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Academic Programme
Implemented from September 2025
Composite materials for biomedical applications (6 ECTS)
All courses during this semester
- Experimental methods on innovative research infrastructures - 5 ECTS
- Digital Micro-certification "The challenges of sustainable chemistry" - 10h
- Transferable skills : French language & interculturality (3 ECTS)
- Quantum mechanics towars quantum computing (5 ECTS)
- Winter school in Data Science (2 ECTS)
- Organic / Inorganic chemistry towards sustainability (5 ECTS)
- Kinetics and Electrochemistry (5 ECTS)
- Introduction to biophysics and microscopies for life science (5 ECTS)
All courses during this semester
- Luminescence spectroscopy of Lanthanides (3 ECTS)
- Summer School in Entrepreneurship (5 ECTS)
- Transferable skills: Polish course (3 ECTS)
- The molecules of life: from structure to chemical function (5 ECTS)
- Thermodynamics and soft matter (3 ECTS)
- Introduction to solid state (5 ECTS)
- Tech-infused perspectives on photochemical reaction dynamics (6 ECTS)
- Transferable skills: Portuguese course (3 ECTS)
- Summer School in Entrepreneurship (5 ECTS)
- Solid State Physics (5 ECTS)
- Molecular Energetics (3 ECTS)
- Laboratory of Materials and Surface Analysis (5 ECTS)
- Interfacial Electrochemistry (3 ECTS)
- Interfaces, Colloids and Self-Assembly (6 ECTS)
All courses during this semester
- 1-year research project - master thesis (equivalent 45 ECTS)
- Progress assessment of the research project (equivalent 6 ECTS)
- Weekly seminars (equivalent 4 ECTS)
- Special Topics in Chemistry (equivalent 5 ECTS)
- French language courses (3 ECTS)
- Nanosciences (6 ECTS)
- Medical applications of nanomaterials and radiations (6 ECTS)
- Top management, corporate law, and project writing for technology transfer and decision making (4 ECTS)
- Tracking ultrafast radiation-induced reactivity (3 ECTS)
- Applications for renewable energy and storage: solar fuels, batteries and hydrogen (6 ECTS) (6 ECTS)
- Scientific Writing and career objectives (2 ECTS)
- Surface Science and Nanostructuring at Surfaces (6 ECTS)
- Polymers for electronics and energy harvesting (5 ECTS)
- Electrochemical systems for fuel and electrolysis cells and batteries (6 ECTS)
- Project-based laboratory on device building (3 ECTS)
- Italian Courses (3 ECTS)
- Chemistry and Technology of Catalysis (5 ECTS)
Content
Intro to Composite materials. Definition of Composite. Reinforcement and matrix: analysis and definition.
Exemplum of Reinforcement: Carbon Fiber.
Production: Process of creation of the fiber through spinneret, solidification process, termo-mechanical treatments at low, medium, high temperatures. PAN vs PITCH Fibers: analysis of the different structure and functional behavior. Fiber nanostructure: fibrils. Fiber microstructure: shrinking process in creation. Transverse anisotropy. Fiber inner structure. Tow creation.
Fabric: Reinforcement + Matrix scheme vs prepregs: analysis of the different typologies. Symmetric and Balanced Laminates. Technologies: simple vacuum vs autoclave. Non woven: Unidirectional vs fabric. Aligned vs mat fiber materials. Woven: theory of fabric creation- Basic schemes illustrated.
Matrix: polymer matrices, features and scopes of matrices. Fiber-Matrix interactions: basic on wetting theory, interfaces, adhesion.
Failure of composites: analysis of the most common failure modes. External Prosthesis, intro to their need with composite materials. Internal prosthesis: Composite materials to create prosthesis and temporary devices: scaffolds.
Construction in additive manufacturing, surface treatment, functionalization. Membrane scaffolds: electrospinning and combination with additive techniques. Ceramic matrix composites: intro.
Composite Market: intro to industrial analysis and dependence in production on industrial variables. TRL and MRL: how to reach the market creates a robust product. Safety: brief notation on safety on new materials and products.
Aims
Provide to students the capability to manage new material items based upon an engineering point of view focused on the device need and constraints when created with advanced innovative materials. Carbon fiber as well as ceramic based composites and the technologies to produce, treat, stabilize them will be presented and studied in their specific features. Application methodologies with their main advantages and possible problems will be discussed with the students. Regulatory frameworks, specifically devoted to bring a new product on the market and to take care of the strict biomedical need, will be also highlighted by a specific 8 hrs short course. Comparison between European and Usa normative will be illustrated. Continuous comparative analysis between the scientific and industrial viewpoints will be performed in classroom.
Pre-requiste
Basic knowledge in chemistry as well as physics. Polymer structure, Tg, Tm, Burger series/parallel functional scheme for viscoelastic materials, weak attractive (VdW ) forces vs repulsive (Coulombian) forces. Mechanical properties: Linear elasticity, Young Modulus, Stiffness, Hardness.
Recommended Books
Gay, Daniel ; Hoa, Suong V ; Tsai, Stephen W; Boca Raton : CRC Press, c2003
Teaching Staff
Prof. Fabrizio Barberis
Hours
48 hours Lecture
Study hours for the students : 102h
Grading System
Oral final exam