Seminars

10th March 2022

Sergio Brutti (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy).

"Li-rich layered oxides (LRLO) for lithium cells: pushing positive electrodes to their limits" (leaflet)

 

1st March 2022

Giovanni Bistoni (University of Perugia, Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnologies, Italy).

"Novel correlated electronic structure methods for real-life chemical applications. Combining high accuracy and chemical insight" (leaflet)

 

12th October 2021

Alessandro Pezzella (University of Naples “Federico II” Deparment of Physics "Ettore Pancini").

"Le eumelanine: da un antico pigmento un nuovo materiale per la bioelettronica. Prospettive e problematiche" (leaflet)

 

28th May 2021

Ali Kachmar (Computational Laboratory for Hybrid/Organic Photovoltaics (CLHYO), Institute of Chemical Sciences and Technologies “Giulio Natta" (CNR-SCITEC) of Perugia, Italy).

"Anharmonicity and octahedral titling inperovskites crystals" (leaflet)

 

20th February 2020

Antonio Abate (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Germany).

"Novel materials for stable perovskite solar cells" (leaflet)

 

14th January 2020

Luca Gregori (University of Perugia, Italy).

"Reactive scattering of O2 on Cu(111) and / CuMLRu(0001) by means of AIMD" (leaflet)

 

14th January 2020

Costanza Borghesi (University of Perugia, Italy).

"Electronic Structure and Optical Properties of Zn-Porphyrin adsorbed on Cu cluster: A DFT/TD-DFT study" (leaflet)

 

11th December 2019

Paolo Umari (University of Padova, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Italy).

"Taming electron-phonon coupling in perovskites solar-cells" (leaflet)

 

28th November 2019

Eugene A. Katz (Dept. of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus, Israel).

"Ultra-efficient photovoltaics: solar concentration vs External photon recycling " (leaflet)

 

22nd November 2019

Kimberly A. Gray (Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering -Chemical & Biological Engineering, by courtesy - Northwestern University, Evanston, IL).

"Unexpected Interactions of Photoactive Nanomaterial Mixtures under Environmental Conditions" (leaflet)

 

18th November 2019

Tom Schmitt (Member of the Materials Science and Engineering department at Northwestern University, USA).

"Experimental and Computational modeling of Titanium Dioxide containing paints" (leaflet)

 

11th October 2019

Giovanni Bistoni (Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Germany).

"Local Coupled Cluster Theory applied to Real-Life Chemical Problems" (leaflet)

 

26th September 2019

Merlin Méheut (Paul Sabatier University - Toulouse III, France).

"The fractionation of Zn isotopes and their use in understanding elementary physico-chemical processes in natural systems" (leaflet)

 

04th June 2019

Jihan Loubani (University of Perugia, Italy).

"Computational modeling of the interaction between acetic acid and zinc oxide" (leaflet)

 

17th May 2019

Prashant V. Kamat (Editor in Chief ACS Energy Letters - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Radiation Laboratory Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA).

"The Art of Scientific Publication (How to Make Your Next Paper Scientifically Effective?)" (leaflet)

 

16th May 2019

Xiaoyang Zhu (Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA).

"Excitons, phonons, and electrons in two-dimensional semiconductors and heterojunctions" (leaflet)

 

16th May 2019

Prashant V. Kamat (Radiation laboratory, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA).

"Opportunities and Challenges in Perovskite Photovoltaic Research" (leaflet)

 

19th December 2018

Carlo Alberto Gaggioli (Department of Chemistry, Chemical Theory Center and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, USA).

"Metal-organic frameworks for applications in catalysis and conductivity" (leaflet)

 

10th December 2018

Alessandro Senocrate (Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart, Germany and
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Defects and transport in methylammonium lead iodide" (leaflet)

 

10th December 2018

Tom Schmitt (Member of the Materials Science and Engineering department at Northwestern University, USA).

"Experimental and Computational approaches to studying Titanium Dioxide photoactivity in early 20th century paints" (leaflet)

 

25th May 2018

Miriam von Holst (Università degli studi di Perugia - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istitute of Molecular Science and Technologies - KU Leuven).

"Theoretical investigation of indigo dye and derivatives as potential sensitizers in dye-sensitized solar cells" (leaflet)

 

24th May 2018

Guido Roma (DEN-Service de Recherches de Métallurgie Physique, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, France).

“Does the optical signature of oxidized polyethylene stem from saturated or unsaturated carbonyl defects?” (leaflet)

 

24th May 2018

Arthur Marronnier (Doctoral Researcher & Teaching Fellow - Perovskite Solar Cells at LPICM Lab, Polytechnique College, Paris-Saclay University, France).

“Anharmonicity and Disorder in the Black Phases of CsPbI3 used for Stable Inorganic Perovskite Solar Cells” (leaflet)

 

8th May 2018

Alessandro Cannavale (Assistant Professor of Applied Thermodynamics, Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Ingegneria Civile e dell'Architettura - Politecnico di Bari, Italy).

"Energy and visual comfort assessment for building integrated devices for glazings" (leaflet)

 

23rd April 2018

Sergei Manzhos (Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore - NUS).

"Computational materials modelling and design for next generation solar cell & metal-ion battery technologies" (leaflet)

 

4th April 2018, 3:15 pm

Dirk Guldi (Associate Dean for Research - School of Science. Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials (ICMM) - Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg).

"Singlet Fission in Molecular Pentacene Materials" (leaflet)

 

4th April 2018, 12:00 pm

Dirk Guldi (Associate Dean for Research - School of Science. Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials (ICMM) - Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg).

"Nanocarbons in Solar Energy Conversion Schemes" (leaflet)

 

9th March 2018

Nick Serpone (Head, Materials Sciences Division and Member of the General Board, European Academy of Sciences; Visiting Professor, PhotoGreen Laboratory, Dip. di Chimica, Universita di Pavia, Italia; Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada).

"Factors that impact water splitting in semiconductor photocatalysis – will Jules Verne’s and Giacomo Ciamician’s predictions ever see the light of day" (leaflet)

 

8th March 2018

Nick Serpone (Head, Materials Sciences Division and Member of the General Board, European Academy of Sciences; Visiting Professor, PhotoGreen Laboratory, Dip. di Chimica, Universita di Pavia, Italia; Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada).

"Heterogeneous photocatalysis and solar fuels" (leaflet)

 

23rd February 2018

Maurizia Palummo (Professore Associato, INFN e Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Italia)

"2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides: fundamental properties and applications" (leaflet)

 

23rd January 2018

Daniele Meggiolaro (CNR-ISTM Perugia, Italy)

"Computational modelling of defects in solids by DFT techniques"

 

16th January 2018

Alfredo Sánchez de Merás (Instituto de Ciencia Molecular, Universitat de Valencia, Spain)

"The use of Cholesky decomposition in electronic structure calculations" (leaflet)

 

30th November 2017

Enrico Ronca (Max-Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg, Germany)

"Modeling Spectra of Strongly Correlated Realistic Systems and Beyond” (leaflet)

 

13th November 2017

Paolo Carloni (Director Computational Biomedicine Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany)

"Multiscale Simulations Of G-Proteins Coupled Receptors" (leaflet)

 

17th October 2017

Arthur Marronnier (Doctoral Researcher & Teaching Fellow - Perovskite Solar Cells at LPICM Lab, Polytechnique College, Paris-Saclay University, France)

"Anharmonicity and dielectric properties in hybrid and inorganic perovskite materials used for
photovoltaics applications" (leaflet)

 

30th June 2017

Hisao Nakamura (Research Center for Computational Advanced Functional Materials; National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan)

"The resistive switching mechanism of interfacial phase change memory and its topological phase by first-principles modelling" (leaflet) (abstract)

 

7th June 2017

Thibaud Etienne (Institut Charles Gerhardt - Chimie Théorique, Méthodologies, Modélisation; CNRS and Université de Montpellier, France)

"Generalization of electronic transitions topological analyses to relaxed excited states density matrices" (leaflet)

 

14th December 2016

Ivan Rivalta (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS, France)

"Tracking allosteric signals with community network analysis"

 

1st July 2016

Ali Kachmar (Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, Doha, Qatar)

"Free energy landscape for the lithium solvation in protic ionic liquids from first principles simulations"

 

9th December 2015

Daniele Meggiolaro (CNR-ISTM Perugia, Italy)

"Theoretical study of the conversion reaction of MgH2 in Li-ion batteries"

 

9th November 2015

Daniel Sapori (CNRS, INSA de Rennes,  France)

"Quantum and Dielectric Confinement of Charge Carriers and Excitons and Rashba-Dresselhaus effect in Hybrid Perovskite Heterostructures"

 

11th June 2015

Thibaud Etienne (University of Lorraine & University of Namur, Belgium)

"Development and application of novel theoretical strategies devoted to the study of molecular excited states"

 

9th June 2015

Ali Akbari (University of Helsinki, Finland)

"Interface effects on perovskite solar cells"

 

22nd December 2014

Giacomo Giorgi (University of Tokyo)

"From hybrid perovskites to TiO2/graphene nanohybrids. The rise of more performing materials in PV and photocatalysis"

 

21st November 2014

Enrico Ronca (CNR-ISTM Perugia)

"Ground and excited state charge transfer processes: theory, modelling and applications in hybrid photovoltaics”

 

30th April 2014

Silvia Picozzi  (CNR-SPIN L'Aquila)              

"Spin-orbit-coupling: a small interaction leading to big surprises"

8th April 2014

Enrico Ronca (CNR-ISTM Perugia)

"Quantum Computing: the future of Chemical Simulation"

 

5th March 2014

Paolo Umari (Dipartimento Di Fisica E Astronomia “Galileo Galilei”, Università degli Studi di Padova)

"Modeling perovskite solar cells by relativistic GW calculations"

 

6th December 2013

Aleksandrs Terentjevs (Distretto Tecnologico ISUFI, Università del Salento, Lecce)

"Ab initio DFT and TDDFT investigations of the interfacial electronic and optical properties in metal interfaces with large dipolar organic molecules and semiconductors."

 

24th  October 2013

David Beljonne (Université de Mons - UMONS /Materia Nova, Belgium)

"Organic Solar Cells: how do they work"

 

21st  October 2013

Dr. Bhanuprakash Kotamarthi (Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, INDIA)

 

5th  July 2013

Rinaldo Psaro (CNR Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie Molecolari )

"Chimica e…vite avventurose dei metalli nobili"

 

22nd May 2013

Claudio Quarti (Politecnico di Milano,  Dipartimento di Chimica, Materiali e Ingegneria Chimica “G. Natta”)

"Exciton properties and IR spectroscopic response of organic materials from a supramolecular perspective"

 

18th February 2013

Paolo Umari (Dipartimento Di Fisica E Astronomia “Galileo Galilei”, Università degli Studi di Padova)

15th February 2013

Daniele Fazzi (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Politecnico di Milano)

"Modeling of charge transport properties and photoinduced events in organic π conjugated materials"

 

25th January 2013

Luigi Ambrosio (Direttore del Dipartimento Scienze Chimiche e Tecnologie dei Materiali del CNR, Napoli)

"Polymer and composite structures for tissue regeneration"

 

14th December 2012

Joaquin Calbo (Department of Phyisical Chemistry / University of Valencia)

"Monodentate or Bidentate? The role of donor-acceptor tweezers and their anchoring modes in DSCs"

 

4th December 2012

Saurabh Agrawal (Postdoc with Dr. Filippo De Angelis)

"Role of ionic additives in solid-state Dye-sensitized Solar Cells: An ab-initio study"

 

19th November 2012

Laurent Lasser (Université de Mons - UMONS /Materia Nova, Belgium)

"Engineering of new materials for hybrid dye sensitized solar cells :Quantum chemistry design of molecular dyes"

 

8th June 2012

Anders Hagfeldt (Uppsala University, Department of Chemistry - Ångström Laboratory, Physical Chemistry, Sweden)

"Can we develop a joint experimental and theoretical DSC tool-box?"

 

21st May 2012

Malapaka Chandrasekharam (Solar Energy Laboratory, I& PC Division, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, INDIA)

"A New Certified Record Efficiency in Dye Sensitized Solar Cells with a novel Co-adsorbent”

 

17th May 2012

Annamaria Petrozza (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Politecnico di Milano)

"Effect of Selective Interactions at the Interface of Polymer-Oxide Hybrid Solar Cells"

 

22nd  March 2012

Ermanno Imbergamo (Università degli Studi di Perugia, Dipartimento di Fisica)

"Fisica delle celle solari inorganiche"

 

2nd  December 2011

Anders Hagfeldt (Uppsala University, Department of Chemistry - Ångström Laboratory, Physical Chemistry, Sweden)

"A recent breakthrough for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells"