• Graphene synthesis by top-down and bottom-up strategies 

    Cid Perez, Denia marlenis; Pantano, Pietro; Caputi, Lorenzo S.; Tavolaro, Adalgisa (2016-02-26)
    Graphene is a two-dimensional structure arranged in a hexagonal form (similar to a honeycomb) that has unique physicochemical properties and has generated interest in the scientific community for its properties and ...
  • Innovative composite membranes for advanced applications 

    Grasso, Giuseppe; Critelli, Salvatore; Gabriele, Bartolo (2019-05-10)
    Presented thesis work is mainly focused on coatings preparation, their potentiality and applications in membrane science: from water desalination to antibiofouling membranes, to gas separation. In fact, coating preparation ...
  • Physical and Chemical treatments to produce graphene and their related applications 

    Tubon Usca, Gabriela Viviana; Pantano, Pietro; Tavolaro, Adalgisa; Caputi, Lorenzo (2016-02-26)
    In this work Few Layers Graphene (FLG) and Graphene Oxide (GO) were produced by using physical and chemical treatments, and two types of applications were tested with GO. The first application concerns the Drug delivery ...
  • Study of the electronic and structural properties of tin dioxide and armchair graphene nanoribbons 

    Villamagua Conza, Luis Miguel; Pantano, Pietro; Carini, Manuela; Stashans, Arvids (2016-02-02)
    This dissertation is focused on the study of the electrical and structural properties of two emerging materials, the tin dioxide (SnO2) and graphene, which have attracted the interest of the semiconductor-device community ...
  • Synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials: graphene, silicene and carbon nano- onions 

    Osman, Salih Mohamed; Critelli, Salvatore; Caputi, Lorenzo (2017-10-20)
    The electronic structure of the graphene/Ni(111) system was investigated by means of electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS). A single layer of graphene has been obtained on Ni(111) by dissociation of ethylene. Angle-resolved ...