Advanced Materials for Efficient technologies and Energy Conversion (AMEEC)

Advanced Materials for Efficient technologies and Energy Conversion (AMEEC)


The AMEEC team, led by Prof. M. BALLI, focuses on the development of new advanced materials with excellent functional, chemical, and mechanical properties, which would lead to compact (small size), efficient, clean, and safe technologies. In this way, AMEEC members aim to design a new generation of materials for efficient-clean refrigeration, high-performance batteries, solar cells, wind turbines, spintronics and high-temperature superconductivity. These research activities, which are aided by computational screenings, are carried out by adopting a global approach going from materials growth to their integration in functional devices. The investigated topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Advanced magnetocaloric materials for efficient and clean refrigeration/heating
  • Shape memory alloys
  • Phosphate-based materials for high energy density batteries
  • Semiconductors for optoelectronic and photovoltaic applications
  • Quantum materials for gases liquefaction and spintronics
  • Multiferroics
  • Themo-mechanical properties of materials
  • Heat transfer
  • Advanced materials for wind turbines
  • High temperature cuprite superconductors