Seminar @ DF UniTS - Thu Dec 4th 4.00 pm - R. Ferrando - Alloys at the nanoscale: fascinating structures and properties

[Maria Peressi]

We are pleased to announce the seminar @ DF UniTs: 
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Riccardo Ferrando

Physics Department, University of Genoa, Italy

"Alloys at the nanoscale: fascinating structures and properties" 

Thursday December 4th 2014 - 4:00 pm 
Lecture room A, F building 
Department of Physics, University of Trieste  - via Valerio, 2 

ABSTRACT 
Alloy nanoparticles (often known as nanoalloys) are bi- or multi-component metallic particles in the size range between 1-100 nm. Nanoalloys present a wide variety of structures and properties, that make them suitable for many applications to catalysis, optics, magnetism and biomedicine. The practical use of nanoalloys has a very long history, which dates at least to the Roman age. However the precise characterization of their structures and properties is a recent achievement, mainly of the last two decades. Nanoalloys are now a lively research subject, with several aspects worthy of further investigation. After an overview of their main modern applications, we focus on the structural aspects of nanoalloys, showing how the interplay between atoms of different chemical species leads to the formation of a rich variety of structures, displaying composition- and size-dependent symmetry breaking phenomena and morphological instabilities.

The leaflet can be downloaded here

The calendar of seminars taking place at the Physics Department is available at http://df.units.it/ 
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