Congratulations to our PhD candidate Andrea Giovanelli for his work entitled “Retro-Favorskii reaction employing fluoride sources and its use as immobilization strategy” published on the Journal of Fluorine Chemistry. Retro-Favorskii is the reaction that converts propargyl alcohols into the alkyne and ketone precursors. This reaction is commonly used to deprotect terminal alkynes with elimination of acetone.
Congratulations to our Ph.D. student Lorenzo Sembranti and the CATS research group, for their recent scientific publication entitled "Laser-induced graphene-based aptasensor for the selective detection of Escherichia coli in urine samples" in Talanta. This paper introduces a cost-effective, label-free electrochemical sensor for the detection of E. coli in urine, using Laser-Induced Graphene LIG.
Congratulations to our PhD students Patrizia Mazzeo and Amanda Arcidiacono for their publication entitled "Electrostatic embedding machine learning for ground and excited state molecular dynamics of solvated molecules" on the RSC Digital Discovery Journal. In this work, the authors propose a machine-learning (ML) based approach to study the dynamics of solvated molecules on the ground- and excited-state potential energy surfaces.
Congratulations to our Ph.D. student Alberto Picchi for his scientific publication entitled "Sustainable luminescent solar concentrators with superior photodegradation resistance employing heptagon-embedded polycyclic aromatic dicarboximides as emitters" in Materials Today Energy. Two novel carboximidic fluorophores containing 7-membered rings have been proposed for bulk LSC applications.
