Hybrid Nanocomposite Scintillators for Transformational Breakthroughs in Radiation Detection and Neutrino Research

Project Information

UNICORN

Grant agreement ID: 101098649

DOI

10.3030/101098649

EC signature date 12 May 2023

Start date 1 June 2023

End date 31 May 2027

Funded under

• The European Innovation Council (EIC)

Total cost

€ 2 995 000,00

EU contribution

€ 2 995 000,00

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UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO-BICOCCA
Italy

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (17)

Advances in Perovskite Nanocrystals and Nanocomposites for Scintillation Applications

Author(s): Abhinav Anand; Matteo L. Zaffalon; Andrea Erroi; Francesca Cova; Francesco Carulli; Sergio Brovelli
Published in: ACS Energy Letters, 2024, ISSN 2380-8195
Publisher: ACS
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2406.13325

Perovskite‐Like Liquid‐Crystalline Materials Based on Polyfluorinated Imidazolium Cations

Author(s): Stergiou, Anastasios; Leccioli, Leonardo; Ricci, Davide; Zaffalon, Matteo L.; Brovelli, Sergio; Bombelli, Francesca Baldelli; Terraneo, Giancarlo; Metrangolo, Pierangelo; Cavallo, Gabriella
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2024, ISSN 1521-3757
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ANGE.202408570

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Author(s): A. Antonelli; E. Auffray; S. Brovelli; F. Bruni; M. Campajola; S. Carsi; F. Carulli; G. De Nardo; E. Di Meco; E. Diociaiuti; A. Erroi; M. Francesconi; I. Frank; S. Kholodenko; N. Kratochwil; E. Leonar
Published in: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 2024, ISSN 0168-9002
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2407.10915

Metal-free heteroatom doping of carbon nitride for enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen peroxide production

Author(s): Eneko Sebastian-Garate; Bruna F. Gonçalves; Jordi Llusar; Pawel Gluchowski; Ivan Infante; Senentxu Lanceros-Mendez; Qi Zhang; Hugo Salazar
Published in: Nano Energy, 2025, ISSN 2211-3282
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/J.NANOEN.2025.111551

Ultrafast Superradiant Scintillation from Isolated Weakly Confined Perovskite Nanocrystals

Author(s): Matteo L. Zaffalon; Andrea Fratelli; Zhanzhao Li; Francesco Bruni; Ihor Cherniukh; Francesco Carulli; Francesco Meinardi; Maksym V. Kovalenko; Liberato Manna; Sergio Brovelli
Published in: Advanced Materials, 2025, ISSN 1521-4095
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.3929/ETHZ-B-000729204

Innovative nanocrystal-based scintillators for next-generation sampling calorimeters

Author(s): Soldani M.; Antonelli A.; Auffray E.; Brovelli S.; Bruni F.; Campajola M.; Carsi S.; Carulli F.; De Nardo G.; Di Meco E.; Diociaiuti E.; Erroi A.; Francesconi M.; Frank I.; Kholodenko S.; Kratochwil N
Published in: EPJ Web of Conferences, 2025, ISSN 2100-014X
Publisher: EPJ
DOI: 10.1051/EPJCONF/202532000020

Core@Shell AgBr@CsPbBr₃ Nanocrystals as Precursors to Hollow Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocubes

Author(s): Zhanzhao Li; Yurii P. Ivanov; Anna Cabona; Andrea Fratelli; Stefano Toso; Saptarshi Chakraborty; Giorgio Divitini; Ilka Kriegel; Sergio Brovelli; Liberato Manna
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2025, ISSN 1520-5126
Publisher: ACS
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2512.08474

A fast GGAG:Ce(Mg) single crystal scintillator: LDFZM growth, characterization and electronic band structure calculation

Author(s): František Zajíc; Vítězslav Jarý; Jiří Pospíšil; Pavel Boháček; Zafari Umar; Michal Piasecki; Mikhail G. Brik; Romana Kučerková; Alena Beitlerová; Martin Nikl
Published in: Materials Advances, 2025, ISSN 2633-5409
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1039/D4MA00976B

Highly Luminous Scintillating Nanocomposites Enable Ultrafast Time Coincidence Resolution for γ‐rays Detection with Heterostructured Multilayer Scintillators

Author(s): Sala, Matteo; Orfano, Matteo; Secchi, Valeria; Mattei, Ilaria; Pianta, Nicolò; Zabloudil, Vojtech; Lowis, Carsten; Kučerková, Romana; Nikl, Martin; Meinardi, Francesco; Auffray, Etiennette; Vill
Published in: Advanced Functional Materials, 2024, ISSN 1616-3028
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ADFM.202421434

Ultrafast Nanocomposite Scintillators Based on Cd-Enhanced CsPbCl₃ Nanocrystals in Polymer Matrix

Author(s): Erroi, Andrea; Carulli, Francesco; Cova, Francesca; Frank, Isabel; Zaffalon, Matteo L.; Llusar, Jordi; Mecca, Sara; Cemmi, Alessia; Di Sarcina, Ilaria; Rossi, Francesca; Beverina, Luca; Meinardi, Fran
Published in: ACS Energy Letters, 2024, ISSN 2380-8195
Publisher: ACS
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2404.14813

European Physical Journal Plus

Author(s): Gironi L.; Dell'Oro S.; Gotti C.; Manenti N.; Mazzola E.; Nastasi M.; Peracchi D.
Published in: The European Physical Journal Plus, 2025, ISSN 2190-5444
Publisher: Springer Science + Business Media
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2503.13013

Cooling‐Induced Order–Disorder Phase Transition in CsPbBr₃ Nanocrystal Superlattices

Author(s): Umberto Filippi; Stefano Toso; Matteo L. Zaffalon; Andrea Pianetti; Zhanzhao Li; Sergio Marras; Luca Goldoni; Francesco Meinardi; Sergio Brovelli; Dmitry Baranov; Liberato Manna
Published in: Advanced Materials, 2024, ISSN 1521-4095
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ADMA.202410949

Size‐Dependent Multiexciton Dynamics Governs Scintillation From Perovskite Quantum Dots

Author(s): Fratelli, A; Zaffalon, ML; Mazzola, E; Dirin, DN; Cherniukh, I; Otero-Martínez, C; Salomoni, M; Carulli, F; Rossi, F; Meinardi, F; Gironi, L; Manna, L; Kovalenko, MV; Brovelli, S
Published in: Advanced Materials, 2024, ISSN 1521-4095
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.3929/ETHZ-B-000712198

Ultrafast and Radiation-Hard Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocomposite Scintillators

Author(s): Andrea Erroi; Sara Mecca; Matteo L. Zaffalon; Isabel Frank; Francesco Carulli; Alessia Cemmi; Ilaria Di Sarcina; Doriana Debellis; Francesca Rossi; Francesca Cova; Kristof Pauwels; Michele Mauri; Jacopo Perego; Valerio Pinchetti; Angiolina Comotti; Francesco Meinardi; Anna Vedda; Etiennette Auffray; Luca Beverina; Sergio Brovelli
Published in: ACS ENERGY LETTERS, 2023, ISSN 2380-8195
Publisher: ACS
DOI: 10.3204/pubdb-2023-05335

Surface Reconstructions in II–VI Quantum Dots

Author(s): Llusar, Jordi; du Fossé, Indy; Hens, Zeger; Houtepen, Arjan; Infante, Ivan
Published in: ACS Nano, 2024, ISSN 1936-086X
Publisher: ACS
DOI: 10.1021/ACSNANO.3C09265

Resurfaced CsPbBr3 Nanocrystals Enable Free Radical Thermal Polymerization of Efficient Ultrafast Polyvinyl Styrene Nanocomposite Scintillators

Author(s): Carulli, Francesco; Erroi, Andrea; Bruni, Francesco; Zaffalon, Matteo L.; Liu, Mingming; Pascazio, Roberta; Adel, Abdessamad El; Catalano, Federico; Cemmi, Alessia; Di Sarcina, Ilaria; Rossi, Francesc
Published in: ACS Energy Letters, 2024, ISSN 2380-8195
Publisher: ACS
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2411.17259

Scintillation Properties of CsPbBr₃ Nanocrystals Prepared by Ligand-Assisted Reprecipitation and Dual Effect of Polyacrylate Encapsulation toward Scalable Ultrafast Radiation Detectors

Author(s): Cova, Francesca; Erroi, Andrea; Zaffalon, Matteo L.; Cemmi, Alessia; Di Sarcina, Ilaria; Perego, Jacopo; Monguzzi, Angelo; Comotti, Angiolina; Rossi, Francesca; Carulli, Francesco; Brovelli, Sergio
Published in: Nano Letters, 2024, ISSN 1530-6992
Publisher: ACS
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2406.13354

Conference proceedings (2)

Atomically precise surface chemistry of zirconium and hafnium metal oxo clusters beyond carboxylate ligands

Author(s): Ajmal Roshan Unniram Parambil; Rohan Pokratath; Muhammed Jibin Parammal; Evert Dhaene; Dietger Van den Eynden; Sandor Balog; Alessandro Prescimone; Ivan Infante; Patrick Shahgaldian; Jonathan De Roo
Published in: Proceedings of the MATSUS Spring 2025 Conference, 2024
Publisher: Matsus
DOI: 10.29363/NANOGE.MATSUSSPRING.2025.163

Ultrafast Superradiant Scintillation from Weakly Confined CsPbBr3 Nanocrystals

Author(s): Zaffalon, Matteo L.; Fratelli, Andrea; Li, Zhanzhao; Bruni, Francesco; Cherniukh, Ihor; Carulli, Francesco; Meinardi, Francesco; Kovalenko, Maksym V.; Manna, Liberato; Brovelli, Sergio
Published in: Proceedings of the MATSUS Spring 2025 Conference, 2024
Publisher: MatSus
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2412.02516