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Francesca Lorandi

Francesca Lorandi

Postdoctoral Associate

Address
Carnegie Mellon University
4400 Fifth Avenue
Mellon Institute
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Current Position

Postdoctoral Research Associate (2018-present)

Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)

Advisor: Prof. K. Matyjaszewski

Education

Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences (2018)

Doctoral School in Molecular Sciences, University of Padova, Italy

Supervisor: Prof. A. Gennaro

M.Sc. in Industrial Chemistry (2014)

University of Padova, Italy

B.Sc. in Industrial Chemistry (2012)

University of Padova, Italy, 2012

Publications

  1. Li, S.; Lorandi, F.; Whitacre, J. F.; Matyjaszewski, K. Polymer Chemistry for Improving Lithium Metal Anodes, Macromol. Chem. Phys., 2020, 221, 1900379. DOI: 10.1002/macp.201900379. (Trend)

  2. Michieletto, A.; Lorandi, F.; De Bon, F.; Isse, A. A.; Gennaro, A. Biocompatible polymers via aqueous electrochemically mediated atom transfer radical polymerization, J. Polym. Sci., 2020, 58, 114-123. DOI: 10.1002/pola.29462.

  3. Martinez, M. R.; Sobieski, J.; Lorandi, F.; Fantin, M.; Dadashi-Silab, S.; Xie, G.; Olszewski, M.; Pan, X.; Ribelli, T. G.; Matyjaszewski, K. Understanding the Relationship between Catalytic Activity and Termination in photoATRP: Synthesis of Linear and Bottlebrush Polyacrylates, Macromolecules, 2020, 53, 59-67. DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.9b02397.

  4. Lorandi, F.; Matyjaszewski, K. Why do we need more active ATRP catalysts?, Isr. J. Chem., 2019. DOI: 10.1002/ijch.201900079. (Review)

  5. Jiang, J.; Ye, G.; Lorandi, F.; Liu, Z.; Liu, Y.; Hu, T.; Chen, J.; Lu, Y.; Matyjaszewski, K. Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance Meets Controlled/Living Radical Polymerization: An Adaptable Strategy for Broadband Light Regulated Macromolecular Synthesis, Angew. Chemie Int. Ed., 2019, 131, 12224-12229. DOI: 10.1002/ange.201906194.

  6. Fantin, M.*; Lorandi, F.*; Ribelli, T. G.; Szczepaniak, G.; Enciso, A. E.; Fliedel, C.; Thevenin, L.; Isse, A. A.; Poli, R.; Matyjaszewski, K. Impact of Organometallic Intermediates on Copper-Catalyzed Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization, Macromolecules, 2019, 52, 4079-4090, DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.9b00870.

  7. Isse, A.A.; Lorandi, F.; Gennaro, A. Electrochemical approaches for better understanding of atom transfer radical polymerization, Curr. Opin. Electrochem., 2019, 15, 50-57. DOI: 10.1016/j.coelec.2019.04.001. (Review)

  8. Li, S.; Wang, H.; Wu, W.; Lorandi, F.; Whitacre, J.F.; Matyjaszewski, K. Solvent-Processed Metallic Lithium Microparticles for Lithium Metal Batteries, ACS Appl. Energy Mater., 2019, 2, 1623–1628. DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.9b00107.

  9. Lorandi, F.; Fantin, M.; Shanmugam, S.; Wang, Y.; Isse, A.A.; Gennaro, A., Matyjaszewski K. Toward Electrochemically Mediated Reversible Addition–Fragmentation Chain-Transfer (eRAFT) Polymerization: Can Propagating Radicals Be Efficiently Electrogenerated from RAFT Agents?, Macromolecules, 2019, 52, 1479–1488. DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.9b00112.

  10. Wang, Y.; Dadashi-Silab, S.; Lorandi, F.; Matyjaszewski, K. Photoinduced atom transfer radical polymerization in ab initio emulsion, Polymer, 2019, 165, 163-167. DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2019.01.034.

  11. Wang, Z.; Lorandi, F.; Fantin, M.; Wang, Z.; Yan, J.; Wang, Z.; Xia, H.; Matyjaszewski, K. Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization Enabled by Sonochemically Labile Cu-carbonate Species, ACS Macro Lett., 2019, 8, 161-165. DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.9b00029.

  12. Dadashi-Silab, S.; Lorandi, F.; Fantin, M.; Matyjaszewski, K. Redox-switchable atom transfer radical polymerization, Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 612-615. DOI: 10.1039/C8CC09209E.

  13. Ribelli, T.G.; Lorandi, F.; Fantin, M.; Matyjaszewski, K. Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization: Billion Times More Active Catalysts and New Initiation Systems, Macromol. Rapid Commun., 2019, 40, 1800616. DOI: 10.1002/marc.201800616. (Review)

  14. Trevisanello, E.; De Bon F.; Daniel, G.; Lorandi, F.; Durante, C.; Isse, A.A.; Gennaro, A. Electrochemically mediated atom transfer radical polymerization of acrylonitrile and poly (acrylonitrile-b-butyl acrylate) copolymer as a precursor for N-doped mesoporous carbons, Electrochimica Acta, 2018, 285, 344-354. DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2018.07.209.

  15. Lorandi, F.; Fantin, M.; Wang, Y.; Matyjaszewski, K. Ab initio Emulsion Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization, Angew. Chemie Int. Ed., 2018, 57, 8270-8274. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201804647.

  16. Lorandi, F.; Fantin, M.; Isse, A.A.; Gennaro, A.; Matyjaszewski, K. New protocol to determine the equilibrium constant of atom transfer radical polymerization, Electrochim. Acta, 2018, 266, 648-655. DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2017.12.011.

  17. Lorandi, F.; Fantin, M.; Isse, A.A.; Gennaro, A. Electrochemical triggering and control of Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization, Curr. Opin. Electrochem., 2018, 8, 1-7. DOI: 10.1016/j.coelec.2017.11.004. (Review)

  18. Wang, Y.*; Lorandi, F.*; Fantin, M.; Chmielarz, P.; Isse, A.A.; Gennaro, A.; Matyjaszewski, K. Miniemulsion ARGET ATRP via Interfacial and Ion-pair Catalysis: From ppm to ppb of Residual Copper, Macromolecules 2017, 50, 8416-8425. DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.7b01730.

  19. Carmo dos Santos, N.A.*; Lorandi, F.*; Badetti, E.; Wurst, K.; Isse, A.A.; Gennaro, A.; Licini, G.; Zonta, C. Tuning the reactivity and efficiency of copper catalysts for atom transfer radical polymerization by synthetic modification of tris (2-methylpyridyl) amine, Polymer 2017, 128, 169-176. DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2017.09.018.

  20. Fantin, M.; Lorandi, F.; Isse, A.A.; Gennaro, A.; Matyjaszewski, K. Electron transfer reactions in Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization, SYNTHESIS 2017, 49, 3311-3322. DOI: 10.1055/s-0036-1588873. (Review)

  21. Fantin, M.; Chmielarz, P.; Wang, Y.; Lorandi, F.; Isse, A.A.; Gennaro, A.; Matyjaszewski, K. Harnessing the interaction between surfactant and hydrophilic catalyst to control eATRP in miniemulsion, Macromolecules 2017, 50, 3726-3732. DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.7b00530.

  22. Lorandi, F.; De Bon, F.; Fantin, M.; Isse A.A.; Gennaro, A. Electrochemical characterization of common catalysts and initiators for atom transfer radical polymerization in [BMIm][OTf], Electrochem. Commun. 2017, 77, 116-119. DOI: 10.1016/j.elecom.2017.03.003.

  23. Privitera, A.; Righetto, M.; Mosconi, D.; Lorandi, F.; Isse, A.A.; Moretto, A.; Bozio, R.; Ferrante, C.; Franco, L. Boosting carbon quantum dots/fullerene electron transfer via surface group engineering, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2016, 18, 31286-31295. DOI: 10.1039/C6CP05981C.

  24. Lorandi, F.; Fantin, M.; Isse, A. A.; Gennaro, A. Electrochemically mediated atom transfer radical polymerization of n-butyl acrylate on non-platinum cathodes, Polym. Chem. 2016, 7, 5357-5365. DOI: 10.1039/C6PY01032F.

  25. Fantin, M.; Lorandi, F.; Isse, A. A.; Gennaro, A. Sustainable electrochemically mediated atom transfer radical polymerization with inexpensive non-platinum electrodes. Macromol. Rapid Commun. 2016, 37, 1318-1322. DOI: 10.1002/marc.201600237.

  26. Lorandi, F.; Fantin, M.; Isse, A. A.; Gennaro, A. RDRP in the presence of Cu0: The fate of Cu(I) proves the inconsistency of SET-LRP mechanism. Polymer 2015, 72, 238-245. DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2015.04.007.

*the authors contributed equally.

Research Experience:

Postdoctoral researcher (Nov 2017 - Dec 2017)

University of Padova, Italy

Advisors: Prof. C. Durante and Prof. A. A. Isse

Carbon-based electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction from polymer precursors.

Visiting Ph.D. student (Oct 2016 - Apr 2017)

Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)

Advisor: Prof. K. Matyjaszewski

ARGET-ATRP in dispersed media, and electrochemical determination of ATRP parameters.

Ph.D. student (2014 - 2017)

University of Padova, Italy

Advisor: Prof. A. Gennaro

Investigation and advancement of Electrochemically mediated ATRP.

M.Sc. thesis (2013 - 2014)

University of Padova, Italy

Advisor: Prof. A. Gennaro

Mechanism of RDRP in the presence of Cu0 – electrochemical insight.

Awards

  1. “1000xChemistry”, 2nd best essay - Interdivisional Group for Diffusion of Chemical Culture of the Italian Chemical Society, ChemViews and Wiley-VCH (2019)
  2. Travel Grant for 7th Chemistry Congress of the European Chemical Society (EuChemS 2018) - Electrochemistry Division of the Italian Chemical Society (2018)
  3. Best Oral Presentation - 5thD. Forum of the Graduate Course in Molecular Sciences, University of Padova, Italy (2017)
  4. Young Author Poster Award - ECHEMS 2017, Electrochemistry in Ingenious molecules, surfaces, devices (2017)
  5. Master Thesis Prize - Electrochemistry Division of Italian Chemical Society (2016)
  6. Travel Grant for 67th ISE Meeting - International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE), Division 6: Molecular Electrochemistry (2016)
  7. Best Oral Presentation - Italian Association of Macromolecules, Macrogiovani (2016)
  8. “A. Gini” Grant for Internation Research - Aldo Gini Foundation, Padova, Italy (2015)

Affiliations

Italian Chemical Society (SCI), Electrochemistry Division
International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE), Division 6: Molecular Electrochemistry
American Chemical Society (ACS), Division of Polymeric Materials: Science & Engineering