Nanostructured 0-3D Materials

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

The theoretical content of the course will be presented through lectures illustrated with case studies and, where possible and advisable using multimedia tools. Students will be encouraged to actively participate in the discussion and analysis of the topics, creating specific moments of discussion at the end of each lesson and each presentation by guest speakers. Students are also encouraged to apply and include the skills acquired throughout the lectures to their case studies, related to the PhD work of each.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course the student will have acquired knowledge, skills and powers to:

1. To understand the mechanisms that control self-assembling during growth of bulk (3D) nanostructures (e.g. metals and alloys with ultrafine-grained structure, nanoceramics), 2D nanostructured materials (including thin films, lithographic products, etc.) to the quantum dots;

2. To know the state of the art of nanofabrication techniques and to identify the nanofabrication / nanomanipulation strategies for inorganic, biomolecules and macromolecular materials;

3. To know how to better design 3D and 2D nanostructures using chemical and physical deposition methods, lithography and in-situ electron or ion beam techniques, among others.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Examples of topics are here presented:

-Building 2D and 3D networks from OD (nanoparticles) and 1D nanostructures (nanotubes, nanowires).

-Crystalline 2D and 3D networks with unusual optical properties and of quantum dots.- Novel 2D catalysts.

-Self-organising scaffolds for tissue engineering and biomimetic materials.

-Using FIB in nanofabrication.

-Selective grafting of organic molecules through surface nanostructuring for the fabrication of biosensors and molecular electronics devices.

-Why mechanical, electronic or porosity properties of 2D and 3D nanostructures are so different from those of the isolated 1D blocks?

-Multi-nano-layered coatings for tribological applications.

-Nanotechnology in glass materials.- Nanostructuring of Li-ion batteries.- Nanoelectronics: fundamental concepts

-2D nanostructures of functional electroceramics: fabrication and applications- MEMs and NEMs: the role of nanotechnology

Assessment Methods

Assessment continuous
Mini Tests: 20.0%
Oral presentation and discussion by each student of their own case study of 2D 3D Nanostructured Materials, directly related to their topic of PhD: 80.0%

Bibliography

Text Books (among others)

1. Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Edited by Hari Singh Nalwa, AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHERS, 2004

2. Nanoelectronics and Information Technology: Advanced Electronic Materials and Novel Devices, Edited by Rainer Waser, Wiley VCH, 2005

3. Graphene: Carbon in Two Dimensions, Authored by Mikhail I. Katsnelson, Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Papers in specialized journals (Nano Letters, Nano Today, Nano Trends, Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology,

Biology, and Medicine, Nanostructured Materials, Nano-Surface Chemistry, Nanotechnology, Nature

Nanotechnology, Online Journal of Nanotechnology, etc).

Seminars notes