Carbon Nanostructures for Energy

2 CFU – Mauro Riccò

The course mainly deals with providing basic knowledge on nanostructured materials consisting solely of carbon such as: Fullerenes, Graphene, Nanotubes, Nanographites and Onions. The study of these materials constitutes a frontier field of modern research and the knowledge, reached today, of these systems suggests that they can form the basis of several future technological applications. Their knowledge should therefore represent an important basis for the formation of the future physicist and chemist that deals with condensed matter but not only .....

Program:

Graphite

• Structure
• Electronic structure
• Transport
• Magnetic properties
• Synthesis
• Defects

Nanographites and intercalated graphites

• Structure
• Preparation
• Electronic and transport properties
• Superconductivity
• Applications

Graphene

• Structure
• Preparation
• Electronic and transport properties
• Quantum electrodynamics and graphene
• Applications

Fullerenes

• Structure
• Electronic structure
• fullerides
• Superconductivity
• Magnetism (TDAE-C60)
• Study with µSR

Nanotubes

• Structure
• Electronic structure
• Transport properties
• Applications