Tailored Functional Oxide Nanomaterials

1. Vapor Phase Growth of Metal Oxide Thin Films and Nanostructures 2. Addressing Complex Transition Metal Oxides at the Nanoscale: Bottom-Up Syntheses of Nano-Objects and Properties 3. Nanosized Oxides Supported on Arrays of Carbon Nanotubes: Synthesis Strategies and Performances Of TiO2/CNT Systems 4. Computational Approaches to the Study of Oxide Nanomaterials and Nanoporous Oxides 5. Functional Spinel Oxide Nanomaterials: Tailored Synthesis and Applications 6. Photo-Induced Processes in Metal Oxide Nanomaterials 7. Metal Oxide Nanomaterials for Nitrogen Oxides Removal in Urban Environments 8. Synthesis and Characterization of Oxide Photocatalysts for CO2 Reduction 9. Functionalized Titania Coatings for Photocatalytic Air and Water Cleaning 10. Metal Oxides for Photo-Electrochemical Fuel Production 11. Tailoring Porous Electrode Structures by Materials Chemistry and 3D Printing for Electrochemical Energy Storage 12. Ferroic Transition Metal Oxide Nano-Heterostructures: From Fundamentals To Applications 13. Metal Oxide Nanomaterials for Gas Sensing Applications

Chiara Maccato obtained her PhD degree in Chemical Sciences in 1999 at Padova University, Italy. She is currently Professor of General and Inorganic Chemistry for students in Molecular Biology and Environmental Sciences at Padova University. Her research activity is focused on the synthesis and characterization of multi-functional hybrid/inorganic nanosystems. Accordingly, she has been responsible for several research projects/industrial contracts. Since 2005 she is the coordinator of a morphological characterization laboratory and responsible for a research group on multi-functional inorganic nanomaterials. Davide Barreca received his PhD in Chemical Sciences at Padova University, Italy in 2000. Since 2001, he is a Senior Research Scientist at CNR-ICMATE and Contract Professor at Padova University. For his activity on multi-functional inorganic nanosystems, documented by > 290 papers (H-index = 48), he received various awards, such as the Vincenzo Caglioti-Accademia dei Lincei Prize (2008) and the SAPIO Junior Prize (2010). He was local coordinator in national/EU projects, and is member of the International EUROCVD Board and European Editor of Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.