Dr. Andrea Piovano
Office : 350, ILL 4 3rd floor
Phone : +33 (0)4 76 20 75 25
E-mail : piovano@ill.fr
Responsibilities
► IN8 Instrument First-Responsible
Research Interests
. 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.
Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae (pdf - 514 Ki) (pdf - 602 Ki)
Top five 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).
List of Publications