DOCPAS includes the following main scientific areas: Analytical Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Technology, Physical Chemistry, Inorganic and Organic areas, Industrial chemistry, Food chemistry, Agricultural Sciences, Ecology and environmental chemistry, Biochemistry and Microbiology.
The Department promotes leading scientific activities in many research fields: fine chemicals, naturally occurring substances, pharmaceutically active molecules, food chemistry, chemistry for energy, environmental chemistry, reactivity and catalysis, photochemistry, electrochemistry, theoretical and computational chemistry, analytical and physico-chemical techniques for structural characterization, synthesis and application of new materials, supramolecular photochemistry, and new generation solar devices.
State-of-the-art facilities are available at DOCPAS, such as high-field NMR, mass (equipped with various ionization modes) and EPR spectrometers, autonomous computational facility, SEM, single crystal and powder XRD, XPS, scanning probe microscopy STM / AFM and time-resolved femtosecond and nanosecond laser equipments. In addition the department hosts fully automated protein synthesis apparatuses and all key instrumentations for the synthesis and characterization of chemical compounds.
Teaching members, research associates and technical personnel are actively committed to support the research and the student training. DOCPAS offers two B.Sc. programs and three M.Sc. programs, as well as a graduate program in Chemical Sciences.
]]>The HoD promotes and represents the Department and coordinates the institutionalactivities.
Deputy Head and delegates
Prof. Remo Guerrini (deputy director)
Prof. Alessandro Massi (deputy deputy director)
The DH and delegates provide support to the HoD to achieve the operational direction,the teaching and research goals of the Department.
The DC is the main administrative unit of the department. The board can make decisionsand put forward motions on human resources planning
The Giunta board assists the HoD and is allowed to make independent decisions onseveral issues upon permission of the Department Council
]]>This project, carried out in collaboration with the Istituto Zooprofilattico delle Venezie and the University of Padova, aims to evaluate the human risk to get Coxiella burnetii infection by those subjects which are occupationally exposed (veterinarians, breeders, agricultural workers) and non exposed (blood donors) to the infectious agent. Whithin the project, the necessary analyses will be carried out by means of serological assays (ELISA, IFA).
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This project envisages the training of a scientific/professional figure having expertise in the second-generation valorization of agri-food by-products (organic pigments) applied to the realization of solar cells. The project falls within the Emilia-Romagna declared value chains concerning the development of photoelectrochemical devices for conversion of solar energy and, in general, of the indoor and outdoor architectural light energy. This is fully in line with the aims of the value chain LOW CARBON ECONOMY (LowCarbon ER) regarding the transition of the regional economy to a better environmental sustainability. At the same time, the project has a bearing on the value chain AGRIFOOD (SPES, Valorization of byproducts and waste) which focuses on the use of waste and byproducts from agro-food industry for the production of medium/high-added value molecules, namely bio-colorants and their chemical derivatives, able to absorb and convert solar energy into electricity in transparent photoelectrochemical cells based on TiO2 (titanium dioxide) substrates. Besides, the visual characteristics of the solar cells which will be built (transparency, available color palette) provide for their integration as architectural features. This takes place within the framework of home energy recovery, with cells being possibly used as outdoor devices (integration in windows and glass walls) and indoor apparatus for the intelligent energy management (gobo, etc.), and also as energy source for smart home, sensor applications, rechargeable devices etc. (Value Chain G2B, Energy Efficiency and Sustainability in Construction). It should be noted that these solar cells give beneficial use, compared to the ones based on silicon, in soft light (autumn and winter months in the region) and diffuse light conditions, allowing recovery of in-house low energy with an efficiency greater than 20%.
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In the framework of this research different instrumental techniques, such as optical and electronic microscopy, combined with phylogenetic analysis are used, through Real time PCR Biorad, and sequencer tools.
Ecology, Animal ecology, Zoology, Molecular ecology, Genetics.
The research group has both national (Ca 'Foscari University of Venice) and international (Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany; Aquatic Research & Consulting, USA; Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, USA; Universidad de Quintana Roo, México) collaborations.
In the framework of this research different instrumental techniques, such as optical and electronic microscopy, are used.
Ecology, Ecology and Chemistry of surface waters, Bioindication.
The research group has collaborations within the University of Ferrara (Department of Physics and Earth Sciences) as well as several national (ARPA FVG of Trieste, University of Pisa, CNR-ISMAR of Venice, ENEA of Rome, Ca 'Foscari University of Venice) and international (AZTI-Tecnalia, Spain; Marine Biology Station, Slovenia) collaborations.