Research Highlights

Scientific Highlights

The Scientific Highlights are the core of our Report. Our Institute is characterized by its high quality research outcomes and by its highly talented people. In 2019 we published 240 publications, 82 % of which were in the first quartile (SJR) and 57 % in the first decile (SJR). Read some of them here!

Why the interface matters in perovskites solar cell performances

Bacteria grown thermoelectrics for heat and solar energy harvesting

Halide perovskites are not ferroelectric

Perovskite gaps ruled by thermal expansion and electron-phonon interaction

Is manganese really inert in Manganese-rich Lithium batteries?

Small pores in the surface of feldspar minerals are responsible of ice formation in the atmosphere

Thermal conductivity à la carte for phononic applications

Chemical engineering of ferroelectric BiFe1-xCoxO3 thin films with enhanced photo response

Laser-based synthesis of hybrid supercapacitors with high storage capacity

Correlation of the crystal structure, transport properties and silver mobility in a mixed silver-copper oxide

Nano-imprinted organic layers for colloidal quantum-dot solar cells

Compositional variability in aerinite changes it from blue to brown

Unconventional cooperative interactions analyzed by DFT and electrostatic potential surface analysis

State-of-the art and challenges in the development of Calcium batteries

On the track for the fabrication of high performance energy storage devices based on 2D graphene, hexagonal boron nitride and molybdenum disulphide materials

Aqueous rechargeable battery technologies: from univalent to multivalent systems

Enhanced current density in high-temperature superconducting nanowires

Control of nanosized defects in solution deposited YBa2Cu3O7 films by accelerated growth processing

Superconductors substituting copper for the future circular collider beam screen (FCC-hh) at CERN

Volume resistive switching in 3-terminal devices

Exploring Transition-Edge Sensors

Advances towards useful high temperature superconductors: enhanced film thickness and redued anisotropy

Probing apical oxygen vacancies in YBa2Cu3O7-x films with atomic resolution in real space

Transparent and highly conducting metallic oxides

Combining old and modern tools to predict how materials respond to external stimuli

Magnetic properties of oxide thin films deposited by Polymer-Assisted-Deposition

Probing time correlations with quantum wells

Improved resistive switching memory devices

Resistive switching in semimetallic thin films

Nonpolar/polar magnetic switch in a strong ferromagnet

Electron microscopy reveales rotational polarization domains

Synchrotron X-rays reveals the structural symmetry from bulk to film

Topotactic nitridation of transition metal double perovskites

Soft litography microstructuring of epitaxial quartz on silicon

Self-assembly of magnetic chains from nanoparticles

Ferroelectric capacitors of epitaxial complex oxide on silicon

First observation of a single-condensate to two-condensate superconductive transition

Observation of a giant topological Hal effect (THE) in an oxide material

Cation arrangement on perovskites films

An updated state-of-the art in complex oxide science

Organic free radicals: a new trend in optoelectronics and spintronics

Multifunctional molecular switches based on radical dendrimers

A green chemistry procedure for a green chemistry catalyst

Ambipolar solution processed organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) and water-gated OFET with carbon-composite gate contact

Reversible switching of gold surface energy

Flexible and lightweight organic molecular metal humidity sensor

Substituents modulate the transport properties of chiral molecular conductors

Carboranes for the synthesis of innovative nanostructures

Carpet-like Graphene in polycristalline silicon carbide (SiC)

Printed organic field-effect transistors using inks based on organic semiconducting molecules blended with insulating polymers

The atomistic origin of the peculiar amphiphilic behavior of cellulose

Multiwalled carbon nanocapsules for cancer diagnosis and therapy

Combining magnetic nanoparticles and icosahedral boron clusters in biocompatible inorganic nanohybrids for cancer therapy

Photoluminescent boron-based materials for bioimaging and cancer treatment

Bacterial cellulose patches for plant healing

Biofunctionalized substrates for high-throughput cell motility studies

Towards theranostic albumin-iron oxide nanocages

From nanoparticles to a mesoporous material

A fast and solvent-free protocol to introduce amides and amines onto graphene oxide

Self-assembled metallacarborane corona on a protein molecule

Electroactive conducting electrode materials for neural growth

Atomistic insight into nanostructured biomaterials

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