Technological hybrid materials: From the concept to the engineering of their chemical & physical properties

16 December 2016
December, 16
Contatti: 
DII - Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale
via Sommarive, 9 - 38123 Povo, Trento
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+39 0461 282500 - 2503
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fax +39 0461 281977

Venue: Seminar Room, Department of Industrial Engineering, via Sommarive 9, Povo (TN), h: 3:00 pm

  • Marco Vittorio Nardi - Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Trento (Italy), Institute of Materials for Electronics and Magnetism, National Research Council (Italy),  Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin (Germany)

Abstract

Behind each material or device that surrounds us and that we use in our daily lives, there is a hidden world widely unknown and faraway from most of the end users.
The development of any new material for applications in different fields, such as for biomedicine, energy harvesting, sensing and electronics, has a long history behind. This starts from the conceptual development of an idea and very often ends in a combination of several materials that leads to the design and synthesis of innovative structures. One highly appealing approach are novel hybrid materials that carry the features derived from their single components.
The practical realization of a new class of materials inevitably passes through a long series of studies, both theoretical and experimental, in order to design and define the chemical/physical properties, and ultimately drives the scientific community to synthesize and prototype new materials and technologies.
In the seminar, several scientific cases will be presented and discussed where the development of the material and its functionalization with molecular precursors, together with the engineering of their chemical and physical properties, led to the creation of devices and materials for applications in different fields ranging from biomedical application to organic electronics.
In particular, technological materials such as metal oxides (e.g.,zinc oxide ZnO), 2D materials such as graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides (e.g.,molybdenum disulphide MoS2), and nanostructured materials such as SiC/SiO2 core/shell nanowires were functionalized with molecular precursors, engineered and extensively characterized. Different techniques such as (soft) X-ray photoemission and absorption using synchrotron radiation, in combination with theoretical modeling, were adopted to investigate and understand the interface properties of such novel hybrid materials.
The comprehensive understanding allows us to better tailor and engineer the different systems and ultimately helps for the optimization of the materials and devices’ performance.

Biography

Dr. Marco Vittorio Nardi got the “laurea” degree in Chemistry at the University of Padova (Italy) in 2003. In 2007 he got the PhD in Materials Science at the University of Milano Bicocca (Italy). Since January 2008 until June 2011 he worked as Post-doc researcher at the IMEM-CNR and his activities were mainly focused on the functionalization and characterization of hybrid organic/inorganic interfaces using surface electron spectroscopies. From July 2011 to April 2015 he worked at Humboldt University of Berlin as senior Post-doc researcher. He was involved in a FP7 research project as a work package leader and he was member of the Governing Board and Technical Management Committee. In this period he developed several different scientific activities, ranging from the study of inorganic metal nanoparticles embedded in organic matrices, to the functionalization and tuning of the electronic properties of graphene, the growth and characterization of self–assembled monolayers and the characterization of nanostructured materials using the HAXPES technique. He’s currently working as research fellow (2015-2017) in the frame of Grandi Progetti PAT “MadELeNA” (IMEM,CNR-DII). He is author of more than 40 papers published on peer reviewed international journals.

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