The research aims at the preparation and physico-chemical characterization, with conventional and advanced techniques, of innovative materials with applications in all the emerging fields of chemical and electrochemical production and storage of energy, in response to the European and international objectives of reduction in greenhouse gases production and energy sustainability.
Research projects:
- Cathodes and anodes materials for lithium and sodium ion batteries.
(Group leader: Marcella Bini) - Design of advanced materials for the next-generation batteries and fuel cells.
(Group leader: Eliana Quartarone) - Energy and materials chemistry.
(Group leader: Lorenzo Malavasi) - Materials for energy storage and conversion.
(Group leader: Doretta Capsoni) - Operando XAS for the study of the mechanisms of heterogeneous reactions.
(Group leader: Paolo Ghigna) - Design and development of functional materials by a combined experimental. Computational approach.
(Group leader: Cristina Tealdi) - Design and development of innovative materials for solid state hydrogen storage.
(Group leader: Chiara Milanese) - Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells Research: from innovative materials to advanced device fabrication
(Group leader: Giulia Grancini)
The research activities are focused on the preparation and physico-chemical characterization of innovative materials with applications in pharmacy, biomedicine and environmental science. In the pharmaceutical field, the activities consist in the development of innovative systems able to increase and improve the solubility and bioavailability of the actives. In the biomedical field, the focus is on nanomaterials with antibacterial activity or for the diagnosis and treatments of cancers, with attention to the incorporation in the cells and the induced cellular transformations, for an improvement of their efficacy. Adsorbent systems for emergent pollutants recovery are also prepared. The characterization of all these systems is performed by thermal, spectroscopic and diffractometric conventional and non-conventional techniques, coupling experiments and modelling.
Research projects:
- Physico-chemical characterization of solids of pharmaceutical interest.
(Group leader: Giovanna Bruni) - Adsorbent materials and magnetic composites.
(Group leader: Doretta Capsoni) - Biocompatible materials for biomedical applications.
(Group leader: Marcella Bini) - Hybrid materials for drug-delivery.
(Group leader: Marcella Bini) - Interaction of nanostructures with biological systems.
(Group leader: Umberto Anselmi Tamburini) - Quantum Dots for nanomedicine applications.
(Group leader: Lorenzo Malavasi)
The research challenge concerns on the one hand the preparation of materials with increasingly targeted properties for a specific application, on the other hand the creation, with these materials, of objects of controlled size and shape with micrometric precision, thanks to advanced 3D printing techniques. All to be made from raw materials with low environmental impact and with "green" treatments. In this context, high-entropy materials with particularly relevant magnetic, dielectric or transport properties, functional ceramic materials and cementitious materials from biomass, waste and industrial by-products are developed.
Research projects:
- High temperature crystallography.
(Group leader: Serena Tarantino) - Towards a circular materials system.
(Group leader: Serena Tarantino) - Synthesis and characterization of innovative high complexity materials and nanomaterials.
(Group leader: Umberto Anselmi Tamburini) - Innovative techniques for the 3D printing of metal and ceramic materials.
(Group leader: Umberto Anselmi Tamburini)