30 years of INSTM: past, present and future of the Consortium”

Between January 22nd and 25th, the congress titled “30 Years of INSTM: Past, Present, and Future of the Consortium” will take place in Brixen, Italy. Professor Alessandro Martucci and Dr. Elena Colusso will serve on the scientific and organizing committee, while our PhD student, Maria Basso, will present her work. 30 years INSTM

International Sol-Gel Conference 2022

From 24th to 29th of July 2022, the Solgel 2022 took place in Lyon, France.Our group actively partecipated at the conference and contributed with two oral presentations by Maria Basso and Dr Elena Colusso. The conference was preceded by the special workshop “Photonic glasses by sol-gel” to celebrate 2022 as the “International Year of Glass”, organized by…
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Industrial collaboration

We’d like to congratulate Pietro Fiorentini to be awarded by our rector, Daniela Mapelli, for the trust and proactivity shown by following up on several initiatives that have contributed to the growth of UniSMART. We are pleased to be a part of a fruitful collaboration between industry and academia. And congratulation to our fellow Alessandro…
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Enrico Cescon Award – 2021 edition

We are very proud to announce that our former Ph.D. student Dr. Michele Rigon received the “Enrico Cescon Award” for his presentation “Nanostructured Metal Oxides Thin Films for Optical Gas Sensors“. The Award has been created in 2019 to remember a former PhD Student Enrico Cescon (cycle 31) and it’s assigned every year from the…
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Welcome and Farewell party

For every arrival, a departure… In the past week, we welcomed a new entry into the group and, we said goodbye to an “old member”. Carlotta Micale joined us as a visiting PhD student from Istituto Superior Técnico Lisboa. Welcome and enjoy your stay! After a long permanence in the group, first as a master’s…
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AIMAT 2021

The XVI National Convention of AIMAT (Associazione Nazionale Ingegneria dei Materiali) have took place at the Sa Manifattura (Cagliari, Italy) from the 15th to the 18th of September. Our group members contributed with oral and poster presentations.  

Review paper published in Small

It is finnaly out in Small the review paper about SILAR methods for fabrication of metal oxide coatings. The paper, led by Samantha Prabath Ratnayake, is fruit of a great collaboration with the group of Dr. Enrico Della Gaspera, RMIT (Melbourne). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smll.202101666