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Functional Nanomaterials

During the last few years there was a growing interest in the realization of nanostructured materials that absolve specific functionalities. The progress in the synthesis techniques and in the fabrication methods has permitted the development of this new class of materials. Thus peculiar electrical, optical, magnetic and chemical properties have been exploited by already finding applications in several fields.

CNR-IMM Institute has developed a great experience in several classes of functional nanostructured materials, such as nanowires, nanoparticles, nanotubes, two-dimensional materials and nanometric films. The accurate control of the synthesis is obtained by sophisticated techniques and by low cost chemical and electrochemical methods, always potentially scalable at industrial and commercial level. The  Institute is also devoted to the development of tailored and innovative detection techniques and devices in order to control the materials properties at the nanometric scale. Thus the control of the nanomaterials properties through the process parameters is our main strength. Moreover the developed peculiar functionalities have found application in many fields, such as microelectronics, sensing, energy, optoelectronics, water purification and so on.

In this research area, a great part of the activity is carried out inside national and international projects. The major areas of work at IMM are below reported.

 

Coordinator: Prete Paola

...searching for a needle in the haystack!

Basically what we've done is to look for quite a tiny variation in the magnetic field direction of an iron ultra-thin layer in contact with a ferroelectric Hf-Zr-O "driver", by making use of our...

Multiscale Charge Transport in van der Waals Thin Films. Reduced Graphene Oxide as a Case Study

Large area van der Waals (vdW) thin films are assembled materials consisting of a network of randomly stacked nanosheets. The multi-scale structure and the two-dimensional nature of the building...

Materials and Enabling Technologies for "Smart Systems Integration (SSI)"

 

Materials and Enabling Technologies for Smart Systems Integration (SSI)

The activity looks towards the integration of sensors and micro-components in smart...

Multifunctional acrylic flexible film with embedded low dimensional ZnO structures

 

This research activity at CNR-IMM in Lecce aims at preparing innovative composite thin coatings that exhibit piezoelectric features for the...

Forest of SiO2 nanowires covered by a TiO2 thin film for an efficient photocatalytic water treatment

The novelty of the research is in the exploitation of  SiO2 NWs as support for TiO2 film for the creation of a performing photocatalytic material. The morphological and optical properties of this...

Semiconductor Nanowires

Semiconducting nanowires will become important building blocks of the next generation of miniaturized devices. Devices like sensors, light emitters, photovoltaic cells will take advantage of the...

Scanning Microwave Microscopy for Material and Life Sciences

The research and study of microwave signals and technology have a huge impact in the society, as they form the basis for communication, remote sensing and modern navigation systems. In addition,...

Si and C based nanostructured materials: synthesis and material properties

 

C based nanostructured materials (1D to 3D)

The research activity at IMM Bologna Unit is mainly focused on the C-CVD synthesis of the following materials and...

Functional Nanostructured Materials - Lecce Unit

At Lecce Unit there is a long time experience in the Synthesis of Functional Nanomaterials.

 

Synthesis of Advanced Nanostructured Materials

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Low temperature nanostructured materials for advanced applications

We exploit the capabilities of plasma to produce advanced materials for several applications ranging from amorphous solar cells, HIT solar cells, to advanced nanocsryalline materials to be...

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