SLACS 

Head: Luciano Colombo (personal URL: click here)

Research topics

   Solid mechanics at the atomic scale (fracture, plastic deformation, elastic and tribological
   properties)

   Microstructure evolution of complex materials

   Physics of point-like and extended defects

   Methods and algorithms for multi-scale materials modelling

   Model-potential and tight-binding molecular dynamics

People

    Luciano Colombo, full professor (personal URL)

    Fabio Bernardini, assistant professor

    Alessandra Satta, INFM (TT) researcher

    Alessandro Mattoni, INFM (TD) researcher

    Mariella Ippolito, PhD student

    Collaborators:

    Laura Zoppi, post-doc @ INFM-DEMOCRITOS (Trieste, I)

    Matteo Bogana, PhD student @ Politecnico di Milano

    Cristina Gambato, PhD student @ Dept. Structural Eng. (Univ. Padova)

    Giorgia Fugallo, undergraduate research grant @ Dept. Physics (Univ. Cagliari)

Selected publications

   Visit L. Colombo personal URL, and follow link to RESEARCH

Active projects

   MIUR PRIN-2002 (fracture mechanics in complex brittle materials)

   MIUR FIRB-2001 (microstructural evolution of implanted Si)

   MIUR FIST-2002 (fracture mechanics of nano-composite materials)

   EU-STREP NANOPHOTO 2005 (structural and electronic properties of nano-crystalline silicon)

Collaborations

  CNR - IMM (Sez. Bologna)

  INFM-DEMOCRITOS (Trieste, I)

  INFM-S3 (Modena, I)

  ENEA - UTS Materiali e Nuove Tecnologie (C.R. Casaccia, I)

  Dep. Physics, Univ. Milano (I)

  Dept.  Structural Eng., Politecnico di Torino (I)

  Dept. Structural Eng., Univ. Padova (I)

  Dept. Materials Science, Univ. Milano-Bicocca (I)

  Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA)

  Inst. Ciencia de Materiales, CSIC-Barcelona (E)

  Ecole Polytechnique, Paris (F)