With reference to the news previously published on date 30th June 2021, the work published on Advanced Materials (Adv. Mater. Vol. 33 n° 32, 2100593 (2021)) obtained the cover of the journal. This is a further recognition to the work carried out by Researchers of our Institute thanks to the collaboration with the St. Andrews University and to the CNR-RSE Bilateral Project.

“...Nei sistemi di economia circolare i prodotti mantengono il loro valore aggiunto il più a lungo possibile e non ci sono rifiuti. Quando un prodotto raggiunge la fine del ciclo di vita, le risorse restano all’interno del sistema economico, in modo da poter essere riutilizzate più volte a fini produttivi e creare così nuovo valore.

L'Università di Padova, con i laboratori INFN di Legnaro e con il significativo contributo di SPIN, attiva per l'a.a.2021/22, come già da alcuni anni, un Master di primo livello di durata annuale in "Surface treatments for industrial applications" (Trattamenti di superficie per l'industria).

Thanks to the Bilateral Project between CNR-SPIN and Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews), the researchers of the CNR-SPIN Institute participated in an international collaboration which also includes the Max Plank Institute for Solid State Research devoted to the study of strongly correlated electron materials in which, the electronic, spin, and charge degrees of freedom are closely intertwined.

The workshop “DSTDM: Device science of 2D organic and inorganic materials: from fundamentals to applications” is a joint initiative of the Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Science of Okayama University (Japan) and of the Physics Department of the University of Naples (Italy).

The interaction of materials with electromagnetic fields gives rise to excited-electron populations that evolve and decay over ultrafast (femtosecond to picosecond) time scales. These dynamic processes and the energy redistribution of the photoexcited charge carriers following the photoexcitation lie at the very heart of some of the most interesting light-induced physical phenomena, such as photocatalysis, photosynthesis, solar energy conversion and many more.

The first-principles school on electronic-structure calculations and materials modeling  based on Quantum ESPRESSO (QE) software has successfully ended. The event  was, for the first-time, entirely held on-line.

The  school  aimed to  introduce students and young researchers to materials and molecular modelling with Quantum ESPRESSO (QE), covering basic concepts, recent advances and developments, with emphasis on density-functional-theory (DFT) based methods and High-Performance Computing (HPC).

Durante la riunione del Consiglio di Amministrazione del 27 maggio 2021, si sono tenute le audizioni per la selezione del Direttore d’Istituto ed è stato nominato il nuovo Direttore di SPIN: Fabio Miletto Granozio.

A Fabio vivissime congratulazioni e carissimi auguri di buon lavoro!

On 23 April, the kick-off meeting of the project renewal for other 3 years for assessing Tl (1223) superconducting coating feasibility took place virtually on the CERN platform Indico.

Silvia Picozzi, dal primo aprile 2021, nelle more dello svolgimento del concorso per la selezione del nuovo Direttore, sarà il Direttore f.f. di SPIN.

A Silvia auguri di buon lavoro!