UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI PISA
CORSO DI DOTTORATO IN SCIENZE CHIMICHE E DEI MATERIALI
PhD activitiesPhD Student: Elena Buratti
Tentative Title of PhD: Synthesis and characterization of IPN multiresponsive microgels Supervisor: Dr. Monica Bertoldo
1
styear
1) Attended internal Courses
- Dr. Luca Bernazzani; Termodinamica delle soluzioni, delle soluzioni organizzate e dei sistemi colloidali (cod. 214CC)
- Dr. Piero Salvadori, IFC-CNR; Radiochemistry, Corso di Dottorato in Chimica e Scienza del Materiali
- Prof. Adrian Wallwork; Corso di inglese scientifico, Corso di Dottorato in Chimica e Scienza del Materiali
2) Attended Seminars
- Dr. Francesco Pineider; Molecole e nanostrutture per la magnetoplasmonica - Prof. Stefano Zacchini; Molecular Metal Carbonyl Nanoclusters
- Prof. Marco Bandini; Catalytic Manipulation of Indole in Bologna
- NMR-Day: “NMR of porous systems: applications to building materials and cultural heritage”; GIDRM
- Dr. Elisa Passaglia; Functional Polymer Materials Through Post-Polymerization Modification Reactions And Dispersion Of Activated Nanoparticles
- Prof. Roberto Simonutti; Controlled Synthesis of Amphiphilic Block Copolymer for Nanotechnology
- Prof. Andrea Pucci; Harvesting Solar Radiation by Means of Fluorescent Concentrator
3) External courses and schools
- XXXVII Convegno-Scuola AIM "Mario Farina" - Caratterizzazione Di Materiali Polimerici: Tecniche Per Polimeri Fusi E Allo Stato Solido; Gargnano (BS); 02-06/05/2016
4) Participation in national and international conferences (poster, oral, invited)
- 30th Conference of the European Colloid and Interface Society, Roma (RM), 04-09/09/2016 Poster: Preparation of poly(N-isopropylacrilamide) / polyacrylic acid IPN microgels at different composition; Elena Buratti, Monica Bertoldo
5) Teaching seminar
- Polimerizzazioni in fase eterogenea; Corso di Polimeri di Interesse Industriale (Cod. 166CC); Prof. Giacomo Ruggeri
2
ndyear
1) Attended internal Courses
- Dr. Marco Calderisi; Chemiometry with R, DCCI-DSCM, 17-19-24-26/01/2017
2) Attended Seminars
- Ilaria Sanzari, Towards stiffness control of electroactive polyacrylamide hydrogel, INO – CNR, 21/11/2016
- Prof. Francesco Picchioni, Polymeric Materials for enhanced oil recovery, DCCI-DSCM, 06/02/2017
- Francesco Criscitiello, Stabilization of nanostructures and their applications, DCCI – DSCM, 07/02/2017
- Sara Taddei, Macromolecular engineering of nanostructured polymer film surfaces, DCCI – DSCM, 28/04/2017
- Prof. Christine Bressy, Challenges in designing polymers for marine antifouling applications DCCI, 28/04/2017
- Tommaso Guazzini, Synthesis and characterization of nanocomposites based on functionalized polymer matrices, DCCI – DSCM, 13/07/2017
3) Participation in national and international conferences (poster, oral, invited)
- European Polymer Federation Conference 2017, Lyon, France, 02-07/07/2017
Poster: Thermodynamic and dynamic of concentrated PNIPAM microgels; Elena Buratti, Andrea Orecchini, Marco Zanatta, Emanuela Zaccarelli, Monica Bertoldo
4) Workshops
- LEGUVAL: Valorization of legumes co-products and by-products for package application and energy production from biomass, Area della Ricerca CNR Pisa (PI),
5) Abroad Period
- Universitè de Cergy-Pontoise, Departement de Chemie, Laboratoire SOSCO; September – December 2017; Synthesis of peptide Elastin-like
3
rdyear
1) Attended internal Courses
- Dr. Giancarlo Pascali; Radiochemistry for Life Sciences applications, DCCI-DSCM, 26-27/02/2018 - Dr. Patrizio Raffa; What happens at the interface, does not stay at the interface. Interfacial
science meet polymer chemistry, DCCI-DSCM, 14-21-28/02/2018
2) Attended Seminars
- Lorenzo Biancalana, “Synthesis, characterization and Cytotoxicity of New Ruthenium(II) Arene Compounds as Potential Anticancer Drugs”, PhD Thesis Dissertation, 01/02/2018
- Elisa Guazzelli, “Functional materials containing single-chain folding polymers” PhD Thesis Dissertation, 03/03/2018
- David Barsi “New materials based on Janus particles: preparation and characterization” PhD Thesis Dissertation, 20/05/2018
- Dr. Francesco Barzagli, “Innovative methods for efficient CO2 capture and its reuse for the synthesis of useful chemical”, 23/07/2018
- Dr. R. Zairov, “Calixarene-based betadiketonates of lanthanides(III) as building blocks for functional paramagnetic and luminescent nanoparticles”, 11/10/2018
3) Participation in national and international conferences (poster, oral, invited)
- 24th Polymer Networks Group Meeting, Prague (Czech Republic), 17-21/06/2018
Oral presentation: Stimuli-responsive thin films prepared from PNIPAM/PAAc based microgels - Chemistry for the Future 2018, Pisa (Italy), 4 – 6/07/2018
Oral presentation: Synthesis and characterization of polyamide smart materials and their use for thin film preparation
