Our paper: In situ synthesis of polyynes in a polymer matrix by pulsed laser ablation in liquid, by S. Peggiani et al. published on Materials Advances, DOI: 10.1039/D0MA00545B has been selected by the Editors as a 2020 HOT Materials Advances article. Please find the collection, including our publication, here: Materials Advances HOT Article Collection 2020

Field effect transistor (FET) made of cumulene like carbon atomic wires has been fabricated for the first time. Our proof-of-concept FET device works at room temperature, is easily fabricated by solution drop casting and paves the way for exploiting sp-carbon atomic wires as active electronic materials. The work has been published on The Journal of Chemical Physics Letters (ACS) and is the result of a collaboration between the the ERC HEROIC team of Mario Caironi at the Center for Nano Science...

We report the synthesis of carbon wires (polyynes) by submerged arc discharge in pure water. Polyynes with length from 6 to 16 carbon atoms have been detected by liquid chromatography through their UV-vis absorption spectra. By liquid chromatography we were able to separate and collect size-selected polyynes (6,8,10 carbon atoms) and to investigate their vibrational properties by surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). This paper has been accepted for publication on Chemical Physics Le...

  We published a new paper showing scanning tunneling micrsocopy images and Raman spectra of long linear polymeric sp-sp2 carbo wires produced by on-surface synthesis on a gold surface. This work is the result of a collaboration between EspLORE at Politecnico di Milano, University of Milan and Tongji University, Shanghai. This article is published on Nanoscale (RSC - Royal Society of Chemistry). Title: Scanning tunneling microscopy and Raman spectroscopy of polymeric sp - sp2 carbon atomic w...

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 ...