RESEARCH

RESEARCH

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)

Hydrophobicity of molecular-scale textured surfaces: The case of zeolitic imidazolate frameworks, an atomistic perspective  J. Chem. Phys. 2023, 159, 184709 (OA Repository)

Effect of Crystallite Size on the Flexibility and Negative Compressibility of Hydrophobic Metal–Organic Frameworks  Nano Lett. 2023, 23, 23, 10682–10686 (OA Repository)

Bimetallic Zeolitic Imidazole Frameworks for Improved Stability and Performance of Intrusion–Extrusion Energy Applications  J. Phys. Chem. C 2023, 127, 37, 18310–18315

Fabrication of superhydrophobic metallic porous surfaces via CO2 and water processing  Applied Surface Science 2023, 632, 157546 (OA Repository)

Tuning Wetting–Dewetting Thermomechanical Energy for Hydrophobic Nanopores via Preferential Intrusion  J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2024, 15, 4, 880–887 (OA Repository)

Exploring the Heat of Water Intrusion into a Metal−Organic Framework by Experiment and Simulation  ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2024, 16, 5286−5293 (OA Repository)

Quality-dependent performance of hydrophobic ZIF-67 upon high-pressure water intrusion–extrusion process  Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2024, 26, 2440

Spontaneous Dipole Reorientation in Confined Water and Its Effect on Wetting/Dewetting of Hydrophobic Nanopores ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2024, 16, 6, 7604–7616

Mild-Temperature Supercritical Water Confined in Hydrophobic Metal–Organic Frameworks  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 19, 13236–13246 (OA Repository)

Bubbles enable volumetric negative compressibility in metastable elastocapillary systems Nature Comm. 15, 5076, 2024

Local grafting heterogeneities control water intrusion and extrusion in nanopores Comm. Mat. 2024, 5, 1, 100

Partial Water Intrusion and Extrusion in Hydrophobic Nanopores for Thermomechanical Energy Dissipation J. Physical. Chem. C 2024, 128, 29, 12036-12045

Adaptive MPPT: Boosting efficiency in heterogeneous power scenarios Sust. En. Tech. Asses. 2024, 67, 103843 (OA Repository)

Counterintuitive Trend of Intrusion Pressure with Temperature in the Hydrophobic Cu2(tebpz) MOF Small 2024, 2402173 (OA Repository)

Triboelectrification During Water Intrusion–Extrusion into-from Hydrophobic Nanopores  Adv. Mater. Technol. 2024, 2401744

Understanding the Wettability of C1N1 (Sub)Nanopores: Implications for Porous Carbonaceous Electrodes  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 63, 202411493

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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

EuroMOF-5th European Conference on Metal Organic Frameworks and Porous Polymers 24th-27th September 2023

13th International Colloids Conference 8th-12th June 2024

12th International Mesostructured Materials Symposium 8th-12th July 2024

7th UK-China Steel Research Forum 28th-31st August 2024

International Frontier Summit on Sustainable and Green Chemical Engineering 27th-30th September 2024

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

Stati Fluidi e Supercriticità in sIstemi Altamente Confinati, Thesis-Bachelor's degree in Chemical Science M. Alvelli, 7th March 2024

Effetto della Mobilità del Linker sull' intrusione di Acqua in Materiali Nanoporosi Idrofobici, Thesis-Bachelor's degree in Chemical Science G. Sigolo, 7th March 2024