MasterNanosciences, nanotechnologies

Goal: To introduce the basic concepts to address the equilibrium and evolution properties of nano-scale systems.

Content: The course will start from a thermodynamic view of matter, justified by microscopic models. It will explore the rich physics and physical-chemistry that governs the formation of complex nanostructured materials, from solutions and binary systems to polymers and other self-organized soft matter systems.

 -  Equilibrium and non-equilibrium effects in materials and nanomaterials
-  Thermodynamics and phase diagrams of homogeneous,  heterogeneous systems, and interfaces
-  Dynamics of phase transitions: nucleation and growth, spinodal decomposition
-  Basics of polymer physics: the ideal chain, the entropic elasticity, excluded-volume effects in the mean-field approximation