Courses Content

Material Surfaces @ the BioInterfaces

• Surface (planar and nanoparticles) composition, modification, reactivity (adsorption & functionalization)
• Characerization techniques
• Applications in biosensing, preventing biofouling, and medicine
• Plymer coating of nanoparticules, stimuli-responsive polymers, self-assembly, drug delivery & biosensing
• Biomolecules structure
• Chemical modification of biomolecules
• Coupling, reactions etc.

Nano-optics and advanced optical techniques for chemistry & biointerfaces

• Optics and electromagnetism of surfaces and interfaces. Plasmonics and applications to biodetection.
• Spectroscopy for chemistry and bio-systems. Microscopy and applications to biology
• Some advanced optical instruments

Biomimetics & Biotecnologies

• Biological materials : introduction, charectization techniques
• Most abudant load-bearing protein: collagen. Physical processing of silks.
• Bioelestomers. Sclerotized proteins and structures. Natural adhesives. Biomimetic synthesis.
• Cages/Nanomedicine, Biophysics