Location
Messina University
MIFT Department (Physics section)
Viale F. Stagno d’Alcontres 31 98168 Messina, Italia

Further Information: http://ww2.unime.it/crsc/

Overview

The center embraces the NMR facility on Soft-condensed Matter (CNR-UNIME) and the laboratory on Complex Materials Systems. It was founded in 1999 by Prof. Francesco Mallamace, taking advantage of some national research projects and of a European Community grant (PON 2000-2006). In particular, the NMR center (700 MHz) was originally proposed as an Italian national facility in the frame of the research activity of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica della Materia, and is fully equipped by all the available probe-heads (e. g., triple resonance, broad band, diffusion and HR-MAS).
Both the structures offer different research opportunities to study complex materials not only by means of the NMR technique, but also by the following instrumentation that can be jointly used:

- Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy  -  Quasi elastic and stimulated scattering  - Fabry-Perot and sound propagation techniques  -  Calorimetry, including the temperature  modulated technique  -  Stress and strain controlled rheometers -  Confocal microscopy.

The CRSC is located in the Science faculty area of the Messina University and near the Institute for the Chemical Physics processes of the National Research Council with which it shares many research and project activities.