Surfaces and Interfaces of Metal Oxide Thin Films, Multilayers, Nanoparticles and Nano-composites

Self-controlled magnetic nanohyperthermia: ideas, materials, prospects of core-shell metal oxide architecture.- Recent progress in Mossbauer studies on magnetic nanoparticles.- Design strategies for the synthesis of anisotropic magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles.- Low-core loss nanogranular Co based soft magnetic films for 10 GHz applications.- Organic field-effect transistors using polar dielectric system.- Ferroelectric tunnelling junction of ferroelectric polymer ultrathin film.- Design and processing of nanocomposite surfaces for efficient photoelectrocatalytic water splitting and CO2 reduction.- Effect of the irradiation on the superconducting properties of cuprate superconductors.- Oxide semiconductor plasmonics for infrared applications.- Superconductor/ferromagnetic hybrids based on YBa2Cu3O7-d films .- Memorial Note on Prof. Ulrich Habermeier.- Computational results related to thermoelectric oxide NaxCoO2.

Alejandro G. Roca is currently working at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) in Barcelona (Spain). During his research career he has worked in different research centres from Spain (ICMM, INA-UNIZAR, ICMA), United Kingdom (University of York) and Japan (Tohoku University), and also in the private sector (Liquids Research Ltd). The nature of his research spans two research lines related with magnetic iron oxide- based nanoparticles. His main research line is the development of novel nanofabrication methodologies of magnetic-based nanoparticles for biomedicine with an accurate control over the size, shape and interphase features. His target materials range from hybrid heterostructures with magnetic and optical domains where the heterostructure has the properties of both domains plus the ones arising from the interaction of both domains, and anisotropic magnetic nanoparticles like magnetite nanocubes or nanorods, with direction-dependent properties. He is focused on the evaluation of these nanomaterials for their performance in theranostic application (contrast agents in different imaging techniques or nanoheters in magnetic and/or optical hyperthermia). Dr. Roca is also focused on the study of the structure and magnetism of magnetic-based nanostructures. During this study, he combines different lab-scale techniques together with synchrotron/neutron techniques that lead to the complete understanding of the structure and magnetism of nanomaterials.

Elvira Fantechi graduated in Chemistry at the University of Florence, and obtained the Ph.D degree in Material Science and Engineering at the same institution. She is currently Postdoc Researcher at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Pisa (Italy). Her research activity is in the fields of nanomagnetism and magnetoplasmonics, and it is mainly focused on the synthesis and characterization of the structural, optical and magnetic properties of novel nanomaterials