Advanced microscopic techniques and nanotechnology

The course is meant to be an introduction for students to all the different and biotechnologically relevant techniques that requires a particular knowledge of their physical, computational and technological basis.

The course is then designed so that, starting from the introduction of some scientifically and technological fundamental concepts, it shows the working principle and the aim of different and relevant technologies.

The topics included in the course can be divided in three main parts.

In this class the student: (i) learns about the physical quantities of importance in the field of Biotechnologies, with a specific emphasis on thermodynamic quantities, and about their units of measurements; (ii) learns to use such quantities in quantitative problems; (iii) learns about the physical and technological foundations of optical microscopy and fluorescence.