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Evoque

Politecnico Di Bari

Corporate presentation

Polytechnic University of Bari (POLIBA, www.poliba.it) consists of five Departments, 24 spin-off companies and a staff of about 410 professors, and it is one of the three national Italian Technical Universities. POLIBA offers scientific and technological programs and forms perspective architects, engineers and industrial designers and issues academic qualifications such as three-year Degree courses (I level), two-year Degree courses (II level), five-year Degree courses, PhD’s as well as I and II level Postgraduate courses. More than 11,000 students are enrolled and every year more than 2,000 new students join POLIBA.

The research group involved into EVOQUE project is the Polysense Lab from the Physics Department. Polysense team relies also on Professors and academic staff belonging to other Poliba departments, as such the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering (DEI, dei.poliba.it) and researchers form the national research center (IFN-CNR). Polysense comprises 16 researchers and carries out interdisciplinary research activities in the field of laser spectroscopy, optical gas sensing, development of photonic devices and laser sources to be employed for environmental monitoring, industrial process control, precision agriculture, natural gas extraction and sustainable petroleum exploration, point-of-care diagnostic and breath sensing. The core team members have pioneered the QEPAS technique in thigh collaboration with the group of Frank K. Tittel, inventor of QEPAS.

Dr. Angelo Sampaolo (lead PI, POLIBA). Dr. Angelo Sampaolo is an Associate Professor of POLIBA and Associate Researcher at the Institute of Laser Spectroscopy of Shanxi University in Taiyuan, China. His research activity has included the study of the thermal properties of heterostructured devices via Raman spectroscopy. Most recently, his research interest has focused on the development of innovative techniques in trace gas sensing, based on Quartz-Enhanced Photoacoustic Spectroscopy and Light Induced Thermoelastic Spectroscopy and covering the full spectral range from near-IR to THz. Prof. Sampaolo is co-founder and C.E.O. of “PolySenSe Innovations”, a spinoff company devoted to commercialization of innovative gas sensors and consulting for applications in environmental, petrochemical, and biomedical fields.
His research activity is documented by more than 154 Scopus-indexed publications and 3 filed patents (more than 3900 citations, h-index 42). He is editor of the scientific journals Sensors (MPDI) and Molecules (MPDI).

Role in the Project

POLIBA is WP leader for WPs 2, 4 & 9. In these WPs, POLIBA will manage the expansion of the current optical databases with absorption spectra of selected VOCs of interest for the project, exploiting FT-IR spectroscopy. In WP 4 and 9, the acoustic detection module will be redesigned in two steps towards a final inner volume lower than 1cc to meet gas chromatography specification. Tuning fork design and resonance properties, as well as measurement configuration (line-locked and/or beat frequency detection mode) will be also adapted to operational conditions determined by the GC-QEPAS system. POLIBA will also contribute during the whole integration process and will be directly involved in several trials of WP13.

Infrastructure and facilities

Polysense Lab facilities include: FT-IR spectrometer, Optical Spectrum Analyzer, GC-MS analysis system, GC-FID analysis system microscopy; Optical and Electrical Characterisation suites for quartz tuning forks, 3d Printers, Work Station for Modelling and Design software, Machine Shop, Gas delivery Lines, gas Mixers, Pressure Controllers; Softwares including Matlab, Lumerical, Zemax, Comsol Multiphysics.

Related projects and publications

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  1. L. Biao, G. Menduni, M. Giglio, P. Patimisco, A. Sampaolo, A. Zifarelli, H. Wu, T. Wei, V. Spagnolo, L. Dong, “Quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy (QEPAS) and Beat Frequency-QEPAS techniques for air pollutants detection: A comparison in terms of sensitivity and acquisition time”, Photoacoustics 31, 100479 (2023).
  2. A. Sampaolo, P. Patimisco, M. Giglio, A. Zifarelli, H. Wu, L. Dong, V. Spagnolo, “Quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy for multi-gas detection: A review”, Anal. Chim. Acta 1202, 338894 (2022).
  3. A. Sampaolo, G. Menduni, P. Patimisco, M. Giglio, V.M.N. Passaro, L. Dong, H. Wu, F.K. Tittel, V. Spagnolo, “Quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy for hydrocarbon trace gas detection and petroleum exploration”, Fuel 227, 118118 (2020).
  4. M. Olivieri, G. Menduni, M. Giglio, A. Sampaolo, P. Patimisco, H. Wu, L. Dong, V. Spagnolo, “Characterization of H2S QEPAS detection in methane-based gas leaks dispersed into environment”, Photoacoustics 29, 100438 (2023).
  5. G. Menduni, A. Zifarelli, E. Kniazeva, S. Dello Russo, A.C. Ranieri, E. Ranieri, P. Patimisco, A. Sampaolo, M. Giglio, F. Manassero, E. Dinuccio, G. Provolo, H. Wu, L. Dong, V. Spagnolo, “Measurement of methane, nitrous oxide and ammonia in atmosphere with a compact quartz-enhanced photoacoustic sensor”, Sens. Actuat. B Chem. 375, 132953 (2023).
  6. K. Kinjalk, F. Paciolla, B. Sun, A. Zifarelli, G. Menduni, M. Giglio, H. Wu, L. Dong, D. Ayache, D. Pinto, A. Vicet, A N Baranov, P. Patimisco, A. Sampaolo, V. Spagnolo “Highly Selective and Sensitive Detection of Volatile Organic Compounds using Long Wavelength InAs based QCLs through QEPAS”, submitted to Applied Physics Reviews (2024).

Contact

Dr. Angelo Sampaolo

angelo.sampaolo@poliba.it

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