Elena Clara Groppo
Associate Professor
- Department of Chemistry
- SSD: CHIM/02 - physical chemistry
- ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-4153-5709
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- Department of Chemistry
- Dipartimento di Chimica
- Corso di laurea in Chimica e Tecnologie Chimiche
- Corso di laurea in Scienza dei Materiali
Corso di laurea in Scienza e Tecnologia dei Materiali - Corso di laurea magistrale in Chimica
- Corso di laurea magistrale in Chimica dell'Ambiente
- Master degree in Materials Science
- PhD in Chemical and Materials Sciences
Curriculum vitae
Research products
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Catalizzatori di polimerizzazione delle olefine
Surface Investigation and Morphological Analysis of Structurally Disordered MgCl2 and MgCl2/TiCl4 Ziegler−Natta Catalyst, by M. D'Amore, K. S. Thushara, A. Piovano, M. Causà, S. Bordiga, E. Groppo, ACS Catal. 2016, 6, 5786−5796.
Ligands Make the Difference! Molecular Insights into CrVI/SiO2 Phillips Catalyst during Ethylene Polymerization by C. Barzan, A. Piovano, L. Braglia, G. A. Martino, C. Lamberti, S. Bordiga, E. Groppo, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 17064-17073
The Active Sites in the Phillips Catalysts: Origins of a Lively Debate and a Vision for the Future by E. Groppo, G. A. Martino, A. Piovano, C. Barzan, ACS Catal. 2018, 8, 10846−10863
Revisiting the identity of d-MgCl2: Part II. Morphology and exposed surfaces studied by vibrational spectroscopies and DFT calculation, by A. Piovano, M. D'Amore, T. Wada, P. C. Bruzzese, G. Takasao, A. Thakur, P. Chammingkwan, M. Terano, B. Civalleri, S. Bordiga, T. Taniike, E. Groppo, J. Catal. 387 (2020) 1–11.
Disclosing the Interaction between Carbon Monoxide and Alkylated Ti3+ Species: a Direct Insight into Ziegler−Natta Catalysis by A. Piovano, J. Zarupski, E. Groppo, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2020, 11, 5632−5637.
Correlating the Morphological Evolution of Individual Catalyst Particles to the Kinetic Behavior of Metallocene-Based Ethylene Polymerization Catalysts, by M. J. Werny, J. Zarupski, I. C. ten Have, A. Piovano, C. Hendriksen, N. H. Friedrichs, F. Meirer, E. Groppo, B. M. Weckhuysen, JACS Au 2021, 1, 1996−2008
Courses
- CATALISI (CHI0050)
Corso di laurea magistrale in Chimica - CHIMICA FISICA II - Corso B (cognomi L-Z) (MFN1167)
Corso di laurea in Chimica e Tecnologie Chimiche - Metodi Spettoscopici e di Microscopia con laboratorio (MFN1257)
Corso di laurea in Scienza dei Materiali
Corso di laurea in Scienza e Tecnologia dei Materiali - Physical Chemistry (MFN1343)
Master degree in Materials Science - Surface phenomena at the micro and nano scale (CHI0156)
Master degree in Materials Science
Research topics
Heterogeneous catalysts
In situ and operando spectroscopic methods
Metal nanoparticles in catalysis
Synchrotron radiation methods
High-surface area materials
Surface phenomena
Riccardo Pellegrini (Chimet SpA/ Italy)
Argomento: Caratterizzazione di catalizzatori basati su nanoparticelle metalliche supportate
Bert M. Weckhuysen (Department of Chemistry/ Utrecht University/ Netherlands)
Argomento: caratterizzazione di catalizzatori di polimerizzazione delle olefine
Andrea Piovano (Institute Laue Langevin/ Grenoble/ France)
Argomento: spettroscopia di scattering inelastico di neutroni (INS) applicata a catalizzatori
Piero Torelli (CNR - IOM - Sincrotrone Elettra)
Argomento: spettroscopia NEXAFS in condizioni ambientali
Giuseppe Leone (SCITEC - CNR/ Milano / Italy) e Rocco Di Girolamo (Università di Napoli /Italy)
Argomento: caratterizzazione spettroscopica di catalizzatori per la polimerizzazione delle olefine
Toshiaki Taniike (JAIST / School of Materials Science / Japan)
Argomento: caratterizzazione spettroscopica di catalizzatori Ziegler-Natta per la polimerizzazione delle olefine
Responsabilita' scientifica per progetti di ricerca internazionali e nazionali, ammessi al finanziamento sulla base di bandi competitivi che prevedano la revisione tra pari
Principal Investigator del Progetto di Ateneo 2014 - Linea Excellent (Young) PI /
Finanziato da Compagnia di San Paolo /
Titolo: "Selective Heterogeneous catalysts for Olefin Conversion"
Principal Investigator di un progetto finanziato dal Dutch Polymer Institute (DPI) /
Titolo: "Structure determination at the nanoscale and atomic dynamics of MgCl2 primary particles in Ziegler-Natta catalysts"
Principal Investigator di un progetto finanziato dal Dutch Polymer Institute (DPI) /
Titolo: "Multi-scale investigation of silica-supported ethylene polymerization catalysts during the early stages of the reaction"
Coordinatore nazionale di un progetto PRIN2017 finanziato dal MIUR /
Titolo: "Chromium catalysis: from fundamental understanding to functional aliphatic polymers
(Cr4FUN)"
2008: "Award for the best Young Scientist" / Società Italiana Luce di Sincrotrone (SILS)
2014: Medaglia d'oro Ivano Bertini / Società Chimica Italiana / Motivazione: "Per la sua creativa e autonoma attività di ricerca di alto livello in un campo strategico sia per la ricerca fondamentale che industriale. Al confine tra catalisi e scienza delle superfici, la sua ricerca ha dimostrato sia il dominio di tecniche spettroscopiche avanzate sia ottime conoscenze nel campo della catalisi industriale"
24.06.2010 – 25.06.2010: Invited Keynote lecture at the 7th LSP/JAIST International Colloquium on Heterogeneous Ziegler-NattaCatalysts, Sorrento (Italy) / Title: “Transforming a Phillips into a Ziegler-Natta catalyst by tailoring the structure of the active sites”
15.09.2010 – 18.09.2010: Lezione a invito durante la Scuola di Catalisi, GIC 2010, Palermo (Italy) / Titolo: "Ethylene polymerization catalysts: a frontier for spectroscopic methods"
27.03.2012 – 30.03.2012: Invited Keynote lecture at 8th LSP/JAIST International Colloquium on Heterogeneous Ziegler-Natta Catalysts, Kanazawa (Japan) / Title: “Spectroscopic methods applied to heterogeneous polymerization catalysts: what can help”
27.05.2013 – 31.05.2013: Invited Keynote lecture at E-MRS 2013 Spring meeting, Strasbourg (France)/ Title: “Heterogeneous Ziegler-Natta catalysts for ethylene polymerization: generation of the active Ti sites as followed by XAS-XES techniques”
01.09.2014 – 12.09.2014: “Ivano Bertini” Lecture at XXV SCI Congress, Arcavacata (Italy) / Title: “Selective catalysis & spectroscopies: an essential pair at the frontier between fundamental and industrial chemistry”
22.10.2014 – 25.10.2014: Invited Keynote lecture at International Workshop on Olefin Polymerization & High Performance Polyolefins, Shangai (R. P. China) / Title: “A new life for an evergreen: new experimental approaches for Ziegler-Natta catalysts”
23.11.2015 – 27.11.2015: Invited Keynote lecture at World Polyolefin Congress 2015, Tokyo (Japan) / Title: "Diverse reductants for Cr(VI)/SiO2 lead to reduced chromium sites differently active"
27.06.2016 – 01.07.2016: Invited Keynote lecture at 4th Blue Sky Conference, Sorrento (Italy) / Title: "Surface investigation and morphological analysis of structurally disordered MgCl2 and MgCl2/TiCl4 Ziegler-Natta catalysts"
07.01.2018 – 12.01.2018: Invited lesson at the International Winter School “Innovative Catalysis and sustainability: scientific and socio-economic aspects”, Bardonecchia (Italy)
10.10.2018 – 12.10.2018: Invited lecture at the 'Neutron Vibrational Spectroscopy’ Workshop, ILL & ESS User Meeting, Grenoble (France) / Title: "The contribution of INS to the understanding of Pd and Pt-based hydrogenation catalysts: past, present and future"
24.06.2019 – 28.06.2019: Invited Keynote Lecture at the 5th Blue Sky Conference, Sorrento (Italy) / Title: "Ziegler-Natta (and related) catalysts from up and close: a 4-labs combined characterization approach"
18.08.2019 – 23.08.2019: Invited Keynote lecture at 14th European Congress on Catalysis, EuropaCat 2019, Aachen (Germany) / Title: "Olefin polymerization catalysis: is it really a mature field of research?"
24.08.2019 – 27.08.2019: Invited lecture at the Catalysis connected workshop, Utrecht (The Netherlands) / Title: "Spectroscopy and catalysis: an eye on the active sites, but not only"
14.09.2021 - 23.09.2021: Invited key-note lecture at the XXVII Congresso Nazionale della Società Chimica Italiana / Online/ Title: Revisiting the use of probe molecules in the characterization of heterogeneous olefin polymerization catalysts by IR spectroscopy
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