The Nanophysics unit, established at the Italian Institute of Technology and abbreviated to "NANOPHYS", aims to design, realize and utilize advanced methodologies and instrumentations within the framework of optical spectroscopy and microscopy, scanning force microscopy and optical nanoscopy.

We are oriented to the study and characterization of nanostructured, biological and hybrid materials at the nanoscale, i.e. having at least one of the here spatial dimensions controllable at the nanometric or subnanometric scale.

Alberto Diaspro is the Senior Scientist heading the NANOPHYS Unit.

Our task, in addition to a support for the Nanobiotecnology Department and the other IIT Departments, is related to the development of new strategies for the assembly of nano-systems able to realize to new nanoparticles and nanostructured environments, to design and realize architectures to characterize materials, both artificial and biological, within a scale ranging from single molecules or particles or nanostructured complexes to the full biological scale, molecules, cells, tissues, organs and human bodies. As well we aim to integrate different design and knowledge levels from a 2D to a 4D (x, y, z, t).

Advances on the theme of Optical Nanoscopy, carried out in collaboration with the NBT Department, will be further treated in a special section since weare developing the first Italian new generation architecture for 4D multimodal far-field optical nanoscopy