I am currently a Tenure Track Senior Researcher and Principal Investigator for the “Advanced Characterizations and Optimized Functional Materials for Energetic Transition” research line at the Center for Sustainable Future Technologies, Italian Institute of Technology in Turin.
My research primarily focuses on advanced in-situ/operando and correlative operando techniques for characterizing functional materials in the context of energy transition. This includes techniques such as electrochemical Liquid Phase Transmission Electron Microscopy (EC-LPTEM), Raman Spectroscopy, X-ray Diffraction, IR Spectroscopy, and Near Ambient Pressure X-ray Photoemission Spectroscopy (NAP-XPS), as the main ones.
BEST PUBBLICATIONS
K. Bejtka, M. Fontana, C. I. Gho, S. Merkens, A. Chuvilin, C. F. Pirri and Angelica Chiodoni
Electrochemical liquid phase TEM in aqueous electrolytes for energy applications: the role of liquid flow configuration
Small Methods 2025 doi.org/10.1002/smtd.202570015
S. Merkens, C. Tollan, G. De Salvo, K. Bejtka, M. Fontana, A. Chiodoni, J. Kruse, M. Aime Iriarte-Alonso, M. Grzelczak, A. Seifert, A. Chuvilin
Toward sub-second solution exchange dynamics in flow reactors for liquid-phase transmission electron microscopy
Nature Communications (2024) 15, 2522