Current research interests

• Mechanical properties of materials
• Point and extended defects in materials
• Irradiation
• Nanostructures (nanoparticles, wires, thin films)

Earlier research interests

• Manipulation of atoms with Scanning Probe Microscopy
• Magnetism of low dimensional systems
• Surface of semiconductors

Recent publications (Complete list)

• Mechanical properties of C60 at finite temperature from first-principles calculations
  L. Pizzagalli
  Diamond & Related Materials 123, 108870 (2022) [www,pdf]


• Surface stress calculations for nanoparticles and cavities in aluminum, silicon, and iron: influence of pressure and validity of the Young-Laplace equation
  L. Pizzagalli and M.-L. David
  Materials Theory 5, 5 (2021) [www,pdf]


• Modeling the mechanical properties of nanoparticles: a review
  J. Amodeo and L. Pizzagalli
  Comptes Rendus Physique (2021) [www,pdf]


• Accurate values of 3C, 2H, 4H, and 6H SiC elastic constants using DFT calculations and heuristic errors corrections
  L. Pizzagalli
  Philos. Mag. Letters 101, 242 (2021) [www,pdf]