We design and develop novematerials for water and air purification.
Our aim is developing advanced environmentally friendly adsorbents that are characterized by high removal efficiency towards multiple pollutants and easy regeneration. To do so, we combine different materials that possess complementary functionalities and play with the preparation process. The goal is to elucidate the process-structure-property relationships for different class of materials in order to fully exploit their potential for environmental remediation purposes.
Besides performance optimization, we look for materials and processes that are truly sustainable. For this reason, the experimental and modelling activities on materials development are carried out side by side with LCA analysis to guide their optimization.
People
Martina Salzano de Luna
Giovanni Filippone
Veronica Ambrogi
Shehryar Ahmad
Valeria D’Agostino
Relevant projects
– WATERONIC “Water remediation based on nanostructured photonic materials” – PRIN 2022
– CO2@photothermocat “Removal of air pollutants and valorization of the produced CO2: hybrid catalysis to solve two issues at single blow” – PRIN 2022 PNRR
Selected publications
– Luzzi, E., Aprea, P., Salzano de Luna, M.*, Caputo, D., & Filippone, G. (2021). Mechanically coherent zeolite 13X/chitosan aerogel beads for effective CO2 capture. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 13(17), 20728-20734 (open access).
– Salzano de Luna, M.* & Sirignano, M. (2021). Upcycling soot particles into chitosan-based aerogels for water purification from organic pollutants. Journal of Hazardous Materials Letters, 2, 100019 (open access).
– Salzano de Luna, M.*, Ascione, C., Santillo, C., Verdolotti, L., Lavorgna, M., Buonocore, G. G., Castaldo, R., Filippone, G., Xia, H. & Ambrosio, L. (2019). Optimization of dye adsorption capacity and mechanical strength of chitosan aerogels through crosslinking strategy and graphene oxide addition. Carbohydrate polymers, 211, 195-203. (link).
– Salzano de Luna, M., Wang, Y., Zhai, T., Verdolotti, L., Buonocore, G. G., Lavorgna, M., & Xia, H. (2019). Nanocomposite polymeric materials with 3D graphene-based architectures: from design strategies to tailored properties and potential applications. Progress in Polymer Science, 89, 213-249 (link).
– Salzano de Luna, M., Castaldo, R., Altobelli, R., Gioiella, L., Filippone, G.*, Gentile, G., & Ambrogi, V. (2017). Chitosan hydrogels embedding hyper-crosslinked polymer particles as reusable broad-spectrum adsorbents for dye removal. Carbohydrate polymers, 177, 347-354 (link).