Prof. Piero Sozzani
Full Professor
e-mail: piero.sozzani@mater.unimib.it
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Prof. Piero SozzaniFull Professor | |
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He spent several periods of time in the United States at a few Institutions such as Brooklyn Polytechnic of New York and the University of California and he was a consultant at the AT&T Bell Laboratories. He was invited to give more than 80 plenary lectures and seminars in some prestigious institutions (Yale University, Columbia University, Max Planck Institute, University of Tokyo, ect.) and has presented more than 150 contributions at international congresses. He has published over 130 papers on international journals, most of them with a high impact factor. He is one of the editors of the volume NMR of Cement-Based Materials, the invited contributor to books and reviews (e.g. Special Edition |
of Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry: NMR of Polymers and Advances in Polymer Science) and is the author of some patents. He was frequently asked to peer-review papers for Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Macromolecules, Journal of Polymer Science and Chemistry of Materials. He is considered a leading scientist in the area of Nanostructured Polymeric Materials and of the NMR characterization of polymers. He collaborates with Basell, Pirelli, M&G and several other companies; he takes part in the CORIMAV, Milano Ricerche and INSTM consortia and in the European Network of Excellence NANOFUN-POLY on Polymeric Nanocomposites.
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Dr. Silvia Bracco
Senior Research Associate | |
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Silvia Bracco got a five years degree in Chemistry at the University of Genoa (1997) (macromolecular curriculum) with Prof. A. Turturro. While attending the Specialization School in Material Science and Technology at the University of Milan-Bicocca with a study on “Polymorphism and Polymeric Materials” (1998-2000), she applied Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance to polymers and got a grant from Federchimica. After a three years research (2000-2003) she got her PhD degree under the supervision of Prof. Sozzani with a thesis about “Nanostructured Adduct and Support for the Ziegler Natta Catalyst.”Currently, she is a postdoctoral fellow working with Prof. Sozzani at the Department of Material Science of the University of Milan-Bicocca in the field of “Synthesis and characterization of Nanostructures and Novel Polymeric Nanocomposites”.
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Her main research topics are focused on macromolecular chemistry, in particular on the application of solid state NMR techniques to the study of the polymorphism of polymeric materials and to the characterization of novel polymeric nanocomposites and macromolecular nanostructures. Important results have been obtained for the description of extended interfaces in heterogeneous materials through the application of advanced 1D and 2D solid state NMR experiments. In addition, single polymorphs of porous supports for the Ziegler-Natta catalysis have been successfully identified by applying 2D NMR techniques as a special tool for crystallography. The results of her activity are published in high-impact factor journals. |
Patrizia Valsesia
Postdoctoral Associate | |
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RESEARCH INTERESTS: My PhD work is focused on the synthesis and characterization of polymer nancomposites exploiting nanostructured inorganic frameworks. Polymer nanocomposites have been obtained by confined state polymerization of vinyl monomers in different types of mesoporous silica and organosilica. The inorganic nanostructures and nanocomposites are investigated by different techniques such as nitrogen adsorption measurements, differential scanning |
calorimetry, thermo gravimetrical analysis and by advanced solid state NMR experiments as 2D Heteronuclear 1H-13C and 1H-29Si MAS NMR. These characterizations assure the regularity of mesoporous structures and the intimacy between silica and the polymeric chains. Results permit to generate a model for the motion and the interactions of confined macromolecules in constrained geometries. |
Alice Cattaneo PhD Student |
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RESEARCH INTERESTS: My PhD work is focused on the Solid State NMR of polymers and polymer composites for industrial applications. |
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Mario Beretta PhD Student
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RESEARCH INTERESTS: My Phd work is focused on synthesis and characterization of hybrid organic-inorganic porous materials. The organic phase, mainly polymers, could be included in a hard silica matrix (nanocomposites) or linked directly within the porous structure with a covalent carbon-silicon bond (organosilicas). |
Organosilicas are prepared by a templated synthesis in aqueous ambient and their properties are strictly correlated to the nature of the organic group. |
Lisa Ferretti PhD Student
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RESEARCH INTERESTS: My PhD thesis is focused on the confinement phenomena in self-assembled nanoporous molecular materials. Porous materials are currently of great interest to several research fields, including catalysis, molecular confinement and selective absorption. |
form nanostructured materials of hexagonal structure and melting temperature higher than those of individual components. |
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