Silvia Licoccia Università di Roma Tor Vergata [email protected] BIOSYSTEMS, ENERGY, AND CULTURAL HERITAGE: MATERIALS ENHANCEMENT

Silvia LicocciaUniversità di Roma Tor Vergata

[email protected]

www.centronast.it

BIOSYSTEMS, ENERGY, AND CULTURAL HERITAGE: MATERIALS ENHANCEMENT FOR TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONRome, July 3rd, 2013

Research & Training

@ the NAST Center

mailto:[email protected]

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.


Figure and Facts


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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)


and many more…..


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)


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


Energy from waste: microbial fuel & electrolysis cellsPI: Silvia Licoccia MATTM, POR Lazio, AGER


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


Theory: ab initio calculation of geometrical structures electronic and optical properties, quantum transportPI: Olivia Pulci


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


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/

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



http://www.ortobotanicoroma2.it/

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META: Materials Enhancement for Technological Applications:a research & training project


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


Today….

Hilights from current projects


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


Acknowledgements

Thanks to

All our members that I have forgotten!

All of you for your attention

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