Research Areas
The research activities of the Department of Materials Science cover the entire production process of relevant classes of materials, starting from basic studies up to the procedures of integration in devices and in some cases to the manufacturing of demonstrators.
The types of materials investigated are: nanostructured oxides for applications in sensors, photocatalysis and autotraction (nanostructured fillers); polymeric or hybrid porous materials for storage and separation of technologically relevant gas mixtures such as H2, CH4 and CO2; molecular or polymeric organic semiconductors; organic and inorganic semiconductors (thin films) for photovoltaic, photocatalysis, smart windows, optoelectronics, sensors and imaging; epitaxial and colloidal quantum dots for imaging, energy and photonics; nanostructured materials as active layers for thermoelectric generators; polymeric nanostructures for energy, photonics and drug delivery; glass-based materials for the production of oxidic systems containing optically active species and nanostructures for sensors, imaging and lighting; composite materials for electrode applications for energy storage; inorganic semiconductors and high dielectric constant oxides for microelectronics (memories and logic), spintronics and neuroelectronics.
The Department of Materials Science splits its research activities into thematic areas.
Material and devices for photovoltaics (MIB-SOLAR)
Maurizio Acciarri, Simona Binetti, Giorgio Tseberlidis, Vanira Trifiletti
Thermoelectricity: Materials and Application
Dario Narducci
Organic and hybrid materials and devices for solar fuels and artificial photosynthesis
Alessandro Abbotto, Ottavia Bettucci
Porous Materials: Design, Synthesis, Structural Characterization and Switchable Molecular Dynamics
Angiolina Comotti, Jacopo Perego
Theory of inorganic materials for energy and environment
Giovanni Di Liberto, Livia Giordano, Gianfranco Pacchioni, Sergio Tosoni
Materials for energy storage and energy saving (EES)
Riccardo Ruffo, Nicolò Pianta
Chemistry of inorganic and hybrid materials (NanoMat@Lab)
Massimiliano D’Arienzo, Barbara Di Credico, Silvia Mostoni, Roberto Nisticò, Roberto Scotti
Theory of 2D and 0D materials: bidimensional layers and nanoparticles
Cristiana Di Valentin, Daniele Perilli, Paulo Siani
Crystal growth and characterization: study of polymorphism
Massimo Moret
Surface Engineering and Fluid Interfaces (SEFI Lab)
Carlo Antonini, Irene Tagliaro
Materials for electrochemical energy conversion: synthesis, ex-situ and operando characterization
Chiara Ferrara, Piercarlo Mustarelli
Electrocatalysis and Bioelectrocatalysis LAB (EBLab)
Carlo Santoro
Conductive or Photoactive Organic Materials for Energy
Norberto Manfredi
Organic materials for photonics and optoelectronics
Luca Beverina, Sara Mattiello, Mauro Sassi
Synthesis and characterization of novel polymeric nanostructures
Michele Mauri, Roberto Simonutti
Generation of nanospaces for polymerization and gas capture
Silvia Bracco, Charl Xavier Bezuidenhout, Piero Sozzani
First Principles Simulations of Materials for Microelectronics
Giorgio Benedek, Marco Bernasconi, Davide Campi
Optical spectroscopy of semiconductors
Emiliano Bonera, Jacopo Pedrini, Fabio Pezzoli
Organic molecular films and heterostructures
Alessandro Minotto, Adele Sassella
Advanced Spectroscopy of Functional Nanomaterials
Sergio Brovelli, Francesco Carulli, Francesco Meinardi, Angelo Monguzzi, Valeria, Secchi, Irene Villa
Spetroscopy of oxides, nanostructures and glasses for optical technology and ionizing radiation detection
Francesca Cova, Mauro Fasoli, Roberto Lorenzi, Alberto Paleari, Anna Vedda
Materials and Spectroscopies for Nanoelectronics and Spintronics (MSNS Laboratory)
Marco Fanciulli
Modeling and simulations of semiconductor heteroepitaxy
Roberto Bergamaschini, Leonida Miglio, Francesco Montalenti, Emilio Scalise, Aldo Ugolotti
Fabrication and study of semiconductor quantum nanostructures (EpiLab)
Stefano Cecchi, Stefano Sanguinetti, Artur Tuktamyshev, Stefano Vichi
Synthesis of sol-gel glasses for sensors and functional optical fibers
Norberto Chiodini
Laboratory of Ultrafast Microscopy for Nanoscale Dynamics (LUMiNaD)
Giovanni Maria Vanacore
Laboratory of Optically Detected Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (ODMR)
Fabrizio Moro
MOdeling and DEsign of functional Materials (MODEM)
Silvia Picozzi
Characterization of materials electronic structure through X-ray photoelectron spectroscopies
Giovanni Drera
Dating and characterization of ancient materials. Materials science and cultural heritage
Anna Galli, Marco Martini
Optics and Optometry
Silvia Tavazzi, Erika Ponzini, Fabrizio Zeri