Dr. Andrea Piovano
| ► instrument responsible on IN8Main areas of expertise : | ||
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| piovano(at)ill.fr | ||
| Location | Building ILL4 - office 350 | |
| Phone | Phone : +33 (0)4 76 20 75 25 | |
| Instr. phone | +33 (0)4 76 20 72 68 | |
| Digital vcard | link to download | |
| Find me | LinkedIn |ORCID ID| Google Scholar | scholarGPS | |
Research Focus
Neutron spectroscopy in condensed matter physics.
. Supported metal nanoparticle catalysis
. Lattice dynamics in disordered oxides,
. Lattice dynamics and magnetic excitations interplay in superconductors
. Density functional theory and for lattice dynamics analysis
. Ab-initio molecular dynamics to study diffusion and disordering affects
Technical Developments
. Development of new instrumentation for neutron scattering (triple axis spectrometers).
. Experimental techniques: Neutron spectroscopy, X-ray absorption spectroscopy, IR, Raman, adsorption isotherms, TPD
Computational/theoretical methods
Ab-initio molecular dynamics simulations, density functional theory calculations. Extensive use of of Monte-Carlo ray-tracing simulations.
Projets & Collaborations
Publications
Full list:
https://epn-library.esrf.fr/flora/jsp/index_dsi.jsp?key=1255
Top 5 publications:
1. E. Vottero, M. Carosso, M. Jiménez-Ruiz, R. Pellegrini, E. Groppo, A. Piovano, Carbon, 169 , 357-369 (2020).
2. T. Tejsner, A. Piovano, A. Tutueanu, A. T. Romer, B. O. Wells, J. C. Grivel, M. Boehm and L. Udby, Physical Review B 101 (10), 6 (2020).
3. J. R. Peet, C. A. Fuller, B. Frick, M. M. Koza, M. R. Johnson, A. Piovano and I. R. Evans, Journal of American Chemical Society 141 (25), 9989-9997 (2019).
4. M. Carosso, E. Vottero, A. Lazzarini, S. Morandi, M. Manzoli, K. A. Lomachenko, M. J. Ruiz, R. Pellegrini, C. Lamberti, A. Piovano and E. Groppo, ACS Catalysis 9 (8), 7124-7136 (2019).
5. D. J. Voneshen, K. Refson, E. Borissenko, M. Krisch, A. Bosak, A. Piovano, E. Cemal, M. Enderle, M. J. Gutmann, M. Hoesch, M. Roger, L. Gannon, A. T. Boothroyd, S. Uthayakumar, D. G. Porter and J. P. Goff, Nature Materials 12 (11), 1027-1031 (2013).