Mechanochemical transformations: Bridging the gap between global and local kinetics ​

Deeply rooted in metallurgy and materials science, mechanochemistry is presently one of the most rapidly growing research subjects in chemistry. Mechanochemical reactions are generally performed in ball mills, where the powders are subjected to forging events during individual collisions. Precisely the complex milling dynamics make the investigation of the reaction kinetics on a local scale extremely challenging. The thesis endeavours to gain insight into the local kinetics from macroscopic e...

Analisi, revisione e stato di conservazione della collezione Terracciano Sardegna depositata presso l'Herbarium neapolitanum (NAP).

A landscape approach for detecting and assessing changes in areas prone to desertification by means of remote sensing and gis.

L'opera narrativa di Melania G. Mazzucco: le forme dell'impegno

This research project focuses on the work of the contemporary Italian writer Melania Mazzucco. While memory, the role of women and social criticism are the most studied themes in her works, the main thread running through our research is the concept of commitment. This is a new critical perspective, in which impegno constitutes a kind of 'macro-category' encompassing all the many themes in the writer's output that have been analysed by critics. Mazzucco's commitment, which is evident in his l...

The international dimensions of central bank objectives

The main conceptual object of this study is the ‘’objectives of central banks’’ and their position and relation to the various core characteristics of central banks, inter alia, central bank governance, mandates, functions, central bank cooperation. The core research hypothesis is that the objectives of central banks are formulated and shaped by both domestic and international developments. The research consists of two parts: Part I (general part: chapters 1 and 2) and Part II (case studies: ...

Autonomia privata e dati personali: dal consenso al contratto per il trattamento

The research analyzes the powers of private autonomy operating within the personal data processing framework and their applications in the emerging personal data market sector. After reconstructing personal data as informational signs that are the subject of the right to personal data protection, understood as a right with a primarily existential nature, the paper examines the main institutes of Reg. (EU) 679/2016 where it notes the data subject's power of decision with respect to the process...

Design, synthesis and characterization of novel building blocks for supramolecular assemblies.

The study of supramolecular systems, held together by non-covalent interactions, started with the design of novel building blocks. The target donors were then prepared by means of organic synthesis and characterized by analytical tools. Pyridyl-based ligands have been designed with various shapes, rigidity, lengths and number of donor atoms. The project was carried over by reacting the organic linkers with various complementary building blocks. When metal ions and unsaturated metal complexes ...

Progettazione e sintesi di nuovi materiali per la protezione, il ripristino e la conservazione di manufatti lapidei carbonatici

In recent times, the historical and architectural heritage has been subject to increasing degradation processes, largely due to outdoor air pollution, in addition to physical and biological factors. This research aims at evaluating the effectiveness and compatibility of new consolidating treatments of inorganic composition applied to distinct carbonate lithologies, such as marble and biomicrite limestones. The new compounds belong to the general classes of monoesters and functionalized monoam...

Synthesis of high-value small molecules through new cascade reactions

Providing non-traditional disconnections has been recently highlighted as one of the “Key messages for organic chemistry when it comes from drug discovery” by scientists from GSK, Pfizer, and AstraZeneca. Apart from the possibility to unlock the access to previously unattainable chemical matter, the establishment of a novel synthetic approach could furnish new solutions in terms of cost, safety, eco-sustainability and time-consuming of a synthetic process. In the realm of ideal synthesis, cas...