Department of Chemical Science and Technologies

Prof. Marilena Carbone, full professor of General and Inorganic Chemistry in our Department, has been confirmed as a member of the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Tattoo Ink Section, for the four-year period 2026–2029.

On December 18, 2025, starting at 2:30 p.m., the third annual meeting of the X-CHEM project of excellence will be held at the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Natural Sciences of the University of Rome “Tor Vergata,” in the Aula Magna “Gismondi”.

The meeting will open with a seminar by Prof. Graca Vicente of Louisiana State University (USA). This will be followed, at 4:00 p.m., by a poster session on the Department’s research activities, presented by our doctoral students.

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On September 16, 2025, as is customary each year, Elsevier published its list of the “World’s Top 2% Scientists,” compiled using a methodology developed by researchers at Stanford University (Ioannidis, John P.A. (2025), “August 2025 data-update for ‘Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators’”, Elsevier Data Repository, V8, doi: 10.17632/btchxktzyw.8).

The list identifies the top 2% of scientists worldwide based on citation metrics. Researchers are grouped into two categories: one for overall career impact and one for impact in a single year. The list uses the extensive abstract and citation database of Scopus/ Elsevier to calculate an overall score (c-score) that takes into account the number of citations, the Hirsch index (h-index), and the corrected h-index, thus providing a reliable measure of the impact that the scientific work of individual researchers has, relative to their field of activity, within the international scientific community of reference.

Once again this year, the Department of Chemical Sciences and Technologies has confirmed its scientific excellence, with ten professors ranked in the top 2% in terms of overall career impact and/or impact in a single year (2024).

Here are their names (in alphabetical order):

ARDUINI Fabiana
BIETTI Massimo
CARBONE Marilena
ERCOLANI Gianfranco
MOSCONE Danila
PAOLESSE Roberto
POLINI Riccardo
RICCI Francesco
TRAVERSA Enrico
VALENTINI Federica

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On behalf of the Italian Chemical Society (SCI) and the Organizing Committee, we are pleased to invite you to attend the GEI 2025 Congress, the annual meeting of the Electrochemistry Division of the SCI, organized in collaboration with the University of Camerino.

GEI stands for Days of Italian Electrochemistry, and our goal is to make these days a true international gathering. We envision GEI as a dynamic forum where experts from around the world, bringing diverse yet electrochemistry-converging backgrounds, come together to share knowledge and foster collaboration. This year, we are excited to host the event in the beautiful Italian setting of San Benedetto del Tronto from September 15 to 19, 2025: a perfect backdrop for scientific exchange and networking in person.

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Also this year the DCST was present at the Maker Faire with Cosimo Ricci, first year PhD student in Chemical Sciences and promoter of the PRIN2022 GREEN³ project (PI Marilena Carbone), within the stand A light on food.

At the end of the 3 days participation, the group was awarded the Maker of Merit award, promoted by the Chamber of Commerce.

A special acknowledgement to the colleagues of the CNR-IFN, Francesca Romana Bertani, co-PI of the PRIN2022 GREEN³ project and driving force of the initiative together with Annamaria

Like every year, Stanford University publishes the Top 2% Most Influential Scientists, a list of the world’s elite most influential scientists in the academic field, selected from a pool of approximately 9 million researchers, worldwide.

This year, the excellence of the Department of Chemical Sciences and Technologies is confirmed, with 12 members in the Top 2%.

Their names (in alphabetical order) are:

Prof. Marilena Carbone, leader of the research group Startnetics co-organizes 2 sessions dedicated to “Innovations for Enhanced Performances DSSCs” within the International Conference NanoInnovation2024 that will be held at the S.Gallo cloister in Rome from September 9th to 13th , 2024.

The research group, in addition, has received 2 invited talks and will present 2 posters.

Understanding the stability and activity of freeze dried bio-macromolecules at low degrees of hydration is crucial for pharmaceutical and food industries. However, the building of in silico models for dynamical studies at a molecular level needs careful consideration. In this work, researchers of the Department of Chemical Science and Technologies of the University of Rome Tor Vergata in collaboration with Dr Mark Telling (STFC, ISIS Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK) propose a modelling protocol that mimics experimental protein lyophilization, and proteins in weakly hydrated amorphous states, and validate it against experimental neutron scattering data.

The study has been published on Communication Chemistry on 12 April 2024 (https://www.nature.com/articles/s42004-024-01167-6).

Two proteins of different structural complexity are investigated: apoferritin and insulin, illustrated on the left and right, respectively, in the figure.