Pharmaceutical compounds constitute one of the most important emerging classes of environmental pollutants. Recent studies have discovered their occurrence in environmental samples investigated worldwide, including ...

Masked esters/amides are scaffolds endowed with a great potential in the field of organic synthesis. This PhD project has been conceived, in the context of non-covalent organocatalysis, with the aim to exploit unsaturated ...

The transport properties of superconducting tapes and wires for the electrotechnical applications have been investigated. The characterization measurements were carried out in our laboratory with particular ...

The increasing demand for the stereoselective synthesis of bioactive compounds in both industrial and academic research has led to the rapid development of a variety of diastereo- and enantio-selective processes using phase ...

Mitochondria are critical for numerous cellular and biochemical processes. The reciprocal interaction between mitochondria and the endoplasmic reticulum impacts several cellular functions. In cellular and animal models, ...

One of the major technological and scientific challenges in developing autonomous machines and robots is to ensure their ethical and safe behavior towards human beings. When dealing with autonomous machines the human ...

The increasing exploitation of geo-energy resources to satisfy the needs of the world's population has also led to a focus on the risks associated with this type of human activity. It is in this context that this thesis ...

The relentless quest for unraveling the true mechanisms that govern the Nature we observe and are part of have led physicists to rely on the adoption of fundamental principles. These assumptions have acted as a guiding ...

Superconductivity under pressure was recently discovered in two transition metal pnictides belonging to the Pnma space group, namely CrAs [1, 2] and MnP [3], in the vicinity of a magnetic phase, respectively at the ...

Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) emerged as very promising catalysts in a lot of organic reactions and industrial applications. These catalysts are in fact capable of catalysing chemical processes under mild conditions ...