An Italian research team including researchers from the Istituto di struttura della materia (Ism) of Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche in Rome, the University of Milano - Bicocca and Glass to Power developed an innovative material with a low environmental impact and high performance to make photovoltaics devices aesthetically integrated in buildings. The study has been published on Joule – Cell Press.
Building integrated photovoltaics technologies stems from the need for practical and innovative solutions to incorporate solar-to-electricity conversion devices within buildings. An Italian research team, including researchers from the Istituto di struttura della materia (Ism) of Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche in Rome, the University of Milano - Bicocca and Glass to Power, contributed to this topical field by developing an highly efficient and environmentally friendly new material, used to realize transparent luminescent solar concentrators (LSC).

In an article published in Nature Materials, an Italian-Canadian team involving the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (Center Energie, Matériaux et Télécommunications), McGill University and Lakehead University and the SAMOS (Self-assembled materials on surfaces) laboratory led by Giorgio Contini, researcher at the Institute of Matter Structure of the National Research Council (CNR-ISM), describes the synthesis of two-dimensional conjugated polymers on a large scale, similar to graphene but with better applicative properties especially in the electronic field. The research work also involved other ISM students and researchers such as Gianluca Galeotti, Dominik Dettmann, Asish K. Kundu, Luisa Ferrari, Paolo Moras, Polina Sheverdyaeva.