News

January 2021 - New paper on Carbohydrate Polymers: "Recycling alginate composites for thermal insulation" - congrats to Matteo Cibinel!

December 2020 - Vanni Lughi included in the list of top cited scientists 2019

September 2020 - New perspective paper on MRS Energy & Sustainability: “How to avoid the perfect storm: the role of energy and photovoltaics”

April 2020 - Top downloaded paper 2018-2019 of the Journal of American Ceramic Society: "Fourty years after the promise of «ceramic steel?»: zirconia-based composites with a metal-like mechanical behavior"

April 2020 - New paper on Nano-Structures & Nano-Objects: "Engineering of colloidal nanocrystal thin films and their optoelectronic properties: a simple and effective route” - congrats to Emanuele Slejko and Luca Cozzarini

March 2020 - Matteo Cibinel is awarded the Best Poster Award “Recycling of polyanion based thermal insulator composite”, Polymer Connect, International Conference on Polymer Science and Composite Materials, Lisbon, 2020

November 2019 - A new featured article on the Journal of the American Ceramic Society : "Forty years after the promise of «ceramic steel?»: zirconia-based composites with a metal-like mechanical behavior"

January 2019 - New paper on Journal of Physical Chemistry C: “Size Control at Maximum Yield and Growth Kinetics of Colloidal II–VI Semiconductor Nanocrystals”

June 2018 - Vanni Lughi delivers an invited plenary lecture on Nanotechnology and Energy at the 36th SPP Physics Conference, Puerto Princesa, The Philippines

March 2018 - A series of short clips on nanotechnology featuring Vanni Lughi has been published by the national public television

October 2017 - The paper "Precise Engineering of Nanocrystal Shells via Colloidal Atomic Layer Deposition" makes the cover of Chemistry of Materials!

August 2017 - New paper on Chemistry of Materials: "Precise Engineering of Nanocrystal Shells via Colloidal Atomic Layer Deposition"

June 2017 - New paper on Solar Energy: "Mapping land use impact of photovoltaic farms via crowdsourcing" by Vanni Lughi and Giovanni Mauro - a collaboration between engineering and geography!

May 2017 - New article "La forza del sole" by Vanni Lughi and Alessandro Massi Pavan in the new issue of "Sapere" - the first Italian journal for scientific dissemination - entirely dedicated to energy.

Apr 26th, 2017 - Vanni Lughi and Maurizio Fermeglia give a joint seminar at the Collegio di Merito "Luciano Fonda" of the University of Trieste: "Energy as a Global Challenge"

Mar 1st, 2017 - New paper on Energy: "Assessment of implicit and explicit models for different photovoltaic modules technologies"

Dec 13th, 2016 - Vanni Lughi gives a seminar at the Institute for Physical Chemistry, University of Hamburg

Nov 17, 2016 - New paper on Acta Biomaterialia: "Towards long lasting zirconia-based composites for dental implants: Transformation induced plasticity and its consequence on ceramic reliability"