Materials-environment interaction
Specific mission
- Study of the material/environment interaction and of the electrochemical and corrosion phenomena in industrial, biomedical and cultural heritage fields
- Chemical/physical fundamentals of plasma processes for material surface modification and thin film deposition
Main research topics
- Study of the corrosion behaviour and development of in-situ characterisation and protection methodologies for artefacts of interest in the industrial and cultural heritage fields
- Design and production of bio-resorbable implants; assessment of the corrosion behaviour in simulated body fluids
- Design and optimisation of plasma treatments for surface modification of materials and thin film deposition,and for the development of sensors for physic-chemical quantities of interest in the fields of chemical and process engineering
- Development and characterisation of biomedical sensors and measuring devices
Main partnerships
- Politecnico di Torino, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni, Torino, Italy (Marco Parvis)
- Museo Egizio, Torino, Italy (Cristian Greco)
- Università di Roma, “La Sapienza”, Dipartimento di Scienze di base applicate per l’ingegneria, Roma, Italy (Giovanni E. Gigante)
- Università di Bari, Dipartimento di chimica, Bari Italy (Francesco Fracassi)
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Alte Energie, Italy (Stefano Bianco)
- CNR, Istituto per lo studio dei materiali nanostrutturati (ISMN), Area della Ricerca di Montelibretti, Roma, Italy (Gabriel Maria Ingo)
- Museo Galileo, Firenze, Italy (Andrea Gori)
- Museo dell’Arte della Lana, Stia-Arezzo, Italy (Andrea Gori)
- ITT Motion Technologies, ITT Italy s.r.l., Barge, Italy (Sin Agusti)
- Archaeomaterials and Alteration Prediction Laboratory" SIS2M/LPS, CEA/CNRS and IRAMAT LMC, CNRS, CEA Saclay, France (Philippe Dillmann)
- National Technical University of Athens, School of Chem. Eng., Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Athens, Greece (Panayota Vasiiliou)
- University of Patras, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Patras, Greece (Dimitris Mataras)
- Centre de Projecciò Termica (CPT), Departament de Ciència dels Materials i Enginyeria Metallurgica, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (J. M.Guilemany)
- Centro Superior de Investigaciones Scientificas (CSIS-CENIM), Madrid, Spain (Emilio Cano)
- University of Evora, Hercules Laboratory, Evora , Portugal (Nicola Schiavon)
- University of Jordan, Hamdi Mango Center for Scientific Research, Amman, Jordan (Abeer Al-Bawab) Palestine Technical University of Kadoorie, Tulkarm (Samer Najjar)
- Middle East Technical University, Materials Conservation Laboratory, Ankara, Turkey (Emine N. Caner-Saltık)
- University of Cairo, National Institute of Laser Enhanced Science (NILES), Cairo, Egypt (Mohamed Abdel Harith)
- National Research Centre (NRC), Cairo, Egypt (Venice Gouda)
- Antonio Narino University, Bogotà, Colombia (Carlos Arroyave)
- Museo Nacional de Colombia, Bogotà, Colombia (Maria Catalina Plazas)
- Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada (Rafik Goubran, Voicu Groza)
Projects and publications
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Selected recent publications
2016-
Frequency domain image analysis for the characterization of porous products
Article
Grassini, Sabrina; Pisano, Roberto; Barresi, Antonello; Angelini, EMMA PAOLA MARIA VIRGINIA; Parvis, Marco
MEASUREMENT
Elsevier BV
Vol.94 pp.8 (pp.515-522) ISSN:0263-2241 DOI:10.1016/j.measurement.2016.08.031 -
Innovative monitoring campaign of the environmental conditions of the Stibbert museum in Florence
Article
Angelini, EMMA PAOLA MARIA VIRGINIA; Civita, F.; Corbellini, Simone; Fulginiti, Daniele; Giovagnoli, A.; Grassini, Sabrina; Parvis, Marco
APPLIED PHYSICS. A, MATERIALS SCIENCE & PROCESSING
Springer Verlag
Vol.122 pp.12 (pp.1-12) ISSN:0947-8396 DOI:10.1007/s00339-016-9635-4
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Low-Cost Impedance Spectroscopy System Based on a Logarithmic Amplifier
Article
Grassini, Sabrina; Corbellini, Simone; Angelini, EMMA PAOLA MARIA VIRGINIA; Ferraris, Franco; Parvis, Marco
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC, 445 HOES LANE, PISCATAWAY, NJ 08855-4141 USA
Vol.64 pp.8 (pp.1110-1117) ISSN:0018-9456 DOI:10.1109/TIM.2014.2371191 -
Design and Deployment of Low-Cost Plastic Optical Fiber Sensors for Gas Monitoring
Article
Grassini, Sabrina; Ishtaiwi, Maen; Parvis, Marco; Vallan, Alberto
SENSORS
MDPI AG (Basel, Switzerland)
Vol.15 pp.14 (pp.485-498) ISSN:1424-8220 DOI:10.3390/s150100485
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Frequency domain image analysis for the characterization of porous products
Reference laboratories
- Accelerating ageing test Laboratory
- Additive Manufacturing Treatment Laboratory
- Corrosion Laboratory
- Plasma Treatments Laboratory


- DI FRANCIA ELISABETTA
- ELSAYED AHMED MAHMOUD
- IANNUCCI LEONARDO
- LOMBARDO LUCA