The Annual Report of the Department of Materials Science of the University of Milano-Bicocca is now available online. Here you will find the results achieved and published (scientific publications, awards, funded research projects) as well as the resources for the Research, Training and Third Mission activities in 2021.

The storage of gases such as H₂ and CH₄ and the capture of CO₂ are closely related to the use of clean energy, environmental protection, and industrial production to ensure sustainable development of our planet. In particular, the storage of H₂ and CH₄ are essential for the use of clean energy while the separation and purification of CO₂ is essential to reduce the greenhouse effect.

2D Van der Waals magnets are emerging materials which can be easily exfoliated down to few layer and to the monolayer limit while retaining magnetic order. Therefore, they can be incorporated into heterostructures to make new multifunctional devices with combined electric, optical and magnetic properties for applications in spintronics, quantum computing, and magneto-optical devices. Furthermore, 2D magnets represent a model system for the observation of new quantum phase transitions and phenomena at nanoscale.

The research team of the Department of Materials Science of the University of Milano-Bicocca lead by professors Angelo Monguzzi, Luca Beverina, e Francesco Meinardi in collaboration with the CNR institution, propose the quantum-mechanical modeling and the first direct experimental demonstration of intra-molecular triplet fusion in a single-molecule syste