Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche

Melania Paturzo

Pietro Ferraro

Andrea Finizio

Simonetta Grilli

Sara Coppola

Veronica Vespini

Massimiliano Locatelli

Eugenio Pugliese

Andrea Giovanni Geltrude

Anna Pelagotti

Pasquale Poggi

Vittorio Bianco

Riccardo Meucci

Lisa Miccio

Disclosed a system for reconstructing an image of an object hidden by a flame. The system comprises a laser source emitting an infrared radiation and a lensless, off-axis interferometric arrangement that divides the infrared radiation into an object beam and a reference beam. The object beam is enlarged and then irradiates the object, that scatters it. The reference beam is enlarged and then interferes with the scattered object beam, so as to create a hologram. The system comprises an infrared detector which detects the hologram and a processor that reconstructs the image of the object by numerically processing the hologram.

Reconstruction of an image of an object at least partially hidden by a flame

Production and the distribution of pico and nano-drops, which are extracted by the effect of a strong electric field generated by pyroelectric effect, in particular, but not exclusively, from a sessile drop (a drop placed on a surface assumes a form termed 'sessile') or by a liquid film, and distributed on a dielectric substrate. The electric field is advantageously generated applying a heat source on the dielectric substrate or utilizing a laser source emitting in the infrared region. In this new approach, it is not necessary to use fixed electrodes, circuits, high tension generators or to design intentionally, and therefore to realize, pico- and nano-nozzles.

Device for controlled distribution of micro- or nano-volumes of a liquid based on the piezoelectric effect in functionalized materials, without using external electric sources

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Naples, Italy

Melania Paturzo