- Docente: Fabrizia Grepioni
- Credits: 6
- SSD: CHIM/03
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Fabrizia Grepioni (Modulo 1) Simona Fermani (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Chemistry (cod. 9072)
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from Feb 26, 2025 to Apr 28, 2025
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from Apr 02, 2025 to May 28, 2025
Learning outcomes
Broad knowledge of morphological and structural characteristics of: (1) inorganic/macromolecular materials and nanomaterials produced by biological systems; (2) synthetic biomimetic materials for relevant technological applications. Basic knowledge of modern methods for the study of protein crystals via X-ray diffraction.
Course contents
Prerequisites: The student who accesses this teaching must be in possession of a good preparation in the fundamentals of inorganic chemistry and of the solid state.
Program of the I teaching unit:
Intermolecular interactions in crystalline solids. X-ray diffraction, polymorphism, crystallization techniques. Reactivity in the solid state: mechanochemistry, photodimerizations, photo- and thermochromic behaviours. Pigments. Mechanical properties of molecular solids.
Program of the II teaching unit
All the experimental steps and the problems for the resolution of the three-dimensional structure of a biological macromolecule will be treated in detail. Furthermore, the following crystallization methods will be illustrated theoretically and in the laboratory: vapor diffusion with drop drop and with drop, dialysis and batch drop.
Readings/Bibliography
Lecture notes, slides.
Reference texts:
Mann S. Biomimetic materials chemistry.Weinheim: Wiley-VCH; 1997
- Kendall JB, editor. Biomaterials Research Advances. New York, NY:Nova Science
Publishers; 2010:93–143.
- Dee KC, Puleo DA, Bizios R. An Introduction to Tissue-Biomaterial Interactions. Hoboken: Wiley-Liss; 2003.
- J.D. Guthrie and B.T. Mossman Health Effects of Mineral Dusts, edited by J.D. Guthrie and B.T. Mossman (Rev. Miner. 28, Chelsea, MI, 1993),
- Bergfors, T., Editor. Protein Crystallization: Second Edition. 2009. International
University Line, La Jolla, California.
- McPherson, A. Preparation and analysis of protein crystals, Krieger.
- Ducan E. Mc Ree, Practical Protein Crystallography, Second Edition.
Teaching methods
Lectures and lab units.
Assessment methods
Oral examinations (30-45 minutes)
Teaching tools
Overhead projector, PC, powerpoint, samples of biogenic and biomimetic materials.
Office hours
See the website of Fabrizia Grepioni
See the website of Simona Fermani
SDGs


This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.