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Politecnico di Milano (PoliMi) has developed a fruitful relationship with business and productive world by means of experimental research and technological transfer. Research is strongly linked to didactic and this allows PoliMi to achieve high quality results at an international level. Research constitutes a parallel path to that formed by cooperation with the industrial system. PoliMi takes part in several research, sites and training projects collaborating with the most qualified European universities. PoliMi's contribution is increasingly being extended to other countries: from North America to Southeast Asia to Eastern Europe. Today the drive to internationalization sees PoliMi taking part into the European and world network of leading technical universities and it offers several courses that are entirely taught in English. The Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering "Giulio Natta" was founded in 2001, with solid foundations and with skills to face all the engineering challenges that involve the correlations between the molecular aspects of materials and the application of products. The Department's common vision is that the sciences and technologies of chemistry, chemical and materials engineering, and life sciences significantly contribute to identify safe, cost-effective and sustainable solutions to current challenges in multi-disciplinary fields such as processes, industrial, civil and industrial security, energy, health, the food sector, the environment and renewable resources. The result is a natural ability to collaborate synergistically with the other Departments of Politecnico di Milano, the chemical industry, the process industry in various application areas and institutional interlocutors (Regional, National and International). The Department has more than 150 teaching staff members, 50 technical-administrative staff, over 200 PhD students and almost 100 research fellows. Some relevant common facilities and laboratories within the Department are: the Laboratories of Chemical Analyses equipped with instruments for the elemental analysis of non-volatile samples, for the thermal and spectrophotometric analyses and a GC-MS instrument; the Large Equipment Laboratory of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Mass Spectrometry for routine analyses and original research with the addition of HPLC-MS with electrospray source (ESI) and quadrupole ion trap detector; the Laboratory of Microstructural Analysis of Materials, with optical microscopes, a Scanning Electron Microscope with energy dispersive X-ray spectrometer, a laser profilometer, a probe scanning microscope operating as STM, AFM or MFM, an X-ray diffractometer for powders and thin films. The research unit of the PI is part of the group Mat4En2 (Materials for Energy and Environment) that operates in the field of materials for alternative energy and environmental sustainability. The group has a well-recognized experience in the field of preparation and characterization of materials. The research team acquired experience on the preparation of graphene-based materials for electrochemical devices, sustainable materials for depollution, and characterization techniques such as X-Ray Diffraction (XRD), InfraRed Spectroscopy (FT-IR), ThermoGravimetric analysis (TG), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy. Mat4En2 labs are equipped with conventional laboratory equipment for materials preparation via chemical synthesis, solid state reaction, coprecipitation, and wet chemistry in general. Facilities for dip, blade, spin-coating on polymeric, ceramic and metallic geometries, and oven and furnaces for thermal treatment up to 1500 °C are also available.