On Tuesday, February 21st the NanoLeaves Team was a guest on a scientific news program on the National TV channel RaiTre. The name of the program is TG Leonardo. The interview explains the potentialities of our research on lignin and its perspective application in organic electronics. Available at this link
During the month of July the Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry in Pisa hosts Dr. Mihai Irimia-Vladu from Johannes Kepler University of Linz as a visiting fellow. We are happy to welcome Mihai and share with him inspiring ideas and research! In this picture, all our group is with Dr. Irimia-Vladu and Dr. Jeannette J. Lucejko, assistant professor of Analytical Chemisty.
From June 29th to July 1st our Department hosted the international conference Chemistry For the Future 2022. Chemistry for the Future (CFF) is a yearly international conference on the frontiers of Chemical Research. It is organized by the Doctoral School in Chemistry and Materials Science (DSCM) and the International Office of the Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale (DCCI) of Università di Pisa.
Last May 5th Alessandra Operamolla, from the NanoLeaves Group, gave a lecture to high school students entitled “Nanotechnology from an ageless material: paper”. The lecture is available on the YouTube channel of the Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry (DCCI) since it is part of the cycle DCCI Talks.
A new work from the NanoLeaves Lab in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Rome Tor Vergata, from ENEA – Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development and from the University of Rome La Sapienza, focuses on the use of sustainable CNCs in paper conservation. The proposed approach is benign for the health of restorers, as CNCs are non-toxic and they are dispensed from water. CNCs are transparent, mechanically and thermally stable, and act as a protective treatment for paper fibers.
During these first months of 2021 I have published two papers concerning my previous research activities started at the University of Bari Aldo Moro. Among my specializations, I am expert in the synthesis and characterization of conjugated materials based on arylenethienylene structures. The first of these studies describes the preparation and characterization of diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) and thiophene -based oligomers, decorated with -SAc groups. This work is the natural evolution of my PhD thesis, that was centered on the preparation of thiol oligoarylenes for molecular electronics.
The reductive amination reaction is an interesting tool to achieve one terminus functionalization of cellulose nanocrystals. Since at NanoLeaves laboratory we are interested in novel applications of CNCs, we have used pyrene luminescence to understand if the new functionality introduced on CNCs may interact preferentially with some metal cations. In our work we compare the behavior of reductively aminated CNCs deriving from sulfuric acid hydrolysis or hydrochloric acid hydrolysis (that we named neutral CNC, N_CNC). Pyrene luminescence in water is used as a probe to understand if some selective or preferential interaction with metal cation achieves involving the pyrene portion of the nanocrystals.
Dr. Mariacecilia Pasini, Prof. Varun Vhora and Prof. Alessandra Operamolla are the Guest Editors of the special Issue entitled “Sustainable Materials and Processes for Organic Electronics” proposed for the journal Sustainability (Publisher MDPI) with deadline October 21st 2021. The special issue will put chief attention to sustainable materials, processes, energy production and devices linked to the world of thin film organic and non organic electronics. The issue represents a nice opportunity to collect contributions by researchers from all over the world, showing the current trends of the topic.
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