9360-0134/01 – Nanomaterials on the basis of natural materials (NNM)
Gurantor department | CNT - Nanotechnology Centre | Credits | 4 |
Subject guarantor | prof. Ing. Gražyna Simha Martynková, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | prof. Ing. Gražyna Simha Martynková, Ph.D. |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Choice-compulsory |
Year | 3 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
Year of introduction | 2010/2011 | Year of cancellation | |
Intended for the faculties | USP | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Students will be familiarized with the natural nanomaterials and their properties and uses.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Individual consultations
Experimental work in labs
Summary
The subject includes natural silicates as starting materials for
preparation of nanomaterials and carbon materials, occurring in nano-
scales or have characteristics of nanostructures.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
E-learning
Other requirements
For this subject other requirements for student are not determined.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Clays and clay minerals. Nanostructures of clay minerals.
2. Water in clay minerals. Hydrophobic and hydrophilic clay. Evaluation forms
of water in clay using laboratory methods.
3. Properties of clay minerals. Charge layer, ion exchange capacity, structural
order of layered structures.
4. Characteristics of 1:1 sheet silicates. Reducing particles.
5. Characteristics of 2:1 sheet silicates. Preparing smectites to nanocomposites.
6. Vermiculite. Structure and crystal-chemistry. Preparing vermiculites to
nanocomposites.
7. Evaluation of nanocomposites containing clay minerals by laboratory methods.
8. Carbon and carbonaceous materials.
9. Graphite structure, polytypes and faults in the structure. Diamond structure. 10. Thin films based on graphite and diamond.
11. Fullerenes.
12. Carbon fibers and carbon nanotubes.
13. Pyrolytic carbon. Activated carbon. Soot.
14. Composites on the carbon basis.
TRAINING TOPICS
1. Mechanical particle grinding techniques. Microscopic evaluation.
2. Preparation and evaluation of monoionic clay minerals using XRD.
3. Preparation and characterization of modified clay minerals using SEM and
XRD.
4. Exfoliation of kaolinite with urea and evaluation using X-ray diffraction.
5. Characterization of composites containing clay nanofiller in polymer using
light optical microscopy.
6. Characteristics of carbonaceous materials using X-ray diffraction.
7. Analysis of carbonaceous materials using SEM.
8. Determination of crystallite size at carbonaceous and clay materials.
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction