Starting from the recent law provisions contained in the MIUR (Italian Ministry of Education) Plan - and aimed to revamp school buildings, this Ph.D. thesis has investigated methods and preliminary criteria applicable to ...

Carbon nanotubes are unique nanostructure with remarkable electronic, mechanical and thermal properties, some stemming from the close relation between carbon nanotubes and graphite, and some from their one-dimensional ...

Magnetic refrigeration is an innovative, promising and ecologic technology, which aims to substitute the conventional vapor-compression refrigeration by the employment of solid materials as refrigerants instead of the ...

The focus of this study is to design new nano-modified epoxy adhesives using carbon nanofillers such as carbon nanotubes, carbon nanofibers and exfoliated graphite. Kinetic analysis, transport properties, dynamic mechanical ...

Music is one of the arts that have most benefited from the invention of computers. Originally, the term Computer Music was used in the scientific community to identify the application of information technology in music c ...

Power electronics is since decades in the focus of very important technology innovations, as the characteristics and the performances of power supplies can severely condition and limit the performances of the system to ...

In this work a potential new OLED application is presented: a large-area purple OLED for horticultural application, which combines red and blue light emissions in a unique device. The main issue of this thesis is to ...