CNR: National Staff Assembly – June 16, 2025 Researchers and technical, administrative staff shaping the future of public research A national assembly of the CNR community was held under the motto “Giving a voice back to the scientific community”, bringing together staff from all the research institutes across the country to address crucial issues for…
It is with great pleasure that we share the link to the highly regarded article by Ginger Gardiner, featured in CompositesWorld magazine, which highlights the groundbreaking work of K3RX s.r.l. – a CNR spin-off founded from ISSMC’s pioneering research on ceramic composite materials designed for extreme environments. https://www.compositesworld.com/articles/near-zero-erosion-ultra-high-temperature-cmc For more information: Zoli Luca
A groundbreaking scientific article on the gamified learning game Snakeleev has just been published in the Journal of Chemical Education. Titled “Snakeleev: An Educational Game for Learning the Periodic Table of Elements“, the article demonstrates the effectiveness of the game as an educational tool designed to enhance learning and memorization of the periodic table of…
It is a unique case of the vitrification of cerebral organic material, found in the skull of an ancient Herculaneum victim of the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 a.C. To give an answer on how it could have happened an Italian-German team of researchers led by the vulcanologist Guido Giordano of the Department of Science…
The WINTERTIME project brings UHTCMC materials to the International Space Station (ISS) for ageing tests lasting 12–18 months. NASA’s SpaceX 31st commercial resupply mission, carrying the UHTCMC materials designed and developed by CNR-ISSMC researchers during the C3HARME project, was successfully completed. On November 4, 2024, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, carrying over 2,700 kilograms of supplies…
On February 11th, we celebrated the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a special occasion to recognize and highlight the fundamental role of women in scientific progress. We would like to extend our gratitude to the extraordinary researchers at the Institute of Science, Technology, and Sustainability for the Development of Ceramic Materials, who,…
February 14th 2025, Faenza, Italy The workshop was held on February 14th 2025 in the beautiful venue of the International Museum of Ceramics (MIC) in Faenza. The aim of the workshop was to review the key results of the research in the design and development of environmentally friendly geopolymer based adsorbents as a stimulating…
Last week, research fellows Noemi Ravaglia and Lorenzo Apolloni from the Cell Material BIOLab at ISSMC-CNR attended the VI School of Nanomedicine in Florence, organized by CNR and the University of Florence. The event provided an excellent opportunity for learning and networking with scientists and principal investigators working in the field of nanomedicine. Additionally, they…
Federica Mancini, a PhD student at ISSMC, attended the national congress of the Italian Biomaterials Society, held in Faenza from July 8 to 10, 2024, and won one of the awards for the best oral presentation. She gave an oral presentation entitled “Fluorescent Carbon Dots from Food Industry By-Products,” where she discussed data collected within…
We are very pleased to announce that our post-doctoral Marie Curie Fellow, Irini Furxhi, has won the award for Best Oral Presentation at Materials Week 2024, the leading scientific conference in Europe promoting the Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design (SSbD) approach to the design of advanced materials and chemicals. Irini presented the ASINA project roadmap (https://www.asina-project.eu/), coordinated by ISSMC…
When advanced ceramics meet art. Visit to the studio of the Faenza artist Antonella Cimatti, where new creations obtained using advanced ceramic materials, in particular substrates of sintered alumina. The tapes were obtained through tape casting process then sintered and cut into appropriate shapes and sizes by laser system in order to create the various…
MOSacta2024 – “Mosaics, Arts, Conservation, Technology and Archaeometry” Pietramontecorvino (FG) – Italy, May 9-10th 2024. Multidisciplinary International Workshop on ancient and contemporary mosaic organized by CNR-ISSMC in collaboration with the Municipality of Pietramontecorvino (FG), Istituto Religioso…