Nanotechnology Engineering

The course of PROCESSI INDUSTRIALI PER LA PRODUZIONE DI MICRO E NANO PARTICELLE aims to provide students with an in-depth study of the criteria and methodologies that leads to the selection, design and production of industrial equipment useful for the production of solid particles, with controlled characteristics, shape, solid phase and dimensional distributions. The course includes the study of the fundamental aspects of crystallization, chemical precipitation and membrane technologies. After this, several post-treatment processes of the produced primary particles will be discussed, such as hydrothermal processes and sintering. Finally, the fundamentals of the "process intensification" and single equipment for the industrial production of the particles will be presented, in order to combine them in integrated production processes, with a quick reference to process control. At the end of the course the students will have acquired the knowledge of the available technologies and the capacity to choose the most suitable ones for the industrial production of micro- and nanoparticles.