Il corso si propone di introdurre il tema vasto e di grande attualità delle NT dal punto di vista dei materiali che vengono usati e delle loro proprietà chimico- fisiche.
Il corso avrà natura interdisciplinare e vedrà una serie di temi, riportati come allegato, alcuni svolti in forma seminariale.

Aim of the course is to survay the vast and fashionable world of NT the understanding of the mechanical performances of polymeric materials and the correlation with their molecular structure. The corse will have a marked interdisciplinary character and will comprize a set of subjects, as reported in the attached sheet, some of them given as seminars.

Classes will be given in English in room DENINA of the DISAT department

Length in hours Subject Teacher (s) Timetable
4 Overview of the chemical bond
Nanostructured materials (definition, techniques of making, basic physico-chemical properties): nanotubes (both carbon-based and not), nanoparticles, nanoporous systems Bonelli, B. 14/05 14.30
15/05 14.30
4 Basics of solid state physics: Schrodinger equation, electronic states in solids Ricciardi, C. 16/05 14.30
17/05 14.30 (this class will be in the Perucca room)
2 Compositional characterizations: XPS, photoemission spectroscopies Castellino, M. 20/05 14.30
2 Structural characterizations: IR spectroscopy Fiorilli, S. 24/05 14.30
3 Morphological characterizations: TEM and SEM microscopies (including EDX) Chiodoni, A. 27/05 14.30

3 Top-down nano-structuration processes: nanolithography (optical, X rays, electronic, ionic, AFM, nanoimprinting); thin film growth; etching. Giorgis, F. 29/05 14.30

2 Bottom-up nano-structuration processes: self assembling and Langmuir-Blodgett films. Onida, B. 31/05 14.30

Applications

2 Nanotechnologies for groundwater remediation Sethi, R. 03/06 14.30
2 Photonic nanostructures: photonic crystals Giorgis, F. 04/06 14.30
2 Health effects of engineered nanomaterials Fenoglio, I. 07/06 14.30
2 Mechanical properties of nanocomposites Palmero, P. 10/06 14.30
2 Nanomagnets Allia, P. 12/06 14.30
2 Drug delivery from nanostructures Onida, B. 13/06 14.30
2 Sensors for bio-diagnostics (cellular, genomic, proteomic): chemical and biochemical surface functionalization. Rivolo, P. 17/06 14.30