66842 - Nanotechnologies of Multifunctional Materials

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Docente: Cristiano Albonetti
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: CHIM/02
  • Language: Italian
  • Moduli: Cristiano Albonetti (Modulo 1) Francesco Valle (Modulo 2)
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Photochemistry and molecular materials (cod. 8026)

Learning outcomes

The student will acquire knowledge on: Scanning Probe Microscopy; Electron Microscopy; Image Analysis; Non-conventional Micro- and nanofabrication techniques; Thin Film Growth Techniques. The course includes 15 hours of laboratory exercises.

Course contents

1. Introduction to Nanotechnology; 2. Multifunctional Organic Materials; 3. Methods to deposit organic thin-film from solution and in vacuum; 4. Micro- and nano-fabrication techniques (serial and parallel; top-down and bottom-up) with unconventional techniques; 5. Scanning Probe Microscopy: basic elements; 6. Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM); 7. Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM); 8. Quantitative morphological analysis; 9. Laboratory of deposition from solution and in vacuum; 10. Laboratory of non-conventional lithographic techniques; 11. Laboratory of Scanning Probe Microscopy; 12. Exercises of image analysis; 13. Invited lecture on advanced and innovative scientific fields (2 hours).

Readings/Bibliography

Tutorial reviews and feature articles will be supplied, together with selected book chapters. Educational material will be updated online.

Teaching methods

Frontal lectures with open discussion and laboratory exercises supported by researchers and scientific specialists.

Assessment methods

Final oral exam (45-60 min). The final mark is based on three questions: i) description of a scanning probe microscopy technique; ii) how functionalise surfaces with unconventional fabrication techniques (commission will ask to solve a scientific problem by using an "original" approach of surface functionalization); iii) test on image analysis.

Teaching tools

Theoretical/Experimental lectures will be carried out at the Institute for the Study of Nanostructured Material (ISMN) - CNR Bologna (Via Gobetti 101). Projector and blackboard are provided by the institute in a classroom with about 30 seats. In addition, ISMN gives 3 laboratories for experimental exercises.

Office hours

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