DSCM NEWS
100 Years in Chemistry - DSCM students
Gli allievi del 1° anno di dottorato DSCM celebreranno l'anniversario del premio Nobel conferito a Niels Bohr con l'iniziativa "Niels Bohr and the atomic model: 100 years from the Nobel...
Al Dott. Gianluca Casotti il premio C.I.N.M.P.I.S. per la miglior Tesi di dottorato 2022
Il Dott. Gianluca Casotti, attualmente assegnista di ricerca presso i laboratori Molecolab/SoS&PePsy del nostro dipartimento DCCI, è stato premiato dal C.I.N.M.P.I.S., Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale di ricerca in Metodologie e Processi...
Bando per il 38° ciclo - Call for 38th cycle
Il bando per il 38° ciclo del Dottorato è stato pubblicato sul sito UNIPI https://dottorato.unipi.it/index.php/it/concorsi-d-ammissione-a-a-2022-2023/item/667.html con scadenza 8 Agosto.The call for the 38th cycle of the PhD has been published...
Congratulations to our Ph.D. student Alberto Gobbo for his scientific publication entitled “A Simple Synthetic Route to Well-Defined [Pd(NHC)Cl(1-tBu-indenyl)] Pre-catalysts for Cross-Coupling Reactions” in the European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry. A simple and eco-friendly synthetic protocol leading to [Pd(NHC)Cl(1-tBu-indenyl)] complexes bearing different saturated and unsaturated NHC ligands (NHC=IPr, IPrCl, IMes, SIMes, IPr*) is reported.
"Metodi computazionali multiscala basati su meccanica quantistica e molecolare per la descrizione dei sistemi biologici".
Prende il via il nuovo progetto DSCM di comunicazione della scienza nato dalla collaborazione con Microbiologia Italia.
Il primo articolo divulgativo è stato realizzato dal Dott. Michele Nottoli e curato dal Dott. Nicola Di Fidio. Esso è disponibile al seguente link: www.microbiologiaitalia.it/metodi-multiscala“
Congratulations to our Ph.D. student Simona Braccini for her scientific publication entitled “Effect of Network Topology on the Protein Adsorption Behavior of Hydrophilic Polymeric Coatings” in the journal “ACS Applied Polymer Materials”. We prepared polyurethane (PU) network coatings with various cross-linking densities that were based on polypropylene glycol (PPG) and polytetramethylene glycol (PTMG) macrodiols with different lengths and containing similar amounts of hydrophilic methoxy polyethylene glycol (mPEG) dangling chains.
Congratulations to our Ph.D. student Simona Braccini for her scientific publication entitled “Levulinic acid-based bioplasticizers: a facile approach to enhance the thermal and mechanical properties of polyhydroxyalkanoates” in the journal “Materials Advances”. Plasticizers are the most used polymer additives world-wide. Nowadays, conventional plasticizers (e.g. phthalates) do not meet the requirements in terms of renewability, biodegradability and cytotoxicity that have become necessary, especially if they are compounded with biopolymers.
Chiroptical properties, including Circular Dichroism (CD) and Circularly Polarized Luminescence (CPL), of two sets of Yb, Tm and Er complexes were measured. The lanthanides studied gave access to three discrete energy domains within the NIR region, ranging from 900 to 1600 nm. Exceptionally high discrimination between left and right circularly polarized light was observed in both absorption (gabs) and emission (glum for Yb complexes), with gabs values up to almost the theoretical maximum (±2).
Congratulations to our Ph.D. student Valerio Zullo for the publication of the paper: "Tunable excimer circularly polarized luminescence in isohexide derivatives from renewable resources". In this study, in collaboration with Prof. Anna Iuliano, Prof. Gennaro Pescitelli, and Ph.D. Francesco Zinna, the authors showed the synthesis and chiroptical properties of pyrene and perylene derivatives of inexpensive chiral scaffolds: isomannide and isosorbide. Low-intensity ECD spectra were obtained, suggesting the absence of chromophore interaction in the ground state, except in the case of isomannide bis-perylenecarboxylate, whose ECD spectrum showed a positive exciton couplet.