Flavio Tollini

Politecnico di Milano | Polimi · Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering "Giulio Natta"

Engineered polylactic acid (PLA) nanoparticles synthesized from oligo(lactic acid) macromonomers have been studied over the last decades for controlled drug delivery. These macromonomers are typically produced via ring opening polymerization (ROP) of the cyclic dimer lactide, initiated by 2‐hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA). This reaction route, des...

Due to the increasing production of plastic soft drink bottles, accompanied by the accumulation of plastic waste in landfills, our society is encouraging the development of recycling industries around the world, with a special focus on recycling post-consumer PET (polyethylene terephthalate, the world's third most dominant plastic) for food contact...

Plastic disposal is becoming a threat to our environment because of the severe lack of technologies producing high-quality polymers from scraps at a competitive cost compared to the virgin versions. Regarding polyethylene terephthalate (PET), different recycling technologies have been proposed, but they have several disadvantages in terms of cost,...

Glycidol (GL) and Epichlorohydrin (EPI) are two widely used molecules in chemical, pharmaceutical and food industry applications. However, their use in aqueous environment causes the formation of compounds, like monochloropropandiol...

Photodegradation of Pollutants In article number 2100176, Gianvito Vilé, Manoj B. Gawande, and co-workers disclose how ligand-metal charge transfer effects in single-atom catalysts can be exploited to degrade water pollutants under visible light conditions, demonstrating a decreased formation of toxic fragmentation byproducts and an enhanced select...

Highly efficient catalytic technologies are urgently needed to remove pharmaceutical pollutants from water. In this work, the preparation, characterization, and photocatalytic performance of an earth‐abundant Ni‐based heterogeneous catalyst featuring highly dispersed Ni species over nanosheets of carbon nitride are reported. The absence of any meta...