"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).