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INTRODUCTORY LABORATORY TECHNIQUES (1 CFU)
Raw materials and materials selection. Eco-Design strategies. Data collection and analysis. Errors theory. Safety Rules for Laboratory Work. How to analyze a sample. Introduction to materials analysis. Electromagnetic radiation interaction with matter. Writing a laboratory report.

Spectroscopy techniques (1 CFU)
1) Spectrophotometry.
Introduction to Spectrophotometry. Schematic representation of a spectrophotometer. Absorbance and Transmittance Measurements.
2) Infrared specroscopy.
Introduction to vibrational spectroscopies. Harmonic oscillator. Basic functional groups vibrations. Selection rules for Infrared active vibrations.
3) X-Ray fluorescence.
Atomic energetic levels. Qualitative and quantitative determination. Fluorescence yield. Laboratory and in-situ instruments. Matrix effect. XRF applications and advantages.
4) Introduction to laboratory experiments and protocols presentation.

Laboratory experiments (1 CFU)
Construction of a microscopy for smartphone. Construction of a portable spectrophotometer. Analysis of Infrared Spectra for materials determination. Making a calibration curve by spectrophotometry. Concentration determination of an unknown by spectrophotometry. Quantitative analysis of activated carbon pollutants adsorption (with kinetics evaluation). Cromatographic separation of pigment and qualitative spectrophotometry analysis.