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ALESSANDRO MARTUCCI

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Position

Professore Ordinario

Structure

Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale - DII

Address

VIA F. MARZOLO, 9 - PADOVA

Telephone

0498275506

E-mail

alex.martucci@unipd.it

CURRENT POSITION Full Professor Materials Science Engineering (ING-IND/22), Università di Padova
RECENT APPOINTMENTS
2007-2019 Associate Prof Materials Science Engineering, Università di Padova
1999-2007 Lecturer Materials Science Engineering, Università di Padova
RESEARCH AREAS
26 years of research activities in the field of glass, ceramics, and nanocomposite films obtained by wet chemistry for photonic, optical, and gas sensor applications.
EDUCATION
1997 Ph.D. Materials Science Engineering, Università di Bologna
1993 B.Sc. Physics, Università di Padova
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIS
1999 STA fellowship Research fellow at National Institute of Materials and Chemical Research Tsukuba (Japan). Research activity: sol-gel nanostructured materials for gas sensing applications.
1998-1999 Post-doc fellowship Università di Padova: Innovative glass materials for photonics
1997-1998 UE fellowship Università di Padova: Silcia-germania sol-gel active glasses
VISITING APPOINTMENTS
2002 Visiting Professor at Universitè de Lille I.
2004 Visiting Professor at University of Moncton (Canada).
2004, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2012 Visiting Professor at Melbourne University.
2008 Visiting Scientist at Institute for Chemical Process and Environmental Technology, NRC Canada, Ottawa.
2010 Visiting Professor at Swinburne University.
2013,2016 Visiting Professor at University of New South Wales - Sydney.
2017 Visiting Professor at RMIT University - Melbourne.
PUBLICATIONS / CITATIONS
Career Number of Publications since 1993 more then 250
ISI Web of Science h-Index 39, citations 4660.
INVITED TALKS AND LECTURES
Delivered over 30 invited lectures at various international conferences and Universities.
Most recent Invited talks:
44th International Conference and Expo on Advanced Ceramics and Composites 2020 – Daytona Beach Jan 2020. Silk-titanate nanosheets composites for biophotonic and plasmonic devices
25th International Congress on Glass 2019 – Boston June 2019.
Solution processed nanostructured materials for photonics and energy applications
43th International Conference and Expo on Advanced Ceramics and Composites 2019 – Daytona Beach Jan 2019.- Optical gas sensors based on surface plasmon resonance.
Glass & Optical Materials Division Annual Meeting 2018- San Antonio May 2018.
Solution processed nanostructured materials for functional applications.
TEACHING
19 years of teaching experience, teaching Materials Science Engineering to undergraduate students and Nanostructured Materials to Master students. Supervisor of 11 PhD thesis.
INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSABILITIES
From October 2019 Coordinator of the Master Program in Materials Engineering, Padova University;
From 2005 Member of the Board of Directors of the PhD School on Science and Engineering of Materials and Nanostructures, Padova University;
From 2015 Member of the Internationalization Board of Padova University.
COMMISSIONS OF TRUST
From 2016 Assistant Editor Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology.
From 2017 Assistant Editor Advances in Materials Science and Engineering.
From 2019 Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Small.

Notices

Web page: https://research.dii.unipd.it/nanoeng/

Office hours

  • Tuesday from 14:00 to 15:30
    at Via Marzolo, 9 - Ex Fisica Tecnica
    E' possibile fissare dei colloqui anche in giorni diversi previo appuntamento telefonico o via e-mail.

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Research Area

he current fields of research concern:
- materials with optical properties: reflective, anti-reflective, controlled refractive index, luminescent, with defined coloration;
- materials with mechanical properties: scratch resistance, hard;
- materials for gas sensors or with catalytic properties: polluting gas sensors, self-cleaning materials, to catalyze chemical reactions, to purify air or water, photosensitive materials;
- materials with controlled porosity for filters;
- synthesis of nanopowders and nanoparticles;
- synthesis of polymer matrix nanocomposites.

These materials are developed both with traditional techniques (melting, sintering) and with innovative chemical techniques (sol-gel, colloid chemistry). We are able to synthesize nanopowders of oxides, metals and semiconductors that are used to obtain nanocomposites with functional or structural properties. We also have technologies for the deposition of thin and thick films (spinning, dipping, sprying).

The following characterizations are available in the laboratory:
Thermal analysis: coefficient of expansion, thermo gravimetry, differential thermal analysis;
Spectroscopies: absorbance (transmittance) and UV-VIS-NIR reflectance measurements (also with integrating sphere), FT-IR measurements, luminescence measurements;
Refractive index and film thickness measurements by spectroscopic ellipsometer;
X-ray diffraction for the determination of crystalline phases;
Surface morphology measurements by atomic force microscope;
Mechanical bending and tensile tests.
Gas sensing tests: measurement of the variation of the refractive index or of the absorbance in the presence of gas.

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