Nanoporous Carbons for Soft and Flexible Energy Devices

Carbon Nanotubes for Flexible Fiber Batteries.- Carbon Nanotube Dual-Material Gate Devices for Flexible Electronics.- Integration of cost-efficient carbon electrodes into the development of microbial fuel cells.- Bridging electronics and micro energy storage.- Nanoporous Composite Sensors.- Laser-Induced Graphene and its applications in soft (bio)sensors.- Production of carbon nanofoam by pulsed laser deposition on flexible substrates.- Porosity of Nanostructured Carbon Thin Films.

Francesca Borghi is a Post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Physics at the University of Milano, and at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Nanostructured Materials and Interfaces. She graduated in Physics in 2011 from the University of Milano, and after that obtained her PhD in Physics in 2015 from the same university. Her main work deals with the characterization of the interfacial chemico-physical properties of nanostructured thin films, produced by low-energy clusters beam deposition in the gas phase. In particular, she uses atomic force microscopy for the characterization of the first stage of growth of thin films in the sub-monolayer regime (metallic oxides, carbon, gold) and for the study of the structural and functional properties of granular thin films (surface charge density, elastic and electrical properties). In this frame, she won a national fellowship (Centro Universitario Cattolico) supporting the development of micro- and nano-structured networks for the characterization of the in-vitro behavior of spatially confined neuronal cells. Her research activity focuses also on the study of the structural, mechanical and electrical properties of ionic liquids confined in porous matrices. She also developed a new approach for the characterization of the surface area and porosity of thin films by adsorption gas measurements.