EspLORE @ ICASS 2019

We will be present at ICASS 2019 - 3rd Intrenational Conference  Conference on Applied Surface Science at the Pisa Congress Palace, Pisa, Italy from the 17-20 June 2019 with a talk with results of the project EspLORE: Talk Presenter: Francesco Tumino Title: Pulsed laser deposition and scanning tunneling microscopy of two-dimensional nanocrystals on metal substrates The conference will report on and discuss current research on the role and use of surfaces in chemical and physical processes, rel...
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EspLORE @ IDEA League Doctoral School

Andi Rabia, selected to participate to the doctoral school on Advanced Atomic Scale Characterisation (2018-2019) organized by Idea League, attended the third part of the School organized at Chalmers University in May 13-17 2019. The last part will be in Politecnico di Milano in fall 2019. The IDEA League is a strategic alliance between five leading European universities of technology. Each member is an internationally renowned, research-oriented university and is the largest producer of scie...
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EspLORE @ Fπ-14

We will be present at Fπ14 the 14th International Symposium on Functional π-Electron Systems.2nd – 7th June 2019, Berlin, Germany with results of the project EspLORE: Talk Presenter: Patrick Serafini Title: Molecular modeling of hybrid sp-sp2 carbon-based nanostructures: structural, electronic and vibrational properties Fπ14 is the next in line of the previous Fπ conferences in Japan (Osaka 1989, 1999, 2006, Kobe 1992), USA (Santa Cruz 1995, Ithaca 2004, Atlanta 2009, Seatt...
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EspLORE @ NanoLab Talk

Talk entitled: “Printed Polymer Electronics” given by  Mario Caironi, Center for Nano Science and Technology @PoliMi, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Milano, Italy When: Monday 20th of May at 14.30 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 (...
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PhD at POLIMI: opening of admission call

PhD at POLIMI. The online admission for PhD is now open, go to the PhD school page of polimi website for details. Look at the PhD programme in Energy and Nuclear Science and Technology (STEN). Deadline for admissions: 21 May 2019 (2pm) [italian time]. Admitted candidates will start on 1st November 2019. The EspLORE project is looking for motivated and smart students with solid background in Materials Science and Engineering, Physics, Chemistry and Nanotechnology to join the EspLORE Team and act...
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EspLORE @ NanoLab Talk

Talk entitled: “Recent developments in Non-Evaporable Getter technology and application in vacuum systems from HV to XHV” given by  Fabrizio Siviero, SAES Getters s.p.a. When: Monday 8th of April at 14.30 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 M...
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EspLORE @ NanoLab Talk

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...
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New paper published

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...
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Opportunity for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions @EspLORE

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...
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New PhD student @ EspLORE

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...
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