Smart materials and microsystems
Development of functional materials and integration technologies for advanced components, microsystems, and structural parts, material synthesis and characterization, manufacturing process tuning and to the proof of function in prototypical systems with industry standards and requirements.
Functional Materials and Photoonics Structures
Multifunctional Carbon & Oxide based materials, carbon based, nanostructured materials, Customised silicon photonics solutions for photovoltaics and data communication.
Transparent conductive oxides, gold and hybrid gold/carbon nanotubes, nanostructures for drug delivery in cancer therapy, wavelength down-shifter materials in silicon-based, solar cells.
Photonics neurophotonics, brain imaging and neuronal photoactivation in insect models, super-resolution microscopy, nuclear radiation detection, photons and bio-molecules,miniaturisation of photonic circuits, production of entangled photons, integrated optical circuit, topological photonics, integrated quantum photonic circuits.
Advanced Treatment, Ceramics, Smart Building
Tailored PVD, CVD, PECVD vacuum coatings, plasma, HVOF heat-shrinkable coatings, functional innovative porcelain glazes, micro and nano-structured grained composites, deep cryogenic treatment of tool steels post weld heat treatments corrosion inhibitors for steel.
Bioceramics, materials for Solid Fuel Cells (SOFCs) and lithium batteries, extreme insulator nanobelts aerogel alike, programmed damage tolerance Ceramics Micro / Meso / Macroporous Ceramics.
Resonant metafoundations, concrete composite connections, timber-based composite structures.
Biomedical
3D printed tissue engineering, in vitro 3D models, scaffold validation in in vitro systems, silk-based technology for tissue engineering, advanced drug delivery systems.
Bioactive materials for regenerative medicine, prosthetic biomaterials, optimized nanostructured surfaces.
Modified-silica gel coatings for medical polymers, numerical modelling, cinematic and structural, behaviour of prostheses.
Environmentally Friendly Solutions
Eco-friendly composites with biodegradable matrices from renewable sources design and production of fully recyclable composite materials.
Life Cycle Assessment & Cost analysis exploitation, low environmental impact surface treatments, Industrial waste recovery for glass and ceramics production.
Polymeric Materials and Composites
Multiphase micro- and nano-composites Electrical conductivity, shape memory, damage monitoring, piezoelectricity functionalized composites Innovative micro- and nano-structured polymer composites for additive manufacturing.
Tailored fibres and matrix for enhanced mechanical properties.

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