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Master SERP+ Programme - cohort 2020-2025
Inorganic Functional Materials (3 ECTS)
All courses during this semester
All courses during this semester
- Transferable skills: Polish course, Summer School in Entrepreneurship (6 ECTS)
- The molecules of life: from structure to chemical function (3 ECTS)
- Selected in silico and in vitro methods in thermodynamics and soft matter (6 ECTS)
- Organic chemistry (3 ECTS)
- Introduction to solid state (6 ECTS)
- Dynamics of photochemical reactions in chemistry, biology and medicine (6 ECTS)
- Transferable skills: Portuguese course, Summer School in Entrepreneurship (6 ECTS)
- Solid State Physics (6 ECTS)
- Molecular Energetics (3 ECTS)
- Laboratory of Materials and Surface Analysis (6 ECTS)
- Interfacial Electrochemistry (3 ECTS)
- Interfaces, Colloids and Self-Assembly (6 ECTS)
- Transferable skills: Summer School in Entrepreneurship (3 ECTS)
- Organic Photochemistry (3 ECTS)
- Italian Courses (3 ECTS)
- Introduction to Solid State (6 ECTS)
- Inorganic Functional Materials (3 ECTS)
- Electrochemical systems for energy conversion and storage (6 ECTS)
- Chemistry and Technology of Catalysis and Laboratory (6 ECTS)
All courses during this semester
- Nanosciences (6 ECTS)
- Nanoparticles and Advanced radiation therapies (6 ECTS)
- Fundamentals in data science and machine learning (3 ECTS)
- Femtochemistry (3 ECTS)
- Chemistry for renewable energy: from advanced research to industrial applications (6 ECTS)
- Transferable skills: Scientific writing, Polish courses (6 ECTS)
- Lanthanide luminescence: Application in chemistry and biology (6 ECTS)
- Introduction to Data Sciences (3 ECTS)
- Environmental photochemistry (3 ECTS)
- Computational and quantum photochemistry (6 ECTS)
- Applied photochemistry and luminescence spectroscopy (6 ECTS)
- Scientific Writing and Career Objectives (3 ECTS)
- Portuguese course (3 ECTS)
- Nanotechnologies, Micro and Nano-fabrication (6 ECTS)
- Materials Properties and Applications (6 ECTS)
- Electrochemical Technology (6 ECTS)
- Data Science Basics (3 ECTS)
- Bionanotechnology (3 ECTS)
- Transferable skills: Scientific Writing Industrial Seminars (3 ECTS)
- Surface Science and Nanostructuring at Surfaces (6 ECTS)
- Polymers for electronics and energy harvesting (6 ECTS)
- Laboratory on device building (3 ECTS)
- Italian Courses (3 ECTS)
- Data Science and Applications to Chemistry (3 ECTS)
- Composite materials for biomedical applications (6 ECTS)
Content
Introduction to the lecture (2h): Course objectives. Definition of functional materials and its relations to smart materials. Trasducers, sensors and actuators. Use of sensors in high technological devices (e.g. smartphones). MEMS.
Solid state synthesis (6 h):. Solid state reactions: ceramic method, spinel structure and synthesis. Co-precipitation methods. Precursors methods. Mechano-chemical Synthesis. Sintering. Microwaves synthesis Related examples.
Sol-gel method (6h): Sol-gel process: definition, steps and reactions. Process parameters starting from silicon alcoxides: pH, alcoxid/aqua ratio, solvent. Gelation (models) and aging. Aerogel. Sol-gel process starting from inorganic precursors or non silicon alcoxides: process parameters.
Thin-film deposition techniques (6 h): Introduction and process steps. Classification of thin-film deposition technology. Physical vapor deposition and chemical vapor deposition. Examples of use in different fields. Evaporation step. Knudsen number. Step coverage. Deposition steps. Epitaxy. Fractional mismatch. Substrates for epitaxy. Heteroepitaxy of semiconductors. Epitaxy techniques (LPE, VPE, MBE, MOCVD). Energy beams: electron beams, cathodic and anodic arc, pulsed beams, ion-beam sputtering. Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and comparison with physical vapor deposition PVD. Gas transport, reactors and typical overall reactions used in CVD. Precursors. Case exemplary study: Deposition of SiO2.
Single crystals growing in funzional materials (2h): P-n junction. Diode Examples of application of p-n juctions. Semiconductor materials list. Methods for single crystal production of semiconductors: Czochralski process, Float-zone growing, Bridgman technique. Wafer production of Si -p and –n doped.
Two examples of functional materials (2h):
Themoelectric materials (1h): Seebeck and Peltier effects. . Figure of merit zT. Thermoelectric modules. Phonon-glass electron crystal (PGEC). Applications.
Piezoelectrics (1h): Piezoelectricity and crystal symmetry. Lead zirconate titanate (PZT) and other perovskitic materials. Their applications.
Aims
Introduction to the various processes for the preparation and modification of inorganic materials. Properties of the synthesized materials and applications.
Pre-requiste
Fundamentals of chemistry and physics.
Recommended Books
- Synthesis of Inorganic Materials, U.Schubert, N.Hüsing, Wiley-VCH, 2012
- Basic Solid State Chemistry, A.R.West, Wiley-VCH, 1984
- Solid State Chemistry, Anthony R. West, J. Wiley and Sons 1990
Teaching Staff
Paola Riani
Mauro Giovannini
Hours
24 hours lectures
Grading System
Student evaluation will be carried out in a traditional way, by means of a written final exam.
The written exam will consist in six questions and the student should answer to four of them.
In the case the student is willing to improve his/her mark, he/she could take a further oral examination.
