BOSCA A.

The development of in vitro neuronal models constituted by patterned networks is of significant interest in the neuroscientific community and requires the convergence of electrophysiological studies with micro/nano-fabrication techniques. In this paper we make use of a methodology to induce self-organization of networks into two connected...

Uniform and modular primary hippocampal cultures from embryonic rats were grown on commercially available microelectrode arrays to investigate network activity with respect to development and integration of different neuronal populations. Modular networks consisting of two confined active and inter-connected sub-populations of neurons were...

We present a detailed description of the electromagnetic filter for the PTOLEMY project to directly detect the Cosmic Neutrino Background (CNB). Starting with an initial estimate for the orbital magnetic moment, the higher-order drift process of E×B is configured to balance the gradient-B drift motion of the electron in such a way as to guide...

The PTOLEMY project aims to develop a scalable design for a Cosmic Neutrino Background (CNB) detector, the first of its kind and the only one conceived that can look directly at the image of the Universe encoded in neutrino background produced in the first second after the Big Bang. The scope of the work for the next three years is to complete...