RESEARCH
BACKGROUND LITERATURE
Giant Negative Compressibility by Liquid Intrusion into Superhydrophobic Flexible Nanoporous Frameworks Nano Lett., 21, 7, 2848-2853, 2021
Giant Effect of Negative Compressibility in a Water–Porous Metal–CO2 System for Sensing Applications ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 12, 35, 39756-39763, 2020
Pore Morphology Determines Spontaneous Liquid Extrusion from Nanopores ACS Nano, 13, 2, 1728-1738, 2019
Effect of Flexibility and Nanotriboelectrification on the Dynamic Reversibility of Water Intrusion into Nanopores: Pressure-Transmitting Fluid with Frequency-Dependent Dissipation Capability ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 11, 43, 40842-40849, 2019
Mechanical, Thermal, and Electrical Energy Storage in a Single Working Body: Electrification and Thermal Effects upon Pressure-Induced Water Intrusion–Extrusion in Nanoporous Solids ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 9, 8, 7044-7049, 2017
SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES
Liquid intrusion in and extrusion from non-wettable nanopores for technological applications Eur. Phys. J. B, 94, 163, 2021 (OA Repository)
Subnanometer Topological Tuning of the Liquid Intrusion/Extrusion Characteristics of Hydrophobic Micropores Nano Lett. 2022, 22, 6, 2164–2169 (OA Repository)
Turning Molecular Springs into Nano-Shock Absorbers: The Effect of Macroscopic Morphology and Crystal Size on the Dynamic Hysteresis of Water Intrusion–Extrusion into-from Hydrophobic Nanopores ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2022, 14, 23, 26699–26713 (OA Repository)
Effect of the Topology on Wetting and Drying of Hydrophobic Porous Materials ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2022, 14, 26, 30067–30079 (OA Repository)
Mobile energy recovery and storage: Multiple energy-powered EVs and refuelling stations Energy 257, 2022, 124697 (OA Repository)
Intrusion and extrusion of liquids in highly confining media: bridging fundamental research to applications Advances in Physics: X 2022, Vol. 7, No.1, 205235 (OA Repository)
The impact of secondary channels on the wetting properties of interconnected hydrophobic nanopores Comm. Phys. 6, 21 2023 (OA Repository)
Optimization of the wetting-drying characteristics of hydrophobic metal organic frameworks via crystallite size: The role of hydrogen bonding between intruded and bulk liquid Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 645, 2023, 775–783 (OA Repository)
Mechanism of Water Intrusion into Flexible ZIF-8: Liquid Is Not Vapor Nano Lett. 2023, 23, 12, 5430-5436 (OA Repository)
POPULAR SCIENCE
Mechanical Energy at the Services of Ecology No Limits, 2, 4, 30-31, 2021
CONFERENCES and WORKSHOPS
1st International Conference on Energy Materials-Piezoelectric and Triboelectric for Energy Harvesting 5th-8th November 2021
4th European Conference on Metal-Organic Frameworks and Porous Polymers 13th-15th September 2021
Phase transitions at the nanoscale: wetting of nanoporous materials, cluster formation, and nanofriction 23rd-26th June 2021
MOFs for energy and the environment Faraday Discussion 23rd-25th June 2021
FICN2021-Frontiers in ion channels and nanopores: theory, esperiments, and simulations 2nd-5th February 2021
RSC-Porous Materials Group 30th May 2022
Molecular Simulation 2022: Present, Past and Future 25th-29th June 2022
ACS Fall Meeting 2022 21st-25th August 2022
MOF2022-International Conference on Metal-Organic Frameworks and Open Frameworks Compounds 4th-7th September 2022
EMRS FallMeeting2022- European Materials Research Society 19th-22nd September 2022
WESC2022-Second World Energy Storage Conference 12th-14th October 2022
CECAM-Metastability and multiscale effects in interfacial phenomena 13th-15th March 2023
12th International Colloids Conference 11th-14th June 2023
CECAM-Fluids in porous materials: from fundamental physics to engineering applications 19th-21st June 2023
PRESENTATIONS and LECTURING
Materials Chemistry and Computational Modelling Master's degree in Chemical Science, University of Ferrara, 2021-2022
Converting vibrations and environmental heat into electricity via reversible water intrusion into hydrophobic nanopores, Seminar at University of Rome "La Sapienza" Y. Grosu, 1st July 2021
Exploring flexible nanoporous materials for energy-related applications, Seminar at University of Rome "La Sapienza" Y. Grosu, 16th June 2021
Exploring flexible nanoporous materials for energy-related applications, Seminar at University of Silesia-USK Y. Grosu, 28th May 2021
Effetto della Temperatura sul Meccanismo e sulla Cinetica di Intrusione di Acqua in Metal-Organic Frameworks Idrofobi, Thesis-Bachelor's degree in Chemical Science D. Ballardini, 29th September 2022
Ottimizzazione Esogenica dei Processi di Intrusione ed Estrusione di Acqua in Metal-Organic Frameworks Idrofobici, Thesis-Bachelor's degree in Chemical Science A. Piantavigna, 9th March 2023
Wetting and drying of nanoporous systems: From theoretical modeling to design principles of novel energy materials, Seminar at the Valencia Polytechnique University (ES) S. Meloni, 18th May 2023
Mobile Thermal Energy Recovery and Storage-Birmingham Centre for Energy Storage (BCES) at Univeristy of Birmingham Y. Ding, 27th May 2023