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...
A new sustainable and accessible solution to overcome marine landfilling employing seashell waste as a bio-filler in polymer composites. Here is the abstract of the last publication of a group of Italian researchers in collaboration with the Consorzio Molluschicoltori Veneti: Jacopo Cangiotti, Marco Scatto, Esteban Araya-Hermosilla, Cosimo Micheletti, Diego Crivellari, Alice Balloni, Andrea Pucci, Alvise Benedetti.
Congratulations to our PhD student Elena Pulidori for her publication entitled: “One-Pot Process: Microwave-Assisted Keratin Extraction and Direct Electrospinning to Obtain Keratin-Based Bioplastic”. In this study it is proposed an efficient, non-expensive, and green process to recover keratin from industrial wastes (i.e., poultry feathers), which can be integrated in a one-pot process wherein raw keratin extract is directly used in electrospinning process (ES) to produce bioplastics, which are attractive for technological applications (e.g., bio packaging, purification / filtration membranes) in the framework of circular economy and in waste recycling.
Congratulations to our PhD student Edoardo Cignoni for his publication entitled: “A Different Perspective for Nonphotochemical Quenching in Plant Antenna Complexes”. Light-harvesting complexes of plants exert a dual function of light-harvesting (LH) and photoprotection through processes collectively called nonphotochemical quenching (NPQ). While LH processes are relatively well characterized, those involved in NPQ are less understood.
Congratulations to our Ph.D. students Silvia Pizzimenti and Giulia Caroti for their publication "Disclosing the chemistry of oil curing by mass spectrometry using methyl linoleate as a model binder" on Microchemical Journal. In this study a methodological approach for the systematic mass spectrometric investigation of the molecular features of the products of oxidative degradation and cross-linking of oil paint layers upon curing was implemented.
Congratulations to our PhD student Tommaso Nottoli for his publication entitled: “Second-Order CASSCF Algorithm with the Cholesky Decomposition of the Two-Electron Integrals”. In this contribution, we present the implementation of a second-order complete active space–self-consistent field (CASSCF) algorithm in conjunction with the Cholesky decomposition of the two-electron repulsion integrals.
Congratulations to our PhD student Tommaso Nottoli for his publication entitled: “A black-box, general purpose quadratic self-consistent field code with and without Cholesky decomposition of the two-electron integrals”. In this work, we present the implementation of a quadratically convergent self-consistent field (QCSCF) algorithm based on an adaptive trust-radius optimization scheme for restricted open-shell Hartree–Fock (ROHF), restricted Hartree–Fock (RHF), and unrestricted Hartree–Fock (UHF) references.