Lorena Infante Teixeira

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia | IIT · Center for Convergent Technologies

This paper is about the effects of reactive oxygen species (ROS) - and of their nanoparticle-mediated extracellular removal - in the TGF-β1-induced differentiation of fibroblasts (human dermal fibroblasts - HDFa) to more contractile myofibroblasts, and in the maintenance of this phenotype. Here, poly(propylene sulfide) (PPS) nanoparticles have been...

This study is about multiple responsiveness in biomedical materials. This typically implies "orthogonality" (i.e., one response does not affect the other) or synergy (i.e., one increases efficacy or selectivity of the other), but an antagonist effect between responses may also occur. Here, we describe a family of very well-defined amphiphilic and m...

Thiol-ene polymerization is a powerful synthetic platform for the preparation of a variety of polymer materials but is often plagued by the formation of low molecular weight polymers. This is...

In order to respond to the growing demand for radiation‐curable waterborne products like hydrogels or inks, there is a need for water‐soluble radical photoinitiators exhibiting absorption in the near UV to visible range. Herein the synthesis of a novel type‐I diphenylphosphine oxide photoinitiator bearing a 2,6‐dimethyl‐4‐dimethylaminobenzoyl group...

Polymers containing sulfur centers with high oxidation states in the main chain, polysulfoxide and polysulfone, display desirable properties such as thermomechanical and chemical stability. To circumvent their challenging direct synthesis, methods based on the oxidation of a parent polysulfide have been developed but are plagued by uncontrolled rea...

This work describes the synthesis and characterization of the novel catalyst 5-(3-bromo,4-amino)phenyl-10,15,20-trisphenyl-2,3,7,8,12,13,17,18-octabromoporphyrinmanganese(III) chloride (MnIIIBr9APTPPCl). This compound, MnIIIAPTPPCl and MnIIITPPCl were employed as catalysts in cyclohexane oxidation using PhIO or PhI(OAc)2 as oxidants. In the reactio...