Materials chemistry

Preparation of new materials or materials with specific properties and to understanding the correlations existing between chemical structure and final properties.

The Macromolecular Chemistry Research group conducts activities in the framework of polymer science. Main works concern:

the synthesis and the dispersion in polymer matrices of inorganic fillers;
the study of advanced polymeric materials for sport equipment, in particular for winter sports;
biomedical engineering aspects (i.e.: tissue engineering, controlled drug release and polymers with antibacterial properties);
the exploitation of biomass and agro-food wastes for the preparation of bifunctional monomers and the synthesis and characterization of novel bio-based polymers and copolymers;
the investigation of polymer crystallization processes.