Nanos: Can the invisible reshape our future? | Workshop & Lab Registration

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2. Select Plenary & Lab Sessions You Plan to Attend *

Session 1: Sept 17 Morning (Plenary Speeches & Optics) Session 2: Sept 17 Afternoon (Synthesis & Nanorestoration) Session 3: Sept 18 Morning (Reticular Chem & Nanofluidics) Session 4: Sept 18 Afternoon (Hands-on Laboratory Workshop Selected Below)

3. Select Your Specific Hands-on Laboratory (Choose One) *

Ernesto Placidi

AFM Lab (Sapienza)

Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)

Hands-on scanning probe microscopy to investigate surface morphology, structural evolution, and mechanical properties of nanostructures.

Seats: 4 / 15 remaining

M. Gioia Fabiano & Eleonora D’Intino

Nanomedicine Lab (Sapienza)

Amphiphile-Based Nanomedicines: Principles, Rational Design, and Characterization

The practical sessions will open with an introductory overview of nanocarrier fundamentals and the relevant theoretical background. In the laboratory, students will observe a rational design approach, formulating, purifying, and characterizing several types of nanocarriers obtained through different preparation methods, all starting from the same surfactant. This will illustrate how a single set of starting materials can be strategically tailored to yield distinct nanostructures, depending on the intended therapeutic application.

Seats: 8 / 15 remaining

Leonetta Baldassarre

IR & THz Lab (Sapienza)

Exploring quantum excitations with Fourier Transform infrared spectroscopy

Participants will learn the basics of this experimental technique, performing some measurements with our aid.

Seats: 3 / 15 remaining

Marta De Luca

Micro-Raman Lab (Sapienza)

Try turning a semiconductor nanowire into a nanolaser !

By using optical nanospectroscopy, probe the optical resonances in a nanowire cavity, and play with different refractive indexes, cavity lengths and gain media to create your nanolaser.

Seats: 10 / 10 remaining

Maria Laura Santarelli

Heritage Nanotech (Sapienza)

HERITAGE-LAB Nanotech

Practical application of materials science to historical artifacts: synthesizing and applying eco-friendly protective nanocoatings.

Seats: 9 / 15 remaining

Marco Felici

Photonics Lab (Sapienza)

Coupling light-emitting 2D materials with on-chip photonic circuits

During this interactive laboratory demonstration, participants will explore how laser power, temperature, and excitation-spot position affect the intensity of the light emitted by a two-dimensional crystal and coupled into a lithographically defined photonic waveguide.

Seats: 6 / 6 remaining

Tommaso Giovannini

Computational Lab (Tor Vergata)

Computational Plasmonics

Perform theoretical simulations and molecular modeling of localized surface plasmon resonances in molecule-nanoparticle hybrids.

Seats: 11 / 15 remaining

Michele Rota

Quantum Optics Lab

The true nature of light

In this workshop, we will discover whether light is just a wave or if a quantum theory is necessary to describe it. I will first give a theoretical introduction to the second-order autocorrelation function, how to measure it, and how it helps to distinguish different types of light. After this, we will visit a quantum optics lab where we will measure the second-order autocorrelation function in real-time using the light emission from a semiconductor quantum dot to prove that a wave-only description fails under certain circumstances, demonstrating that light is indeed quantized.

Seats: 5 / 5 remaining

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