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

Información del proyecto

UNICORN

Identificador del acuerdo de subvención: 101098649

DOI

10.3030/101098649

Fecha de la firma de la CE 12 Mayo 2023

Fecha de inicio 1 Junio 2023

Fecha de finalización 31 Mayo 2027

Financiado con arreglo a

• The European Innovation Council (EIC)

Coste total

€ 2 995 000,00

Aportación de la UE

€ 2 995 000,00

Coordinado por

UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO-BICOCCA
Italy

CORDIS proporciona enlaces a los documentos públicos y las publicaciones de los proyectos de los programas marco HORIZONTE.

Los enlaces a los documentos y las publicaciones de los proyectos del Séptimo Programa Marco, así como los enlaces a algunos tipos de resultados específicos, como conjuntos de datos y «software», se obtienen dinámicamente de OpenAIRE .

Resultado final

Data Management Plan (2)

Data Management and Protection Plan.

D5.3Preparation and update of the Data Management and Protection Plan.

RP1 update of the Data Management Plan_Rep period 1

RP1 update of the Data Management Plan

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (2)

0νDBD-engineered NCs

D2.1Synthesis and functionalization protocols of 0νDBD-engineered NCs

NCs in glass

D2.2Design criteria and synthesis results of NCs in glass with the mPD technique

Documents, reports (8)

Scattering

D1.3Identification of maximum tolerable light scattering compatible with high energy resolution.

oxide or chalcogenides NCs

D2.3Design criteria and synthesis results of oxide or chalcogenides NCs.

First Periodic Project Report

D5.4.1Periodic Project Reports

NC Identification

D1.2Identification of NCs exhibiting the largest Stokes shift and oscillator strengths.

Website setup

D5.2 Website and project logo information with also social media links

Identification of optimal nanocomposite size to maximise the discrimination of DBD events.

D1.1Identification of optimal nanocomposite size to maximise the discrimination of DBD events.

Dissemination & Explotation Plan

D 5.9 Plan for Dissemination and Exploitation Including Communication Activities

RP1 Technical/scientific review meeting_Reporting period 1

RPX Technical/scientific review meeting _ Reporting period 1

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (2)

UNICORN Summer school

D5.7UNICORN Summer school for PhD students and young researchers

UNICORN workshop

D5.6Organization of a workshop “Engineering NCs for ionizing radiation detection”.

Publicaciones

Peer reviewed articles (30)

Perovskite-like Liquid-Crystalline Materials Based on Polyfluorinated Imidazolium Cations

Autores: Pierangelo Metrangolo, Anastasios Stergiou, Leonardo Leccioli, Davide Ricci, Matteo L. Zaffalon, Sergio Brovelli, Francesca Baldelli Bombelli, Giancarlo Terraneo, Gabriella Cavallo
Publicado en: Angewandte Chemie, ISSN 1521-3773
Editor: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ANIE.202408570

Advances in Perovskite Nanocrystals and Nanocomposites for Scintillation Applications

Autores: Abhinav Anand; Matteo L. Zaffalon; Andrea Erroi; Francesca Cova; Francesco Carulli; Sergio Brovelli
Publicado en: ACS Energy Letters, 2024, ISSN 2380-8195
Editor: ACS
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2406.13325

Certification Grade Quantum Dot Luminescent Solar Concentrator Glazing with Optical Wireless Communication Capability for Connected Sustainable Architecture

Autores: Francesco Meinardi, Francesco Bruni, Claudio Castellan, Marco Meucci, Ali Muhammad Umair, Marcello La Rosa, Jacopo Catani, Sergio Brovelli
Publicado en: Advanced Energy Materials, 2024, ISSN 1614-6832
Editor: Wiley-VCH Verlag
DOI: 10.1002/AENM.202304006

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

Autores: 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
Publicado en: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 2024, ISSN 0168-9002
Editor: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2407.10915

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

Autores: Eneko Sebastian-Garate; Bruna F. Gonçalves; Jordi Llusar; Pawel Gluchowski; Ivan Infante; Senentxu Lanceros-Mendez; Qi Zhang; Hugo Salazar
Publicado en: Nano Energy, 2025, ISSN 2211-3282
Editor: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/J.NANOEN.2025.111551

Ultrafast Superradiant Scintillation from Isolated Weakly Confined Perovskite Nanocrystals

Autores: Matteo L. Zaffalon; Andrea Fratelli; Zhanzhao Li; Francesco Bruni; Ihor Cherniukh; Francesco Carulli; Francesco Meinardi; Maksym V. Kovalenko; Liberato Manna; Sergio Brovelli
Publicado en: Advanced Materials, 2025, ISSN 1521-4095
Editor: Wiley
DOI: 10.3929/ETHZ-B-000729204

Direct observation of the exciton polaron by serial femtosecond crystallography on single CsPbBr$_3$ quantum dots

Autores: Shen, Zhou; Samoli, Margarita; Erdem, Onur; Bielecki, Johan; Samanta, Amit Kumar; E, Juncheng; Estillore, Armando; Kim, Chan; Kim, Yoonhee; Koliyadu, Jayanath; Letrun, Romain; Locardi, Federico; Lübk
Publicado en: ACS Nano, 2025, ISSN 1936-086X
Editor: ACS
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2407.10915

From Optoelectronics to Radiation Detection: Light Yield Challenges in Perovskite Scintillators

Autores: Matteo L. Zaffalon, Luca Gironi, Martin Nikl, Sergio Brovelli
Publicado en: ACS Energy Letters, Edición 11, 2026, ISSN 2380-8195
Editor: American Chemical Society (ACS)
DOI: 10.1021/ACSENERGYLETT.5C03188

Harnessing Self‐Sensitized Scintillation by Supramolecular Engineering of CsPbBr₃ Nanocrystals in Dense Mesoporous Template Nanospheres

Autores: Xiaohe Zhou, Matteo L. Zaffalon, Emanuele Mazzola, Andrea Fratelli, Francesco Carulli, Chenger Wang, Mengda He, Francesco Bruni, Saptarshi Chakraborty, Leonardo Poletti, Francesca Rossi, Luca Gironi, Francesco Meinardi, Liang Li, Sergio Brovelli
Publicado en: Advanced Materials, 2025, ISSN 0935-9648
Editor: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ADMA.202513469

Ultrasmall CsPbBr3 Blue Emissive Perovskite Quantum Dots Using K-Alloyed Cs4PbBr6 Nanocrystals as Precursors

Autores: Clara Otero Martinez, Matteo L Zaffalon, Yurii Ivanov, Nikolaos Livakas, Luca Goldoni, Giorgio Divitini, Sankalpa Bora, Gabriele Saleh, Francesco Meinardi, Andrea Fratelli, Sudip Chakraborty, Lakshminarayana Polavarapu, Sergio Brovelli, Liberato Manna
Publicado en:  ACS Energy Letters, ISSN 2380-8195
Editor: ACS
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2406.12696

Innovative nanocrystal-based scintillators for next-generation sampling calorimeters

Autores: 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
Publicado en: EPJ Web of Conferences, 2025, ISSN 2100-014X
Editor: EPJ
DOI: 10.1051/EPJCONF/202532000020

Exogenous Metal Cations in the Synthesis of CsPbBr₃ Nanocrystals and Their Interplay with Tertiary Amines

Autores: Zhanzhao Li, Luca Goldoni, Ye Wu, Muhammad Imran, Yurii P. Ivanov, Giorgio Divitini, Juliette Zito, Iyyappa Rajan Panneerselvam, Dmitry Baranov, Ivan Infante, Luca De Trizio, Liberato Manna
Publicado en: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Edición 146, 2025, ISSN 0002-7863
Editor: American Chemical Society (ACS)
DOI: 10.1021/JACS.4C03084

Environmental Effects on the Performance of Quantum Dot Luminescent Solar Concentrators

Autores: Meghna Siripurapu, Francesco Meinardi, Sergio Brovelli, Francesco Carulli
Publicado en: ACS Photonics, Edición 10, 2023, ISSN 2330-4022
Editor: American Chemical Society (ACS)
DOI: 10.1021/ACSPHOTONICS.3C00788

Fuzzy Band Structure of Quantum Dots by Bloch Orbital Expansion: Unconventional Insights into Geometric-Electronic Structure Relations

Autores: Zeger Hens, Jordi Llusar, Ivan Infante
Publicado en: ACS Nano, Edición 19, 2025, ISSN 1936-0851
Editor: American Chemical Society (ACS)
DOI: 10.1021/ACSNANO.4C17941

Charge Transfer from Perovskite Quantum Dots to Multifunctional Ligands with Tethered Molecular Species

Autores: Mariam Kurashvili, Lena S. Stickel, Jordi Llusar, Christian Wilhelm, Fabian Felixberger, Ivana Ivanović-Burmazović, Ivan Infante, Jochen Feldmann, Quinten A. Akkerman
Publicado en: ACS Energy Letters, Edición 10, 2025, ISSN 2380-8195
Editor: American Chemical Society (ACS)
DOI: 10.1021/ACSENERGYLETT.5C00881

Zero-Dimensional Gua3SbCl6 Crystals as Intrinsically Reabsorption-Free Scintillators for Radiation Detection. 

Autores: Matteo L Zaffalon, Ye Wu, Francesca Cova, Luca Gironi, Xiaoming Li, Valerio Pinchetti, Yang Liu, Muhammad Imran, Alessia Cemmi, Ilaria Di Sarcina, Liberato Manna, Haibo Zeng, Sergio Brovelli
Publicado en: Advanced Functional Materials, ISSN 1616-3028
Editor: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ADFM.202305564

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

Autores: Zhanzhao Li; Yurii P. Ivanov; Anna Cabona; Andrea Fratelli; Stefano Toso; Saptarshi Chakraborty; Giorgio Divitini; Ilka Kriegel; Sergio Brovelli; Liberato Manna
Publicado en: Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2025, ISSN 1520-5126
Editor: ACS
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2512.08474

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

Autores: František Zajíc; Vítězslav Jarý; Jiří Pospíšil; Pavel Boháček; Zafari Umar; Michal Piasecki; Mikhail G. Brik; Romana Kučerková; Alena Beitlerová; Martin Nikl
Publicado en: Materials Advances, 2025, ISSN 2633-5409
Editor: Wiley
DOI: 10.1039/D4MA00976B

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

Autores: Sala, Matteo; Orfano, Matteo; Secchi, Valeria; Mattei, Ilaria; Pianta, Nicolò; Zabloudil, Vojtech; Lowis, Carsten; Kučerková, Romana; Nikl, Martin; Meinardi, Francesco; Auffray, Etiennette; Vill
Publicado en: Advanced Functional Materials, 2024, ISSN 1616-3028
Editor: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ADFM.202421434

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

Autores: 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
Publicado en: ACS Energy Letters, 2024, ISSN 2380-8195
Editor: ACS
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2404.14813

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

Autores: Francesca Cova, Andrea Erroi, Matteo L Zaffalon, Alessia Cemmi, Ilaria Di Sarcina, Jacopo Perego, Angelo Monguzzi, Angiolina Comotti, Francesca Rossi, Francesco Carulli, Sergio Brovelli
Publicado en: Nano Letters, ISSN 1530-6992
Editor: ACS
DOI: 10.1021/ACS.NANOLETT.3C04083

European Physical Journal Plus

Autores: Gironi L.; Dell'Oro S.; Gotti C.; Manenti N.; Mazzola E.; Nastasi M.; Peracchi D.
Publicado en: The European Physical Journal Plus, 2025, ISSN 2190-5444
Editor: Springer Science + Business Media
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2503.13013

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

Autores: Umberto Filippi; Stefano Toso; Matteo L. Zaffalon; Andrea Pianetti; Zhanzhao Li; Sergio Marras; Luca Goldoni; Francesco Meinardi; Sergio Brovelli; Dmitry Baranov; Liberato Manna
Publicado en: Advanced Materials, 2024, ISSN 1521-4095
Editor: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ADMA.202410949

Defect‐Mediated Scintillation in Fully Inorganic Perovskites via Water‐Induced 0D/3D Phase Modulation

Autores: Mario Calora, Francesco Carulli, Nadir Vanni, Antonella Giuri, Elena Ferrari, Matteo Masino, Laura Lazzarini, Francesca Rossi, Gianluca Accorsi, Anna Moliterni, Davide Altamura, Cinzia Giannini, Luca Cappelletti, Gianluca Quarta, Alberto Quaranta, Rosanna Mastria, Anna Paola Caricato, Sergio Brovelli, Aurora Rizzo
Publicado en: Advanced Functional Materials, 2025, ISSN 1616-301X
Editor: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ADFM.202512571

Size‐Dependent Multiexciton Dynamics Governs Scintillation From Perovskite Quantum Dots

Autores: 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
Publicado en: Advanced Materials, 2024, ISSN 1521-4095
Editor: Wiley
DOI: 10.3929/ETHZ-B-000712198

Perovskite Nanocrystals Initiate One‐Step Oxygen Tolerant PET‐RAFT Polymerization of Highly Loaded, Efficient Plastic Nanocomposites

Autores: Bellotti V.; Carulli F.; Mecca S.; Zaffalon M. L.; Erroi A.; Catalano F.; Boventi M.; Infante I.; Rossi F.; Beverina L.; Brovelli S.; Simonutti R.
Publicado en: Advanced Functional Materials, 2024, ISSN 1616-3028
Editor: WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/ADFM.202411319

Ultrafast and Radiation-Hard Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocomposite Scintillators

Autores: 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
Publicado en: ACS ENERGY LETTERS, 2023, ISSN 2380-8195
Editor: ACS
DOI: 10.3204/pubdb-2023-05335

Surface Reconstructions in II–VI Quantum Dots

Autores: Llusar, Jordi; du Fossé, Indy; Hens, Zeger; Houtepen, Arjan; Infante, Ivan
Publicado en: ACS Nano, 2024, ISSN 1936-086X
Editor: ACS
DOI: 10.1021/ACSNANO.3C09265

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

Autores: 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
Publicado en: ACS Energy Letters, 2024, ISSN 2380-8195
Editor: 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

Autores: Cova, Francesca; Erroi, Andrea; Zaffalon, Matteo L.; Cemmi, Alessia; Di Sarcina, Ilaria; Perego, Jacopo; Monguzzi, Angelo; Comotti, Angiolina; Rossi, Francesca; Carulli, Francesco; Brovelli, Sergio
Publicado en: Nano Letters, 2024, ISSN 1530-6992
Editor: ACS
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2406.13354

Conference proceedings (2)

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

Autores: 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
Publicado en: Proceedings of the MATSUS Spring 2025 Conference, 2024
Editor: Matsus
DOI: 10.29363/NANOGE.MATSUSSPRING.2025.163

Ultrafast Superradiant Scintillation from Weakly Confined CsPbBr3 Nanocrystals

Autores: Zaffalon, Matteo L.; Fratelli, Andrea; Li, Zhanzhao; Bruni, Francesco; Cherniukh, Ihor; Carulli, Francesco; Meinardi, Francesco; Kovalenko, Maksym V.; Manna, Liberato; Brovelli, Sergio
Publicado en: Proceedings of the MATSUS Spring 2025 Conference, 2024
Editor: MatSus
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2412.02516