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Italian National Research Council (DMD - CNR)

The Department of Materials and Devices (DMD) is one of the 11 Departments of the scientific network of the Italian National Research Council (CNR). It coordinates the activities of 12 Institutes, spread over the whole national territory. Three more insitutes, pertaining to other Departments, participate to the scientific activity of DMD.

Thanks to the presence of the National Institute for the Physics of Matter (INFM) and of the National Institute of Applied Optics (INOA), which joined CNR in 2005, DMD plays a leading role at national level in the field of Applied Physics-Condensed Matter- Materials Science, providing valuable contributions to the international research in those areas. Innovative materials and related devices represent the pillar of all present and future technologies, with applications ranging from communications to transport, from data elaboration and storage, to biology and medicine, from food and agriculture to the aero-spatial sector.