Research Area
Active Research fields
The main research activity is based on the use of organic salts in following fields:
1) ionci liquids, as solvent sugar biomasses conversion in products of industrial values;
2) gelators for the obtainment of supramolecular gels having antimicrobial activity and also used as conductive phase in the building of DSSCs;
3) self-assembled conductive materials for optoelectronic applications.
Research projects of the last 5 years
FIRB 2010
Multifunctional hybrid materials for the development of eco-sustainable catalytic processes.
Prof. Francesca D'Anna is the Principal Investigator
Collaborations
National and International collacorations are following reported:
1) Prof. Marta Feroci
Dipartimento SBAI, Università della Sapienza di Roma, via Castro Laurenziano, 7, 00161 Roma.
2) Prof. Anna Maria Puglia
Dipartimento STEBICEF, Sezione di Biologia Cellulare, Università degli Studi di Palermo.
3) Prof. Nadka Tzankova Dintcheva
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Ambientale, Aerospaziale, dei Materiali, Università di Palermo
4) Prof. Kenneth R. Seddon
Queen's University of Belfast, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Belfast, Ireland.
5) Prof. Richard G. Weiss
Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University of Washington.