Group's photo, Christmas 2025 at "Tutti a Pecora"
Left side (from front): Gianni Profeta, Luca Ottaviano, Mattia Iannetti, Luigi Camerano Spelta Rapini,
Cesare Tresca, Michele Reticcioli
At the head of the table: Pietro Maria Forcella
Right side (from front): Paolo Settembri, Michele Bagaglini, Federico Giannessi, Federico Bisti
Group's photo, Christmas 2024 at Ju Boss
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Group's photo, Christmas 2022 at Ju Boss
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Left side (from front): Cesare Tresca, Gianluca D'Olimpio,
Dario Mastrippolito, Federico Bisti, Adriano Filipponi, Tommaso Cea
At the head of the table: Gianni Profeta
Right side (from front): Luigi Camerano Spelta Rapini, Pietro Maria Forcella, Rocco Rollo, Paolo Settembri, Mattia Iannetti, Luca Ottaviano
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Research
Two dimensional materials
Quasiparticle image of Pb/Si(111) surface
We are interested in the physical properties of low dimensional (one-dimensional and two-dimensional) systems: surfaces, interfaces, 2D materials (graphene, phosphorene, dichalcogenides...), nanowires, nanoribbons.
From the understanding of their fundamental properties,
we envisage interesting technological applications.
The close collaboration with renowed experiemental groups
and collegues allows the realization and verification of
theoretical and computational predictions...(read more in the publication list)
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Superconductivity
Superconducting gap of MgB2
Superconductors are fashinating materials showing astonishing physical properties, whose accurate prediction will allow a theoretical and computational engeeniering of new superconducting compounds.
In our group we develop theoretical and computational tools for first-principles calculations, allowing a complete design of new superconducting materials....(read more in the publication list)
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Biophysics
Snapshot of molecular dynamics simulation of water confined in graphene-oxide bilayer
The image contrast in MRI is due to the strong dependence of the water proton spin relaxation times on the specific physical-chemical environment of the tissues under study. In many clinical applications MRI relies on signal differences (contrast) between healthy and lesioned tissue which can be further increased by targeted contrast agents accumulating in the lesion which are typically molecular complexes and chelates based on paramagnetic metallic ion, such as gadolinium.
Our research is focused on computational techniques to study alternative contrast agents based the large variety of graphene-based and two-dimensional materials, able to confine water in nanostructures.
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Physics of Detectors
Detectors for Dark Matter search
Materials' properties are studied by means of first-principles density functional theory and molecular dynamics simulations, in collaboration with the COSINUS project....(read more in the publication list)
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