Excellence Science

Integrating advanced methods, research infrastructures and know-how to gain fundamental knowledge in nanoscience and nanotechnologies, and to design advanced materials and biosystems

Advanced Infrastructures

IOM manages and operates strategic scientific infrastructures for the national and international communities

Open Access

IOM research facilities for experimental and theoretical nanoscience are open for access to the scientific and industrial communities through dedicated access portals

Development of Methods and Instrumentation

IOM has a longstanding tradition in designing and implementing new methods for research infrastructures, numerical modelling, HPC and data management.

News & Events

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30.04.2025

Summer School BioBrillouin for Mechanobiology Materials, Methods and Perspectives

La scuola si concentrerà su tecniche avanzate di microscopia e spettroscopia, in particolare sulla spettroscopia Brillouin e sulle sue applicazioni nello studio delle proprietà meccaniche di cellule e tessuti.

Rigenerazione cutanea con nanofibre funzionalizzate: il contributo del CNR-IOM

Valerio Vitale vince il finanziamento PNRR per la ricerca sui materiali moiré

Un caloroso saluto e augurio di successo alla nostra collega Laura Andolfi

Mission Areas

Energy and Environment

Chemical physics of materials, interfaces, and surfaces down to single atoms

Quantum Materials

Understanding and controlling quantum systems to enable novel technologies

Sensors and Devices

Exploring and tailoring the electronic, optical and magnetic properties of matter at the nanoscale

bIOMed

Biophysics, Nanomedicine, and Soft Matter

>350

Publications per year

>8000

Average citations per year

146

Staff members

89% scientific & technical - 11% administrative

75

Associated members

54 research associates & 21 PhD students

>18 M€

Funding from projects in 2023

81 active projects in 2023

>200

National and international users

accessing IOM facilities every year

Latest Publications

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Physical Review Letters, 134-13, 2025 doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.130601

Variational Ground-State Quantum Adiabatic Theorem

Žunkovič Bojan, Torta Pietro, Pecci Giovanni, Lami Guglielmo, Collura Mario

ACS Catalysis, 15-7:5806 – 5824, 2025 doi:10.1021/acscatal.5c01147

Influence of Local Chemical Environment on the Catalytic Properties of Ir1/CeO2 Single-Atom Catalysts in CO Oxidation

Pauletti Carlo Federico, Farnesi Camellone Matteo, Piccinin Simone

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 27-12:6278 – 6287, 2025 doi:10.1039/d4cp04869e

Sub-nanosecond dynamics of phospholipid membranes interacting with polymorphic amyloid fibrils observed by elastic incoherent neutron scattering

Matsuo Tatsuhito, Bélime Agathe, Natali Francesca, De Francesco Alessio, Peters Judith

Headquarters

Istituto Officina dei Materiali - CNR-IOM

Q2 Building - Area Science Park Strada Statale 14 km 163,5 - 34149 Basovizza - Trieste

Other units

CNR-IOM Trieste-SISSA

c/o Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati - SISSA Via Bonomea, 265, 34136 Trieste TS

CNR-IOM Perugia

c/o Dipartimento di Fisica e Geologia, Università di Perugia, Via Alessandro Pascoli, 06123 Perugia PG

CNR-IOM Grenoble OGG

c/o ESRF, 71, Avenue des Martyrs CS40220, 38043 Grenoble, France

CNR-IOM Cagliari

c/o Dipartimento di Fisica, Cittadella Universitaria, 09042 Monserrato, Cagliari

CNR-IOM Genova

Corso Ferdinando Maria Perrone, 24, 16152 Genova GE