Advances in Nanostructured Materials and Nanopatterning Technologies

Vincenzo Guarino is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Polymers, Composites and Biomaterials, National Research Council of Italy, Naples, Italy. His research interests include biomaterials, tissue engineering, scaffold design, and the fabrication and characterization of polymer and composite materials for biomedical applications. Maria Letizia Focarete is Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry “G. Ciamician” of the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy. She is principal investigator of a research group active in polymer science and polymer processing technologies for advanced biomedical and energy applications. Dario Pisignano is Full Professor in Experimental Physics at the University of Pisa, Italy, and principal investigator of the Soft Matter Nanotech Group at the University of Pisa and CNR-Nanoscience Institute. His research interests include additive manufacturing technologies and nanotechnologies, nanophotonics, soft and advanced lithographic methods, and biomaterials.

• 1. Introduction to nanostructured materials2. Manufacturing at nanoscale: from molecular machines to transducers3. Subtracting technologies: unconventional nanolithography4. Biomimetic routes to micro/nanofabrication5. Nanostructured coatings for antimicrobial applications6. Advanced organic electroactive manomaterials for biomedical use7. Engineering magnetic nanoparticles for repairing nerve injuries8. Nanostructured electrospun fibres in environmental applications9. Conductive polymers and metal oxide polymeric composites for nanostructures and nanodevices10. Light-induced complex surface structuring of azobenzene-containing materials11. New high performance sensors12. Synthesis and design of magnetic nanoparticles: size and shape control in wet-chemistry synthesis13. New device platforms for nanogenerators