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Dr. Andrea Piovano

instrument responsible on IN8

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E-mail piovano@ill.fr
Location Building ILL4 - office 350
Phone +33 (0)4 76 20 75 25
Instr. phone +33 (0)4 76 20 72 68
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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.

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).