Low dimensional Advanced Materials

The group is formed by experts in the growth and characterization of materials. During the last years the group has focused its activities on surfaces, interfaces and nanoparticles (NPs). Between 2012 and 2018 the group has also achieved technological developments that have led to 5 patents, 3 of them being licensed (for high performance AFM tips and growth of NPs) and it has created 2 spin-off companies. The efforts in technological developments have provided new tools to manufacture novel nanomaterials whose properties and applications are under study. The group can produce significant quantities of NPs controlling their size, size distribution, chemical composition and structure (alloy, core@shell, core@shell@shell). The optimization of the manufacturing technique allows the generation of NPs quantities that open the possibility of performing proof of concept experiments for applications in nanomedicine and energy or to generate new architectures like nanocolumns made of NPs.