EspLORE @ NanoLab Talk

Posted on March 16, 2019March 16, 2019 by Carlo Casari

Talk entitled: “Light Scattering and Emission from Hetero-structures” given by Andrea Carlo Ferrari, Cambridge Graphene Centre, University of Cambridge UK When: Thursday 28th of march at 14.00 Where: Politecnico di Milano, Classroom C.I.1 Building 6 - Leonardo Campus Piazza leonardo da Vinci 32 Milan 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 Ta...

New paper published

Posted on February 7, 2019February 7, 2019 by Carlo Casari

A new paper with EspLORE results has been published on Scientific Reports (Nature group). We report the observation of charge transfer modulated by the structure of the carbon wire. The work is a collaboration between the EspLORE team at Politecnico di Milano (Department of Energy and Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Eng., "G. Natta") and the group of Prof. F. Diederich at ETH Zurich (Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences). A. Milani, V. Barbieri, A. Facibeni, V. Russ...

Opportunity for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions @EspLORE

Posted on February 5, 2019April 24, 2019 by Carlo Casari

A new opportunity for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) individual fellowship 2019 is open at the EspLORE project. Politecnico di Milano is launching a pilot Master Class (MSCA EF MASTER CLASS 2019 @ POLIMI) for potential applicants to the MSCA - European Individual Fellowship call 2019. Look for "Development of sp carbon nanostructures and nanomaterials" in the framework of the ERC EspLORE. The aim of the call is to attract and train young and talented researchers to successfully applying...

New PhD student @ EspLORE

Posted on February 1, 2019February 1, 2019 by Carlo Casari

We welcome on board Patrick Serafini as a new PhD student at the EsplORE team working on first principles calculations of sp-carbon nanostructures. He was born in 1994 in Teramo, Italy. He is a PhD student in Energy and Nuclear Science and Technology since 2019. He graduated magna cum laude in Materials Engineering and Nanotechnology in December 2018 with a thesis on Density Functional Theory simulations of two-dimensional sp-sp2 carbon nanostructures. His interests are mainly focused o...

EspLORE @ IIT

Posted on January 20, 2019January 20, 2019 by Carlo Casari

We will be present at the Center for NanoScience and Technology CNST of the Italian Insitute of Technology IIT with a seminar about carbyne and carbon atomic wires. Seminar: “Linear carbon: from the quest of a new allotrope to nanotechnology” Monday 21st January, at 11:30 am in meeting room C at CNST of IIT Speaker: Carlo Casari

Graduations @ EspLORE – Winter 2018

Posted on December 20, 2018December 20, 2018 by Carlo Casari

Congratulations to new graduate students in Master of Science in Materials Engineering and Nanotechnology at Politecnico di Milano working on topics of the EspLORE project. Today 4 students got their Master Degree: Andrea Dalla Via graduated with a thesis entitled: Density Functional Theory simulations of Raman and UV-VIS spectra of carbon atom wires Riccardo Improta graduated with a thesis entitled: Scanning tunneling microscopy and Raman spectroscopy of carbon atom wires synthesized ...

new article on sp-carbon

Posted on December 16, 2018December 16, 2018 by Carlo Casari

We published a new paper discussing by numerical simualtions the capability to investigate sp-carbon structures by x-ray absorption techniques. This work is the results of a collaboration between EspLORE, University of Milan and University of Milan-Bicocca. This article is published on Materials (MDPI) and belongs to the Special Issue Density Functional Theory (DFT) Calculation of Materials Properties. Title: Fingerprints of sp1 Hybridized C in the Near-Edge X-ray Absorption Spectra of Su...

EspLORE on SciTech EUROPA

Posted on December 10, 2018December 10, 2018 by Carlo Casari

EspLORE is highlighted on SciTEch Europa The project has been posted in Materials & Nanotechnology News, look here for more information: https://www.scitecheuropa.eu/carbon-atomic-wires/91258/

Article about EspLORE

Posted on December 7, 2018December 10, 2018 by Carlo Casari

An article presenting the topic and the research activity of EspLORE has been published on SciTech Europa Quarterly issue 29 on 7th December 2018 at page 88-89 Open In PageSuite This edition of SciTech Europa Quarterly covers the latest developments in EU science and technology research and innovation.

Special Issue “Recent Advances in sp-Carbon-Based Materials and Nanostructures”

Posted on November 14, 2018November 15, 2018 by Carlo Casari

The special issue on "Recent Advances in sp-Carbon-Based Materials and Nanostructures" is a now open for submissions deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2019 The aim of this Special Issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417) by MDPI publishing is to present the last achievements obtained in the research on sp-carbon-based materials (polyynes, cumulenes, linear carbon chains, carbon atomic wires) and related systems (hybrid sp–sp2 or sp–sp3 systems). Both experimental (synthes...