Complex Fluids and Interfaces Self-assembled fluids Proteins in solution: folded and unfolded states Aggregation processes in liquids Electronics development for scanning microscopy

Transport Phenomena and Dynamics in Structured Liquids Complex Liquids: Water and Glass-formers Liquids in Nano-pores Self-assembling Mixtures Optical Spectroscopy High Resolution Light Scattering Time-resolved Non-Linear Spectroscopy

Interaction properties, Structure and Dynamics of Fluids Classical and quantum liquids Molecular fluids and binary mixtures Liquid metals and binary alloys Neutron Instrumentation The BRISP spectrometer at ILL Grenoble (France)

Dynamic Light Scattering Autocorrelation function and scattered intensity as a function of the angles (15 - 155 deg) Dielectric Spectroscopy frequency range 200 MHz -50 GHz Neutron and X-ray Scattering Small-angle diffraction

Non-Linear Optical Spectroscopy Four-wave mixing spectroscopy with ultra fast laser pulses Heterodyne detected optical Kerr effect with fs resolution Impulsive transient grating spectroscopy with ps laser pulses Hydrodynamic models Phenomenological model for dynamics in complex fluids Computer simulation of transport proprieties of nano-heterogeneous materials

Neutron Scattering Neutron wide- and small-angle diffraction Inelastic neutron scattering Computer simulation Classical Molecular Dynamics Quantum path-integral Monte Carlo Neutron instrument simulation (McStas) Multiple scattering and other estimates via Monte Carlo integration

Marcello CARLA' Cecilia M.C. GAMBI   Physics Department University of Florence Via G. Sansone, 1 I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI) Italy Phone: +39-055-457-2055/2011 e-mail: carla@fi.infn.it Phone: +39-055-457-2054/2011 e-mail: gambi@fi.infn.it

Renato TORRE Physics Department and European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy (LENS) University of Florence Via N. Carrara 1 I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI) Italy Phone: +39-055-457-2495/2454 e-mail: torre@lens.unifi.it

Fabrizio BAROCCHI Eleonora GUARINI   Physics Department University of Florence Via G. Sansone, 1 I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI) Italy Phone: +39-055-457-2050 e-mail: barocchi@fi.infn.it Phone: +39-055-457-2292/2223 e-mail: guarini@fi.infn.it

Leonardo Lanzi Physics Dept., Univ. Florence Stefania Marchetti Physics Dept., Univ. Florence David Dolci Physics Dept., Univ. Florence Federico Bacci Physics Dept., Univ. Florence Giovanni Aloisi Physical Chemistry Dept., Univ. Florence

Roberto Eramo CNR, Florence Paolo Bartolini LENS, Univ. Florence Andrea Taschin LENS, Univ. Florence Riccardo Cucini Post Doc, Elettra Trieste Iacopo Malfanti PhD fellow, Univ. Florence

Ubaldo Bafile CNR-ISC, Florence Ferdinando Formisano  CNR-OGG, Grenoble Renato Magli  Univ. Milano Marco Sampoli  Energetics Dept., Univ. Florence Giovanni Venturi  Physics Dept., Univ. Florence ... and the whole BRISP group between Grenoble (France) and Perugia (Italy)

Micellar Solutions "Dielectric spectroscopy by differential measurements in transmission lines on sodium dodecyl sulfate micelles in water" J. Non-Cryst. Solids 351, 2864 (2005) "Small-angle neutron scattering of mixed ionic Perfluoropolyether micellar solutions" J. Phys. Chem. B 111, 1348 (2007) "A new insight on the dynamics of sodium dodecyl sulfate micellar solutions by dielectric spectroscopy" J. Colloid and Interf. Sci. 330, 156 (2009) Mica Surfaces "A study of the ionic conduction of mica surface by admittance spectroscopy " J. Chem. Phys. 127, 74701 (2007) Scanning Probe Microscope (SPM) "Development of an ultra low current amplifier for scanning tunneling microscopy" Rev. Sci. Instrum. 75, 497 (2004) "Implementation on a desktop computer of the real time feedback control loop of a scanning probe micrsocope" Rev. Sci. Instrum. 79, 113702 (2008) See also our SPM site Proteins in solution "Dynamic light scattering and atomic force microscopy imaging of beta-connectin from human cardiac muscle" Phys. Rev. E 77, 021910 (2008)

Supercooled Water "Structural relaxation and vibrational dynamics in supercooled phase of bulk water" Nature 428, 296 (2004) Nature physics, submitted (2009) Nano-confined liquids "Propagation of acoustic waves in liquid filled nano-porous glass" Europhys. Lett. 81, 58003 (2008) "Structure and acoustic properties of hydrated Nafion membranes" J. Phys. Chem. B 113, 10121 (2009) "Transport phenomena of water in nano pores" New Journal of Physics, submitted (2009) Structured liquids and mixtures "The low frequency phonon dynamics in supercooled LiCl:6H2O" J. Chem. Phys. 131, 124504 (2009) Phononic crystals "Band-gap phenomena in Surface Acoustic wave propagation" Appl. Phys. Lett., submitted (2009). A BOOK: "Time-resolved spectroscopy in complex liquids, an experimental perspective" R.Torre - Springer, New York (2008)

Liquid Methane “Collective excitations in liquid CD4: neutron scattering and molecular dynamics simulations” Europhys. Lett. 72, 969 (2005) ”Inelastic neutron scattering and molecular dynamics determination of the interaction potential in liquid CD4” Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 167801 (2007) ILL Highlight 2008 Liquid CO2 “Picosecond dynamics of gas-phase dimers in liquid carbon dioxide” Chem. Phys. Lett. 464, 177 (2008) ”Collective dynamics and molecular interactions in liquid CO2 by inelastic neutron scattering and computer simulations” Phys. Rev. B 79, 214203 (2009) n-Hexane “Structure of liquid n-Hexane” J. Chem. Phys. 131, 034508 (2009) General dynamics of molecular liquids “Characteristic times in the nanometer-picosecond translational collective dynamics of molecular liquids” Rapid Comm. Phys. Rev. E 80, 040201(R) (2009) Metal solutions “Collective modes in a saturated lithium ammonia solution, a probe for the response of the low density homogeneous electron gas” Phys. Rev. Lett., submitted (2009)

Cecilia GAMBI  is also:   Trainer-teacher of Physics Laboratory within the Physics Degree Course of the University of Florence   Teacher of "Structure of Matter Laboratory (Fluids Physics)" within the Specialistic Courses of the University of Florence

Renato TORRE  is also:   Teacher of “Physics of Complex Liquids” within the Specialistic Courses of the University of Florence   Coordinator of the research line “Structured fluids and glasses” at the European Lab. for Non-linear Spectroscopy (LENS)   Member of program committee of serial int. conf. PHONONS   Italian representative in the Management Committee of the European Project COST MP0902: Composites of Inorganic Nanotubes and Polymers

Eleonora GUARINI  is also:   Trainer-teacher of General Physics II within the Physics Degree Course of the University of Florence   Trainer-teacher of General Physics within the Geological Sciences Degree Course of the University of Florence   Member of the Didactics Committee for the Physics Degree and Specialistic Courses of the University of Florence   Treasurer and member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Society for Neutron Spectroscopy (SISN)