Email: alessandra.operamolla@unipi.it
Telefono: 050 2219342
Sito web: https://nanoleaves.dcci.unipi.it/alessandra-operamolla
Profilo
Alessandra Operamolla received a Ph.D. in Chemistry of Innovative Materials in 2009 from the University of Bari, under the supervision of Prof. Francesco Babudri. She was a post-doctoral fellow between 2009 and 2015 at the Chemistry Department, in the research group of Prof. Gianluca Farinola. She visited the Linz Institute for Organic Solar Cells (LIOS), Austria, in 2008 and 2010, where she worked under the supervision of Prof. N. S. Sariciftci. In 2010 she received an exchange grant from the European Science Foundation. After a brief period at the Pharmacy Department of the University of Bari, in 2016 she won a competitive grant financed by Regione Puglia and was appointed Assistant Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Chemistry Department, where she started independent research on cellulose nanomaterials. From December 2019 she moved to the Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry Department of the University of Pisa, where she was appointed Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry.
Prof. Operamolla is an Organic Chemist, whose research interests are focused on organometallic cross-coupling methodologies for the synthesis of organic semiconductors, both small molecules, and macromolecular materials. She has designed new multidentate thiols for self-assembling and molecular electronics. She has studied, independently and in collaboration with Italian companies, new strategies for the synthesis of thiophene-based materials for solar cells. After that, she moved her interest to organic-biologic hybrids for the chemical manipulations of photosynthesis.
Presently, she leads the NanoLeaves group, focusing on the functionalization of nanocrystalline cellulose for several technological applications, and is interested in the application of Nature-derived biopolymers as innovative materials.
Didattica
Attività didattica
Incarichi di responsabilità didattica di moduli/insegnamenti
- Sostanze organiche naturali di interesse biologico e applicativo (cod. 208CC) per Laurea Magistrale in Chimica
- Chimica organica (cod. 012CC) per Laurea in Viticoltura ed enologia
Ricevimento
Modalità: Istruzioni per raggiungere il Polo San Cataldo. Il Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale si trova subito dopo l'area CNR della Ricerca in via Giuseppe Moruzzi 13. L'Area della Ricerca è servita dalla LAM Verde (L/V) della Compagnia Pisana Trasporti SpA (fermata VOLPI-CNR). In alternativa si possono usare le fermate Garibaldi V1 o Pratale/Parcheggio, entrambe distanti 5 minuti a piedi dal CNR, 8 minuti dal Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale.
Luogo: Stanza 268 Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale Via G. Moruzzi, 13 Pisa
Orario: Gli orari di ricevimento possono essere concordati via mail con la docente. Si ricevono studenti individualmente o in piccoli gruppi (3-4) Gli studenti di Scienze Agrarie possono concordare appuntamenti presso le Aule a loro dedicate, a seguire gli orari di lezione.
Ricerca
Pubblicazioni
- Cellulose Nanocrystals and Rice Husk Surface Functionalization Induced by Infrared Thermal Activation (D'Orsi, Rosarita; Danielli, Chiara; Spennato, Mariachiara; Guazzelli, Elisa; Martinelli, Elisa; Asaro, Fioretta; Gardossi, Lucia; Operamolla, Alessandra - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Sustainable Hydrogels from Okra Stem Waste for Biosignal Detection and Sensor Technologies (Dilara Kocak, Emine; Gumus, Cagatay; Ozlem, Kadir; Operamolla, Alessandra; Dammacco, Giada; Pagliai, Filippo; Pala, Nursema; Atalay, Ozgur - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Covalent Lysozyme Immobilization on Enzymatic Cellulose Nanocrystals (Spagnuolo, L.; Micheli, L.; Dufresne, A.; Beneventi, D.; Operamolla, A. - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Nanocrystalline cellulose-based mixed ionic–electronic conductor for bioelectronics (Matura, Katharina; D’Orsi, Rosarita; Spagnuolo, Laura; Mayr, Felix; Cobet, Munise; Putz, Christoph; Operamolla, Alessandra; Tekoglu, Serpil - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Interplay of Circularly Polarized Light with Molecular and Structural Chirality: Chiral Lanthanide Complexes and Cellulose Nanocrystals (Cei, Matteo; Operamolla, Alessandra; Zinna, Francesco - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- High Yield Synthesis of Cellulose Nanocrystals From Avicel by Mechano-Enzymatic Approach (Spagnuolo, L.; Beneventi, D.; Dufresne, A.; Operamolla, A. - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Resistive switching memory from dielectric lignin for sustainable electronics (De Stefano, Sebastiano; Durante, Ofelia; D'Orsi, Rosarita; Operamolla, Alessandra; Ambrico, Marianna; Francesco Ambrico, Paolo; Martucciello, Nadia; Giubileo, Filippo; Di Bartolomeo, Antonio - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Pinaceae Pine Resins [Black Pine, Shore Pine, Rosin, and Baltic Amber] as Natural Dielectrics for Low Operating Voltage, Hysteresis-Free, Organic Field Effect Transistors (Elisabetta Coppola, Maria; Petritz, Andreas; Vlad Irimia, Cristian; Yumusak, Cigdem; Mayr, Felix; Bednorz, Mateusz; Matkovic, Aleksandar; Awais Aslam, Muhammad; Saller, Klara; Schwarzinger, Clemens; Daniela Ionita, Maria; Schiek, Manuela; Smeds, Annika I.; Salinas, Yolanda; Brüggemann, Oliver; D'Orsi, Rosarita; Mattonai, Marco; Ribechini, Erika; Operamolla, Alessandra; Teichert, Christian; Xu, Chunlin; Stadlober, Barbara; Serdar Sariciftci, Niyazi; Irimia-vladu, Mihai - 2023 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Pure and high quality lignin from defatted and steam-exploded Cynara cardunculus (D’Orsi, Rosarita; DI FIDIO, Nicola; Antonetti, Claudia; RASPOLLI GALLETTI, ANNA MARIA; Operamolla, Alessandra - 2023 - 4.2 Abstract in Atti di convegno)
- Lignin as an invaluable resource for organic field-effect transistors (D’Orsi, Rosarita; Vladu, Mihai-Irimia; Lucejko, Jeannette J.; DI FIDIO, Nicola; Antonetti, Claudia; RASPOLLI GALLETTI, ANNA MARIA; Operamolla, Alessandra - 2023 - 4.2 Abstract in Atti di convegno)