿研究领域的介绍，引领学生进入引人入胜的纳米世界，为纳米科技领域急需的交叉复合研究型人才的培养奠定基础。

The emerging fields of nano science and technology--the ability to work on molecular scale, to create new functions and properties atom by atom-has greatly stimulated scientist to explore the new world from the basic building blocks.Based on the progress of fundamental chemistry, biotechnology and materials science over the past three decades, the research dimension in these disciplines advanced almost with the same path into nanoscale. DNA, RNA, proteins has became the basic molecular standpoints for understanding bio phenomenon and process. Materials science has make it possible to synthesize bio compatible particles with varieties of functions. The novel and highly interdisplinary field of chemistry has closely associated with both the physical and chemical properties of organic and inorganic nanoparticles. The integration of the above progress recently make the nanoparticles as the most potential powerful tools for biotechnology. Superparamagnetic particles, quantum dots, dendrimers and nano contrast imaging have brought exiting findings wave by wave. This course is designed to give students the state-of- the- art on the biofunctioned materials and demonstrate the successes on design, synthesize and applications of nanomaterials in typical bio and clinical examples.