To.Sc.al’And: Total Scattering for Nanotechnology in Al’Andalus
20 April, 2020 to 22 April, 2020
Contact person: Jorge Andrés Rodriguez Navarro
Venue: Salón de Grados (Facultad de Ciencias de la Universidad de Granada)
Simposio / Ciencia de Materiales
Web: http://congresos.ugr.es/toscaland
Nanoscience (the study of materials at the nanometer scale) and Nanotechnology (the manipulation of matter at the atomic, molecular and supramolecular scale, aiming at fabricating novel products) have the tangible opportunity of promoting new economical progresses and societal advances. The range of applications is measureless, encompassing fields as diverse as Chemistry, Materials and Environmental Science, Physics, BioMedicine, AgroFood and Pharma. Control over formation mechanisms and functionalities of engineered nanomaterials (organic, inorganic and hybrid) calls for the comprehension of properties distribution such as atomistic arrangement, crystal structure and defects, surface relaxation, size and shape, phase composition and supramolecular organization. Characterizing these complex systems at different length scales is crucial but still a challenging task.
To.sc.al’And: Total Scattering for Nanotechnology in Al Andalus is the first Spanish edition of a series of Summer Schools that are organized within the initiatives of the Lake Como School of Advanced Studies and are fully dedicated to fore-front characterization methods, based on scattering techniques (from X-rays to visible light), developed for the multiple (atomic and nanometer) scale investigation of engineered nanomaterials. As for the previous edition (http://tsnl2019.lakecomoschool.org), this School intends to offer an extended overview on theory, experiments at synchrotron and Lab scale, and modeling of Wide Angle X-ray Total Scattering Techniques (WAXTS), embracing reciprocal (DSE) and real (PDF) space analysis and Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS). Differences, complementarities and possibilities of combination of the different scattering techniques will be highlighted. The aim of the School is to deepen both theoretical and applied frontier developments in these fields. The Workshop is open to scholars and scientists in any area related to Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and it is especially addressed to PhD students and young postdocs.
The limited number of attendees (30) will facilitate the mixing of the different researchers and exchange of ideas for future collaborations.
Confirmed speakers:
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- Antonella Guagliardi, CNR, Italy
- Norberto Masciocchi, University of Insubria, Italy
- Jan Skov Pedersen, Aarhus University, Denmark
- Federica Bertolotti, University of Insubria, Italy
- José Manuel Delgado López, University of Granada, Spain
- Jorge A. Rodríguez Navarro, University of Granada, Spain
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Organizing Committee:
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- Prof. Jorge Rodriguez Navarro, Universidad de Granada (Spain)
- Prof. José Manuel Delgado López, Universidad de Granada (Spain)
- Dr. Antonella Guagliardi, Institute of Crystallography, CNR (Italy)
- Prof. Norberto Masciocchi, Università dell’Insubria, Como (Italy)
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Supporting Organizations:
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- Unidad de Exelencia en Química, Universidad de Granada, Spain
- To.Sca.Lab, University of Insubria and CNR, Italy
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Attendance: 30 participants.
Conference Fee: None.
Social Program: Conference Dinner at Las Tomasas (https://www.lastomasas.com/) on Tuesday April 21st, 2020 at 21:00 (at own expense ca. 35 €).
Contact Address: Prof. Jorge Rodríguez Navarro, Universidad de Granada, jarn@ugr.es
Deadline for Registration: March 31st, 2020, or earlier, if all spaces fill up!
School Website: http://toscalab.uninsubria.it/news
http://congresos.ugr.es/toscaland
Preliminary Program
Monday, April 20th, 2020
15:00 Registration
15:30 Opening
15:45 The Basics of X-ray Diffraction and Scattering and the Powder Diffraction Method (Masciocchi)
17:00 Fundamentals of Total Scattering Approach to Nanomaterials: The Debye Scattering Equation, WAXTS and Beyond (Guagliardi)
18:15 Software Installation on Attendees’ Laptops
Tuesday, April 21st, 2020
9:00 Fundamentals of Total Scattering Approach to Nano and Defective Materials: The Pair Distribution Function Approach (Bertolotti)
10:15 Fundamentals of Small-Angle X-ray Scattering (Pedersen)
11:30 Coffee Break
12:00 Software Installation on Attendees’ Laptops
13:30 Lunch
15:00 Hands-on Tutorials on Debussy Software by Attendees
18:00 Flash Presentations by Attendees
19:30 End of Session
21:00 Conference Dinner
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2020
9:00 DSE Analysis of Defective and Covalent Systems: Case Studies (Masciocchi)
9.45 DSE Analysis of Functional Nanomaterials: Case Studies (Guagliardi)
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Learning from bone mineralization how to design multifunctional biomaterials (Delgado–López)
11.15 Defective Metal-Organic Frameworks: Structural and Functional Properties (Navarro)
12:00 Applications of SAXS in Material Science, Soft-matter Research and Biophysics (Pedersen)
13:30 Lunch
15:00 Hands-on Tutorials on PDFGUI Software by Attendees
18:00 Round Table and Closing Remarks