Nanomaterials and Nanotechnologies

Learning Outcomes

This program focus on understanding the size dependent properties of materials, devices and nano-systems. It intends to improve the students' competence from nano-science basics to the industrial applications.This includes novel concepts e.g. manipulation of atoms and molecules to form novel products and nano-devices, the synthesis to construct nanostructured materials with novel properties or other larger objects with nanometer precision, as well as nano-engineering and assembly of nano-objects to build future nano-machines, sensors, mechanical or medical devices.

Notions of chemical modification of nanomaterials aiming at their selective immobilization on devices, or tooptimize their interaction with other materials. It also introduces basic notions of nanocomposite production that may be industrially scalable.

This program will give the students the opportunity to participate in the development in one of the fastest growing and most expanding areas of future science and technology.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

The lectures will cover basic fabrication technologies and applications of micro- and nanotechnologies following

the topics: Introduction to Nanotechnology. Physics of nanofabrications. Nanotechnology and photonics. Nanobio motors. CNCs. Chemistry of Carbon nano-materials. Applications of Nanotubes and fullerenes.

Nanoelectronics. Nanosensors. Nanoactuators / Nanomanipulators.Fabrication of nanomaterials. Fabrication techniques – mechanical. Nano-characterization techniques. Scanning probe methods.

The research activity developed in the area of nanomaterials focus their chemical functionalization, the synthesis of nanoparticles, the preparation of polymer nanocomposite; the study of physical phenomena associated with nano-scale that are determining factors of the behavior of these materials.The nanomaterials in focus include nanoclays, carbon-based nanoparticles such as CNCs and nanofibers, fullerenes, graphenes, as well as their chemical functionalization.

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria Teresa Freire Vieira

Bibliography

Bharat Bhushan, Handbook of Nanotechnology, Springer 2007.

M. Madou, Fundamentals of Microfabrication – The science of miniaturization, CRC Press, 2002

C. P. Poole, F.J. Owens, Introduction to Nanotechnology, Wiley, 2003.

M. Kohler, W. Fritzsche, Nanotechnology, Wiley, 2004.