Devis Montroni

Devis Montroni
University of Bologna | UNIBO · "Giacomo Ciamician" Department of Chemistry CHIM

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Introduction
His research stays in between biology and material science. He works on the characterization of biogenic matrices (as shells, cocoons, radulas, etc.) mainly using microscopy and spectroscopic analysis. Recently is moving to a more bio-inspired approach to get functional materials.
Additional affiliations
December 2019 - present
University of Bologna
Position
  • PostDoc Position
Description
  • Worked on the characterization of biogenic matrices (radulas, cocoons, shells, etc...) and the synthesis of chitin-based materials.
October 2019 - October 2019
Golinelli Foundation
Position
  • Teacher Education
Description
  • Made a lecture for high school teachers titled “The future of plastics” focused on biopolymer application.
November 2015 - present
University of Bologna
Position
  • Laboratory Tutor
Description
  • Tutored in four different student laboratory and corrected essays for a 1st year laboratory.
Education
January 2018 - July 2018
November 2016 - March 2020
University of Bologna
Field of study
  • Chemistry
January 2014 - May 2014
Trinity College Dublin
Field of study
  • Chemistry

Publications

Publications (31)
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The development of greener substitutes for plastics is gaining massive importance in today’s society. This also involves the medical field, where disposable materials are used to grant sterility. Here, a novel protocol using only a water-based solvent for the preparation of bio-based composite foams of actual β-chitin and collagen type I is present...
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Bacterial keratitis (BK) is a severe eye infection commonly associated with Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus), posing a significant risk to vision, especially among contact lens wearers. This research introduces a novel smart nanoplatform (deMS@cNF), developed from demineralized mussel shells (deMS) and reinforced with chitin (CT) nanofibrils, spec...
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Sea urchin spines are biogenic single crystals of magnesium calcite that are stiff, strong, damage tolerant and light and have a bicontinuous porous structure. Here, we showed that the removal...
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This study focuses on the optimization of chitin oxidation in C6 to carboxylic acid and its use to obtain a hydrogel with tunable resistance. After the optimization, water-soluble crystalline β-chitin fibrils (β-chitOx) with a degree of functionalization of 10% were obtained. Diverse reaction conditions were also tested for α-chitin, which showed a...
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Chiton articulatus is a species of mollusk living in the tropical Pacific intertidal rocky shores of Mexico. This species feeds on solid waste organic sources, including hard crustose algae that grow on rocky substrates, by grazing on them with its radula, a flexible chitinous membrane lined with mineralized major lateral teeth. In this study, the...
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Waste seashells from aquaculture are a massive source of biogenic calcium carbonate (bCC) that can be a potential substitute for ground calcium carbonate and precipitated calcium carbonate. These last materials find several applications in industry after a surface coating with hydrophobic molecules, with stearate as the most used. Here, we investig...
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Nanocrystalline calcium carbonate (CaCO3) and amorphous CaCO3 (ACC) are materials of increasing technological interest. Nowadays, they are mainly synthetically produced by wet reactions using CaCO3 reagents in the presence of stabilizers. However, it has recently been discovered that ACC can be produced by ball milling calcite. Calcite and/or arago...
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Scleractinia coral skeleton formation occurs by a heterogeneous process of nucleation and growth of aragonite in which intraskeletal soluble organic matrix molecules, usually referred to as SOM, play a key role. Several studies have demonstrated that they influence the shape and polymorphic precipitation of calcium carbonate. However, the structura...
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The chemical functionalization of polysaccharides to obtain functional materials has been of great interest in the last decades. This traditional synthetic approach has drawbacks, such as changing the crystallinity of the material or altering its morphology or texture. These modifications are crucial when a biogenic matrix is exploited for its hier...
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Over hundreds of millions of years, organisms have evolved architected structures via precise control over hierarchically assembled components, including the integration of dissimilar materials. One such example is found in the radula system of chitons, intertidal mollusks that feed on algae growing on the rock. Their radula consists of multiple ro...
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A fine control over different dimensional scales is a challenging target for material science since it could grant control over many properties of the final material. In this study, we developed a multivariable additive manufacturing process, direct ink write printing, to control different architectural features from the nano- to the millimeter sca...
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The fan shell Pinna nobilis is the largest bivalve endemic to the Mediterranean and is actually a strongly endangered species. Due to the biological, ecological, and historical relevance of this species, the research of a non-lethal method to relate the element content in organism’s tissues and environment can provide information potentially useful...
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A slug is a shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusk. During evolution, slugs have lost their mineralized external shell but some of them have retained an internal shell (IS). Unlike external shells, which have been widely investigated, the ISs have been poorly studied. We report for the first time the compositional and complete morphological chara...
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Understanding how marine taxa will respond to near-future climate changes is one of the main challenges for management of coastal ecosystem services. Ecological studies that investigate relationships between the environment and shell properties of commercially important marine species are commonly restricted to latitudinal gradients or small-scale...
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Byssus is a thread-like seafood waste that has a natural high efficiency in anchoring many metal ions thanks to its richness of diverse functional groups. It also has structural stability in extreme chemical, physical and mechanical conditions. The combination of these properties, absent in other waste materials, has novelty suggested its use as ma...
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In order to understand the cutaneous water loss in the desert-adapted and venomous lizard Heloderma suspectum, the microscopic structure and lipid composition of epidermal molts have been examined using microscopic, spectroscopic and chemical analysis techniques. The molt is formed by a variably thick, superficial beta-layer, an extensive mesos-reg...
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In this study the multi-scale hierarchical structure of the β-chitin matrix from squid pen of Loligo vulgaris was used as substrate to synthesize new bio-inspired materials. Aiming to mimic the byssus peculiar mechanical properties, we chemically functionalized the β-chitin matrix with catechols, one of the main functional groups of the byssus. The...
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In many biogenic materials, chitin chains are assembled in fibrils that are wrapped by a protein fold. In them, the mechanical properties are supposed to be related to intra- and inter- interactions among chitin and proteins. This hypothesis has been poorly investigated. Here, this research theme is studied using the pen of Loligo vulgaris as a mod...
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Biological materials such as chiton tooth, squid beak, and byssal threads of bivalves have inspired the development of new technologies. To this end, we have characterized the acellular components in the buccal mass of the terrestrial slug Ariolimax californicus (banana slug). These components are the radula, the jaw, and the odontophore. In the ra...
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Chitin is widespread in nature and is increasingly used in synthetic process for the production of new biomaterials. Chitin degree of acetylation, crystalline structure and microfibril arrangement differentiate chemical, physical and mechanical properties. Nevertheless, no information are available on the relationship between the mechanical propert...
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The mussel byssus is a biorenewable, protein-based material produced by marine mussels, which has attracted the interest of material scientists due to its remarkable mechanical and self-healing properties. Large quantities of byssus waste material from mussel mariculture are produced every year, which have great potential as a raw starting material...
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Dye pollution represents an important environmental concern, especially from textile industries in the South of Asia. On the other hand, biomass accumulation derived from mussel processing in alimentary industries is also an environmental problem. In this research, these two environmental issues are addressed by proposing the reuse of mussel's prot...
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A facile one-pot synthesis of 3-amino-[1,2,4]-triazolo[4,3-a]pyridines from thiosemicarbazides through anion mediated synthesis is reported. Thiosemicarbazides derived from 2-hydrazino pyridine, 5-chloro 2-hydrazino pyridine, and 2-hydrazine quinoline were formed in situ as anion receptors in the presence of TBAF. Under microwave heating, thiosemic...
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A facile one-pot synthesis of 3-amino-[1,2,4]- triazolo[4,3-a]pyridines from thiosemicarbazides through anion mediated synthesis is reported. Thiosemicarbazides derived from 2-hydrazino pyridine, 5-chloro 2-hydrazino pyridine, and 2-hydrazine quinoline were formed in situ as anion receptors in the presence of TBAF. Under microwave heating, thiosemi...

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