Riccardo Raccis

My specialization consists in the development of material systems for green solutions, chiefly including polymers and composites. In general, I have a personal passion for the modelling of systems and for pattern recognition, which is what aimed me at Physics and technology development in the first place.

The largest project I devoted myself to so far has been with Ash Tree Technologies, the company which I co-founded and currently own, and which has been developing a graphene/acrylic composite material of my own invention and patenting, aimed at converting uniform ambient heat into voltage.

Some of my previous experience includes the development of hydrogel-based biosensor technology, nanocomposite materials, composite battery systems, polymer-based solutions for photocatalytic water splitting, and a novel method to enhance the electrical conductivity in conjugated polymer composites.

My work experience consists in applied Polymer Physics, at first as characterisation in the University of Florence, and later as both characterisation, design and production at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, the University of Cologne, and later my own company, Ash Tree Technologies. The focus has been increasingly on composite and nanoscale engineering, including oxide nanoparticles and graphene, and the polymer materials have ranged from hydrogels to Plexiglas.

Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz
PhD in Physics, 2010. Supervisor: Prof. Hans-Jürgen Butt
Thesis: “Characterization of Structure and Dynamics of Submicrometric Systems via Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy”

University of Florence, Florence, Italy
Master’s Degree in Physics, 2007. Supervisor: Prof. Cecilia Gambi
Thesis: “Study of the Structure of Fragments of the Protein, β-connectin via Dynamic Light Scattering”