The goals of the research activity of this division is the design, synthesis and investigation on both experimental and theoretical footings of novel graphene-based nanostructure materials and technological approaches for hydrogen-storage and energy-storage applications. To this end we shall make use of state-of-the-art facilities for the epitaxial growth of multilayer graphene and experimental probes of graphene structures with atomic resolution.

Fig.1 : a perspective view of a GGNR with 3 chains. C and H atoms are represented as brown (gray) and white balls, respectively.	Fig.2 : the cartoons correspond to the optimized structure of the zigzag graphene/graphane nanoribbon.