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Taking inspiration from nature

Advanced materials and technologies for medicine

Taking inspiration from nature

Photonics for light matter coupling

Exploring physics in quantum fluids

Design and growth of engineered nano-structures

New materials for unique properties

New organic field effect transistors

News & Events

Apr 2, 2020

Notice

Coronavirus (Covid-19): operational guidance to CNR-Nanotec employees

Following ministerial directives aimed at containing the spread of the coronavirus, all activities at the Institute's premises, except for essential services, are interrupted until April 13, 2020. The work continues under the Smart Working regime.

Apr 7-8, 2020
Lecce, Italy

EventWorkshop

EDGE-Tech: Emerging and Disruptive next-GEneration Technologies for POC. Sensors, Chemistry and Microfluidics for Diagnostics

Due to coronavirus emergency the event is suspended and will be posticipated.
EDGE-Tech Workshop will be focused on new, emerging and disruptive technologies with applications at the Point-Of-Care. and will host other projects of Attract network.

Apr 21-24, 2020
Clermont-Ferrand, France

EventConference

PLMCN-2020

Attention: the dates have changed. The conference will take place in the end of October (27th-30th).
International Conference on Physics of Light-Matter Coupling in Nanostructures.

Jan 10, 2020

Publication

Directional Goldstone waves in polariton condensates close to equilibrium

Quantum fluids of light are realized in semiconductor microcavities using exciton-polaritons, solid-state quasi-particles with a light mass and sizeable interactions. Here, we use the microscopic analogue of oceanographic techniques to measure the excitation spectrum of a thermalised polariton condensate. Increasing the fluid density, we demonstrate the transition from a free-particle parabolic dispersion to a linear, sound-like Goldstone mode characteristic of superfluids at equilibrium. Notably, we reveal the effect of an asymmetric pumping by showing that collective excitations are created with a definite direction with respect to the condensate. Furthermore, we measure the critical sound speed for polariton superfluids close to equilibrium.

Nature Communications - 11, 217 (2020)

Jan 15, 2020

Award

Scholar-in-Training AACR Award to Marta Cavo.

Marta Cavo, INTERCELLMED-ERC postdoc fellow at CNR-Nanotec in Lecce (IT), was awarded the "Scholar-in-Training Award" (USD $625) by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). The selection rewards her participation in the international conference "The Evolving Landscape of Cancer Modeling", organized by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), to be held on March 2-5, 2020 in San Diego, California, where she will present the work "Quantifying stroma-tumor cell interactions in three-dimensional cell culture systems".
Due to novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, the AACR2020 meeting is being planned for later this year.

Mar 16-17, 2020

EventWorkshop

International Workshop - Laser plasmas and nanomaterials

Due to coronavirus emergency the event is suspended and will be posticipated.
On 16 and 17 March 2020, at the Department of Chemistry in Bari, an international workshop "Laser plasmas and nanomaterials" will be held, which will address the issues of laser-matter interaction in liquid, the role of plasmas in liquid ablation and the production and applications of nanomaterials synthesized as follows. The workshop has been jointly organized by the Department of Chemistry of the University of Bari and the Institute of Nanotechnology - CNR-NANOTEC of Bari.