PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY OF NANOTECHNOLOGIES
Academic Year 2017/2018 - 1° YearCredit Value: 7
Scientific field: CHIM/02 - Physical chemistry
Taught classes: 35 hours
Exercise: 12 hours
Laboratories: 12 hours
Term / Semester: 2°
Learning Objectives
- Provide to the students the general coordinates of nanotechnologies;
- Enable the use of nanostrcturing concepts and methodologies;
- Enable the understanding of the information provided by common nanometric characterization techniques;
- Enable the choice of the most suitable nanostructuring technique in view of the desired properties;
- Enable the ability in measuring and using the properties of electrical charge transport in disordered systems, including molecular and macromolecualr systems.
Detailed Course Content
| 1 | Introduction to Nanotechnologies | |
| 2 | Physico-chemical basis of Nanostructures - Viscoelastic response and relaxation times - Stress Moduli, viscosity and relaxation mechanisms at nanometer scale, Maxwell relationship - Nucleation and growth processes in semicrystalline systems - Processes of local order in disordered systems. | |
| 3 | Processes of electrical charge transport at nanometer scale: Processes of dielectric relaxation in molecular and macromolecular materials - Electrical conduction in polymers and disordered systems - Measurements of electrical characteristics in disordered systems - Charge transport in conjugated systems. | |
| 4 | "Top-down" and "bottom-up" techniques for nanostructuring - Methdologies for bidimensional nanostructuring: surfaces and thin films - Methodologies for 3D nanostructuring: opal and inverse opal systems - Aggregation processes of molecular and macromolecular systems. | |
| 5 | Techniques of structural investigation at nanoscale: Photon and Neutron diffraction techniques - Reflectivity of X rays. | |
| 6 | Near filed microscopies: basics and apparatus structure - Operating modes: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, Atomic Force Microscopy, Kelvin Probe and related methodologies; hints on Force Spectroscopy. | |
| 7 | Nanotechnologies and Life Sciences |
Textbook Information
1 : Lecture notes form the teacher and review articles from scientific Journals.
2 : Chapters 2,3,5,7, and 9 from ''Soft Condensed Matter'', Richard A.L.Jones, Oxford University Press, 2011.
3 : Lecture notes from the teacher and Chapters 3,4,5, 7 and 9 from ''Electrical Properties of Polymers'', T.Blythe and D.Bloor, Cambridge University Press, 2008.
4 : Lecture notes form the teacher and review articles from scientific Journals.
5 :Lecture notes form the teacher and review articles from scientific Journals;
6 : Chaps. 2 and 3 from "Dynamic Force Spectroscopy and Molecular Recognition", ed. by A.R.Bizzarri and S.Cannistraro; CRC Press, 2012.
7 : Lecture notes form the teacher and review articles from scientific Journals.