Dissemination

Activities

  • Participation of WUT team in the “Traian Vuia” International Exhibition of Inventions and Innovations (Timișoara, Romania, 3–4 October 2025) and the Research, Innovation & Tech Transfer Day event (Timișoara, 15 October 2025).
  • UNITO team: Phenocycles for the recovery of agri-food waste, participation to the UNIGHT (Researchers' Night, Torino, 26 September 2025).
  • UNITO team: Piedmontese grapes and nanotechnologies: tradition and innovation for the fight against breast cancer, participation to the UNIGHT (Researchers' Night, Torino, 26 September 2025).

Publications

  1. G. Gautier di Confiengo, M.G. Faga, V. La Parola, G. Magnacca, M.C. Paganini, M.L. Testa,; Microwave approach and thermal decomposition: A sustainable way to produce ZnO nanoparticles with different chemo-physical properties, Materials Chemistry and Physics, 321, 2024, 129485.
  2. Gautier di Confiengo, G.; Malusà, E.; Guaita, M.; Motta, S.; Di Maro, M.; Faga, M.G.; Tribological Performance of ZnO Green Particles as Lubricating Oil Additives. Sustainability 2024, 16, 6810.
  3. Stanoiu, A.-M.; Bejenaru, C.; Segneanu, A.-E.; Vlase, G.; Bradu, I.A.; Vlase, T.; Mogoşanu, G.D.; Ciocîlteu, M.V.; Biţă, A.; Kostici, R.; et al. Design and Evaluation of an Inonotus obliquus–AgNP–Maltodextrin Delivery System: Antioxidant, Antimicrobial, Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitory and Cytotoxic Potential. Polymers 2025, 17, 2163.
  4. Segneanu, A.-E.; Bejenaru, L.E.; Blendea, A.; et al. Advancements in Hydrogels: A Comprehensive Review of Natural and Synthetic Innovations for Biomedical Applications. Polymers 2025, 17, 2026.
  5. Cîrloiu, G.-S.; Segneanu, A.-E.; Bejenaru, L.E.; et al. Sprayable Hybrid Gel with Cannabidiol, Hyaluronic Acid, and Colloidal Silver: A Multifunctional Approach for Skin Lesion Therapy. Pharmaceutics 2025, 17, 1189.
  6. Mitran, S.I.; Muşat, M.I.; Bejenaru, C.; Mogoşanu, G.D.; Boboc, I.K.I.; Tudoraşcu, R.I.; Târtea, G.; Zlătian, O.M.; Blendea, A.; Biţă, A.; Segneanu, A.-E.; Bejenaru, L.E. Portulaca oleracea Extract Modulates Diet-Dependent Neuroplasticity in a Murine Model of NAFLD and Depression. IJMS (accepted).
  7. Bejenaru, C.; Segneanu, A.E.; Biţă, A.; Bejenaru, L.E.; Hovaneţ, M.V.; Ciocîlteu, M.V.; Tîrnă, A.C.; Blendea, A.; Mogoşanu. G.D.; Polyphenols Investigation and In Vitro Antioxidant Activity of Romanian Wild-Grown Geranium spp. (Geraniaceae), Plants (accepted).
  8. M. Rigoletto, M.L. Tummino,  E. Natali, G. Grillo, Silvia Tabasso, Giancarlo Cravotto, Enzo Laurenti,; Microwave-assisted subcritical water extraction method for the optimized isolation of cellulose from residual soybean hulls, ACS Sutainability (submitted)

Patents

  1. National patent application by WUT team: Medicago sativa/maltodextrin food supplement and production process (No. 45836/0-1/08.07.2024).

Other products

  1. Victoria Regia Miranda Abritta "Matrici naturali di scarto per la sintesi di ossido di Zinco a morfologia controllata", Collaborazione UNITO, CNR-STEMS, aprile 2023

  2. Carlo Ferrero “Estrazione, frazionamento e utilizzo di polifenoli da scarti vitivinicoli nella sintesi di Ossido di Zinco”, Collaboration: UNITO, CNR-STEMS (Laurea in Clinic, Sport and Forensic Chemistry, July 2024)

  3. Riccardo Muzzachi “Estrazione di polifenoli in una matrice complessa attraverso l’impiego di monoliti mesoporosi a base di Silice e Titania”, Collaboration UNITO, UnCO (Laurea in Industrial Chemistry, July 2024)

  4. Sara Venturi “Nanoparticelle di ZnO da matrici naturali di scarto per la degradazione fotocatalitica di inquinanti organici” Collaboration UNITO, CNR-STEMS (Laurea in Industrial Chemistry, July 2024)

  5. Michela Quai “Uso di polifenoli per la sintesi di materiali”, Collaboration: UNITO, CNR-STEMS (Laurea in Clinic, Sport and Forensic Chemistry, July 2024)
    Laura Ridolfo "Sintesi, caratterizzazione e utilizzo di monoliti di silice e titania nel processo di caricamento e rilascio di composti polifenolici", Collaboration: UNITO, UNLP, UnCO (Laurea in Industrial Chemistry, July 2025)

  6. C. Angileri, Preparation and characterization of biodegradable cellulose-based films for the preservation of food products, (Master Thesis in Chemistry at UNITO, october 2025).

  7. Fabio Sergi, ongoing, Collaboration UNITO, CNR-STEMS (Laurea in Clinic, Sport and Forensic Chemistry, 2026)