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VITO DI NOTO

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Position

Professore Ordinario

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VIA F. MARZOLO, 1 - PADOVA

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0498275229

Vito Di Noto is Full Professor of Electrochemistry for Energy and Solid-State Chemistry in the Department of Industrial Engineering (DII) of the University of Padova (UNIPD), Italy. He is “Fellow of The Electrochemical Society”, he is a “Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow” and he is President of the Electrochemistry Division of the Italian Chemical Society.

He is the Head of the Section of Chemistry for Technology in the same Department, and the founder and the team leader of the research group “Chemistry of Materials for the Metamorphosis and the Storage of Energy – CheMaMSE” ( http://wwwdisc.chimica.unipd.it/lab_DiNoto/ ). Recently he has been ranked among the top 2% scientists in the world as per subject wise analysis carried out by Stanford university.

Vito Di Noto is an electrochemist with more than 30 years of experience in the research and development activities of advanced functional materials for electrochemical energy conversion and storage devices, including primary and secondary batteries running on alkaline and alkaline-earth elements. In the late ‘90s he pioneered the secondary magnesium ion battery and devised breakthrough approaches for the synthesis of electrolytes and electrode materials for application in: (i) secondary batteries; (ii) fuel cells operating at low temperatures (e.g., proton exchange membrane fuel cells, PEMFCs); and (iii) redox flow batteries. He also provided seminal contributions to the understanding of the mechanisms of ion conduction in condensed phases. The results of his research activities were the basis of several technology transfer processes and led to several national and international patents sold to private companies.

COMMISSIONS OF TRUST
Prof. Di Noto represents UNIPD in several EU bodies, including:
· the Joint Research Programmes on: (i) Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Technologies (FCs&H2); and (ii) Electrochemical Energy Storage of the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA),
· The Batteries Europe Partnership Association (BEPA);
· Batteries Europe.

Prof. Di Noto belongs to the governance of The Electrochemical Society (ECS), in particular in the Energy Technology Division and in the Physical and Analytical Electrochemistry Division.

Prof. Di Noto belongs to the “Strategic Technical Committee” (Comitato Tecnico Strategico) constituted by Veneto Sviluppo S.p.A. and Regione Veneto.

RESPONSIBILITY IN MEETINGS
He was the Conference Chairman of:
· “21st International Conference on Solid State Ionics – SSI-21”, Padova, Italy, 18-23 June 2017, more than 1400 participants;
· “7th German-Italian-Japanese meeting of Electrochemists – 7th GIJME”, Padova, Italy, 14-16 June 2014, more than 100 participants;
· “12th International Symposium on Polymer Electrolytes – ISPE-12”, Padova, Italy, 29 August – 3 September 2010, more than 280 participants.

SCIENTIFIC PERFORMANCE
a) 311 published papers: 261 are peer-reviewed papers (ISI+SCOPUS), 10 are book chapters, 30 patents (13 international and 17 national, 13 were sold) and 10 are papers on proceedings.
b) The meeting contributions are 296, of which:
i. 199 are oral presentations in international symposia, among which 83 are invited: 60 invited, 16 Keynotes and 8 Plenary Lectures;
ii. 24 are oral presentations in national meetings, of which 4 are invited.
c) July 2021: h-index = 48 (Google Scholar), more than 7720 citations. h-index = 45 (Scopus), more than 6220 citations. h-index = 43 (ISI), more than 6000 citations.

Notices

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  • su appuntamento da decidere per e-mail scrivendo a: vito.dinoto@unipd.it

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Research Area

The research activity of Prof. Di Noto’s group is focused on the preparation and characterization of materials for application in the field of energy. The materials are used to assemble prototype devices which are extensively characterized under operative conditions.

The research work consists in a broad range of activities, including:
• Design of new materials starting from basic chemistry and physics concepts;
• Novel chemical synthesis and processing;
• Advanced materials characterization;
• Measurement of physical and chemical properties;
• Fabrication and evaluation of prototype devices;
• Development of a fundamental understanding of the structure-property-performance relationships of the materials.

In particular, most of the research efforts are devoted to the synthesis and the study of materials for:
• Primary and secondary batteries;
• Redox Flow battery;
• Fuel cells;
• Electrochemical supercapacitors;
• Field-effect transistors;
• Sensors;
• Actuators;
• Photo-electrochemical devices.

Some of the current research activities are briefly outlined below; the publications report the details, and can be found in http://www.chimica.unipd.it/lab_DiNoto/research.html