Tartufari Prize 2006
On the 23rd of June 2006 the prizes from the "Accademia dei lincei" were awarded at the Palazzo
Corsini in Rome, during the closing cermony of the accademic year 2006.
The Professor Tartufari Prize for physics was awarded ex aequo to the research groups of Prof. Paolo Milani and of Prof. A. Reale.
Prize Motivation
The research project presented by Professor Milani and his research group deals with the spectroscopic study of the X-ray absorption by aggregates (clusters) of TiOx, with variable oxidation states x. As a X-ray source will be used mainly the Gas-phase beamline at the ELETTRA synchrotron of Trieste. The measurements will be also performed on the ring Free Electron Laser EUFELE available at the same synchrotron. The TiOx aggregates will be produced by means of a supersonic beam produced by an innovating source, named Pulsed Microplasma Cluster Source (PMCS), that was developed by the same group during the last ten years.
The project is considered very interesting, as it is based on an innovative apparatus and it will be able to provide new insights on basic physical aspects of nano-aggregates of transition metal oxides and on their corresponding catalitic properties.
The Professor Tartufari Prize for physics was awarded ex aequo to the research groups of Prof. Paolo Milani and of Prof. A. Reale.
Prize Motivation
The research project presented by Professor Milani and his research group deals with the spectroscopic study of the X-ray absorption by aggregates (clusters) of TiOx, with variable oxidation states x. As a X-ray source will be used mainly the Gas-phase beamline at the ELETTRA synchrotron of Trieste. The measurements will be also performed on the ring Free Electron Laser EUFELE available at the same synchrotron. The TiOx aggregates will be produced by means of a supersonic beam produced by an innovating source, named Pulsed Microplasma Cluster Source (PMCS), that was developed by the same group during the last ten years.
The project is considered very interesting, as it is based on an innovative apparatus and it will be able to provide new insights on basic physical aspects of nano-aggregates of transition metal oxides and on their corresponding catalitic properties.


