23-01-2012
One Team-Leader position in theoretical chemistry/physics is available at the Centre for Biomolecular Nanotechnologies (Lecce, Italy) of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia.
The position is 5 years long and could be renewed.The position is available immediately.
 Apr 22nd, 10.00 am
SEMINAR: Manuel Perez Jigato, KU Leuven/IKS, Belgium "First-­Principles electronic and vibrational properties of Pb(111) thin films"

 June the 28th, 2010
Self-energy and excitonic effects in the electronic and optical properties of TiO2 crystalline phases, Letizia Chiodo, Juan Maria García-Lastra, Amilcare Iacomino, Stefano Ossicini, Jin Zhao, Hrvoje Petek, Angel Rubio has been accepted for publication on Physical Review B

 07/12/2009
The role of exact-exchange in the theoretical description of organic-metal interfaces, by F. Della Sala, E. Fabiano, S. Laricchia , S. D'Agostino, and M. Piacenza, has been accepted on the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry.

 16-11-2009
E. Fabiano, M. Piacenza, S. D'Agostino and F. Della Sala Towards an accurate description of the electronic properties of the biphenylthiol/gold interface: the role of exact-exchange J. Chem. Phys. in press

 13/11/2009
Towards an accurate description of the electronic properties of the biphenylthiol/gold interface: the role of exact-exchange by M. Piacenza, S. D'Agostino, E. Fabiano and F. Della Sala has been accepted on J. Chem. Phys

 31-10-2009
Disubstituted dibenzothiophene-5,5-dioxide molecular materials: towards a new class of efficient blue electroluminescent compounds by R. Grisorio, G. Melcarne,G.P. Suranna, P. Mastrorilli, C. F. Nobile, P. Cosma, P. Fini,S. Colella, E. Fabiano, M. Piacenza, F. Della Sala, G. Ciccarella, M. Mazzeo and G. Gigli has been accepted on J. Mater. Chem.

 02 Ottobre ore 15.30
Electronic structure and magnetic intereaction of diluted magnetic semiconductor.
Dr. Thomas Chanier Laboratoire Matériaux et Microélectronique de Provence associé au Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. UMR 6137, Université de Provence, France
 10 settembre ore 15.30
High Performace Computing in Chemistry
Dr. Loriano Storchi Universita' di Perugia
 10/09/2009
Ab initio depolarization in self-assembled molecular monolayers: Beyond conventional density-functional theory by M. Piacenza, E. Fabiano, S. D'Agostino, F. Della Sala has been accepted on Phys. Rev. B

 15/7/2009
"Enhanced fluorescence by metal nanospheres on metal substrates" by S. D'Agostino, P. P. Pompa, R. Chiuri, R. Phaneuf, D. G. Britti, R. Rinaldi, R. Cingolani, and F. Della Sala has been accepted on Optics Letters

 25/6/2009
Structural and electronic properties of gold microclusters: assessment of the Localized Hartree-Fock method by E. Fabiano, M. Piacenza, F. Della Sala has been accepted on Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys

 30/6/2009
Microwave-assisted synthesis of thiophene fluorophores, labeling and multilabeling of monoclonal antibodies and long lasting staining of fixed cells by M. Zambianchi, F. Di Maria, A. Cazzato, G. Gigli, M. Piacenza, F. Della Sala and G. Barbarella has been accepted on J. Am. Chem. Soc.

 6th July 2009 , 15.30.
Many-particle effects in excitation spectra of finite fermionic systems : microscopic metallic clusters and molecules.
Andrey Ipatov (Erlagen, germany)
 3/6/2009
Rectification in Supramolecular Zinc-Porphyrin/Fulleropyrrolidine Dyads Self-organized on Gold(111) by F. Matino,V. Arima, M. Piacenza, F. Della Sala, G. Maruccio, Ray J. Phaneuf, R. Del Sole, G. Mele, G. Vasapollo, G. Gigli1, R. Cingolani, and R. Rinaldi has been accepted on Chem. Phys. Chem.

 1/6/2009
Savio Laricchia starts a Studentship in DEDOM

 16-Apr-09
Absorption and fluorescence properties from long-range-corrected time-dependent density functional theory: application to push-pull oligothiophene derivatives by B.M. Wong, M. Piacenza and F.Della Sala has been accepted on Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.

 17-03-2009
Raman spectra of Poly(p-phenylenevinylene)s with fluorinated vinylene units: evidence of in-ter-ring distortion. M. Piacenza,D. Comoretto, M. Burger, V. Morandi, F. Marabelli, C. Martinelli, G. M. Farinola, A. Cardone, G. Gigli and F. Della Sala has been accepted on Chem. Phys. Chem

 12-Jan-09
Manuel Piacenza joins DEDOM

 26-03-2009
Dedom advertisement published on Physics Jobs (Star Job)
link at http://physicsworld.com/cws/job/J000003863
 17 Dec 2008 h 15:30
A polarizable continuum model for studying surface enhanced optical properties of molecules
Stefano Corni
 12/12/2008
dedom advertisement publish on nature nanotecnology: jobs of the week

 10/12/2008
DEDOM positions annouced on naturejobs

 1/12/2008
Fabio Della Sala presents the DEDOM project at "Conferenza del Dipartimento di Materiali e Dispositivi del CNR", Roma

 6-Nov-2008
Ore 10.30 Filippo De Angelis (ISTM-CNR, Perugia) "Ab initio modeling of dye-sensitized solar cells"

 6-Nov-2008
Ore 15.30 Leonardo Belpassi (ISTM-CNR, Perugia) "All-electron four-component Dirac-Kohn-Sham procedure for large molecules and clusters containing heavy elements"

 29-10-2008
"An ab initio study of the magnetic-metallic CoPt3-Au interfaces " by Letizia Chiodo, Fabio Della Sala, Teresa Pellegrino, Roberto Cingolani and Liberato Manna has been accepted on J. Phys. Cond. Matt. has been accepted on Phys. Rev. B

 22-10-2008
M.G. Lupo, F. Della Sala, L. Carbone, M. Zavelani-Rossi, A. Fiore , L. Luer, D. Polli, R. Cingolani, L. Manna, G. Lanzani "Ultrafast electron-hole dynamics in core/shell CdSe/CdS dot/rod nanocrystals" has been accepted on Nanoletters

 22-10-2008
Giovanni Morello, Fabio Della Sala, Luigi Carbone, Liberato Manna, Giuseppe Maruccio, Roberto Cingolani, Milena De Giorgi "Intrinsic optical nonlinearity in colloidally seeded and grown CdSe/CdS nanostructures: Photoinduced screening of the internal electric field" has been accepted on Phys. Rev. B

 21-07-2008
Determination of Band Offsets in Heterostructured Colloidal Nanorods Using Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy" by D.Steiner D. Dorfs, U. Banin, O. Millo, F. Della Sala and L. Manna has been accepted on NanoLetters

 01/07/2008
The DEDOM project officially started

 13/06/2008
"Type II transition in InSb-based nanostructures for midinfrared applications" has been published on J. Appl. Phys
by R. Intartaglia, G. Rainó, V. Tasco, F. Della Sala, R. Cingolani, A. N. Baranov,N. Deguffroy, E. Tournié, B. Satpati, A. Trampert, and M. De Giorgi
 21/05/2008
"Theoretical study on Oligothiophene N-succinimidyl Esters:Size and push-pull effects" by M. Piacenza, M. Zambianchi, G. Barbarella, G. Gigli and F. Della Sala
has been accepted for publication on Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
 12/12/2007
Fabio Della Sala has been awarded of the ERC-Starting Grant for the proposal DEDOM (Development of Density Functional Theory Methods for organic-metal interaction)

 18/12/2007
"Large blue-shift in the optical spectra of fluorinated polyphenylenevinylenes. A combined theoretical and experimental study" by M. Piacenza, F. Della Sala, G. Farinola, C. Martinelli,G. Giuseppe
has been accepted for publication on J. Phys. Chem B.
 09/11/2007
Multi-configuration optimized effective potential method for a density-functional treatment of static correlation
by Martin Weimer, Fabio Della Sala, and Andreas Goerling accepted on the Journal of Chemical Physics
 03/09/2007
"Zinc porphyrin - driven assembly of gold nanofingers"
by V.Arima*, R. I. R. Blyth, F. Matino, L. Chiodo, F. Della Sala, J. Thompson, T. Regier, R. Del Sole, G. Mele, G. Vasapollo, R. Cingolani, R. Rinaldi, has been accepted for publication in Small
 27/08/2007
"Synthesis and Micrometer-Scale Assembly of Colloidal CdSe/CdS Nanorods Prepared by a Seeded Growth Approach" by Luigi Carbone,Concetta Nobile, Milena De Giorgi,Fabio Della Sala, Giovanni Morello, Pierpaolo Pompa, Martin Hytch, Etienne Snoeck, Angela Fiore, Isabella R. Franchini, Monica Nadasan, Albert F. Silvestre, Letizia Chiodo, Stefan Kudera, Roberto Cingolani, Roman Krahne, and Liberato Manna, accepted on Nanoletters

 20-06-2007
Wed 20 June at 15.00 Prof. Mauro Stener from Chemistry Department, University of Trieste will give a talk on "Applications of TDDFT to material science: core electron excitations of bulk materials and optical spectra of gold nanoparticles"

 12/6/2007
Tugba Tugsuz from Ankara has been selected for the postdoc position in the Spidme project.

 14/06/2007
Torsional effects on excitation energies of thiophene derivatives induced by beta-substituents: comparison between time-dependent density functional theory and approximated coupled cluster approach
by M.Piacenza, F. Della Sala, E.Fabiano, T.Maiolo and G.Gigli has been accepted on Journal of Computaional Chemistry
 29/05/2007
Numerically stable optimized effective potential method with balanced Gaussian basis sets
by Andreas Hesselmann, Andreas W. Goetz, Fabio Della Sala, Fred Manby, and Andreas Goerling has been accepted on Journal of Chemical Physics.
 04-04-2007
Localized exchange-correlation potential from second-order self-energy for accurate Kohn-Sham energy-gap
by E. Fabiano and F. Della Sala has been accepted on The Journal of Chemical Physics
 03-04-2007
Ab initio structural and electronic analysis of CH3SH self-assembled on a Cu(110) substrate
by S. D'Agostino , L. Chiodo , F. Della Sala , R. Cingolani and R. Rinaldi has been accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B
 09-03-2007
Imaging Photoelectron Transmission through Self Assembled Monolayers: The work function of alkanethiols coated gold
by D. Fragouli, T. Kitsopoulos, L. Chiodo, F. Della Sala, R. Cingolani, S. Ray, R. Naaman has been accepted for publication in Langmuir
 05-02-2007
Role of coverage on the electronic properties of sulfur chemisorbed on Cu(100): Ab initio calculations
by L. Chiodo and P. Monachesi has been published on Physical Review B
 31/01/2007
"A comparative quantum chemical study the ruthenium catalyzed olefin metathesis"
by M. Piacenza, I. Hyla-Kryspin and S. Grimme has been accepted for publication on Journal of Computational Chemistry
 30-01-2007
Blue light emitting diodes based on fluorescent CdSe/ZnS nanocrystals
by Aurora Rizzo, Yanqin Li, Stefan Kudera, Fabio Della Sala, et al. has been published on Applied Physics Letters
 09/12/2006
"Role of coverage on the electronic properties of sulfur chemisorbed on Cu(100): Ab initio calculations"
by L. Chiodo and P. Monachesi has been accepted for publication on Phys. Rev. B
 09/12/2006
"Anchoring sulphur-headgroup organic molecules at Cu(100): tailoring the interface electronic states"
by M. G. Betti, F. Bussolotti, L. Chiodo, C. Mariani, P. Monachesi has been accepted for publication on Surf. Sci.
 28/09/2006
The article "Multi-Color Pixels from a Single Active Molecular Material by Surface Tension driven Deposition"
by I. Viola, F. Della Sala, M. Piacenza, L. Favaretto, M. Gazzano, M. Anni, G. Barbarella, R. Cingolani, G. Gigli has been accepted for publication on Advanced Materials
 13/09/2006
P.P. Pompa, L. Martiradonna, A. Della Torre, F. Della Sala, L. Manna, M. De Vittorio, F. Calabi, R. Cingolani and Rinaldi "Increasing the luminescence of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystal at the nanoscale" has been accepted for publication on Nature Nanotechnology

 04/09/2006
"The localized Hartree-Fock method for a self-interaction free Kohn-Sham potential: applications to closed- and open-shel molecules materials"
by F. Della Sala has been accepted for publication on Theoretical Chemistry Accounts


 27/07/2006
Stefania D'Agostino graduates with 110 in physics

 21/07/2006
"Optical properties of N-Succinimidyl-bithiophene and the effects of the binding to biomolecules: comparison between coupled-cluster and TD-DFT calculations and experiments" has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
by E. Fabiano, F. Della Sala, G. Barbarella, S. Lattante, M. Anni G. Sotgiu, C. Haettig, R. Cingolani, and G. Gigli
 05.06.2006
Theoretical study on N-succinimidyl oligothiophenes: A novel class of materials for biological applications
by E.Fabiano, F.Della Sala - Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, is available on-line
 05.06.2006
"The effects of oxygen and boron functionalization on the optical properties of dithienothiophenes"
by F. Della Sala, V. Vitale, M. Mazzeo, R. Cingolani, G. Gigli, L. Favaretto and G. Barbarella - Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, is available on-line
 22.06.2006
Entanglement of electrons in interacting molecules - Tina A.C. Maiolo, Fabio Della Sala, Luigi Martina, Giulio Soliani
Conference, Nonlinear Physics. Theory and Experiment. IV Gallipoli (Lecce), Italy - June 22 - July 1, 2006
 13.04.2006
Post-doc position available: see job-opening

 31.03.2006
“Near-field spectra of quantum well excitons with non-Markovian phonon scattering”
by G. Mannarini and R. Zimmermann, published in Physical Review B 73, 115325 (2006), has been selected for the April 3, 2006 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology (www.vjnano.org)