EspLORE @ NanoLab Talk

Posted on December 14, 2021January 5, 2022 by Carlo Casari

Talk entitled: “Organic Thin-Film Transistors: from organic semiconductors to 2D materials” given by Dr. Stefano Casalini from Università degli Studi di Padova When: Tuesday 14th December 2021 at 11.30 (CET) Where: In teleconference and in presence (the link is on the abstract) NanoLab Talks are organized at the Micro- and Nanostructured Materials Laboratory (NanoLab) at the Department of Energy of Politecnico di Milano (www.nanolab.polimi.it). The EspLORE@NanoLab Talks cover t...

EspLORE at NINE – Nanoscience Innovation and Nanotechnology Engineering

Posted on December 13, 2021January 5, 2022 by Carlo Casari

Talk: Materiali lineari a base di carbonio e materiali 2D: i progetti attivi nel gruppo di ricerca del NanoLab (in Italian) 13 December 2021 at Politecnico di Milano The talk follows the invitation by NINE – Nanoscience Innovation and Nanotechnology Engineering the students association on Nanotechnology at Politecnico di Milano to speka about current research at NanoLab. The talk was jointly given by Andrea Li Bassi focusing on 2D Materials and by Carlo Casari focusing on materials base...

Winners of the XIII edition of PoliHub Switch2Product Innovation Challenge

Posted on December 1, 2021January 7, 2022 by Carlo Casari

With the project ENIGMA we won the innovation challenge Switch2Product (S2P) by PoliHub (XIII edition) with a prize of € 30.000. The team ENIGMA is composed by Sonia Peggiani, Alessandro Vidale, Anna Facibeni and Carlo Casari members of the EspLORE team. The project is the outcome of the EspLORE activity and of the ERC Proof-of-Concept project PROTECHT (PoC-PROTECHT - Grant N°875268) funded to explore possible markets for scientific results of teh EspLORE project. Look at the news on the ...

EspLORE @ NanoLab Talk

Posted on November 23, 2021January 5, 2022 by Carlo Casari

Talk entitled: “Nonlinear optics in atomically thin materials” given by Prof. Giancarlo Soavi from the Institute of Solid State Physics, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena (Germany) When: Tuesday 23rd November 2021 at 11.00 (CET) Where: In teleconference and in presence (the link is on the abstract) NanoLab Talks are organized at the Micro- and Nanostructured Materials Laboratory (NanoLab) at the Department of Energy of Politecnico di Milano (www.nanolab.polimi.it). The EspLORE...

Welcome Simone as a new PhD student @ EspLORE

Posted on November 2, 2021November 10, 2021 by Carlo Casari

We welcome on board Simone Melesi as a new PhD student working on EspLORE project. Simone Melesi was born in 1996 in Lecco, Italy. He is a PhD student in Energy and Nuclear Science and Technology since November 2021. He obtained his Master’s degree in Materials Engineering and Nanotechnology at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) in June 2020 with a thesis project on new polymer-protein functionalized electrospun membranes suitable for sensing of common bio-targets of great interest for biomedi...

EspLORE @ NanoLab Talk

Posted on October 26, 2021January 5, 2022 by Carlo Casari

Talk entitled: “Ti3C2Tx MXene-Epoxy composite for Joule Heating Application” given by Dr. Subrata Ghosh from the School of Materials, The University of Manchester and Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milan When: Tuesday 26th October 2021 at 10.00 (CET) Where: In teleconference and in presence (the link is on the abstract) NanoLab Talks are organized at the Micro- and Nanostructured Materials Laboratory (NanoLab) at the Department of Energy of Politecnico di Milano (www.nanolab...

New results! paper published on Carbon Trends

Posted on October 25, 2021January 5, 2022 by Carlo Casari

New paper published reporting results of the EspLORE project. A series of push-pull caron atomic wires has been investigated to unveil their non linear optical proeprties. Thsi work is a collaboration between the EspLORE team of Politecnico di Milano and the group of S. Szafert at University of Wroclaw (Poland). Vibrational and nonlinear optical properties of amine-capped push-pull polyynes by infrared and Raman spectroscopy Pietro Marabotti, Alberto Milani, Andrea Lucotti, Luigi Brambilla, Ma...

EspLORE @ Molecular Simulation and Engineering workshop in Milan

Posted on September 24, 2021November 7, 2021 by Carlo Casari

The fourth edition of the Molecular Simulation and Engineering workshop has been held at Politecnico di Milano on Friday, 24 September 2021. Patrick Serafini presnted a poster showing some results of the EspLORE project. Title: Topology-dependent properties of hybrid sp-sp2 2D carbon materials beyond graphene Authors: P. Serafini, A. Milani, M. Tommasini, D.M. Proserpio, C.S. Casari https://sites.google.com/site/molsimeng/home/molsimeng-20-21

EspLORE @ SIF2021

Posted on September 13, 2021January 5, 2022 by Carlo Casari

The 107° National Congress of the Italian Physical Society (SIF) has been held in telematic mode in the period 13-17 Spetember 2021. The EspLORE team participated with two oral contributions: Talk: 2D carbon networks beyond graphene: Graphdiyne nanostructures from theory to experiments. Speaker: Carlo Casari Authors: Casari C.S., Rabia A., Tumino F., Milani A., Serafini P., Russo V., Li Bassi A., Achilli S., Fratesi G., Proserpio D.M., Xu W. Talk: Pulsed laser deposition and nanoscale invest...

Welcome Subrata as a new PostDoc @ EspLORE

Posted on September 1, 2021November 10, 2021 by Carlo Casari

We welcome on board Subrata Ghosh as a new Postdoc working on EspLORE project. Subrata grew up in Kolaghat, India. He received his Ph.D. in 2016 from Homi Bhaba National Institute, India for the thesis on “Vertical Graphene Nanosheets: Growth, Structure and Electrochemical Performance”. He has postdoctoral experiences from the University of Manchester, UK (02/2019-02/2021); Chungbuk National University, South Korea (11/2017-12/2018) and Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, India (12/2016...