NEXT is a cross-disciplinary team focused on developing NEXT-generation devices and systems by taking advantage (also thanks to an extended network of co-workers) of:
- modelling
- electronics
- sensors
- micro/nano-fabrication
- material science.
Highlights of our most recent research include (see Publications for details):
- Burst noise in rechargeable LiFePO4 batteries and its changes after long-term calendar aging (Journal of Power Sources 2023)
- Fundamentals of skin bioimpedances (Advanced Materials 2023)
- ultra-efficient thermo-convective solution-growth of vertically aligned ZnO nanowires (Nano Energy 2022)
- twin-wire networks for zero interconnect, high-density 4-wire electrical characterizations of materials (Research 2022) and for high-density networks of resistive sensors (Advanced Sensor Research 2023)
- an extraordinary simple method for fabricating thin elastomer (e.g. PDMS) devices (Double-Framed Thin Elastomer Devices, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2020)
- the first zero-writing-power tribotronic MoS2 touch memory Nano Energy (2020)
- the first systematic review on Piezoelectric Nanotransducers, including (16!) advantages, open challenges and general strategies to address them (Nano Energy 2019)
- the first report of Nano-transducers on Printed Circuit Boards by rational design of high-density, long, thin and untapered ZnO nanowires, NanoEnergy 2018
- the first report of ZnO Nanowires as a Reversible Myogenic-Differentiation-Switch, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2018
- the first report of rewritable ghost floating gates by tunnelling triboelectrification for 2D electronics, Nature Communications 2017
- the first “3D reconstruction of quasi-1D single-crystal nanostructures from a single SEM image, Advanced Materials 2015
- the first sound-powered transparent flexible graphene microheaters, NanoEnergy 2015
- chromium inhibition and size-selected Au nanocluster catalysis for the solution growth of low-density ZnO nanowires, Scientific Reports 2015
- real-time monitoring of the solution growth of ZnO nanorods arrays by quartz microbalances and in-situ temperature sensors, Scientific Reports 2014
- models for circular-symmetric micro-hot-plates (Sensors and Actuators B 2013, Sensors 2014)
- design of micro-hot-plates without simply-connected hot-spots and with almost-circular temperature distribution, Sensors and Actuators B 2013
- systematic design of micro-resistors for temperature control by quasi-simultaneous heating and temperature sensing, Sensors and Actuators B 2013
- the first report on piezo-semiconductive quasi-1D nanodevices with or without anti-symmetry (tapered piezo-semiconductive nanowires, Advanced Materials 2012, Nanotechnology 2013)