PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY OF NANOTECHNOLOGIES

Academic Year 2018/2019 - 1° Year
Teaching Staff: Giovanni MARLETTA
Credit Value: 7
Scientific field: CHIM/02 - Physical chemistry
Taught classes: 35 hours
Exercise: 24 hours
Term / Semester:

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.


Course Structure

Class lectures.

Numerical exercises.

Laboratory sessions.


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.