Graduate School of Nanotechnology

The mission of the school is to provide students with knowledge and training in the field of nanotechnology and to provide the necessary background to become 21^st century scientists and technicians.

OBJECTIVES    

The main objective is to teach researchers to plan, build, use and test nanotechnological tools and devices that meet the growing needs of the society in diverse fields of application:

• the development of new experimental techniques to investigate, process, manipulate and visualize nanostructured materials on a nanometric scale,
• the development of spectroscopic techniques to detect isolated molecules on nanostructured substrates,
• the study of the relations between microstructure and the properties of materials and the engineering of nanostructured materials,
• the synthesis of nanostructures,
• the applications of nanotechniques to energy-focused research,
• the multiscale molecular modelling of materials and relevant phenomena through computational simulation techniques,
• human health with particular attention to the study and treatment of tumours and degenerative diseases,
• nanotechnological applications to medical, pharmacological, biomedical and food areas.

   

This is made possible by the availability of top rate facilities and equipments in the University laboratories and in the public and private research bodies partnering with the University, i.e. the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnologies (ICGEB), Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, the Oncological Referral Center in Aviano (CRO), and the Advanced Technology and Nanoscience National Laboratory TASC- INFM- CNR just to cite a few.

INTERDISCIPLINARY    

The approach is inter-disciplinary: physicists, chemists, biologists, engineers, physicians, pharmacologists, odontologists, biotechnologists and agronomists combine and reinforce their specific competences and skills while developing the ability to carry out their research in synergy and in a wider perspective.