June 2022
Curious to know how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can help with new materials for energy applications? Our article, "Minimal crystallographic descriptors of sorption properties in hypothetical MOFs and
role in sequential learning optimization", shows you one way!
Here we use AI to screen a large dataset of Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs), and target the best ones to
"entrap" water and store thermal energy.
The article, published on the Nature Partner Journal
npj Computational Materials,
is
freely available in Open Access! See also the related news on
LaRepubblica and
PoliFlash magazine.
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June 2022
New article published on
Journal of Energy Storage!
Here we provide a comprehensive overview on the use of additives within selected Phase Change Materials (PCMs), to enhance their properties
for long term Thermal Energy Storage (TES).
The article, "An overview on the use of additives and preparation procedure in phase
change materials for thermal energy storage with a focus on long term applications", is
freely available in Open Access!
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14 December 2018
The new paper "Passive solar high-yield seawater desalination by modular and low-cost distillation" is published on
Nature Sustainability!
The article also obtained the cover page of the
December issue!
A readable version of the article can be
found
here and more info on what is "behind the paper" can be found in
this blog!
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26 November 2018
Eliodoro Chiavazzo of the SMaLL team organized the seminar "Solar Fuels by Artificial Photosynthesis - An Overview" given
by
Prof. Leif Hammarström
(Department of Chemistry, Uppsala University) at the
Energy Center, Politecnico di Torino.
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6 June 2018
Our project proposal for
Alta
Scuola Politecnica (ASP) -
iMat, empowering materials development via artificial intelligence -
has been chosen by the students of the 14th ASP cycle! The students will work in cooperation with
Eliodoro Chiavazzo and Luca Bergamasco of the SMaLL team!
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1-2 February 2018
The SMaLL group, within its activities for the European Materials Modeling Council (EMMC), organized an
Expert Meeting on the promotion of discrete materials models in industry!
The goal of the workshop is to bridge industrial research and academic model development, that is:
When model developers
and industrial researchers meet! Find more info on the
webpage of the event of the
EMMC
website!
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24 October 2017
Presentation video of the SALTLESS project about water desalination and purification using waste energy
recovery
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6 October 2017
Congrats to the students of the team SUNFLOWER, winner of the
Maker Competition 2017
@POLITO! The team wins a ticket for the
Maker Faire 2017 in Rome! Good job also for the other teams (FLEGO, FREEZE, PINGU and PARABOLIC),
for their excellent prototypes for water desalination!
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3 October 2017
Matteo Fasano wins the "Young Researcher of the Year" prize of the
ENI Award 2017! Congrats Matteo from the SMaLL group!
Matteo gives a
Lectio Magistralis on "Heat and Mass Transfer of Water at Nanoscale Solid-Liquid
Interfaces" on Tuesday 3 October at 10:30h in Sala Consiglio di Facoltà , Politecnico di Torino. Come and assist with us!
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20 September 2017
Matteo Morciano, Matteo Fasano, Eliodoro Chiavazzo and Pietro Asinari published an experimental paper
on
Scientific Reports about "Efficient steam generation by inexpensive narrow gap
evaporation device for solar applications".
Read the article!
Schematics and section of the solar steam generator
M. Morciano et al. Scientific Reports 7 11970 (2017)
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21 June 2017
Eliodoro Chiavazzo published a paper on the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America about "Intrinsic map dynamics exploration for uncharted effective free-energy landscapes". Read
the
article and see the news on the
Poliflash Magazine and on the
Italian press...
iMapD exploration procedure for molecular dynamics
E. Chiavazzo et al. PNAS 2017 114 (28) E5494-E5503.
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21 March 2017
Prof. Pietro Asinari presents the NANOSTEP project -
NANOfluid-based Solar absorption for Thermal Energy and water Purification - at the
research @polito day (giornata della ricerca). Check out more on this and other
projects!
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3 October 2016
Matteo Fasano, Eliodoro Chiavazzo and Pietro Asinari published a paper
on
Nature Communications about the "Interplay between hydrophilicity and surface barriers on water transport in zeolite membranes" in collaboration with the Massachussets Institute
of Technology (MIT).
Read more...
Water intrusion in silicate pore
M. Fasano et al. Nature Communications 7 (2016) 12762.
3 August 2018
Prof. Pietro Asinari, has been just appointed member of the
OpenKIM
Advisory Board! The Knowledgebase of Interatomic Models (OpenKIM) is an online framework for making molecular
simulations more reliable, reproducible, and portable.
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16 April 2018
Our paper
Efficient steam generation by inexpensive narrow gap evaporation device for solar applications is in the Top 100 most-read Scientific Reports in 2017!
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5 December 2017
The clean water center (CWC) @POLITO
is at the kick-off! The aim of this center is to gather different expertises
to promote research on innovative technologies for water purification. The SMaLL group is part
of this multi-disciplinary collaboration!
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2 December 2017
Elio and Matteo partecipate to the 5th Edition of the
Maker
Faire Rome with the students of the team SUNFLOWER, winner of the
Maker Competition 2017 @POLITO!
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11 November 2017
The SMaLL group goes on the national TV! Prof. Pietro Asinari explains our activities on
sustainable water treatment at the TV show
MeravigliosaMENTE on La7, with Enrico Bertolino!
If you lost it, the full video is available
here!
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5 October 2017
Matteo Fasano receives the
ENI Award 2017 from the Italian president at the Quirinale in Rome! Matteo wins the "Young Researcher of the Year" prize for its work on heat and mass transfer effects at the nano-scale,
with particular focus on water diffusion in nano-confined environments.
Congrats Matteo, ad maiora!
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29 September 2017
The SMaLL team presents experimental activities on water desalination and purification at the
European Researchers' night
"Notte Europea dei Ricercatori" in Turin: find out photos
and videos of the event
on our
Facebook page!
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22 August 2017
The SMaLL team, in collaboration with
Ale Strachan's Group at
Purdue University,
published an online tool for computing thermal conductivities of carbon nano-tubes on the NanoHub
platform. Two versions of the tool are available: a "scientific" version for fast computations and
a tutorial version for students interested in learning molecular dynamics. Find out more and
try the tool on NanoHub!
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7 April 2017
In the framework of the EMMC-CSA project, Pietro Asinari and Luca Bergamasco took part
in the organization of the first International Workshop
of the European Materials Modeling Council (EMMC) in Vienna (Austria).
Read more...
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10 October 2016
Politecnico di Torino hosts the first edition of the
Maker Competition, where four selected
groups of students from the master courses "Applicazioni Avanzate di Fisica Tecnica" and "Accumulo e
trasporto di energia" present their prototypes for water desalination devices. The winners will
get a ticket for the
Maker Faire 2016
in Rome!
Engineering students present their prototypes for desalination at the Maker Competition
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18 November 2015
The SMaLL team installed at Politecnico a brand-new
solar concentrator with double-axis
sun-tracking system for studying the behaviour of water and nanofluids under concentrated
solar radiation
Discover more...
The new solar concentrator on the rooftop at Politecnico di Torino
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6 February 2014
Eliodoro Chiavazzo, Matteo Fasano and Pietro Asinari published a paper on
Nature Communications
about
the "Scaling behaviour for the water transport in nanoconfined geometries".
Read more...
Confined water molecules (molecular dynamics)
Image copyright - SMaLL 2017
