new PhD student @ EspLORE

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

We welcome on board Pietro Marabotti as a new PhD student at the EsplORE team working on syntheiss and characterization of carbon atomic wires. Pietro Marabotti was born in 1994 in Bergamo, Italy. He is a PhD student in Energy and Nuclear Science and Technology since 2019. He received his Master’s degree in Engineering Physics at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) in April 2019 with a thesis on magnetic dynamics of calcium iridate CaIrO3 probed by resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIX...

EspLORE @ Symposium on Progress in Organic Optoelectronics & Energy Conversion

Posted on November 4, 2019October 31, 2019 by Carlo Casari

Symposium on Progress in Organic Optoelectronics & Energy Conversion We will be present at the Symposium on Progress in Organic Optoelectronics & Energy Conversion that will be held in Malaga (Spain) on December 12th/13thwith with results of the project EspLORE: Invited Talk Presenter: Alberto Milani Title: Recent advances on the molecular modeling of sp-carbon based nanostructures: structural, electronic and vibrational properties Conference website

EspLORE @ NanoLabTalk

Posted on October 9, 2019October 9, 2019 by Carlo Casari

Talk entitled: “Atomic and molecular diffusion on solid surfaces” given by Andrea Picone, Department of Physics, Politecnico di Milano When: Monday 14th of October at 15.30 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). The EspLORE@NanoL...

EspLORE all’incontro Scuola-Politecnico

Posted on October 7, 2019 by Carlo Casari

Martedì 8 ottobre 2019, dalle 14.00 alle 18.00 presso l'Auditorium del Politecnico di Milano (Via Pascoli, 53) si svolgerà l'Incontro Scuola-Politecnico, rivolto a dirigenti scolastici, docenti di materia e docenti referenti per l'orientamento in uscita delle scuole superiori. Sonia Peggiani sarà presente per l'intervento: 'Le lauree STEM: orgoglio e pregiudizi' con una testimonianza del suo percorso formativo. Clicca qui per maggiori informazioni

Graduations @ EspLORE – Autumn 2019

Posted on October 3, 2019September 30, 2019 by Carlo Casari

Congratulations to new graduate student in Master of Science in Materials Engineering and Nanotechnology at Politecnico di Milano! Today two students working on EspLORE topics got their Master Degree: Gianmarco Cerrato graduated with a thesis entitled: Synthesis of polyynes through arc discharge in selected organic solvents Supervisor: C.S. Casari Co-Supervisor: S. Peggiani Tommaso Losi graduated with a thesis entitled: Field Effect Transistors Based on Sp2 – Sp Carbon Molecules Supe...

EspLORE @ NanoLab Talk

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

Talk entitled: “Push-pull porphyrins: from NLO properties to photoelectrochemical cell applications” given by Alessio Orbelli Biroli, Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche “Giulio Natta” CNR (CNR-SCITEC), SmartMatLab Centre, Milan When: Monday 7th of October at 15.30 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 (Nano...

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...

Contribution to Handbook of Graphene

Posted on July 14, 2019September 5, 2019 by Carlo Casari

EspLORE contributed to the 'Handbook of Graphene, Volume 3: Graphene-Like 2D Materials’, Edited by Mei Zhang, Wiley ISBN: 978-1-119-46965-0 Chapter 10: Linear Carbon: From 1D Carbyne to 2D Hybrid sp-sp2 Nanostructures Beyond Graphene by A. Milani, A. Li Bassi, V. Russo, M. Tommasini and C.S. Casari This handbook is focused on Graphene-Like 2D Materials. The Handbook of Graphene, Volume 3 covers topics that include planar graphene superlattices; magnetic and optical properties of graphene m...

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...