ITM INTERNATIONAL MEMBRANE WEBINARS 2021

A series of lectures
given by academic and industrial top-players of the membrane community


Program

9 June 2021 
Achieving hyper-resolution in direct laser writing using epsilon-near-zero meta-materials
Seminar presented by: Giuseppe Lio 

 

An increasing amount of research is being devoted to improving the spatial resolution of photo-polymerization in direct laser writing, a method used to microfabricate photonic circuits, ordering matrices for nanoemitters, and plasmonic-photonic transistors, just to name a few. Hyperbolic metamaterials and nanocavities enable a variety of uncommon optical effects such as extraordinary transmittance, zero reflectance, giant dephasing, and epsilon-near-zero permittivity. We used a metal/insulator/metal/insulator planar multilayer to upgrade a standard two-photon direct laser writing process to hyper resolution. The improved resolution opens new possibilities in the microfabrication of next-generation 2d/3d nanoscale devices, ordering matrices for nanoparticles, flexible substrate with tunable plasmonic resonance, and in thermoplasmonics. Moreover, a high resolution is crucial for industrial applications in fields such as anti-counterfeiting and flat optics. Having reduced the voxel size by about 89% in height and 50% in width, we fabricated microlabels encoding physical unclonable functions, and apochromatic broadband metalenses with an extended focal length and depth of focus, with a numerical aperture of 0.87.

ITM International seminar 6 June 2021


Program

19h May 2021 19h May 2021
MEMBRANES IN FOOD AND BEVERAGE APPLICATION

09:00 – 09:10
Moderators: Dr. Alfredo Cassano, Dr. Carmela Conidi

09:10 – 09:50
Overview and outlook on membranes, modules and applications in the food and beverage industry
Prof. Frank Lipniski,
Lund University, Lund, Sweden

09:50 – 10:30
Membrane applications in protein processing
Dr. Aurelié Dupuy
ALFA LAVAL, Lund, Sweden

For registration send an email to: itmwebinars@itm.cnr.it

ITM International Seminar 27 May 2021


Program

27h April 2021
MEMBRANE REACTORS

 

09:00 – 09:10
Moderators: Dr. Giuseppe Barbieri, Dr. Adele Brunetti

09:10 – 09:50
Membranes and Membrane reactors
Prof. Fausto GALLUCCI
Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

09:50 – 10:30
Industrial perspectives of membrane reactors in the energy sector
Dr. Camel Makhloufi
ENGIE Lab CRIGEN/ H2 Lab, Stains, France

 


Program

24th March 2021
POLYMERIC MEMBRANE PREPARATION

 

09:00 – 09:10
Introduction to the ITM International Membrane Webinars
Dr. Alberto Figoli (CNR-ITM Director)

Moderators:
Dr. Alberto Figoli; Dr. Annarosa Gugliuzza

09:10 – 09:50
Specialty Polymers for Membrane Applications
Dr. Emanuele DI NICOLO’
SOLVAY SPECIALTY POLYMER, Bollate (MI), Italy

09:50 – 10:30
Temperature Induced Phase Separation (TIPS) technique for making polymeric membranes
Prof. Tao He
Shanghai Advanced Research Institute (SARI), Shanghai, China


For registration send an email to: itmwebinars@itm.cnr.it

ITM International Seminars March program