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University Official Master's Degree in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Participating institutions

- University of Barcelona

- Rovira i Virgili University

- University of Girona

- Polytechnic University of Catalonia

- Catalan Institute of Chemical Research (ICIQ)

- Materials Science Institute of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC)

- Microelectronics Institute of Barcelona (IMB-CNM-CSIC)

- Bioengineering Institute of Catalonia (IBEC)

Compulsory student mobility: NO

Presentation

The main aim of the Master's Degree is to provide students with solid, interdisciplinary training that will make it possible to respond to the challenges of scientific and technological development. Students will learn about new tools for fabricating, nanohandling and characterizing materials, devices and systems of nanometric size that are necessary for undertaking experimental work. The knowledge acquired can be applied in the fields of biotechnology, biomedicine, pharmacy, and the information and communication technologies, among others.  

Grants: Ten grants of 6000 euros each, will be awarded on the merits of the academic transcripts of the students

Admission requirements

The Master's Degree courses are open to anybody with an official university qualification, even Spanish or foreign (this foreign degree must enable you to be admitted to postgraduate studies in the country where you obtained it).

In addition, universities in charge of the organization of a Master can establish those procedures and requirements considered necessary to be finally admitted to the Master. Therefore, as well as having a previous official degree, you should get informed about additional conditions and selection criteria which may have been addittionally established by each Master. 

Contents

Course taught in: English

Fundamental subjects (each one has a value of 5 ECTS credits and students must do at least four).
These subjects provide students with basic, theoretical and practical training in the conception, design, modelling and operation of nanotechnological products and processes.

- Nanotechnology
- Quantum Physics and Chemistry
- Macro and Supramolecular Chemistry
- Nanoscale Biochemistry
- Nanobiotechnology
- Nanofabrication and Nanoprocessing
- Nanoscale Phenomena
- Surface Science
- Bioavailability and Therapeutic Efficiency

Optional subjects (each one has a value of 2.5 ECTS credits)
Transversal and optional subjects that can be chosen depending on the scientific and/or professional profile of the student.

Materials and Technology Module
- Nanoscale Crystal Engineering properties
- Solid State Physics
- Nanostructured Materials
- Synthesis and Organisation of Nanomaterials: Bottom-up Techniques
- Introduction to Molecular Electronics

Characterization Module
- Clean room training
- Introduction to Characterisation Techniques
- Surface Analysis
- Microscopic Techniques
- Magnetic Techniques: Spectroscopies and Images
- Advanced Tools of Electronic Microscopy
- Proximity and Nanohandling Microscopy

Bionanotechnology Module
- Nanosensors
- Biointerfaces and Colloids
- Bioinformatics

Specialization Module
- Supramolecular Organisation: Molecular Devices
- Nanocatalysis
- Functional Nanomolecules: Dendrimers, clusters, single-molecule magnets
- Bioinorganic Nanosystems
- Modelisation and Simulation
- Engineering Nanomechanics Simulation and Computation
- Nanomagnetism and Spintronics
- Nanophotonics
- Micro and Nano Electromechanic Systems and Nanoelectronics
- Nanoenergy: Nanomaterials and Devices for Sustainable Energies
- Biophysics
- Nanoscale Medical Diagnostic Systems
- Nanoscopic Systems for Controlled Drug Delivery

Master's Final Project (30 ECTS credits)
Practical assignment to carry out a research or innovation project and industrial development, depending on the student's profile.  

Modes

- Research

- Professional (to be activated in 2008-09) 

Official Master's degrees offer specific Modes which will be effectively initiated -or not- depending on the number of students finally admitted.

Pre-registration

The preregistration period (1st phase) will begin on 1st March and end on 30th April.

If all the places available are not taken within this period, a new preregistration period will be opened (2nd phase) between 1st and 30th June.

The preregistration must be carried out on the Internet. The online form will become operative on the first day of the preregistration period. preregistration application.

For academic questions, please get in touch with the coordinator of the Masters. For administrative information, contact the secretariat of the faculty/school that teaches the Master's Degree; if you have been offered a place in the program on the strength of a foreign qualification, the Postgraduate and Doctoral School will inform you of the documents you will need.

Pre-registration on-line

 Academic contact (coordinator)

 Dr. Francesc Xavier Rius Ferrús

 Department of Analytical and Organic Chemistry (Faculty of Chemistry)

 977 559 562 / 669 455 651

 fxavier.rius(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat
 Administrative contact (secretary)

 Secretariat of theFaculty of Chemistry

 977 558 767 

 mariajonquera.vall(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat
 Postgraduate and Doctoral School

 Edifici del Rectorat - Escala C, 1st floor - c/ Escorxador, s/n (Tarragona) 

 Tel: 977 558 478. Fax: 977 558 847 

 mastersoficials(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

 Office hours 

Mornings: Mondays to Fridays from 8.30 to 14.30

Afternoons: Wednesdays and Thursdays from 15.30 to 18.00 

July and August: Mondays to Fridays from 8.00 to 15.00

Further information

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