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Master SERP+ Programme - cohort 2020-2025
Bionanotechnology (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
- Transferable skills: Scientific writing, French courses - 5ECTS
- 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
- Bionanotechnology: historical perspective; fundamental concepts; impact in the society.
- Interaction of nanomaterials with biological molecules and cells: most common nanomaterials in bionanotechnology and their properties; key factors for the interaction between nanomaterials and cells; chemical modification of nanomaterials for interaction with biological systems; methods to study the interaction between nanomaterials and biomolecules or cells.
- Bionanotechnology: Biosensors; drug and gene delivery; Nanotheragnostics; Nanotoxicology; Biosurfaces analysis by surface probe microscopy (SPM); Nanomachines; Molecular printing of proteins.
Aims
The main objective of the course is to provide advanced training in the area of bionanotechnology, with a strong focus on the relevance of the interdisciplinary role of chemistry and biology. By the end of the course, the students should be able to recognize the role of bionanotechnology as an interdisciplinary tool and to understand how to use these new tools in to solve problems in biological systems. The course starts with a discussion about the importance of nanotechnology and how nanotechnology may contribute to the development of new technological solutions (theme 1). Then, some relevant properties of nanomaterials are addressed (theme 2), with special focus in applications in bionanotechnology. Bionanotechnology is then used as a scaffold to consolidate and develop the previous topics in specific questions that will be addressed as case studies (theme 3). In this part, the students will develop their critical thinking and analytical skills by applying the previously addressed principles.
Recommended Books
- de la Fuente J. M.; V. Grazu V., Eds. (2012), Nanobiotechnology: Inorganic nanoparticles; Frontiers of Nanoscience, Vol. 4 vs Organic Nanoparticles, Elsevier.
- Jarvis, C., Ed. (2018) Nanobiotechnology: an Introduction; Larssen & Keller.
- Goswami, A.; Choudhury, S. R., Eds (2017) Nanobiotechnology: Basic and Applied Aspects; Union Bridge.
- Niemeyer, C.M.; Mirkin, C.A., Eds. (2004). Nanobiotechnology: Concepts, Applications and Perspectives; Weinheim, Alemanha: Wiley-VCH.
- Mirkin, C.A., Niemeyer, C.M., Eds. (2007). Nanobiotechnology II: More Concepts and Applications; Weinheim, Alemanha: Wiley-VCH.
- Goodsell, D.S. (2012) Bionanotechnology: Lessons from Nature, Hoboken, NJ, USA: Wiley-Liss.
Teaching Staff
Eulália Pereira (responsible)
Hours
21 h (lectures + theoretical-practical classes)
Grading System
An integrated approach is followed, including theoretical classes about the main concepts, case studies relevant to the syllabus, followed by a component of active learning, in group or individually, that allows that the students explore and apply the concepts learned. These components are:
- Oral presentation of scientific articles about selected subjects;
- Debate about the ethical and societal impact of bionanotechnology;
- Writing an abstract for a scientific paper;
- Oral presentation of an innovative project using bionanotechnology.
The evaluation is based in these components, with the following weights: 1) 30%; 2) 20%; 3) 20%; 4) 30%.