Spring School on Nanotechnologies for a sustainable society

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Nanotechnology is a breakthrough approach that radically changed science and our life. Its introduction in many application fields opened the possibility of leveraging fundamental mechanisms at the nanoscale to control all the basic properties (structural, chemical, electronic, and optical) of a microsystem. Nowadays, this enables the development of innovative devices with enhanced capabilities, improved performance, and lower power consumption. Recent studies predict a massive Internet-of-Things (IoT) technology deployment to monitor the environment, buildings, transport, people, etc. However, this large-scale development poses huge challenges for a sustainable energy-efficient infrastructure. With such needs, device fabrication, recyclability, life-cycle assessment and energy consumption are key factors, potentially leading to ecological challenges.

Topics

Some of the topics covered by the school are:

• What is nanotechnology

• Synthesis and deposition techniques, such are chemical and physical vapour deposition

• Optical, electron and atomic force microscopies

• Optical spectroscopies, such are X-Ray Diffraction and Raman

• Applications: Chemical gas sensors, Solid oxide fuel cells, others.

Registration

PhD students and young researchers are welcome to attend this school, which is completely free of charge. Limited number of attendees are invited in presence, but online participation is always possible.

Please fill the Google Module at this link to enroll, specifying preferred online participation or in presence.

Lecturers

Prof. Elisabetta Comini – University of Brescia (Italy)

Prof. Davide Barreca – CNR-ICMATE (Italy)

Prof. Chiara Maccato – University of Padova (Italy)

Prof. Gilbert Nessim – Bar Ilan University (Israel)

Prof. Donatella Puglisi – Linköping University (Sweden)

Dr. Dario Zappa – University of Brescia (Italy)

Full Program

Please see the full program here.

Brochure

Please have a look at the brochure.