The average synthetic organic chemist consider water more of a problem than a resource. Many transformations of interest require the strict exclusion of water. When not harmful, this particular solvent is however considered to be of little use since most of the organic derivatives are hydrophobic.

Thermoelectric materials allow direct conversion of heat into electricity without moving parts - a feature that makes thermoelectric generators extremely reliable and, at the same time, allows for their miniaturization, particularly useful to power low-consumption electrical devices. In this direction, a collaboration between the University of Pisa (Prof. Giovanni Pennelli and Drs.

The Annual Report of the Department of Materials Science is 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 2019.

What can we achieve by combining a photosensitizing molecule in a crystal that captures green light and a molecular motor? An artificial leaf that captures the light, transforms it into energy that powers the motor in a unidirectional rotary motion.

An innovative plastic scintillator based on perovskite nanoparticles and organic molecules, capable of interacting with high energy radiation efficiently, quickly, and potentially much cheaper than commercial scintillator crystals has been created for a new generation of detectors by researchers from University of Milan-Bicocca and the start-up Glass to Power in collaboration with the National Institute of Nuclear Physic