Il Progetto "Good Vibrations" - Energia sostenibile per l'istruzione, nato dalla collaborazione tra l'Istituto Comprensivo "Cornigliano" di Genova e CNR SPIN, è stato selezionato per la fase finale di Science on Stage Europe che si terrà in Finlandia nella prossima estate.

CNR-SPIN has been awarded a prestigious project in the framework of the HORIZON-EIC-2022-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES call.

La Presidente del CNR, Maria Chiara Carrozza, è intervenuta alla cerimonia inaugurale del 109° Congresso Nazionale Società Italiana di Fisica (SIF), svolto presso l’Università di Salerno. In tale occasione, la Presidente ha incontrato il Direttore dell’Istituto SPIN ed i ricercatori della sede Secondaria di Salerno.

The scientific journal Nano Letters chooses for its September cover a research by the CNR SPIN Institute published in the article Nano Lett. 2023, 23, 17, 7782–7789.

As for the 1^st Call , the evaluation process of 2^nd Call for the 2022 “Research Project of National Interest (PRIN)”, being directly related to the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), recognized the capability of the SPIN researchers to present innovative proposals. Indeed, seven projects having a SPIN researcher as Principal Investigator were approved, while, in other two funded proposals, SPIN researchers are involved in a CNR UNIT (with a leading role in one case).

Attilio Rigamonti (University of Pavia), Andrey Varlamov (CNR-SPIN) and Jacques Villain (Academy of Sciences of France) are the authors of the new book "The Kaleidoscope of Physics: From Soap Bubbles to Quantum Technologies” just published by World Scientific Publishing.

An international collaboration, with A. Stroppa (CNR-SPIN), K.P. Loh (NUS), K. Leng (PolyU) as corresponding authors, showed that the polar axis in ferroelectric 2D Dion-Jacobson (DJ) phase hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites (HOIPs) can be switched by almost 90° using halide substitution. In DJ phase (4AMP)PbX4 ferroelectric system (4AMP = 4-(Aminomethyl)piperidine, X= I and Br), by substituting the iodide with bromide element in perovskite layer, the obtained [PbBr4]2- compound presented In-Plane (IP) polar axis, which is in contrast to the all previously reported [PbI4]2- counterparts with Out-of-Plane (OOP) polar axis. (DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c03921 - https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.3c03921?ref=PDF).

During the last weeks, the evaluation process of the proposals presented at the 2022 (1st) Call for the Research Project of National Interest (PRIN) has been finalized. The recently published results revealed a significant performance of the SPIN community.

An international team, including researchers from CNR-SPIN, Seoul National University, The University of Hong Kong, University of L’Aquila, Southeast University studied the magneto-optical properties of multiferroic heterostructure. As reported in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2023, 15, 18, 22282-22290; https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.3c02680), have shown an unusual magneto-optical Kerr effect (a phenomenon where the reflected light shows a polarization change upon reflection from a structure) in a antiferromagnetic and polar heterostructure, namely CrI3/In2Se3/CrI3.

CNR-SPIN is recruiting 7 new temporary work positions (researchers, technicians etc.)  across multiple PNRR (Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan) projects.
Last day to submit the application is June 5, 2023.

For applying: Cnr selezioni on-line