PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY OF NANOTECHNOLOGIES

CHIM/02 - 7 CFU - 2° Semester

Teaching Staff

GIOVANNI MARLETTA

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.



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