Quality and safety of food items are two related and essential yardsticks, of particular importance in the case of fermented and/or processed food products.

In this context, meat and charcuterie products are today important issues. Recently, the IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer) defined red meat as “probably carcinogenic” (group 2A) and processed meat (cured meats and charcuterie products) as “carcinogenic” (group 1).

The UFSD project sets out to develop a detector of charged particles, which can measure with extreme precision both the position and flight time, able to combine temporal resolutions of ~30 picoseconds with spatial resolutions of 20-30 micron.

The project develops a new technology, silicon detectors with an internal multiplication effect, optimising the design for precise time measurement. Many practical applications are possible, and the project is attracting partners interested in specific developments for various fields of physics.

The goal of “MULTI2HYCAT” is the development of innovative hybrid and multifunctional materials, consisting of partly organic and partly inorganic elements. The mission is to improve and render some industrial processes for the production of chemical and pharmaceutical compounds more sustainable, less polluting and safer.

The project proposes the development of new rationally designed nanogels containing paramagnetic complexes of Gd3+ and endogenous metals Fe3+ and Mn2+, incorporated or combined inside the polymeric network, as probes for high-sensitivity MRI imaging. Such systems have limited toxicity and optimised performance in comparison with the chelates of commercial Gd(III) which are currently used.

The 4DInSiDe project sets out to improve some features of UFSD sensors, a new concept in sensor design to measure both the space and time resolution of a charged particle, with greater precision.

Specifically, the project is aimed at applications where 100% of active sensitive area is necessary (sensors with pixels of just a few hundred microns or fewer) and/or the reduction of the total thickness of the sensor of optic entrance window (allowing the use of these sensors for detection of low-energy x-ray photons).

Phytocannabinoids, a class of over 200 meroterpenoids, show a surprising diversity of macromolecule targets and qualify as privileged structure for biomedical research.
However, their chemical and biological space has so far been systematically investigated only around the so-called “big 4”, that is, the major non-native (decarboxylated) constituents of the plant (delta9-THC, CBD, CBG and CBD), and mostly in the context of a single end-point (CB1).