Silvia LicocciaUniversità di Roma Tor Vergata
www.centronast.it
BIOSYSTEMS, ENERGY, AND CULTURAL HERITAGE: MATERIALS ENHANCEMENT FOR TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONRome, July 3rd, 2013
Research & Training
@ the NAST Center
ParticipantsCa. 50 from Roma Tor Vergata DepartmentsCa. 65 from other Italian Universities and research centers
Objectives:
NAST combines basic science with application-orientated research and development of innovative instrumentation
NAST aims to be an interdisciplinary research and training centre where biologists, chemists, engineers, physicians, and physicists work together to investigate scientific issues at the nanoscale. This knowledge is exploited to develop innovative materials and methodological tools, nanoelectronic and photonic devices and instrumentations.
BIOSYSTEMS, ENERGY, AND CULTURAL HERITAGE: MATERIALS ENHANCEMENT FOR TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONRome, July 3rd, 2013
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Multidisciplinary Team
Synergic research activities in:o Materials for Energyo Materials for Biomedical Applicationso Innovative instrumentation and tools for ICT, Environment,
Health, Space, Cultural Heritage
PhD Program in Materials for Health, Environment and Energy
BiologyChemistry
Electronic EngineeringExperimental Medicine
Mechanical Engineering Physics
Some of our National and International Collaborations:
CNR (I) CNMS - ORNL (USA) CUB (SK) ENEA Casaccia (I) KAUST (SA) ISIS Spallation Neutron Source (UK) Tel Aviv University (IL) University Milano Bicocca (I) University of Aarhus (DK) Université du Québec (CDN) Universitade de Sao Paulo (BZ) Vatican City (SCV)
BIOSYSTEMS, ENERGY, AND CULTURAL HERITAGE: MATERIALS ENHANCEMENT FOR TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONRome, July 3rd, 2013
and many more…..
BIOSYSTEMS, ENERGY, AND CULTURAL HERITAGE: MATERIALS ENHANCEMENT FOR TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONRome, July 3rd, 2013
Some of the topics investigated(not exhaustive!!!!):
Health• Tissue engineering• Nanotoxicology• Nanomedicine
Energy• Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells • Solid Oxide Fuel Cells• Microbial Fuel Cells• Conformationally constrained peptides for electron transfer• Solar Cells
Cultural Heritage
• Molecular dynamics modelling• Instrumentation/methods for Imaging with eV neutrons of (CH materials) (e.g. IMAT
Instrument at ISIS) ICT
• Instrumentation for accelerated MeV neutron testing of semiconductors (SEE), (e.g. CHIPIR Instrument at ISIS)
Space
• Instrumentation for space research (e.g. PAMELA space missions)
BIOSYSTEMS, ENERGY, AND CULTURAL HERITAGE: MATERIALS ENHANCEMENT FOR TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONRome, July 3rd, 2013
Smart nanomaterials for Biomedical ApplicationPI: Nicola Rosato
BIO-NanoMorSi: Biological impact of engineered oxide nanoparticles: morphology and size in health hazardPI: Lina Ghibelli
with partners from:CZ, D, F, Mal, NL, UK, USA
More beside today….
Nanofactory: nanotechnology for the bio-inorganic interfacePI: Piero Morales
Nanostructures: quantum dots [InAs/GaAs(001)]: MBE growth, AFM characterization and modelling.PI: Fulvia Patella
CH: Imaging methods of CH materials with eV neutronsPI: Carla Andreani In collaboration with G. Gorini,
Milano Bicocca & Nast, C. Vasi CNR-IPFC Messina
BIOSYSTEMS, ENERGY, AND CULTURAL HERITAGE: MATERIALS ENHANCEMENT FOR TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONRome, July 3rd, 2013
Energy from waste: microbial fuel & electrolysis cellsPI: Silvia Licoccia MATTM, POR Lazio, AGER
More beside today….
ICT: Accelerated neutron testing of semiconductor electronics: Single Event Effects (SEE) via MeV neutrons at ISIS (UK)PI: Carla Andreani In collaboration with:
C. Frost (ISIS ), G. Gorini (Milano Bicocca & NAST), FINMECCANICA, ST Microelectronics
Space:1. Space Station Mission-MIR Station and light flashes2. Instrumentation for Satellites–PAMELA and CSES MISSIONSPI: Piergiorgio Picozza
BIOSYSTEMS, ENERGY, AND CULTURAL HERITAGE: MATERIALS ENHANCEMENT FOR TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONRome, July 3rd, 2013
Theory: ab initio calculation of geometrical structures electronic and optical properties, quantum transportPI: Olivia Pulci
More beside today….
Code development
O. Pulci, M. Palummo, C.r Hogan, A. Marini, M. Marsili, V. Garbuio, A. Mosca Conte, E. Cannuccia, P. Gori, L. Guidoni, A. Kavokin, M. Cini, A. Desideri, M. Falconi, A. Palleschi, S. Morante, A. Varlamov
Many Body Theory
0-D
1-D2-D
3-D
nanoclustersnanowires
Surfaces bulks
Biological systems
BIOSYSTEMS, ENERGY, AND CULTURAL HERITAGE: MATERIALS ENHANCEMENT FOR TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONRome, July 3rd, 2013
LOUVAIN(Gonze)
BERLIN FU(Gross)
S.SEBASTIAN(Rubio)
YORK(Godby)
JENA(Bechstedt)
PARIS(Reining)
ROME(Pulci)
BERLIN FHI(Scheffler)
LUND(von Barth)
http://www.cmt.york.ac.uk/nanoquanta/http://etsf.ehu.es/
The botanical garden: a multifunctional structure for research and education
- Green energy from plants: plant modules for CO2 uptake – phytoremediation- Massive production of biomolecules by micropropagation PI: Antonella Canini
BIOSYSTEMS, ENERGY, AND CULTURAL HERITAGE: MATERIALS ENHANCEMENT FOR TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONRome, July 3rd, 2013
More beside today….
http://www.ortobotanicoroma2.it/
META: Materials Enhancement for Technological Applications:a research & training project
BIOSYSTEMS, ENERGY, AND CULTURAL HERITAGE: MATERIALS ENHANCEMENT FOR TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONRome, July 3rd, 2013
Today….
•Materials interphase enhanced conductivity•Nanotechnology for the bio-inorganic surface•Inelastic neutron scattering on porous anode SOFC materials at SNS – ORNL •Ab initio molecular dynamics simulation of peptide-TiO2 interaction
BIOSYSTEMS, ENERGY, AND CULTURAL HERITAGE: MATERIALS ENHANCEMENT FOR TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONRome, July 3rd, 2013
Today….
Hilights from current projects
BIOSYSTEMS, ENERGY, AND CULTURAL HERITAGE: MATERIALS ENHANCEMENT FOR TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONRome, July 3rd, 2013
Today….
HEALTH “Bionano” research linesTemperature dependent protein encapsulation in self-assembled DNA nanocagesMATERIALSPeptide self-assembled monolayers as a new tool for bioinspired nanotechnologyCULTURAL HERITAGEA multidisciplinary approach for the conservation and valorization of CHNeutron and X-ray imaging for Cultural Heritage researchAncient biomolecules and the reconstruction of human population hystoryAb-initio computational methods applied to CHSPACEHeralding a new era in cosmic ray physics: PAMELA, JEM-EUSO and CSES Missions
BIOSYSTEMS, ENERGY, AND CULTURAL HERITAGE: MATERIALS ENHANCEMENT FOR TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONRome, July 3rd, 2013
Acknowledgements
Thanks to
All our members that I have forgotten!
All of you for your attention