Laboratory sheet

Research topics :

• Bioactive materials: synthesis, experimental and computational characterization of bioactive glasses (silicate and phosphosilicate), apatites and metal nanoparticles. The scientific activity is devoted to define the best conditions of synthesis and composition to modulate the different dimensions (from nano to micro dimensions) and the species released for specific requests.

• Ceramic Pigments: Specific applications are related to synthesis and characterization by means of solid state techniques of inorganic photoluminescent pigments and the study of their applications. For each materials, a chemical risk assessment and evaluation of SDS on the basis of REACH and CLP is performed. The techniques utilized are: X-ray diffraction (XRD) with Rietveld method, Scanning electron microscopy (SEM, ESEM, EDS), Transmission electron microscopy (TEM, EDS), Atomic force microscopy (AFM), Inductively Coupled Plasma. Spectroscopy (ICP), Spectroscopy UV-vis, IR (UV-vis, FT-IR) and Thermal Analysis (TG, DTA, DSC).