Advanced Smart Organic Materials (ASOM)

Prof. Mauro Comes Franchini

The research group activity is focused on the optimization of innovative processing techniques with the aim of developing new organic materials for applications in the field of organic electronics, nanomedicine for industrial applications.

Processing techniques include:

Additive Manufacturing (3D-Printing) in order to obtain new materials starting from natural pool sources, such as carbohydrates and proteins. The starting biomaterials are synthetically modified before being applied to the manufacturing. Applications are: textile and organic electronics

• Bio-Ink for biomedical applications via gel-extrusion deposition. Here too, biocompatible materials are investigated: the formulations are thoroughly explored and optimized in order to obtain suitable rheology for building scaffolds eligible for Tissue Engineering.

The group has proven expertise in synthesis of luminescent molecules and organic functionalization of metal-conductive and piezoelectric nanostructures (gold, silver, metal oxides, C-nanodots) with different size and shapes.

Main applications are:

• Materials from renewable sources for 3D-Printing
• Theranostic (therapy+Diagnosys) in Biomedical field
• Sensing for Organic Electronics

Scientific Coordinator

Prof. Mauro Comes Franchini

Research group members

Prof.ssa Letizia Sambri

Dr. Erica Locatelli (Technical Researcher)

Dr. Silvia Tortorella (AIRC Researcher)

Dr. Mirko Maturi (Post Doc Researcher)

Dr. Veronica Vetri Buratti (Post Doc Researcher)

Dr. Chiara Spanu (Ph.D student)

Il gruppo si occupa di nuove tecniche di processo per sviluppare nuovi materiali organici per applicazioni nel mondo dell’elettronica organica, della nanomedicina e dell’industria.

Tra le tecniche di processo utilizzate vi sono:

Additive Manufacturing (3D-Printing) per l’ottenimento di nuovi materiali partendo da fonti del pool naturale quali carboidrati e proteine. I bio-materiali di partenza sono modificati sinteticamente per potere essere applicati al processo.

Bio-Ink per applicazioni biomedicali attraverso processi di gel-extrusion. Si ricercano anche in questo caso materiali biocompatibili e se ne studiano le formulazioni al fine di avere reologie utili per la creazione di scaffold applicabili in Tissue Engineering.

Il gruppo ha comprovata esperienza nella sintesi e funzionalizzazione organica di nanostrutture metalliche (oro, argento, ossidi metallici, C-nanodots) e molecole luminescenti.

Applicazioni principali sono:

· Materiali da fonti rinnovabili per la stampa 3D

· Teranostica (terapia+Diagnostica) in Nanomedicina

· Sensoristica per Organica Elettronica

EUROPEAN PROJECT H2020 ONGOING (2018-2022)

• Novel precision technological platforms to promote non-invasive early diagnosis, eradication and prevention of cancer relapse: proof of concept in the bladder carcinoma

Settori ERC

PE4_4 Surface science and nanostructures

PE5_6 - New materials: oxides, alloys, composite, organic-inorganic hybrid, nanoparticles

PE5_10 – Nanomaterials: nanoparticles, nanotubes

PE5_12 – Intelligent materials – self-assembled materials

PE5_22 – Supramolecular chemistry

Scientific Coordinator

Prof. Mauro Comes Franchini: https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/mauro.comesfranchini

Research group members

Prof.ssa Letizia Sambri: https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/letizia.sambri

Dr. Erica Locatelli (Post Doc Researcher)

Dr. Silvia Tortorella (Fellowship for AIRC)

Dr. Mirko Maturi (Post Doc Researcher)

Dr. Veronica Vetri Buratti (Fellowship of Research)

Dr. Chiara Spanu (PhD)

ASOM Laboratory

https://chimica-industriale.unibo.it/it/ricerca/laboratori-di-ricerca/asom-laboratory