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In the laser museum where physics tells its story

Period instruments and pioneering prototypes trace a century of research, all the way to ultrafast lasers and attosecond science.

From waste to value: CELLS research among silk, sustainability and nanofibres
A kilometre-long silk thread and water considered waste become the starting point for a new idea of sustainability. At Politecnico di Milano, in the …

Limitless energy for coin-sized sensors prototyped by MetaVEH project

Devices that sense vibrations in a bridge and transmit the data to monitor its structural stability.

The laboratory where fabrics become building materials

At the Textiles Hub, experimentation, design and technology rethink the way we build

Ultra short laser pulses to study matter

Margerita Maiuri uses laser to study matter

Inside the World of Graphene: A Conversation with Nobel Laureate Konstantin Novoselov

A journey through discoveries, intuition, and groundbreaking applications

From the reactor to the future: we shall tell you about CESNEF

Safety, knowledge and innovation. This is how the Enrico Fermi Study Centre has transformed nuclear research at the Politecnico di Milano into a…

Polifab: the workshop of the future at Politecnico di Milano turns 10 years old

Inside Polifab’s cleanroom, where the future of microtechnology is manufactured

From micro to macro: the laboratory studying surfaces immersed in the future

Discovering SoLINano Σigma, that combines physics, chemistry, engineering and architecture

Inside reactions: how catalysis works

Discovering the chemical process which affects us more than we think