NanoItaly2006 / Programme

Monday 22/05/2006	Tuesday 23/05/2006	Wednesday 24/05/2006
SESSION 1	SESSION 5	SESSION 9
8:00 Registration	8:40 Invited U.B. Sleytr Molecular Nanotechnology with 2D Protein Crystals	8:40 Invited Ch. Niemeyer
9:00 Invited - opening Ch. Gerber Towards personalized medicine based on nanomechanics	9:25 L.L. Del Mercato Self-assembled amyloid-like fibrils: elastic properties and nanomanipulation by AFM	9:25 C. Dri Structure and reactivity of the Rh(110) surface oxide
9:45 F. Valle Single molecule force spectroscopy investigation of the structure of human a-synuclein	9:45 M. Castronovo Nanografting and Lateral Force Microscopy applied to the differential study of hydroxyl-terminated Self Assembled Monolayers on Au(111)	9:45 L. Savio Interaction of a long molecular wire with flat and nanopatterned metal substrates: Violet Landers at Cu(111) and Cu(211)
10:05 M. Brucale Linear and Circular Self-Assembled Supramolecular Polymers Made of DNA Parallelograms	10:05 A. Migliore First-Principles DFT Calculations of Electron Transfer Rates in Azurin Dimers	10:05 L.G. Rosa Correlating Electron Transport Properties with Molecular Structures: Combination of Conductive-Probe AFM Experiments and DFT Calculations
	10:25 Invited P. Facci Biomolecular Nanoelectronics: a Dual Approach
10:25 coffee	11:10 coffee	10:25 coffee
SESSION 2	SESSION 6	SESSION 10
10:45 Invited A. Tredicucci Controlling the emission of THz Quantum Cascade Lasers	11:30 Invited P. Baglioni Amphiphilic self-assemblies decorated by Nucleobases	10:45 Invited E. Barrena Controlled growth of self-organized organic systems of low dimensionality
11:30 S. Ciappelli Hybrid LbL/LB Films of Conjugated Polymers for OLED Applications Studied by Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy (CLSM) and Brewster Angle Microscopy (BAM)	12:15 A. Mateo-Alonso Rotaxanated fullerene-ferrocene dyads for conversion of light into energy	11:30 S. de Gironcoli Engineering the reactivity of metal catalysts: low temperature methanol synthesis
11:50 A. Liscio Quantitative measurement of the local surface potential of π-conjugated nanostructures: a Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy exploration	12:35 D. Bonifazi Supramolecular Nanostructuring of Silver Surfaces via Self-assembly of C60 Fullerene and Porphyrin Modules	11:50 R. Mazzarello The Structure of Methylthiolates on Au(111) Surface: a Combined Theoretical and Experimental Study
12:10 E. Pavlica Electrical characterization of metal-organic semiconductor interfaces in oligothiophene-based thin film transistors		12:10 G. Bracco Study of the (3x4)-(V3×V3) phase transition of CH3S self assembled monolayers on Au(111)
12:30 – 15:00 Lunch Poster session A POSTER_A.pdf	12:55 – 15:00 Lunch Poster session B POSTER_B.pdf	12:30 – 15:00 Lunch Poster session C POSTER_C.pdf
SESSION 3	SESSION 7	SESSION 11
15:00 Invited E. Di Fabrizio Nanotechnology for Biomedicine	15:00 Invited D. Mihailovic Functional properties of MoSIx nanowires	15:00 Invited R. Gebauer Quantum kinetic simulation of suspended current-carrying nanotubes
15:45 G. Ceccone Fabrication of Functional Nano-structured Surfaces for Protein Based Sensor Platforms	15:45 U. Tartaglino Sliding versus rotatory intrinsic friction in nanotubes	15:45 A.N. Smogunov Magnetic properties and electron transport in monatomic Pt nanowires
16:05 M. Cavallini Improvement of material properties in thin solid films of Functional Materials via Bottom-Up nanostructuration	16:05 H. Amenitsch Self-assembly processes of molecules to nanoparticles as seen by small angle X-ray scattering	16:05 M. Piccin Electrical and optical characterization of Mn-catalyzed GaAs nanowires
16:25 D. Pisignano Soft lithographies, nanoimprinting, electrospinning for patterning molecular materials at sub100 nm	16:25 D. Prezzi Ab initio study of the optical properties of carbon nanotubes	16:25 V. Palermo Electric field assisted alignment of supramolecular nanofibers: a new surface nanoconstruction approach
		16:45 P.D. Cozzoli Synthesis and characterization of colloidal tetrapod-shaped magnetic nanocrystals
16:45 coffee	16:45 coffee	17:05 coffee
SESSION 4	SESSION 8	SESSION 12
17:05 Invited M. Caldas Tuning of Si surfaces by organic monolayers: a view from theory	17:05 Invited V. Dediu Manganites for Organic Spintronics	17:25 Invited - closing M.A. Rampi Controlling and Gating Current Flowing through Metal-molecules-Metal Junctions
17:50 C. Africh Oxygen storage and release by Ceria: New insights into the mechanism based on STM data	17:50 A. Camposeo Polymer-based nanophotonics: energy transfer and polarisation effects	18:10 'Best Student Prize'
18:10 A. Straub Dynamics of the scanning probe-induced transformation of rotaxane thin films into 2D arrays of nanostripes	18:10 R. Capelli Ambipolar organic light-emitting transistors
18:30 L. Sorace Magnetic and morphological characterization of organic radicals assembled on surfaces	SOCIAL DINNER Nano-bio prize (offered by CBM)