Publications

Mirko Maturi, Lorenzo Migliorini, Sara Moon Villa, Tommaso Santaniello, Natalia Fernandez-Delgado, Sergio Ignacio Molina, Paolo Milani, Alberto Sanz de León, Mauro Comes Franchini

This work describes the development and characterization of tetragonal barium titanate nanoparticles (BTO NPs) and their surface functionalization with dopamine dodecylamine (DDA), a lipophilic organic ligand. The so-obtained lipophilic NPs (BTO-DDA) are then formulated at low loadings (< 5 wt.%) into liquid photocurable resins for vat photopolymerization (VP) and 3D printed into solid objects. The printed composites are mechanically characterized in order to assess the effect of the nanomaterial on the mechanical properties of the 3D printed polymer, revealing no significant variations in the mechanical properties (tensile or flexural) of the nanocomposites compared to the original polymer matrix. In light of these results, the printed nanocomposites are studied in terms of their capacity to generate a separation of charge by the piezoelectric effect, typical of the BTO crystal structure. This study reveals that BTO-loaded nanocomposites display outstanding piezoelectric coefficients as high as 50 pC/N when BTO-DDA is formulated at 3.0 wt.%, only slightly less than one-third of the piezoelectric coefficient previously reported for bulk BTO, while preserving the mechanical properties of the polymer matrix.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adfm.202407077

Migliorini, L., Valaperta, G., Acocella, F., Santaniello, T., Castelli, N., Perin, A., Cavaliere, F., Vertemati, M., Zuccotti, G.V. and Milani, P., 2024. Conductive Gel Phantoms for Training in Electrosurgery. Advanced Materials Interfaces, p.2400246.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/admi.202400246

Davide Cipollini, Filippo Profumo, Lambert Schomaker, Paolo Milani, Francesca Borghi

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmats.2024.1385792/full

G. Martini, E. Tentori, M. Mirigliano, D. E. Galli, P. Milani and F. Mambretti

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphy.2024.1400919/full

Migliorini, L., Santaniello, T. and Milani, P., Printing Electrically Conductive Patterns on Polymeric and 3D-Printed Systems. In Resilient Hybrid Electronics for Extreme/Harsh Environments (pp. 93-113). CRC Press.

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.1201/9781003138945-6/printing-electrically-conductive-patterns-polymeric-3d-printed-systems-lorenzo-migliorini-tommaso-santaniello-paolo-milani

Zixin Huo, Wenjie Yang, Javad Harati, Ajinkya Nene, Francesca Borghi, Claudio Piazzoni, Paolo Milani, Shifeng Guo, Massimiliano Galluzzi, Diana Boraschi

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsami.4c04330

Stefano Radice, Filippo Profumo, Francesca Borghi, Andrea Falqui, Paolo Milani

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aelm.202400434

Tommaso Pajola, Anika Padin, Benjamin Blowers, Francesca Borghi, Alessandro Minguzzi, Emiliano Bonera, Alberto Vertova, Marcel Di Vece

https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/cphc.202400594