ERC Proof of Concept Grant – PROTECHT

Posted on July 29, 2019July 29, 2019 by Carlo Casari

A ERC Proof-of-Concept has been Granted to the project PROTECHT which is aimed at exploiting EspLORE research outputs for possible business opportunities. The European Research Council just awarded top-up funding totalling €9.3 million to 62 ERC grant holders via its Proof of Concept scheme. The grants will help them explore the commercial or societal potential of their ERC-funded discoveries. This latest batch of grants includes the 1000th project to receive Proof of Concept funding since the ...

Special issue on nanostructured Carbon

Posted on July 22, 2019July 22, 2019 by Carlo Casari

The special issue on "Carbon-Based Nanostructured Films" is now open for submissions Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2020 This Special Issue of MDPI Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991) aims at presenting cutting-edge research on the synthesis, investigation and application of nanostructured carbon-based films. Topics cover physical deposition methods (e.g. PVD, PLD) and chemical synthesis (e.g. CVD) for the fabrication of novel carbon-based materials as well as novel approac...

EspLORE @ NanoLab Talks

Posted on July 6, 2019July 6, 2019 by Carlo Casari

Talk entitled: “Extended MoS2 monolayer growth using chemical vapor deposition on flat and patterned substrates” given by Alessio Lamperti, CNR-IMM Italy When: Monday 15th of July at 14.30 Where: Seminar Room 1° floor, Department of Energy, Cesnef (Building 19) Leonardo Campus, via Ponzio 34/3, Milan, Politecnico di Milano 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). ...

EspLORE @ IVC-21

Posted on June 17, 2019June 22, 2019 by Carlo Casari

We will be present at IVC-21 21st International Vacuum Congress in Malmö, Sweden in July 1-5, 2019 with results of the project EspLORE: Invited Talk Presenter: Carlo S. Casari Title:Charge transfer effects in sp-carbon atomic wires Invited Talk Presenter: Francesco Tumino Title: Pulsed laser deposition and nanoscale investigation of two-dimensional nanocrystals on metal substrates Talk Presenter: Andi Rabia Title: One-dimensional sp1-sp2 hybrid carbon systems on Au(111): atomic-scale...

EspLORE @ NanoLab talk

Posted on June 10, 2019June 10, 2019 by Carlo Casari

Talk entitled: “Earth-abundant Metal-metalloid Materials as Efficient Oxygen-Evolving Electrocatalyst” given by Jean Marie Vianney Nsanzimana, School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University NTU, Singapore When: Wednesday 12th of June at 11.30 Where: Seminar Room 1° floor, Department of Energy, Cesnef (Building 19) Leonardo Campus, via Ponzio 34/3, Milan, Politecnico di Milano NanoLab Talks are organized at the Micro- and Nanostructured Materials Laboratory (N...

Young Scholar Award DCM 2019

Posted on May 30, 2019 by Carlo Casari

Sonia Peggiani has been selected as one of the six finalists of the Young Scholar Award DCM 2019. The abstract has been submitted to the International Conference on Diamond and Carbon Materials 2019 (DCM 2019), to be held in Seville, Spain, September 8-12, 2019. https://www.elsevier.com/events/conferences/international-conference-on-diamond-and-carbon-materials/about/young-scholar-award-dcm2019

EspLORE @ HPLC2019

Posted on May 27, 2019April 29, 2019 by Carlo Casari

We will be present at HPLC2019 - 48TH International Symposium on High-Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques with results of the project EspLORE: Talk Presenter: Sonia Peggiani Title: Challenges on the concentration and extraction of size-selected polyynes synthesized in water Poster Presenter: Anna Facibeni Title: Optimization of sample preparation for sp-carbon linear chains SPE-based concentration The conference will be held from 16-20 June 2019 in Milan, Italy. It is ...

Simulation of molecular systems, Lecco 10-14 June 2019

Posted on May 15, 2019April 24, 2019 by Carlo Casari

SIMULATION OF MOLECULAR SYSTEMS FOR CHEMISTRY, MATERIALS AND BIOLOGY Residential course for PhD students organized by PhD programme in Materials Engineerng with the collaboration of PhD programmes in Energy and Nuclear Science and Technology will be at the Polimi campus in Lecco in the period 10-14 june 2019. Molecular simulation is a family of powerful computational methods which are widely used in materials science and engineering, biophysics, chemistry, chemical engineering, drug design an...

PhD at POLIMI: opening of admission call

Posted on April 19, 2019April 19, 2019 by Carlo Casari

PhD at POLIMI. The online admission for PhD is now open, go to the PhD school page of polimi website for details. Look at the PhD programme in Energy and Nuclear Science and Technology (STEN). Deadline for admissions: 21 May 2019 (2pm) [italian time]. Admitted candidates will start on 1st November 2019. The EspLORE project is looking for motivated and smart students with solid background in Materials Science and Engineering, Physics, Chemistry and Nanotechnology to join the EspLORE Team and act...

Graduations @ EspLORE – Spring 2019

Posted on April 16, 2019April 14, 2019 by Carlo Casari

Congratulations to new graduate student in Master of Science in Materials Engineering and Nanotechnology at Politecnico di Milano! Today a student working on EspLORE topics got his Master Degree: Mohamed Tarek Said Zoelfakar Soliman graduated with a thesis entitled: Electrical Transport Properties Investigation of Sp-Carbon Linear Atomic Chains-based Molecular Crystals Supervisor: C.S. Casari Co-Supervisors: M. Caironi, A. Scaccabarozzi, S. Peggiani