The technology “Low-power magnetometer for improved sensors integration in future vehicles”, developed by CNR-SPIN and CNR-IFN in the framework of the EU FET-Open OXiNEMS project, was presented in the macro area “Future Mobility” for the final session of the “Intellectual Property Award 2021” held at Expo Dubai 2020, the competition promoted by the Directorate General for the protection of industrial property - Italian Patent and Trademark Office of the Ministry of Economic Development (Mise) - in collaboration with Netval, aimed at promoting and enhancing the innovation and economic growth of Italy.

The 48^th National Congress of Physical Chemistry (XLVIII CNCF, Genoa 2022), promoted by the Physical Chemistry Division of the Società Chimica Italiana, is organized by the Physical Chemists of the University of Genoa and will be hosted at the University facilities (4-7 July).

An international collaboration among the experimental groups led by Prof. Riccardo Comin and Prof. Nuh Gedik at Massachussets Institute of Technology and the theoretical groups led by Dr. Silvia Picozzi at CNR-SPIN and by Prof. Antia Botana at Arizona State University resulted in the discovery of multiferroicity persisting down to the monolayer limit.

Giacomo Ghringhelli, Professor of Physics at Politecnico di Milano and research associate of SPIN, is one the winners of the 2022 Kamerlingh-Onnes Prize for his “pioneering resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) experiments on cuprate superconductors”.

In the awareness that bringing science to the attention of Primary school students represents an important and challenging task, Alessandro Stroppa (CNR-SPIN) and collaborators from the Department of Human Science of the University of L'Aquila have recently promoted several didactic projects covering complex topics such as Mathematical Infinity, Geometry and Chemistry, and Symmetry for Primary school children.

“I materiali superconduttori per le applicazioni su larga scala”: a book on applied superconductivity, written by Ilaria Pallecchi, Valeria Braccini and Andrea Malagoli, has been published by in riga edizioni.

Starting from January 2022, a regular seminar activity of the SPIN Institute will be established.

A new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the Future Circular Collider (FCC) for the new phase of the design of the accelerator was signed by Dr Michael Benedikt, the leader of the study, and Dr Fabio Miletto Granozio, SPIN director, as representative of CNR.

Ferroelectric hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites (HOIPs) are attracting intense attention owing to their striking performance rivaling with that in perovskite oxides, ease of synthesis, low cost and environmental benignness. Despite the rapid discovery of many ferroelectric HOIPs, the intrinsic thermodynamic driving mechanisms of their ferroelectric transitions remain still not fully understood.

Dr. Matteo Carrega, together with Dr. S. Heun (CNR-NANO), reported in Nature Physics News&views on a recent direct measure of magnon thermodynamic quantities in high-quality graphene, that has been performed in Prof. Yacoby's group at Harvard.