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The need for economically feasible and multifunctional materials becomes more acute as the natural physical and chemical resources reveal either their limits or reveal the difficulties and increasing costs in storage, transport, and conversion. This reference presents the work from contributors from various fields, of various ages and from differen
The refreshed insights into early-imperial Roman historiography this book offers are linked to a recent discovery. In the spring of 2014, the binders of the archive of Robert Marichal were dusted off by the ERC funded project PLATINUM (ERC-StG 2014 n°636983) in response to Tiziano Dorandi’s recollections of a series of unpublished notes on Latin texts on papyrus. Among these was an in-progress edition of the Latin rolls from Herculaneum, together with Marichal’s intuition that one of them had to be ascribed to a certain ‘Annaeus Seneca’. PLATINUM followed the unpublished intuition by Robert Marichal as one path of investigation in its own research and work. Working on the Latin P.He...
Perovskites are a class of recently discovered crystals with a multitude of innovative applications. In particular, a lead role is played by organic-inorganic halide perovskites (OIHPs) in solar devices. In 2013 Science and Nature selected perovskite solar cells as one of the biggest scientific breakthroughs of that year. This book provides the first comprehensive account of theoretical aspects of perovskite solar cells, starting at an introductory level but covering the latest cutting-edge research. Theoretical Modeling of Organohalide Perovskites for Photovoltaic Applications aims to provide a theoretical standpoint on OIHPs and on their photovoltaic applications, with particular focus on ...
A collection of essays which grapple with the idea of what ancient history is, and in particular how the discipline can advance in a world that is no longer as tied to the exclusively literary methods of study epitomised by Classics .
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Meretrix Augusta, ovvero prostituta imperiale. Con questo non invidiabile epiteto, il poeta satirico Giovenale tramandò nei secoli l'immagine di Messalina, moglie dell'imperatore Claudio e figura di grande rilievo nella Roma del I secolo. Che cosa si nasconde dietro la leggenda nera che ha infamato il ricordo di questa giovane aristocratica? Non solo Giovenale, infatti, ma molti storici romani – Tacito, Svetonio, Cassio Dione sono i più conosciuti – la descrivono impietosamente come una ninfomane dedita all'appropriazione indebita di tutto, uomini e cose. Quello che suscita sconcerto particolare è una sua supposta bigamia, un legame con il patrizio romano Caio Silio. Che cosa spinge la moglie dell'imperatore, madre di suo figlio Britannico, a comportarsi in questo modo? Questo libro intende fornire una chiave di lettura riguardo a cosa, in realtà, si nasconde dietro questa narrazione su Messalina. Era davvero una adultera e una donna inadatta a coprire il suo ruolo regale o è stata artefice del proprio destino, rendendosi protagonista di una vera e propria congiura politica volta a spodestare il marito?