Andrea Baldi

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I am thrilled to announce that my #NWO #Vici pre-proposal was NOT selected and I won't have to spend my Summer writing the full-proposal by September 9 🎉

New Matlab code to calculate scattered and internal fields for a 3D spherical particle using Mie theory:

github.com/andrea-baldi...

Might be useful for people working in #plasmonics and #nanophotonics, and one can make pretty figures like this 😍.

In every proposal we need to write a research data management plan but we are never asked for a #people management plan.

Funding institutions should care more about how we plan to #mentor our young researchers.

People are the main reason we do #science.

Regaining confidence in Europe
Europe has the means to definitively surpass the US in terms of transport, climate, training and productivity, as it already did for health. This is the only civilisational competition that matters.
www.lemonde.fr/blog/piketty...

I am very happy of being involved in this collaboration between Andrea and Quynh @vuamsterdam.bsky.social and us at #PoliMi! Can't wait to so some nonlinear optical measurements 🔬🔩💡 with these beautiful new #nanoparticles ⚗️

New paper out! We coated #plasmonic #nanoparticles with an epsilon-near-zero #enz “coat” of Al-doped ZnO, tunable in size, thickness, and doping!

Kudos to Quynh Nguyen for her amazing work!

If you love nanomaterials synthesis, plasmonics, and non-linear optics, check here: doi.org/10.1039/D4TC...

Solving the Conundrum of the Influence of Irradiation Power on Photothermal CO2 Hydrogenation Solar photocatalysis appears as a viable approach for the production of value-added chemicals from CO2. However, up to now, there is no information on the influence of the light intensity on the product distribution of CO2 hydrogenation and the modeling of the actual local temperature at the catalytic sites for typical nanoparticulate photocatalysts. Herein, it is shown that for a photothermal catalyst containing a high density of homogeneously distributed Ru nanoparticles, the collective heating prevails, resulting in a homogeneous temperature distribution in the material that should be relatively close to that of the support and that can be measured macroscopically. Moreover, light intensity has a clear influence on product distribution due to the differences in the local temperature, and therefore, attention should be paid to stable operating conditions, temperature, and CO2 conversion that can result in remarkable differences in product selectivity for the same catalyst as a function of light intensity.

Thermal effects are critically important in #plasmonic #photocatalysis. In this collaboration with our colleagues in Valencia, Sven Askes shows the power of numerical simulations in predicting photothermal effects in nanocatalysts.

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

As scientists, we often feel both responsible and powerless when tackling climate change. But science alone won’t solve it. Since 1975, PV efficiency has "only" doubled, yet prices plummeted and installed capacity soared. Policies and financial markets matter just as much as scientific innovation.