Maria Carmela Iapalucci graduated in Industrial Chemistry in the
Faculty of Industrial Chemistry, University of Bologna, on 13 March
1987. On 1987, she worked on the MAS
project (production process of methanol and higher alcohols)
promoted by Snamprogetti, at the Department of Industrial
Chemistry, University of Bologna. On 1988, she cooperated to the
EEC Brite project: "simultaneous removal of NOx and SO2 through
mobile bed catalytic processes". On 1992, she achieved the PhD in
Chemistry with a thesis on: "Iron and Nickel carbonyl clusters with
atoms belonging the XIII and XV Group", under the supervision of
Professor G. Longoni. On 1994, she was visiting scientist at the
Lund University (Sweden). From 1992 to 2001, she was a Research
Assistant at the Department of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry,
Bologna University. Since October 2001, she is an Associate
Professor of General and Inorganic Chemistry (Chim03) at the
department of Industrial Chemistry, Bologna University. She is
author of 140 peer-reviewed articles published on international
journals.
The research interest lie in the synthesis, characterization and
chemical reactivity of metal carbonyl clusters with medium-high
nuclearity. More specifically in: 1) nano-and micro-wire molecular
semiconductors and conductors; 2) salts charge-transfer ( CT) and
electron-transfer (ET) consisting of cluster-anions redox-active
and cations redox-active; 3) new molecular capacitor; 4)
application of metal carbonyl clusters in nanotechnologies and
catalysis; 5) synthesis of metal nanoparticles using clusters as
precursors.
