Organizing Committee Member
Carlo Cavllotti
Associate Professor
Politecnico di Milano
Italy
Biography
Carlo Cavallotti received his PhD in Chemical Engineering in 1999 from Politecnico di Milano. He became assistant professor at Politecnico di Milano in 1999 and associate professor of Chemical Engineering Principles in 2006. In 2001 he was post-doctoral associate fellow at MIT. Winner of several awards, he is author of more than 60 papers on international peer reviewed journals and several book chapters. His main research focus is theoretical chemical kinetics. He is interested in the gas phase and surface chemistry active during the growth of advanced materials, in the kinetics active in plasmas and in combustion environments and, more recently, in the molecular modeling of biomolecular reacting systems.
Research Area
Study of the chemical kinetics of homogenous and heterogeneous reactions and interested in the gas phase and surface chemistry responsible for the growth of advanced materials,The method adopted to investigate these different systems is similar and is based on the multiscale modeling paradigm.The study of advanced material synthesis is pursued by investigating elementary reactions through quantum chemistry, the film morphological evolution using 3D kinetic Monte Carlo methods (home built code), and the reactor fluid dynamics by integrating the equations of conservation of mass, energy, and momentum together with the Maxwell equations (in the plasma case) using the finite element method (home built code). The investigated systems comprise epitaxial and nanocrystalline silicon, the MOCVD deposition of III-V (InP, GaAs and AlGaAs) and II-VI (ZnS, CdTe, ZnSe) materials, and the deposition of Cu for microelectronic applications. The investigation of the mechanism of formation of soot during combustion is pursued through the combination of high level ab initio calculations and suitable kinetic theories such as RRKM (home built parallel code with top computational performances and top level of implemented theory). The aim of this study is the accurate determination of reaction mechanisms and kinetic constants of elementary reactions leading to the formation of benzene, the soot precursor, and its successive growth. Recently the developed computational approach has been applied to the study of separation process of biomolecules from a molecular standpoint and also interested in the study of the interaction between synthetic ligands, monoclonal antibodies and a suitable chromatographic support. The adopted computational approach is Molecular Dynamics, with force field parameters determined through ab initio simulations.