Main research areas include:
Modeling, realization and characterization of materials with high solar reflectance and high thermal infrared emissivity for passive radiative cooling applications during the day and night;
Nanostructured polymeric materials in metasurfaces with high refractive index and/or tunable plasmonic properties with linear and nonlinear optical properties;
Metamaterials produced via lamellar and cylindrical block copolymers selectively infiltrated with metal oxides and metals by atomic layer deposition and coupled with single-photon sources (fluorophores, nanodiamonds, and 2D materials);
Liquid crystal-based polymeric materials microstructured in 3D using laser lithography and self-assembly techniques in tunable and nonlinear (third-order) integrated photonic devices, and novel physical generators for more secure cryptographic keys;
Development of non-conventional solar-pumped microlaser platforms based on active media composed of bio-inspired light-harvesting molecular complexes coupled to four-level emitters, enabling the efficient direct conversion of solar radiation into coherent emission.