Main Research Activities

- Characterization of interface properties between multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNT) and organic molecules (as metal phthalocyanine, fullerene) for new organic-based solar cells.

- Deposition of TiO₂ thin films, doped with different atoms/molecules for the realization of new photocatalytic devices activated by visible light.

- Deposition and characterization of N-doped TiO2 nanofibers deposited by electrospinning for the realization of new photocatalytic devices activated by visible light.

- Deposition of highly ordered nanofibers by means of Near field electrospinning.

Available Facilities

- X-ray Photoemission Spectroscopy, both monochromatized and non-monochromatized (XPS)

- Ultraviolet Photoemission Spectroscopy (UPS)

- Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)

- Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)

- UV-VIS spectrometer

- UV-VIS radiometer

- FTIR system

- X-ray Diffraction system, Bragg-Brentano and gracing incidence (XRD)

- I-V system

- Profilometer

- Contact Angle system

- UHV and HV deposition systems (for metals and organic evaporations)

- Electrospinning and Near Field Electospinning systems

- Dip-coating and spin-coating systems

- Ovens (both in air and in other gases, as N2, NH3, H2)