Winners of Startcup Lombardia!

Posted on October 28, 2022October 31, 2022 by Carlo Casari

Winners of the Startcup Lombardia 2022 with the team ENIGMA composed by Sonia Peggiani, Alessandro Vidale, Anna Facibeni and Carlo Casari. ENIGMA is an outcome of the PoC project PROTECHT in the framework of the ERC Consolidator Grant EspLORE. Startcup Lombardia is the Competition organized by the Lombard Universities and University Incubators, promoted by the Lombardy Region, which favors the birth of new high-potential companies, born, hosted or linked by collaborative relationships with Lom...

New paper on Nature Communications

Posted on September 3, 2022October 31, 2022 by Carlo Casari

New paper published reporting results of the EspLORE project. Carbon atomic wires properties have been unveiled by Synchrotron- based UV resonance Raman in a collaboration between Dept. of Energy and Dept. of Chemistry, Materials and Chem Eng. of Politecnico di Milano and IUVS beamline of ELETTRA Synchrotron in Trieste. Electron-phonon coupling and vibrational properties of size-selected linear carbon chains by resonance Raman scattering P. Marabotti, M. Tommasini, C. Castiglioni, P. Serafini...

New Results! Paper published on Carbon

Posted on January 5, 2022January 5, 2022 by Carlo Casari

New paper published reporting results of the EspLORE project. The formation of carbon atomic wires in liquid has been investigated in situ by Raman spectroscopy (i.e. SERS) during the laser ablation process. In situ surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy to investigate polyyne formation during pulsed laser ablation in liquid P.Marabotti, S.Peggiani, A.Facibeni, P.Serafini, A.Milani, V.Russo, A.Li Bassi, C.S.Casari Carbon 189, 219-229 (2022)

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 ...

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 @ EMRS Spring Meeting

Posted on May 26, 2021 by Carlo Casari

We will be present at the European Materials Research Society EMRS Spring Meeting 2021 from 31 May to 3 June on online platform with contributions showing results of the project EspLORE: Oral: “Laser ablation for in situ synthesis of carbon-atom wires in polymer matrices” Speaker: Sonia Peggiani 02/06/21 from 10.15 to 10.30 Poster: “Control of polyynes length and terminations by nanosecond pulsed laser ablation in different organic solvents” Presenter: Sonia Peggiani on 01/06/21 ...

New Results: how conjugation modifies properties in 2D carbon structures beyond graphene

Posted on May 22, 2021May 22, 2021 by Carlo Casari

We investigated how the properties of graphdiynes (2D carbon crystals) depend on the topology of sp and sp2 carbon connections. By a theoretical work we have outlined the role of the structure of molecular fragments in the final properties of extended sp-sp2 carbon crystals. By means of quantum calculations based on density functinal theory (DFT) we have analyzed how topology induce different conjugation effects and hence different properties such as the HOMO-LUMO gap. By using a parameter to ...

Just Accepted paper: investigating the hydrophilic chararcter of single layer MoS2 grown on metal substrates

Posted on April 25, 2021April 25, 2021 by Carlo Casari

We investigated the interface between Single-Layer MoS2 and the silver surface to unveil ageing effects related. Monolayer MoS2 has been deposued on silver by pulse laser deposition, the effects after exposure to atmosphere, humidity and oxygen have been monitored by Raman spectroscopy and X-ray photoemission spectroscopy. The observed effects are non permanent and storage in vacuum can restore the as deposited conditions. A capping layer made by polimer is able to prevent the aging ef...

New Results: 2D carbon network featuring appealing properties

Posted on December 4, 2020February 1, 2021 by Carlo Casari

We have synthesized a 2D carbon network as a graphdiyne-like structure. The material grown on a gold substrate has been investigate by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy allowing to image at molecular-scale resolution. We were able to observe the Raman spectrum giving combined information on the local bond structure. The system shows appealing properties due to the interaction with the gold substrate. This work is the result of a collaboration between EspLORE, University of Milan and Tonji Unversi...