The 1st International Short School on Smart Materials for opto-electronic Applications program was held on 7th and 8th of September 2021

Human evolution is linked to the manipulation of the environment. Since the first hominid to use a stone as a tool — or a bone according to the iconic scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey —, we have come to recognize this as materials science. This discipline uses physics, chemistry and engineering to study how materials are formed and what their physical properties are, as well as to discover and develop new materials, such as smart materials in order to find new uses applicable to any sector.

Description of the school content

The main scope of this International School is to provide a rapid training on 6 different advanced technologies, namely:

The aim is to bring to the attendees the concepts and basic working principles of the above Smart Materials Technologies from experts in the fields coming from both Academy and industries. Moreover, lectures will be given for addressing complete understanding of how the Smart Materials have been exploited for achieving recent significant results in ground breaking research of the FET project PULSE-COM as well as in applied sciences by investigators working in the PULSE-COM Consortium.

General introduction

General introduction” of that School by Lucia Petti, Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems – ISASI, CNR

Piezo-electric Materials

Exploration of materials properties and new materials discovery through atomistic simulation” by Mateusz Wlazło, Centrum Badań i Rozwoju Technologii dla Przemysłu S.A. Research and Development Center of Technology for Industry

Photo-active Materials

Photosensitive self-assembled photonic crystals: heliconical cholesterics” by Francesco Simoni, Università Politecnica delle Marche

How to play with DNA and myelin with light?” by Katarzyna Matczyszyn, Advanced Materials Engineering and Modelling Group Faculty of Chemistry Wroclaw University of Science and Technology

Synthesis and characterization of liquid crystal based photomobile polymers” by Domenico Sagnelli, Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems – ISASI, CNR

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Nano-fabrication by top down and bottom up approaches: Electron Beam Lithography and Colloidal Lithography

Plasmononics and nanoplasmonics SPR” by Bogdan Sava, National Institute of Plasma, Radiation and Lasers Physics – INFLPR

Opal and inverse opal synthesis” by Bogdan Sava, National Institute of Plasma, Radiation and Lasers Physics – INFLPR

Laser patterning” by Calin Bogdan Stefanita, National Institute of Plasma, Radiation and Lasers Physics – INFLPR

Manmade cutting edge materials for light control and manipulation at the nanoscale” by Lucia Petti, Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems – ISASI, CNR

Advanced printing technologies & additive manufacturing

Advanced printing technologies & additive manufacturing” by Dumitru Ulieru, S.C. SITEX 45 S.R.L.

Gravure Printing for functional layer production” by Maria Montanino, SSPT-PROMAS-NANO ENEA

Inkjet printing functional layers up to complete devices” by Fulvia Villani, SSPT-PROMAS-NANO ENEA

Characterization techniques and their implementation in Smart Materials and devices

Organic materials for flexible electronics: impedance measurements and device limits” by Giuseppe Nenna, SSPT-PROMAS-NANO ENEA

Design and Characterizations of 2D Plasmonic Nanostructures” by Massimo Rippa, Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems – ISASI, CNR

Functionalization of gold plasmonic materials for sensing application” by Ambra Vestri and Valentina Marchesano, Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems – ISASI, CNR

Application of Smart Materials

Nanocomposite and nanostructure a way to coupling the light” by Giuseppe Nenna, SSPT-PROMAS-NANO ENEA

Energy haversting in context of unprecedented IoT growth” by Maciej Haras, Center for Advanced Materials and Technologies-CEZAMAT, Warsaw University of Technology

Smart materials for innovative actuators” by Jolan Gauthier, CEDRAT TECHNOLOGIES

2DPCs on of PMP for wavelenght selector applications” by Dumitru Ulieru, S.C. SITEX 45 S.R.L