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Environmental, Medical and Technological Applications of Minerals and Mineral-Like Materials
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Environmental, Medical and Technological Applications of Minerals and Mineral-Like Materials
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Academic year 2021/2022
- Course ID
- CHI0173
- Teacher
- Linda Pastero (Lecturer)
- Degree course
- Materials Science
- Year
- 2nd year
- Teaching period
- First semester
- Type
- Characterizing
- Credits/Recognition
- 6
- Course disciplinary sector (SSD)
- GEO/06 - mineralogia
- Delivery
- Class Lecture + Lab Practicals
- Language
- English
- Attendance
- Optional
- Type of examination
- Written and oral (optional)
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Sommario del corso
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Course objectives
After attending the course (theoretical lessons and practical activities), the student will know about the technological and environmental applications of minerals, in particular:
- natural sources of raw materials
- minerals for biomedical purposes, environmental remediation, industry
- application of some laboratory techniques (X-ray powder diffraction, SEM imaging, EDS elemental analysis, AFM surface analysis)
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Results of learning outcomes
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
The course aims at providing the student with some basic knowledge about the application of minerals and mineral-like materials to medicine, environmental remediation, and industry.
APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
During the laboratory sessions, synthesis and characterization of some materials-related mineral phases will be carried out and characterized mainly by X-ray diffraction, imaging, elemental, and, eventually, surface analysis.
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Course delivery
Lectures and Laboratory
During the lab lessons, students should bring their notebooks to perform the exercises.
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Learning assessment methods
The written exam consists of five questions about the topics covered during the classes and the laboratory. Students will prepare short lab reports during the laboratory sessions. Lab reports must be delivered to the teacher 5 days before the exam date.
If not in presence, the exams will be conducted orally on the Webex platform with active registration.
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Support activities
The teacher is available by appointment to discuss, repeat, and clarify the concepts explained in class. Moreover, it will be possible to discuss the short presentation eventually prepared before the exam.
The meetings will be scheduled in attendance or on the WebEx platform.
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Program
- Introduction: why studying minerals in Materials science.
- Descriptive mineralogy (to level the language).
- Crystal growth (to level the language).
- Notes on minerals as non-renewable resources: clays, bentonite, lime, kaolin, feldspar, quartz, rock salt, talc, feldspathic, and silicic sands.
- Biominerals and biomimetic materials: Medical applications (osteoinduction and osteoconduction). Pathologic mineralization. Some case studies: fluorosis, rheumatoid arthritis
- Minerals for the environmental remediation: water, air, and soil contamination. Some case studies: Acid Mine Drainage (AMD), carbon capture, arsenic, and heavy metals in water and soil.
- Minerals for industrial applications: agriculture, food industry, pharmaceutics, ceramics, cement, high-tech, hydrogen storage.
- Geopolymers.
- Laboratory: synthesis and characterization of a mineral-like material (zeolite/bioceramic/geopolymer)
Suggested readings and bibliography
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International Tables for Crystallography. Volume H. Powder diffraction. Ed. C.J. Gilmore, J.A.Kaduk, H. Schenck
Articles provided during the course
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Note
Students are reminded of the prohibition of sharing and dissemination in any form of platform-loaded teaching materials and videoconferencing lessons: any action that violates this norm will be denounced by the teachers to the organs of the University and will be pursued according to the law.
In addition, the link to the videoconferencing lessons (WebEx and the like) must be exclusively through the institutional e-mail and using name and surname.- Oggetto:
