TAMIL NADU AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY

B.Sc. (Hons) Agri Degree Programme

Final Theory Examinations, January - 2023
Year : II (2017 Syllabus) Time : 3 Hours
Semester : IV Max. Marks: 60

NST-201 FUNDAMENTALS & APPLICATION OF NANOTECHNOLOGY (1+0)

PART - A [30 x 0.5 = 15]

(Answer All questions)
Multiple Choice Questions (Kindly Bold the Answer)
A1. Who introduces the concept of Nanotechnology
A) Drexler B) Kroto
C) Smalley D) Feynman
A2. Amount of space required to install a transistor on a chip reduces roughly half for every
18 months
A) Ohm’s Law B) Kirchhoff Law
C) Moore’s Law D) Faraday Law
A3. Laser ablation method is developed by
A) Richard Smalley B) James Watson
C) Neil Bohr D) Richard Feynman
A4. The size of Quantum dots ranges from
A) 2-15 nm B) 2-10 nm
C) 2-8 nm D) 2-9 nm
A5. Allotrope of Carbon is
A) Fullerene B) Quantum dots
C) Bucky balls D) Buckminster fullerene
A6. CNT can be described as a sheet of
A) C60 B) Graphene
C) Diamond D) Bucky balls
A7. Reduction of particle size by high energy is
A) Grind milling B) Attritor
C) Ball milling D) Milling
A8. The concentration of the micelle is measured as
A) Critical micelle concentration B) Surfactant
C) Micelle concentration D) Direct sublimation
A9. Common techniques used in physical vapor deposition is
A) Epitaxy B) Sputtering
C) Pulse Laser deposition D) Electric beam evaporation
A10. During Sol gel treatment with water undergoes hydrolysis followed by condensation to
form nano structured materials
A) Metal alkoxide B) BCl3
C) TiCl4 D) Ceramic
A11. The diameter of human hair is ____ nm.
A) 70,000 B) 80,000
C) 1,00,000 D) 50,000
A12. _____ contains nanoparticles prepared by using biologically processed metal ores.
A) Ayurvedic 'Bhasmas' B) Complementary medicines
C) Indo-Allopathic medicines D) Homeopathic medicines

A13. The size of E.Coli bacteria is ____ nm.

A) 5000 B) 2000
C) 1500 D) 1000
A14. Most semiconductor chips and transistors are created with
A) Platinum B) Manganese
C) Copper D) Silicon
A15. The term "Quantum Dot" was coined by
A) Mark Reed B) Louis Brus
C) Leland C. Clark D) Robert Kurl
A16. Microwaves are a form of electromagnetic energy with frequencies in the range of
A) 200 MHZ to 200 GHZ B) 300 MHZ to 300 GHZ
C) 250 MHZ to 350 GHZ D) 350 MHZ to 450 GHZ
A17. In Tulsi which type of metal nanoparticles synthesized
A) Gold B) Iron
C) Silver D) Cds
A18. Name the Bacteria intracellular microorganism Lactobacillus sp. involved in the
synthesis of metal nanoparticles
A) Cds B) Ag
C) Se D) Au, Ag
A19. Secondary electrons and back scattered electrons are commonly used for imaging
samples in
A) TEM B) SEM
C) XRD D) FT-IR
A20. E-gun contains filament made up of
A) LaB6 B) Tungsten Carbide
C) TIC4 D) Metal alkoside
A21. ____ which related the wave length of EMR to the diffraction angle and lattice spacing
in a crystalline sample
A) Fick’s law B) Ohm’s law
C) Bragg’s law D) Newton law
A22. ____ is a technique used for material analysis in the laboratory for measure air
pollutants
A) UV-Visible B) Infrared spectroscopy
C) XRD D) AFM
A23. Biosensors works on the basic principle of
 A) Amplification B) transistor
C) Signal transduction D) detector
A24. _____ used to detect viral, fungal and bacterial diseases in plants
A) Chemosensor B) Biosensor
C) Opticosensor D) Laser
A25. Product in nanometer scale that delivers nutrients to crops
A) Nano fertilizers B) Nanopesticides
C) Nano herbicides D) Nanoencapsulation
A26. ______ herbicide released from the core with the degradation of shell materials
A) Poly styrene sulfonate B) Atrazine
C) Poly allyl amine Hcl D) N-amino poly ethylene glycol
A27. ____ nanoparticles are highly effective against the rice weevil – Sitophilus oryzae
A) Iron B) Silver
C) Silica D) Copper

A28. Self cleaning of solar panels is based on the principle of

A) Tidal effect B) Electrochemical effect
C) Hydrothermal effect D) Lotus effect
A29. ____ are structured polymer molecules consisting of central core from particles
originate
A) Dendrimers B) QDs
C) Core shell D) Nanocones
A30. A simple assay containing _______ nanoparticles to detect color change when the virus
is present
A) Ultra thin copper B) Plasmonic gold
C) Silica coated D) Silver

PART-B
(Answer any Five questions) [5 x 1 =5]
Alexei Ekimov discovered Quantum dots in a glass
B1.
matrix
Define Sol gel Sol-gel is a wet technique.
This technique is also called
B2.
as chemical solution
S bas ed on the princi ple of ethod
deposition.
Applications of TEM Study of Crystals and
B3. metals. Images provide
molecular level information
Electronic nose Device that identifies
B4. specific volatile components
of an odor
 What is Zerovalent Iron nanoparticles Zerovalent Iron
nanoparticles are
B5.
extensively used for
remediation.
Two monomers are
B6. -A-B-A-B-A-B-A-B-A-B- Alternating Copolymer arranged in a alternating
fashion

PART- C
(Answer any Ten questions) [10 x 2 = 20]
C1. Moore’s Law The observation that the number of
transistors in a dense integrated circuit
(IC) doubles about every two years
C2. Three dimensional Nanomaterials Bulk Nanomaterials are materials that
are not confined to the nanoscale in any
dimension (100 nm in Size)
C3. Bucky balls Geodesic Dome Design - A type of
structure shaped like a piece of a sphere
or ball. Bucky ball uses are exploited in
fabricating solar cells, super conductors
and take part in microscopy
C4. Define Ball milling Ball milling is a grinding method that
grinds nanotubes into extremely fine
powders.
The process of physical synthesis of
nanomaterials which is top down
approach
C5. What are the critical steps involved in CVD 1. Transport of reagents – TiCl4,
BCl3, H2 in gas phase often with
carrier gas to the reaction zone
2. Diffusion (or convention)through
the boundary layer
C6. Define SPR When a nanoparticle is much smaller
than the wave length of light, coherent
oscillation of the conduction band
electron induced by interaction with the
electromagnetic field
C7. Application of SEM SEM is utilized to analyze trace
evidence such as gunshot residue,
hairs, fibers, glass paint fragments, and
fingerprints.
Scanning electron microscopy is an
analytical testing method that captures
 high resolution images of objects as
small as 15 nanometers
C8. Working Principle and range of FT-IR To detects frequencies of infrared light
that are absorbed by a molecule
The frequency range are measured as
wave numbers typically over the range
4000 – 600 cm-1. It is a technique used
to obtain an infrared spectrum of
absorption or emission of a solid, liquid
or gas.
C9. What is Aerial seeding in emerging This technique facilitates uniform and
nanotechnology in seed science spatially distribution of seeds in
complex ecological conditions.
C10. Advantages of Nanomaterials in food Bioactive food packaging materials
packaging need to be able to keep bioactive
compounds such as prebiotics ,
probiotics , encapsulated vitamins or
bioavailable flavonoids in optimal
conditions
C11. Why TiO2 is used in DSSC (Dye sensitized TiO2 acts as a scaffold to adsorbed dye
solar cells)? molecule and transports the electron
photogenerated by light absorption and
dye regeneration.

PART- D
(Answer any Four questions) [4 x 5 = 20]
Importance of Moore’s law In 1965, Gordon Moore made the
prediction that the number of transistors
D1. on a typical circuit would double every
18-24 months, implying an exponential
rise in computer power over time.
D2. Unit - II
D3. Unit - III
D4. Unit - IV
D5. Unit - V
******************