PhD position available

Posted on November 10, 2018November 14, 2018 by Carlo Casari

PhD in Programme in Energy and Nuclear Science and Technology (ADDITIONAL CALLS 34th CYCLE) The following admission selection calls for PhD positions with a scholarship, restricted to a specific research topic, are open. PhD starting in February 2019: 1 position, with a Ph.D. research topic scholarship available, research being restricted to the research topic in "Molecular modeling of sp-carbon based nanostructures and nanomaterials" We are looking for motivated and smart students with solid...

EspLORE @ NanoLab Talks

Posted on November 5, 2018 by Carlo Casari

Talk entitled: “Cumulenes and polyynes as carbon atomic wires” given by Rik Tykwinski, University of Alberta, Edmonton Alberta Canada When: Tuesday 13th of november at 11.30 Where: Politecnico di Milano, Building 19 - Cesnef (Leonardo Campus ) via Ponzio 34/3 Milano - Seminar Room I floor 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 c...

new paper accepted on Nanoscale Advances

Posted on October 26, 2018October 30, 2018 by Carlo Casari

Our paper has been accepted for publication on Nanoscale Advances a new journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry Title: "Pulsed Laser Deposition of Single-Layer MoS2 on Au(111): from Nanosized Crystals to Large-Area Films" Authors: F. Tumino, C. S. Casari, M. Passoni, V. Russo and A. Li Bassi All the work has been done at NanoLab of Poltecnico di Milano. We achieved large area deposition of 2D materials by PLD. This can be exploited together with 1D/2D sp-carbon systems as supports or ...

EspLORE @ NanoLab Talk

Posted on October 25, 2018 by Carlo Casari

Talk entitled: “Modelling Oxide Surfaces at the 2D Limit” given by Sergio Tosoni, Dipartimento di Scienza dei Materiali, Università di Milano - Bicocca When: Monday 29th of october at 16.00 Where: Politecnico di Milano, Building 19 - Cesnef (Leonardo Campus ) via Ponzio 34/3 Milano - Seminar Room I floor 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...

EspLORE on Magazine Alumni Polimi

Posted on October 13, 2018October 24, 2018 by Carlo Casari

On the new issue of Magazine Alumni Politecnico - MAP (vol 4 October 2018) pages 12-15 are dedicated to the 18 principal investigators of ERC projects at Polimi including EspLORE. MAP- Magazine Alumni Polimi Vol. 4 October 2018

EspLORE@ANNIC2018 Berlin

Posted on October 10, 2018 by Carlo Casari

We will be present at the Applied Nanotechnology and Nanoscience International Conference – ANNIC 2018 in Berlin, Germany (Session: Nanomaterials) with a talk with results of the project EspLORE: Talk: Synthesis and characterization of polyynes by submerged arc discharge in water Monday 22nd October, starting at 15:20 Speaker: Sonia Peggiani conference website: https://premc.org/conferences/annic-nanotechnology-nanoscience/

EspLORE@NanoLab Talk

Posted on October 9, 2018 by Carlo Casari

Talk entitled: “The solid-liquid interface and nanomicroscopy (solinano) lab: current activities of the new inter-departmental facility” given by Gianlorenzo Bussetti, Dept. of Physics - Politecnico di Milano When: Tuesday 16th of october at 11.30 Where: Politecnico di Milano, Building 19 - Cesnef (Leonardo Campus ) via Ponzio 34/3 Milano - Seminar Room I floor NanoLab Talks are organized at the Micro- and Nanostructured Materials Laboratory (NanoLab) at the Department of Energy of ...

Graduation@EspLORE

Posted on October 3, 2018December 10, 2018 by Carlo Casari

Congratulations to new graduate student in Master of Science in Materials Engineering and Nanotechnology at Politecnico di Milano working on a topic of the EspLORE project. Today, Andrea Senis graduated with a thesis entitled: Synthesis of Carbon Atom Wires through Arc Discharge in Water

EspLORE@Materials.it 2018-Bologna

Posted on October 2, 2018 by Carlo Casari

Thanks to a collaboration with Università degli Studi di Milano, department of Physics topics related to EspLORE will be present at Materials.it 2018 in Bologna Italy 22-26 October 2018. Talk: Fingerprints of sp1-carbon hybridization in the core-level spectra of surface-grown materials Speaker: Guido Fratesi - Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Fisica Conference website: Materials.it 2018

EspLORE@MolSimEng2018 Milan

Posted on September 25, 2018 by Carlo Casari

We will be present at MolSimEng 2018, the third edition of the Molecular Simulation and Engineering workshop, it will take place at the Politecnico di Milano on Wednesday, 26 September 2018. Poster: DFT calculations and molecular design of sp carbon-atom wires: tuning the semiconductor-to-metal transition Presenter: Patrick Serafini Workshop website: MolSimEng