Antonio Bianconi

Affiliations:	1971-1974		Laboratori Nazionali de Frascati
	1973-1979	Physics Department	University of Camerino (Italy), Camerino, Marche, Italy
	1980-1986	Physics Department	Uiniversity of Rome
	1987-1991	Experimental Medicine	Università degli Studi dell'Aquila
	1992-2014	Physics Department	University of Rome La Sapienza, Roma, Lazio, Italy
	2014-	Quantum Matter Department	Rome Int. Center Materials Science Superstripes RICMASS

Area:

"Quantum Complex Matter" "Biophysics" "Synchrotron Radiation" "X-ray spectroscopy" "superconductivity" "metalloproteins"

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http://www.ricmass.eu/

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https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Antonio_Bianconi/4
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=98JhImQAAAAJ&hl=it
Antonio Bianconi graduated in Physics in June 1969 with a thesis in the Giorgio Careri research group in superfluid liquid helium film. In 1971-1975 realized the synchrotron radiation facility at the 1.1 GeV electron-synchrotron in Frascati National Laboratory LNF. In the 1974 paper proposed the interpretation of the Al L3-edge x-ray absorption near edge spectra (XANES) of different conformations of Al2O3 as due to multiple scattering resonances proposed by Fano's group in Chicago for the XANES of simple molecular spectra of SF6 or N2. In 1976-1978 worked at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory where he has shown the role of multiple scattering resonances in the XANES of N2 gas, of surface Al2O3, of surface SiOx oxides, and of calcium K-edge XANES of biological molecules in solution. He has shown the sensitivity of XANES to study metal insulator transitions in strongly correlated V2O3 oxide. He has introduced new methods as EXAFS by emission of optical luminescence (XEOL) and photoemission with variable photon energy over a large soft x-ray range to probe the symmetry of high energy continuum states in graphite.
Having been one of the proposers in 1974 of the PULS project between LNF and CNR , for the use of the high energy electron storage ring Adone as a synchrotron radiation source, he designed and realized the x-ray channel-cut crystal diffractometer for the EXAFS beam line. He conied the acronym XANES in the first publication of the PULS project in 1980 on the calcium K-edge of manganese in biological molecules. In 1980-1984 in PULS he has provided experimental valification of John Pendry multiple scattering theory of XANES showing the feasibility to probe higher order local atomic correlations. Thiese findings have opened the field of studies of subtle changes of local geometrical conformations in complex structural materials. At PULS he has demostrated the feasibility of to study of valence fluctuating systems via many body effects in XANES spectra. In the feild of biophysics of metalloproteins he the determination of iron valence change in oxygenation process of hemoglobin in solution and the angle of CO binging in the heme in myoblobin.
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