A new ultrafast photonics based on titanium nitride

Polimi study is cover story of Advanced Optical Materials A study resulting from a collaboration between the Department of Energy and the Department of Physics, and supported by an interdisciplinary PhD, has been published as a cover article in the journal Advanced Optical Materials. The study explains the origin of the superfast optical response of…

Publication of “Thinking Science Diplomacy” report

The report “Thinking Science Diplomacy“, which analyses the state of science diplomacy in Europe, has been published. It is the result of reflections and discussions during the seminar held on 25 January at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation in Brussels. The seminar was organised by the UNTRAD Presidency of the EU Science…

Prize Roberto Sanguineti 2022

Federico Pedranzini, researcher at the Department of Energy of Politecnico di Milano, has been awarded the “Roberto Sanguineti 2022” prize by Aicarr (Italian Association for Air Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration) for his paper entitled “HVAC systems and SARS-CoV-2, do we need to rethink design?” The award ceremony will take place on 29 June during the…

Codes and Standards Committee prize paper award to Polimi researchers

An analysis of the reuse of second-life batteries in the overall technical, economic and regulatory context The paper entitled “Second Life Batteries: Current Regulatory Framework, Evaluation Methods and Economic Assessment”, presented at the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering in Prague in 2022, has won the Codes and Standards Committee Prize Paper…

Digital twin: the project SMARTWINS 

The first training course on digital twin to assess the energy performance of buildings The SmartWins project, funded by the European Commission, aims to strengthen the capacity of Kaunas Technological University (Lithuania) to carry out research and development activities on the digital twin in the construction sector and on methods and technologies for assessing the…