As the fundaments of molecular electronics and electrochemistry of molecules and interfaces advances, the graduate students must be aware and updated regarding the new developments and applications of those fundaments. This topic enjoys the unique combination of being able to deal with and provide answers to fundamental questions of physics and chemistry both, which will be relevant for applications in the not-too-distant future. In fact, some of the experimental possibilities in this field have been developed with an eye to reducing the sizes of electronic components and consequently miniaturization of devices at atomic and molecular scale. This discipline is proposed with the unique interest to make particular important issues clear to graduate chemistry, biologists, engineers and technologists in general.
This discipline hopes to introduce basic questions about how the quantum roles operates and go over into the classical macroscopic regime and how it have been and are been answered nowadays. It is indeed expected that he whole regime between man-made structures and interfaces and naturally occurring molecules, with their modifications, will be approached and understood deeper soon as the nanotechnology advances quickly and students will take benefits of the introduced concepts for elaboration of their master and thesis projects in such modern context.
- Professor: Paulo Roberto Bueno