Lectures (L)
L1: Breakfast / Openning Remarks / Biological Materials World
L2: Man-made Materials
L3: Weak interactions and the deformations they cause
L4: High aspect ratio nanostructures: nanotubes, wires, plates, and ribbons
L5: Bioinspired nanocomposite design
L6: Engineered Self-healing Materials
L7: Bioinspired Structural Materials
L8: The Mechanics of Adhesion used by the Gecko
L9: Self-healing Mechanisms in Nature
L10: Bioinspired Sensing and Actuation Materials
L11: Mechanics of individual nanostructures (an overview)
NSF: Overview of NSF Research Directions, by Dr. Ken Chong
L12: Mechanics of Nanostructures: Mechanical Resonance
L13: Mechanics of Nanostructures: Tensile Loading and Fracture Mechanics
L14: Introduction to Particle Dynamics and Molecular Dynamics
L15: Empirical Potential Modeling of Protein Structure and Mechanical Properties
L16: Electronic Structure Theory and Calculations
L17: Electronic Structure Applications: Mechanical Properties and Bioadhesion
L18: Quantized fracture mechanics of nanostructures with atomic vacancies
L19: Multiscale Theory, Modeling and Simulation
L20: Multiscale Application: Bio-materials
L21: Biological strategies for adhering polymers to surfaces
L22: Single molecule force spectroscopy using the atomic force microscope
L23: Summing Up: Status of the Field and the Future

Lectures (P)
P1: Lab Tours 1
P2: Lab Tours 2
P3: Lab Tours 3
P4: Lab Tours 4

Tentative Lab Tours:
     Mechanical Engineering:
          -Nanomanipulation, testing stages
          -Wires, Junctions, Growth of Nanostructures
     Chemistry:
          -Computational Chemistry Facility
     Material Science & Engineering
          -NUANCE Microscopy Facility
          -Surface Electron & X-Ray Diffraction
          -Semiconductor Structures