Introduction to Nanotechnology and Nanoscience. Optical, electronic and scanning probe-based microscopies. Introduction to vacuum technologies and nanomaterial preparation methods. Structural and chemical characterization techniques for nanomaterials. Optical, electronic and magnetic properties of nanomaterials. Introduction to local functional properties detection methods of nanomaterials.
Lecture notes (written in Italian) will be provided.
Learning Objectives
Provide an appropriate methodology for the investigation of materials at the nanoscale. Acquire the concept of measurements based on multiple probes.
Understand the capabilities and the limits of the different chemical, structural and functional characterization techniques for nanomaterials.
Prerequisites
Courses required: General and Inorganic Chemistry
Courses recommended: Physical Chemistry I, Experimental Physics
Teaching Methods
Number of hours for Lectures (hours): 24
Notal number of hours for laboratory activities: 36
Total number of hours: 60
Type of Assessment
Oral exam.
Course program
Concepts of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. Origins and goals of Nanotech. Classification of nanomaterials. Differences between bulk and nanostructured materials. Classification of nanomaterials and of interesting parameters at the nanoscale. Panoramic of the different characterization tools in terms of used primary and secondary probes (electrons, photons, neutrons, ions...). Instrumental limits and sensibility. Protocols for the analysis of nanomaterials. Morphological characterization tools for nanomaterials; classification of microscopies. Optical microscopy, Confocal Microscopy, Electron microscopies (TEM, SEM). Scanning probe microscopies (STM, AFM, SNOM). Nanomaterial structural analysis: x-ray and electron diffraction techniques. Chemical characterization of nanomaterials. XPS, UPS and AES spectroscopies. EMPA, Ion spectroscopies and X-ray, visible and IR absorption spectroscopies applied to nanomaterials.
Synchtrotron light source use. Analysis of functional properties of nanomaterials; local detection of functional properties and their application in advanced nanomaterial based devices.