The PERMANENT project, coordinated by the Department of Energy, has kicked off. It will face the major causes that limit the durability and stability of hydrogen-powered polymer electrolyte fuel cell technology (PEMFC).An investment of 3.4 million euros in 36 months to fully understand the degradation mechanisms in real operating conditions for mobility applications and propose…
European Research Council rewards our university with a Consolidator and 4 Proof of Concept Grants Politecnico di Milano has received five new grants from the ERC, the European Research Council. Camilla Colombo, with the project GREEN SPECIES, has been awarded a Consolidator Grant, one of the grants intended for researchers with at least seven years…
The World’s Top 2% Scientist ranking is a global ranking of women scientists with the highest levels of scientific productivity, compiled by Stanford University and Scopus. The ranking is the result of a study of bibliometrics, a science that uses mathematical and statistical techniques to analyse the quantity, quality and distribution of publications within scientific…
The team’s achievements After more than five years of work, the INTENT project, hosted by the Department of Energy of Politecnico di Milano and funded by the European Research Council (ERC) with an Advanced Grant, has achieved its main objectives: to study the properties of new catalytic reactors with conductive structured interiors and to demonstrate…
In the latest episode of the #ilPOLIMIrisponde video series, Andrea Baricci, lecturer in Industrial Engineering Physics, answers the question “What are the current challenges of hydrogen mobility?”
16/01/2023 ECCSELLENT, the P.N.R.R. project to reduce atmospheric CO2 gets started A project to support the italian C02 Capture Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) research chain Last December saw the launch of the ‘ECCSELLENT – Development of ECCSEL – R.I. Italian facilities: user access, services and long-term sustainability’ project, which aims to strengthen Italian research facilities…
The team’s achievements After five years of work, the EspLORE project, hosted by the Department of Energy of Politecnico and funded by the European Research Council (ERC) with a Consolidator Grant, has achieved its main objective: to study the properties of atomic carbon filaments in order to exploit their potential applications. The research team, coordinated…
For the 80th anniversary of the first controlled nuclear chain reaction, carried out under the guidance of Enrico Fermi (2 December 1942), on 15 December 2022 the musical reading “Federico Buffa racconta: la pila di Fermi”, took place at the Politecnico di Milano, text written by Lorenzo Paletti, with the participation of Maestro Nadio Marenco on the…
Dalla pila di Fermi alla IAEA: la cooperazone internazionale in campo nucleare On December 2nd 2022, the 80th anniversary of the first controlled nuclear chain reaction carried out under the guidance of Enrico Fermi (2 December 1942), Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director General of the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency), met the students of Politecnico di Milano. The IAEA, created in 1957,…
Project of Outstanding National Interest (PRIN), funded by the MUR The URBEM (Urban Reference Buildings for Energy Modelling) project is funded by the Ministry of Universities and Research (MUR) as a Project of Significant National Interest (PRIN). With the participation of 10 Italian Universities, under the coordination of Prof. Francesco Causone of the Department of…