Advanced materials for design and photonic applications (UO3)

The objectives of the operational unit include:

• Development of integrated platforms for advanced product and process design, oriented toward materials and technologies, manufacturing processes, and innovative assembly methods

• Development of innovative laboratories for mechanical, microstructural, physico-chemical, and technological characterization, focused on classes of non-conventional materials

• Development of innovative laboratories for Photonic Applications

• Development of innovative processes for producing materials with advanced properties

• Development of prototype products for demonstration purposes

The main industrial sectors for the application of innovative materials are:

• Transport systems (automotive, motorcycling, railway, aerospace, and naval sectors)

• Automatic machinery, robotics, and the packaging industry

• Machine tools

• Polymers, composites, ceramics, and nanostructured materials

• Biomedical and diagnostic sectors

• Photonics

• Energy and environmental sectors

• Plasma technologies

• Food industry

• Industrial and distribution logistics