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Surfaces and interfaces play a dominant role in controlling the aggregation and properties of inorganic, organic, and biological systems at the micro- and nano-scale. Understanding such phenomena and their applications is thus a key to advancing nanoscience and nanotechnology.

  

S3 is the CNR-NANO National Research Center devoted to "nanoStructures and bioSystems at Surfaces", and is based on a multidisciplinary approach and close interaction between experimental and theoretical activities.



Research at S3 is structured along the following lines:

 

NanoBioSystems

1. Lipid-protein interaction in model membranes

2. Biomolecular interfacial electron transport

3. Electrical drive of biological reactions at surfaces

4. Single molecule manipulation by optical tweezers

 

NanoMagnetism

5. Molecular magnetism

6. Magnetic molecules & nanoparticles at surfaces

7. Spintronics and nano-devices

8. Modelling of molecular spin clusters

 

NanoFabrication and surface/interface phenomena at the nanoscale

9. Nanofabrication and high-resolution microscopy by ion and electron beams

10. Transmission Electron Microscopy

11. Nanoscale metal/oxide systems

12. Magnetic interactions at interfaces and confined systems

13. Hybrid organic-inorganic interfaces

14. Nanotribology and functionalized coatings

15. Nanofriction

 

Theory and simulation of nanostructured materials

16. Nanotribology

 


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