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University of Torino, Italy

NIS Centre of Excellence "Nanostructured Interfaces and Surfaces", Dipartimento di Chimica I.F.M. Universita' di Torino, Italy

Catlab reactor coupled with mass spectrometer for decomposition products determination and H2 evolution.

The Centre "Nanostructured Interphases and Surfaces" (NIS) has the dual mission of pursuing basic research and offering applied research services. The Centre offers a multi-disciplinary laboratory equipped with the most advanced techniques in microscopy and spectroscopy. The research groups of NIS of the University of Torino have focused their activities on several topics. Hydrogen storage is currently studied on different materials, including metallic hydrides.

NIS participates in advanced level training courses, supervises PhD students and use to welcoming and training foreigner visitors. The Centre participates in the Doctorate Course in Materials Science and Technology of the University of Torino and of Torino Polytechnic.

IGA (intelligent Gravimetric Analyser) system for isotherm determination, TGA analysis and H2 absorption/desorption.



Prof. Marcello Baricco is an expert in kinetic and thermodynamic modelling. He is full professor in Metallurgy at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Torino, where he's carrying out teaching and research activity. He was supervisor of several degree and Ph.D. theses in Chemistry, Industrial Chemistry, Materials Science, Strategic Science. He has been responsible for the University of Torino in several national and international research projects with research institutions and industrial partners (PRIN-MIUR, UE, CRUI). He participated as scientific leader in research projects in the frame of the IV, V and VI Framework programs of the European Community (BRITE, RTN, MC-RTN).

Prof. Baricco's research activity is mainly based on Physical Metallurgy and it has been carried out at the Laboratory of Metallurgy of the Chemistry Department of the University of Torino. The scientific contributions have been presented in about 190 papers, published in international and national journals, and in several invited talks in international and national meetings.

The main research topics are related to metastable phases in metallic systems and may be classified as follow: a) Microstructure and kinetics of phase transformations in metallic systems; b) Thermodynamic properties an phase diagrams in metallic systems; c) Magnetic, mechanical and chemical properties of amorphous alloys and intermetallic compounds.

Prof. Silvia Bordiga is an expert in spectroscopy. Her scientific activity is mainly devoted to the characterisation of the physical-chemical properties of high surface area materials, in particular of oxides, zeolites and MOFs, with a specific attention to their surface properties. She is also strongly involved in experiments exploiting synchrotron radiation facilities. She has co-authored about 200 research and review papers appeared in international journals.

Prof. Piero Ugliengo is an expert in ab initio modelling. His main scientific interest focuses on modelling the H-bond interactions in solids and at their surfaces by means of ab initio techniques, both on clusters and periodic systems, using molecular and crystalline codes (Gaussian98 and CRYSTAL03). He is also in charge of the development of the molecular graphic program MOLDRAW (http://www.moldraw.unito.it) which is interfaced to Gaussian98 and CRYSTAL codes. He is co-author of about 90 papers in international journals.

Dr Marta Corno received her Laurea degree and PhD in Chemical Sciences at the University of Torino in 2004 and 2007, respectively, in the research group of Prof. Piero Ugliengo. At present she is a postdoctoral researcher in this group at the Department of Chemistry IFM in Torino. Her research interests have concerned the study of biomaterials, such as hydroxyapatite and bioactive glasses by means of high-level periodic quantum-mechanical calculations. Recently, she has started working on ab initio calculations on hydrogen storage materials, such as light metal hydrides. She is co-author of about 15 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals.

Mr Eugenio Riccardo Pinatel received his Laurea (master) degree in Materials Science at  the University of Torino in 2009. He is pursuing his Ph.D. in materials science, in the research group of Prof. Marcello Baricco at the Laboratory of Metallurgy of the Chemistry IFM Department. His main research interest are: computational thermodynamics, thermodynamic modelling of metallic systems and complex hydrides for hydrogen storage applications.  

Dr. Olena Zavorotynska has received her Master Degree in Physics from the University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” (Kyiv, Ukraine) in 2006, and the PhD degree in Materials Science from the University of Torino in 2009, in the group of Prof. A. Zecchina. The main topic of her thesis was the storage of molecular hydrogen in high surface area porous materials. She studied the basics of gas interaction with the surfaces mostly by means of spectroscopic techniques. At present Dr. Zavorotynska is working as a post-doc researcher in the University of Torino, primarily on the experimental characterization of light metal borohydrides for hydrogen storage.

Experimental and Theoretical Techniques: PXD, HRTEM, SEM, AFM, optical and metallographic microscopy. FTIR, Raman and visible–UV spectroscopy, IR and Raman microscopy, EPR, ESCA-XPS, PIXE and cathodo­luminescence, MS, TG, DTA, DSC, Ab initio, thermodynamic and kinetic modelling of phase transformations.

(left) Calculated enthalpy of mixing in the AlH3 -AlF3 trigonal solid solution at 298 K and 1bar in comparison with the results from first-principles calculations 
(mid) Optimized structure of LiBH3.75F0.25
(right) Experimental IR spectra of different LiBH4 + Lithium-halide mixtures

Selected Publications

  • Jon Erling Fonnelop, Marta Corno, Hilde Grove, Eugenio Pinatel, Magnus H. Sorby, Piero Ugliengo, Marcello Baricco, Bjorn C Hauback, Experimental and computational investigations on the AlH3/AlF3 system, Journal of Alloys and Compounds 509 (2011) 10-14, DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2010.08.147, ⇒ Open Access
  • Marcello Baricco, Mauro Palumbo, Eugenio Pinatel, Marta Corno, Piero Ugliengo , Thermodynamic Database for Hydrogen Storage Materials, Advances in Science and Technology, 72 (2010) p.213-218, DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AST.72.213, ⇒ Open Access on FLYHY server / at UNITO OA repository http://hdl.handle.net/2318/727
  • Figueroa-Gerstenmaier, S., Daniel, Ch., Milano, G., Guerra, G., Zavorotynska, O. et al., Storage of hydrogen as a guest of a nanoporous polymeric crystalline phase., PhysChemChemPhys   2010 (12) pp. 5369-74. 
  • Palumbo, M., Torres, F.J., Ares, J.R., Pisani, C., Fernandez, J.F., Baricco, M., Thermodynamic and ab initio investigation of the Al-H-Mg system, Calphad: Computer Coupling of Phase Diagrams and Thermochemistry, 31, 4, (2007) 457-467, DOI: 10.1016/j.calphad.2007.4.05
  • Bordiga, S., Regli, L., Bonino, F., Groppo, E., Lamberti, C., Xiao, B., Wheatley, P.S., Morris, R.E., Zecchina, A., “Adsorption properties of HKUST-1 toward hydrogen and other small molecules monitored by IR”, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 9 (2007) 2676-2685. DOI: 10.1039/b703643d
  • Torres, F.J., Ugliengo, P., Civalleri, B., Terentyev, A., Pisani, C., “A review of the computational studies of proton- and metal-exchanged chabazites as media for molecular hydrogen storage performed with the CRYSTAL code”, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 33, 2, (2008) 746-754, DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2007.9.39

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Contact:

Prof. Marcello Baricco
Universita' di Torino
NIS Centre of Excellence, Dipartimento di Chimica I.F.M.
Via P. Giura, 9
I-10125 Torino
Italy

Phone +39 (11) 670 7569
Fax +39 (11) 670 7855

http://momo.ch.unito.it, http://www.nis.unito.it

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