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Overview

Francesco d'Acapito is affiliated with the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in France. Their research primarily focuses on materials science and engineering, reflected in numerous publications across various scientific domains.

The scientist has contributed significantly to the fields of materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, as well as radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging. These diverse subfields underline a multidisciplinary approach within broader materials science and engineering contexts.

Among the main research topics addressed by Francesco d'Acapito are:

  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Fuel Cells and Related Materials
  • Advancements in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
  • Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
  • Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis

Their frequent co-authors include Giovanni Orazio Lepore, Alessandro Puri, Alessandro Minguzzi, Enrico Berretti, and S. Laureti, indicating consistent collaboration within a network of researchers.

Francesco d'Acapito's scholarly output is documented in multiple papers published across notable venues. Frequent venues include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Journal of Alloys and Compounds, ECS Meeting Abstracts, Acta Materialia, and Advanced Energy Materials.

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Francesco d'Acapito are:

  • Toward ultimate nonvolatile resistive memories: The mechanism behind ovonic threshold switching revealed, 2020, Science Advances
  • Short-range chemical order and local lattice distortion in a compositionally complex alloy, 2020, Acta Materialia
  • Introducing Highly Redox-Active Atomic Centers into Insertion-Type Electrodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries, 2020, Advanced Energy Materials
  • Copper Oxide Nanomaterial Fate in Plant Tissue: Nanoscale Impacts on Reproductive Tissues, 2021, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Formation of the active site structures during pyrolysis transformation of Fe-phthalocyanine into Fe-Nx-C electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction, 2023, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental

This publication record highlights contributions to energy materials, catalysis, and nanomaterial impacts in environmental contexts.

Best Publications

  • X-ray Optics of a Dynamical Sagittal-Focusing Monochromator on the GILDA Beamline at the ESRF.

    S. Pascarelli;F. Boscherini;F. D'Acapito;J. Hrdy

  • Direct observation of charge order in an epitaxial NdNiO3 film.

    U. Staub;G. I. Meijer;F. Fauth;R. Allenspach

  • A Pd/C-CeO2 Anode Catalyst for High-Performance Platinum-Free Anion Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells.

    Hamish A. Miller;Alessandro Lavacchi;Francesco Vizza;Marcello Marelli

  • Determination of the oxidation and coordination state of copper on different Cu-based catalysts by XANES spectroscopy in situ or in operando conditions

    C. Lamberti;S. Bordiga;F. Bonino;C. Prestipino

  • Copper in glazes of Renaissance luster pottery: Nanoparticles, ions, and local environment

    S Padovani;Cinzia Sada;Paolo Mazzoldi;B Brunetti

  • Origin of the bright photoluminescence of few-atom silver clusters confined in LTA zeolites

    Didier Grandjean;Eduardo Coutiño-Gonzalez;Ngo Tuan Cuong;Ngo Tuan Cuong;Eduard Fron

  • Controlled aggregation of magnetic ions in a semiconductor: an experimental demonstration.

    A. Bonanni;A. Navarro-Quezada;Tian Li;M. Wegscheider

  • Toward ultimate nonvolatile resistive memories: The mechanism behind ovonic threshold switching revealed

    Pierre Noé;Anthonin Verdy;Francesco d’Acapito;Jean-Baptiste Dory

  • X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and x-ray absorption near edge structure study of copper sites hosted at the internal surface of ZSM-5 zeolite: A comparison with quantitative and energetic data on the CO and NH3 adsorption

    V. Bolis;S. Maggiorini;L. Meda;F. D’Acapito

  • Structural and paramagnetic properties of dilute Ga 1-x Mn x N

    Wiktor Stefanowicz;Dariusz Sztenkiel;Bogdan Faina;Andreas Grois

  • Structure of Homoleptic CuI(CO)3 Cations in CuI-Exchanged ZSM-5 Zeolite: An X-ray Absorption Study

    Carlo Lamberti;Gemma Turnes Palomino;Silvia Bordiga;Gloria Berlier

  • Evolution of the local environment around Er upon thermal annealing in Er and O co-implanted Si

    A Terrasi;G Franzo;S Coffa;F Priolo

  • Evidence for Germanene growth on epitaxial hexagonal (h)-AlN on Ag(1 1 1).

    F d’Acapito;S Torrengo;E Xenogiannopoulou;P Tsipas

  • Experimental study of copper–alkali ion exchange in glass

    Francesco Gonella;F. Caccavale;L. D. Bogomolova;F. D'Acapito

  • Experimental probing of exchange interactions between localized spins in the dilute magnetic insulator (Ga,Mn)N

    A. Bonanni;M. Sawicki;T. Devillers;W. Stefanowicz

  • CuI-Y and CuII-Y zeolites: a XANES, EXAFS and visible-NIR study

    C Lamberti;G Spoto;D Scarano;C Pazé

  • Extreme undercooling (down to 90 K) of liquid metal nanoparticles

    G. B. Parravicini;A. Stella;P. Ghigna;G. Spinolo

  • GILDA (Italian Beamline) on BM8

    F. D'Acapito;S. Colonna;S. Pascarelli;G. Antonioli

  • Silver and copper nanoclusters in the lustre decoration of Italian Renaissance pottery: an EXAFS study

    S. Padovani;I. Borgia;B. Brunetti;A. Sgamellotti

  • Manganese-induced growth of GaAs nanowires.

    Faustino Martelli;Silvia Rubini;Matteo Piccin;Giorgio Bais

Frequent Co-Authors

Giovanni Mattei
Giovanni Mattei University of Padua
Giancarlo Battaglin
Giancarlo Battaglin Ca Foscari University of Venice
Cinzia Sada
Cinzia Sada University of Padua
Tomasz Dietl
Tomasz Dietl Tohoku University
Carlo Lamberti
Carlo Lamberti University of Turin
Alessandro Longo
Alessandro Longo European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Silvia Bordiga
Silvia Bordiga University of Turin
Giorgia Franzò
Giorgia Franzò National Research Council (CNR)
Marco Fanciulli
Marco Fanciulli University of Milano-Bicocca
Francesco Priolo
Francesco Priolo University of Catania

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