Julia Amici

ORCID: 0000-0003-4369-317X
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Research Areas
  • Advancements in Battery Materials
  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research
  • Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication
  • Extraction and Separation Processes
  • Advanced battery technologies research
  • Conducting polymers and applications
  • Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery
  • Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors
  • Characterization and Applications of Magnetic Nanoparticles
  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
  • Fuel Cells and Related Materials
  • MXene and MAX Phase Materials
  • Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics
  • Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction
  • Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems
  • Nonlinear Optical Materials Studies
  • Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications
  • Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials
  • Ion-surface interactions and analysis
  • Iron oxide chemistry and applications
  • Thermal Expansion and Ionic Conductivity
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Catalysis for Biomass Conversion
  • Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization

Polytechnic University of Turin
2015-2024

National Interuniversity Consortium of Materials Science and Technology
2021-2022

Laboratoire des Solides Irradiés
2016

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
2016

Institut Rayonnement-Matière de Saclay
2016

CEA Paris-Saclay
2016

Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
2016

École Polytechnique
2016

Torino e-district
2015-2016

Abstract This roadmap presents the transformational research ideas proposed by “BATTERY 2030+,” European large‐scale initiative for future battery chemistries. A “chemistry‐neutral” to advance research, particularly at low technology readiness levels, is outlined, with a time horizon of more than ten years. The centered around six themes: 1) accelerated materials discovery platform, 2) interface genome, integration smart functionalities such as 3) sensing and 4) self‐healing processes....

10.1002/aenm.202102785 article EN cc-by Advanced Energy Materials 2022-01-21

Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) play a crucial role in diverse applications, including electric vehicles, portable electronics, and grid energy storage, owing to their commendable features, such as high density, extended cycle life, low self-discharge rates. Despite widespread use, the growing market demands continuous efforts enhance LIBs performance, particularly terms of density cycling stability. This paper details development lithium nickel manganese oxide (LNMO - LiNi0·5Mn1·5O4)/lithium...

10.1016/j.jpowsour.2024.234955 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Journal of Power Sources 2024-06-24

Li-O2 batteries represent a promising rechargeable battery candidate to answer the energy challenges our world is facing, thanks their ultrahigh theoretical density. However, poor cycling stability of system and, overall, important safety issues due formation Li dendrites, combined with use organic liquid electrolytes and O2 cross-over, inhibit practical applications. As solution these various issues, we propose composite gel polymer electrolyte consisting highly cross-linked matrix,...

10.3390/polym13101625 article EN Polymers 2021-05-17

Designing smart windows with carbon and copper replacing platinum iodine: stability, efficiency sustainability at the same time.

10.1039/d1ta03544d article EN Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2021-01-01

In this study, biobased gel polymer electrolyte (GPE) membranes were developed via the esterification reaction of a cardanol-based epoxy resin with glutaric anhydride, succinic and hexahydro-4-methylphthalic anhydride. Nonisothermal differential scanning calorimetry was used to assess optimal curing time temperature formulations, evidencing process activation energy ∼65-70 kJ mol-1. A rubbery plateau modulus 0.65-0.78 MPa crosslinking density 2 × 10-4 mol cm-3 found through dynamic...

10.1021/acsapm.2c00335 article EN cc-by ACS Applied Polymer Materials 2022-04-29

Potassium batteries show interesting peculiarities as large-scale energy storage systems and, in this scenario, the formulation of polymer electrolytes obtained from sustainable resources or waste-derived products represents a milestone activity. In study, lignin-based membrane is designed by crosslinking pre-oxidized Kraft lignin matrix with an ethoxylated difunctional oligomer, leading to self-standing membranes that are able incorporate solvated potassium salts. The in-depth...

10.1002/cssc.202200294 article EN cc-by ChemSusChem 2022-04-01

Manufactured globally on industrial scale, cyclodextrins (CD) are cyclic oligosaccharides produced by enzymatic conversion of starch. Their typical structure truncated cone can host a wide variety guest molecules to create inclusion complexes; indeed, we daily use CD as unseen components food, cosmetics, textiles and pharmaceutical excipients. The synthesis active material composites from resources enable or enlarge the effective utilization these products in battery industry with some...

10.1002/chem.202104201 article EN Chemistry - A European Journal 2021-12-06

Hindered urea bonds are introduced as self-healing units in a polymer electrolyte for Li-metal batteries. Differently from standard commercial separators, the poly(urea-urethane) system works hundreds of cycles after several damage/healing steps.

10.1039/d2ta02239g article EN cc-by Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2022-01-01

Abstract Nowadays, Li–S batteries are considered as one of the most promising alternatives to Li-ion technology in near future, thanks their high specific capacity and significantly lower environmental impact production costs. Consequently, many efforts have been directed tackle with inherent issues that affect batteries. One main problems is so-called shuttle effect, which basically entails unwanted migration lithium polysulfides (LiPSs) from cathode anode side, causing degradation cell....

10.1007/s10853-022-07625-7 article EN cc-by Journal of Materials Science 2022-08-23

Solid polymer electrolytes are considered a useful solution for improving the safety of lithium metal batteries. However, these macromolecular systems show low ionic conductivity and suffer from limited cyclability at room temperature. In this work we propose UV-induced, solvent-free radical copolymerization poly(ethylene glycol) methyl ether methacrylate (PEGMEM, MW 500) 2-(3-(6-methyl-4-oxo-1,4-dihydropyrimidin-2-yl)ureido)ethyl (UpyMa) in presence diacrylate (PEGDA, 575), used as...

10.1016/j.electacta.2022.141265 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Electrochimica Acta 2022-09-28

All solid-state batteries, combining metallic lithium with a electrolyte, are now considered as very promising answer to the growing need for higher energy density in safer batteries. While research interests quickly raising on this topic, number of experiments perform order find best combination active material and solid electrolyte composition could be infinite. Therefore, an easy low computational-cost model forecasting all cells performance accelerate optimization lower experiments,...

10.1016/j.ceja.2024.100610 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Chemical Engineering Journal Advances 2024-04-16

Abstract In the production of commercial Li-ion batteries, active materials slurries are generally prepared using polyvinylidene fluoride (PVdF) as binder because its good adhesion properties and electrochemical stability. Unfortunately, there some disadvantages related to use PVdF: most important is toxic environmentally unfriendly solvents, such N -methyl-pyrrolidone (NMP), second high costs. light these considerations, it seemed straightforward investigate suitability water-soluble,...

10.1007/s10008-017-3665-5 article EN cc-by Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry 2017-06-09

Potassium-based batteries represent one of the emerging classes post-lithium electrochemical energy storage systems in international scene, due to both abundance raw materials and achievable cell potentials not far from those lithium batteries. In this context, it is important define electrodes electrolytes that give reproducible performance can be used by different research groups as an internal standard when developing new materials. We propose molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) a valid anode...

10.3390/batteries8110242 article EN cc-by Batteries 2022-11-17

Lithium-sulfur technology is a strong candidate for the future generation of batteries due to its high specific capacity (1675 mAh g-1), low cost, and environmental impact. In this work, we propose facile solvent-free microwave synthesis composite material based on doped (sulfur nitrogen) reduced graphene oxide embedded with zinc sulfide nanoparticles (SN-rGO/ZnS) improve battery performance. The chemical-physical characterization (XRD, XPS, FESEM, TGA) confirmed effectiveness approach in...

10.3390/nano13142149 article EN cc-by Nanomaterials 2023-07-24

3D printing is an emerging technology for many applications, including electronics. On the other hand, to gather applications' requirements with possibility produce complex 3-dimensional structures, development of novel printable materials necessary. In this context, herein it reported synthesis photocurable resins embedding Ti3C2Tz-MXenes, a class 2D layered outstanding electrical and electronic properties. Stable inks suitable Digital Light Processing have been successfully synthesized...

10.1016/j.compositesb.2023.110854 article EN cc-by Composites Part B Engineering 2023-06-15

The lithium-oxygen battery has attracted wide interest thanks to its very high theoretical energy density, and as such it is considered by many a valid of the future candidate. However, challenges in practical application are many, liquid electrolyte evaporation semi-open systems, well solvents instability highly oxidizing environment. In this work, we propose use gelatin, from cold water fish skin, waste fishing industry, prepare an efficient gel for Li-O2 applications. After single step...

10.1016/j.electacta.2023.143026 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Electrochimica Acta 2023-08-14

A novel oxygen selective highly hydrophobic membrane is prepared by non-solvent induced phase separation in which a dextrin-based nanosponge incorporated into PVDF-HFP matrix.

10.1039/c6cc06954a article EN Chemical Communications 2016-01-01
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