A5031415828- Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
- Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
- Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
- Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography
- Analytical chemistry methods development
- Electrochemical sensors and biosensors
- Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry
- Crystallization and Solubility Studies
- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research
- X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
- Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Heavy metals in environment
- Transgenic Plants and Applications
- Analytical Chemistry and Sensors
- Marine Sponges and Natural Products
- biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties
- Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants
- Coal and Its By-products
- Analytical Methods in Pharmaceuticals
- Protein Interaction Studies and Fluorescence Analysis
- Mercury impact and mitigation studies
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
- Conducting polymers and applications
University of Pisa
2016-2025
Fondazione Stella Maris
2006-2007
Czech Academy of Sciences, J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry
2005-2006
Institute for Chemical and Physical Processes
2005
Joint Research Centre
1996
Microplastics (MPs) quantification in benthic marine sediments is typically performed by time-consuming and moderately accurate mechanical separation microscopy detection. In this paper, we describe the results of our innovative Polymer Identification Specific Analysis (PISA) microplastic total mass, previously tested on either less complex sandy beach sediment or demanding (because high MPs content) wastewater treatment plant sludges, applied to analysis from a sublittoral area north-west...
The enrichment of PCBs (polychlorobiphenyls) and PAHs (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) in the sea-surface micro-layer depth profile these pollutants water column were investigated at Gerlache Inlet, Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica. Depth samplings repeated three times during Antarctic summer (from November to February). showed a concentration range 30–120 pg l−1 150–400 l−1, respectively, values very much dependent on suspended matter content. A nearly two-fold decrease pollutant was also...
Introduction Antarctic Porifera have gained increasing interest as hosts of diversified associated microbial communities that could provide interesting insights on the holobiome system and its relation with environmental parameters. Methods The demosponge species Haliclona dancoi scotti were targeted for determination persistent organic pollutant (i. e., polychlorobiphenyls, PCBs, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, PAHs) trace metal concentrations, along characterization prokaryotic by 16S...
Abstract This explorative study was aimed at first characterizing the sponge Spongilla lacustris (Linnaeus, 1759) from sub‐Arctic Pasvik River (Northern Fennoscandia), in terms of associated microbial communities and pollutant accumulation. Persistent organic pollutants were determined mesohyl tissues, along with estimation enzymatic activity rates, prokaryotic abundance morphometric traits, analysis taxonomic bacterial diversity by next‐generation sequencing techniques. The main groups S....
We optimized a hyphenated system based on size exclusion chromatography coupled to microwave/UV mercury oxidation and an atomic fluorescence detector (SEC–CVG–AFS) for the online of free protein-complexed p-hydroxymercuribenzoic acid (pHMB) without employment chemical oxidizing agents. This has been applied study labeling thiolic groups native ovalbumin (OVA) as function protein concentration. found that concentration strongly affects species distribution OVA, number titrated in each...
A new approach to the synthesis of selected quinolinecarbaldehydes with carbonyl groups located at C5 and/or in C7 positions is presented this paper conjunction spectroscopic characterization products. The classical Reimer-Tiemann, Vilsmeier-Haack and Duff aldehyde methods were compared due their importance. Computational studies carried out explain preferred selectivity formylation transformations. carbene insertion reaction based on Reimer-Tiemann methodology for making...
Abstract An electroanalytical method was developed for the determination of phytohormone indole‐3‐acetic acid in water using a glassy‐carbon electrode. The differential pulse voltammetry combined with purification step which involved extraction plant tissue and separation pigments by passing through column Oasis MCX. Indole‐3‐acetic can be determined under optimum conditions limit quantification ( LOQ ) 2.7×10 −6 mol L −1 . linearity range from 1.8×10 to 6.6×10 −4 is selective, fast...
Different marine sponge species from Tethys Bay, Antarctica, were analyzed for contamination by polyester and polyamide microplastics (MPs). The PISA (Polymer Identification Specific Analysis) procedure was adopted as it provides, through depolymerization HPLC analysis, highly sensitive mass-based quantitative data. study focused on three analytes resulting the hydrolytic of polyesters polyamides: terephthalic acid (TPA), 6-aminohexanoic (AHA), 1-6-hexanediamine (HMDA). TPA is a comonomer...