Cycle / Years
40th cycle [2024-2027]
Contacts
Supervisor(s)
Prof. Andrea Pucci, Prof. Carlo Adamo
Title of the PhD project
Design, Synthesis, and Multiscale Characterization of Mechanochromic Polymers: Experimental and Computational Analyses
Abstract of the PhD project
The MaMa project focuses on developing integrated computational methods to describe and design new mechanochromic materials. Its primary goal is to rationally create technologically advanced commodity polymers that exhibit smart and intelligent features, such as mechano-responsive elastomeric, thermoplastic, and thermoset polymers. This will be achieved by incorporating chromogenic species into the polymer matrix in the form of mechanophore. The interactions that dictate the opto-mechanical behaviour of these chromophores within the polymer matrix, and thus the colour perceived at a macroscopic level, can be adjusted through the application of external forces. Controlling these interactions through careful design of the chromophores and polymers will be essential, as will predicting their behaviour using theoretical tools. My role in this project regards the experimental part, so the validation of the approaches developed in silico through the synthesis and characterization of the most promising candidates. Secondary, I will be developing new mechanochromic systems following different approaches.
Academic Fields and Disciplines (SSD), main and secondary
CHIM/04
Educational and third mission activities
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International
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Publications
• B. Bertoncini, Z. Xiao, S. Zacchini, L. Biancalana, G. Gasser, F. Marchetti; Aminocarbyne-Alkyne Coupling in Diruthenium Complexes: Exploring the Anticancer Potential of the Resulting Vinyliminium Complexes and Comparison with Diiron Homologues; Inorg. Chem. 2024, 63, 27, 12485–12497. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c01119
Oral communications at conferences
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Poster communications at conferences
• “A versatile polymer scaffold for the preparation of polymer cathodes for metal ion-organic batteries”; B. Bertoncini, L. Soldati, S. Trano, S. Raviolo, F. Bella, M. Carlotti; Società Chimica Italiana (Sci2024) (Milan, 26-30 August 2024).
• “Multipotent precursors as immobilization strategy for conjugated polymers with complementary electronic properties.”; B.Bertoncini, M. Carlotti; Chemistry For the Future (CFF) (Pisa, 3-5 July 2024)
“A versatile polymer scaffold for the preparation of polymer cathodes for metal ion- organic batteries”; B.Bertoncini, L, Soldati, M.Carlotti; Macrogiovani 2024 (Rimini, 12-13 June 2024)
Other achievements
• “Best flash presentation”, Macrogiovani, (Rimini, 12-13 June 2024).
Funding
ERC-2022-ADG Project: 101097351“MaMa” is acknowledged for financial support.
