Le possibilità di sviluppo tecnologico offerte dalle attività iniziali, sono sostanzialmente potenziate mediante l'introduzione delle seguenti Piattaforme di Ricerca:
- Robotics:Robotics focused in all aspects of engineering (primarily electronics and mechanical) and computer science, strongly influenced (and influencing) developments in areas such as neuroscience, physiology, psychology, mathematics, physics, chemistry and biological science.
- Neuroscience:The Neuroscience platform at IIT are dedicated to investigating brain function at all levels – from molecules, synapses and neurons to large-scale, multi-areal neural circuits in the intact brain.
- Energy:Portable energy sources, plastic solar cells, energy harvesting, energy storage, energy scavenging, fuel cell technologies (descending from the Robotics platform. Relevant to self-powered technologies, and of wide international and industrial interest).
- EHS (Environment, Health, Security):Interaction of nanosystems with biological entities, in pharmacology, therapies, and any other human environment (descending from the Neuroscience platform, the Pharmacology platform and from the nanobiotech facilities.
- Smart Materials: Lightweight nanocomposites, intelligent biocompatible surfaces, interface living systems/inorganic systems, textile/fiber engineering (descending from the Robotics platform and the nanobiotech facilities. Relevant for future non-metallic robots, and of wide international and industrial interest for environmentally friendly materials, biocompatible materials, new generation sensors, etc).
- D4 (Drug Discovery, Development and Diagnostics): An extension and a completion of the existing drug discovery development platform (pursued by the D3 department). In addition to the D3 activities, advanced diagnostic tools such as chip for genomic and proteomic analysis, nanocarrier for in vivo drug delivery will be developed.
- Integrated Multiscale Computational Technology: Developing world-class open source software for advanced modeling of complex systems of interest to the above platforms (eg density functional methods for modeling at the atomic scale systems relevant to the above platforms).
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