Chemistry

• Development, validation and application to agrifood matrices of ICP-MS and/or spectroscopic methods for characterization according to quality, food safety and origin of typical Sardinian productions.
• Influence of irrigation techniques on bioaccumulation of toxic elements in cereals and atmospheric emission of greenhouse gases.
• Development, validation and application to abiotic and biotic matrices of ICP-MS methods devoted to the determination of REE and elements of technological and industrial interest. 

Research Group

• Thiophene-based Conducting Polymers: electrochemical synthesis and applications
• Molecular electrochemistry: Ru complexes and their applications
• Design of amperometric sensors for organic and inorganic analytes
• DES: preparation, characterization and use in analytical protocols
• Development, validation and application of ICP-MS methods on different matrices
• Development, validation and application of chromatographic methods on different matrices

Research Group

• Development of Lead-Free Piezoceramics for Marine, Biomedical, and Automotive Applications.
• Mechanically induced and photochemically induced Carbon Dioxide Sequestration and Valorization into Chemical Fuels
• Development and Optimization of a Multifunctional Device for In-Situ Characterization of Piezoelectric Materials Under Controlled Temperature and Electric Field Conditions
• Desing, synthesis and characterization of high entropy alloys for slid state hydrogen storage.
• Mechanosynthesis of Pharmaceutical co-crystal
• New materials from minerals: Characterisation, chemical reactivity and potential energy-related properties of natural silicate- and oxide-based systems
• Innovative chemical systems for electrode and electrolytic Lithium and post-Lithium ion batteries
• Materials recovery and recycling from spent secondary batteries.

• Raw minerals for waste oil recovery treatment.

  Research Group

• 1. Chemohydrodynamic oscillations induced by photochemical reactions. Fundamental study and possible applications.
• 2. Experimental and numerical study of phyllotactic-like structures created by chemical fronts.
• 3. Experimental and numerical study on the evolution of chemical oscillations and waves in a granular medium (halloysite).
• 4. pH oscillators controlled by a density-driven instability.
• 5. Spatio-temporal chemical oscillations induced by cross-diffusion.
• 6. Chemohydrodynamic methods for the recovery of fluids polluted by organic solvents (TCE).
• 7. Chemohydrodynamic methods for CO2 sequestration. Experimental and numerical study.
• 8. Experimental study of spatio-temporal chemical pulsations induced by bimolecular processes.
• 9. Hydrodynamic instabilities triggered by mechanochemical processing.
• 10. Experimental and modeling study of self-propagating processes and complex dynamics in mechanochemical systems.
• 11. Characterization and control of the kinetics of hydrogen release from sodium borohydride hydrolysis conducted under flow conditions.
• 12. Self-propulsion and collective motion of acetylsalicylic acid and hexaethylenediamine crystals.

• 13. Influence of acoustic waves in the spatio-temporal organization of chemical patterns on granular substrates.

  Research Group

• Studies of metal-biomolecule interactions
• Mechanisms of metal toxicity
• Synthesis of metallic nanoparticles for biomedical applications
• Archaeometric analysis of archaeological artifacts
• Detection of metals in biological samples
• In silico design and mechanistic studies of novel metallodrugs
• Computational exploration of metal ion coordination in biological systems and chelation therapy

• Multilevel theoretical investigation of metalloproteins: Understanding metal-binding motifs and functional mechanisms

  Research Group

• Design, synthesis and reactivity of cyclometalated Pt(II), Pd(II) and Au(III) complexes with substituted pyridines and bipyridines
• Synthesis and study of noble metal complexes with imidazopyridines
• Application of noble-metal complexes as antimicrobials

• Application of noble-metal complexes as potential antitumor drugs

  Research Group

• Development of new polymer systems by frontal polymerization or induction heating
• Development of transparent wood composites
• Synthesis and characterization of polymer hydrogels
• Synthesis and characterization of polymer nanocomposites

• Synthesis and characterization of vitimers

  Research Group

• Cellulose functionalization
• Synthesis, including products of renewable origin, of compounds capable of binding DNA/RNA

• Development of new sustainable synthetic methodologies, mediated by visible light, metal-free and photo-catalyzed

  Research Group