The ability to manipulate the spin degree of freedom in semiconductors is of fundamental importance to the fields of spintronics and quantum technologies. In particular, the electrical control of carrier spin dynamics is the focus of intense research by the international community aimed at the realization of electronic devices that are faster and have lower power consumption than current ones.

The Stokes shift is an important property of luminescent materials, defined as the energy difference between the absorption band maximum and the emission spectrum maximum. Large Stokes shift fast emitters show a negligible reabsorption of their luminescence, a feature highly desirable for several applications such as fluorescence imaging, solar-light managing, and fabricating sensitive scintillating detectors for medical imaging and high-rate high-energy physics experiments.

Abiotic and biotic electrocatalysts are crucial for the reduction of oxygen in neutral media associated to bioelectrochemical systems. This interdisciplinary field of study covers  electrocatalysis, electrochemistry, inorganic electrocatalysis, bioelectrochemistry, engineering of electrodes and transport phenomena at different spatial scale.

Industrial development and population growth have led to a surge in global energy demand. At the same time, ongoing climate and geopolitical crises are demanding a rapid transition to a greener, zero-emissions economy.

Among the technologies that can address the global energy problem is photovoltaics one of the five research topics addressed by the FLEXILAB Project, "Departments of Excellence Project 2018-2022”.

From a laboratory research activity on innovative and sustainable materials to the production on a large scale of a highly performing tyre. How?