dott. Antonello Di Crescenzo

Antonello Di Crescenzo received his Laurea degree with honors in Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technology in 2007 and his Ph.D. (Doctor Europaeus) in Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2010 from the University “G. D’Annunzio” of Chieti under the supervision of Professor Paolo De Maria. As a visiting scientist he worked in the Laboratory for Regenerative Medicine & Pharmacobiology at the EPFL of Lausanne during 2008 (supervisor Professor Jeffrey A. Hubbell) and in the School of Chemistry and Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices at the Trinity College Dublin during 2010 (supervisor Dr. Silvia Giordani). Since 2011 he has a postdoctoral position in the Laboratory of Organic Chemistry at the University of Chieti under the supervision of Professor Antonella Fontana. His research interests focus mainly on the preparation and characterization of carbon-based nanohybrid materials for application in the energy and biomedical field.

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Pubblicazioni

24. R. Di Carlo, A. Di Crescenzo, S. Pilato, A. Ventrella, A. Piattelli, L. Recinella, A. Chiavaroli, S. Giordani, M. Baldrighi, A. Camisasca, B. Zavan, M. Falconi, A. Cataldi, A. Fontana,* S. Zara, Osteoblastic differentiation on graphene oxide-functionalized titanium surfaces: an in vitro study. Nanomaterials, 10, 654:1-16 (2020).

23. A. Fontana,* S. Guernelli,* A. Di Crescenzo, P. Di Profio, F. Palomba, L. De Crescentini, A. Baschieri, R. Amorati, Cardanol-like co-surfactants solubilized in pegylated micelles keep their antioxidant activity and preserve polyethylene glycol chains from oxidation. J. Mol. Liq., 293, 111465 (2019).

22. A. Di Crescenzo, S. Zara, C. Di Nisio, V. Ettorre, A. Ventrella, B. Zavan, P. Di Profio, A. Cataldi, A. Fontana,* Graphene oxide foils as osteoinductive stem cells substrate. ACS Appl. Bio Mater., 2 (4), 1643–1651 (2019).

21. A. Di Crescenzo, M. Tiecco, R. Zappacosta, S. Boncompagni, P. Di Profio, V. Ettorre, A. Fontana, R. Germani, G. Siani,* Novel zwitterionic natural deep eutectic solvents as environmentally friendly media for spontaneous self-assembly of gold nanoparticles. J. Mol. Liq., 268, 371-375 (2018).

20. R. Zappacosta, A. Di Crescenzo, V. Ettorre, A. Fontana, M. Pierini, G. Siani,* Ionic liquids as “masking” solvents on the relative strength of bases in proton transfer reactions. ChemPlusChem, 83, 35-41 (2018).

19. P. De Marco, S. Zara, M. De Colli, M. Radunovic, V. Lazović, V. Ettorre, A. Di Crescenzo, A. Piattelli, A. Cataldi,* A. Fontana,* Graphene oxide improves the biocompatibility of collagen membranes in an in vitro model of human primary gingival fibroblasts. Biomed. Mater., 12, 055005 (2017), published on line 13 September 2017. DOI: 10.1088/1748-605X/aa7907

18. P. Di Profio,* V. Canale, N. D'Alessandro, R. Germani, A. Di Crescenzo, A. Fontana, Separation of CO2 and CH4 from biogas by formation of clathrate hydrates: importance of the driving force and kinetic promoters. ACS Sustain. Chem. Eng., 5, 1990-1997 (2017), published online 16 December 2016.

17. A. Di Crescenzo, I. Cacciatore, M. Petrini, M. D'Alessandro, N. Petragnani, P. Del Boccio, P. Di Profio, S. Boncompagni, G. Spoto, H. Turkez, P. Ballerini, A. Di Stefano, A. Fontana,* Gold nanoparticles as scaffold for poor water soluble and difficult to vehiculate antiparkinson codrugs. Nanotechnology, 28, 025102 (2017), published online 6 December 2016.

16. A. Di Crescenzo, P. Di Profio, G. Siani, R. Zappacosta, A. Fontana,* Optimizing the interactions of surfactants with graphitic surfaces and clathrate hydrates. Langmuir, 32, 6559–6570 (2016).

15. V. Ettorre, P. De Marco, S. Zara, V. Perrotti, A. Scarano, A. Di Crescenzo, M. Petrini, C. Hadad, D. Bosco, B. Zavan, L. Valbonetti, G. Spoto, G. Iezzi, A. Cataldi, A. Piattelli, A. Fontana,* In vitro and in vivo characterization of graphene oxide coated porcine bone granules. Carbon, 103, 291-298 (2016).

14. A. Renzetti,* A. Di Crescenzo, F. Nie, A. D. Bond, S. Gérard, J. Sapi, A. Fontana,* C. Villani, Diastereomer interconversion via enolization: a case study. Chirality, 27, 779-783 (2015).

13. R. Zappacosta, A. Di Crescenzo, P. Di Profio, A. Fontana, G. Siani,* Thermodynamic Analysis of Anion and Cation Effects on the Keto-Enol Equilibrium in Ionic Liquids. A Comparative Study with Conventional Solvents. J. Org. Chem. 80, 2333-2338 (2015).

12. A. Di Crescenzo, V. Ettorre, A. Fontana,* Non-covalent and reversible functionalization of carbon nanotubes. Beilstein J. Nanotechnol., 5, 1675 – 1690 (2014).

11. A. Di Crescenzo, S. Cambré, R. Germani, P. Di Profio, A. Fontana,* Dispersion of SWCNTs with imidazolium-rich surfactants. Langmuir, 30, 3979 – 3987 (2014).

10. A. Di Crescenzo, L. Bardini, B. Sinjari, T. Traini, L. Marinelli, M. Carraro, R. Germani, P. Di Profio, S. Caputi, A. Di Stefano, M. Bonchio,* F. Paolucci,* A. Fontana,* Novel surfactant hydrogels for the dispersion of carbon nanotube-based catalysts. Chem. Eur. J. , 19, 16415 - 16423 (2013).

9. P. Sozio, L. S. Cerasa, S. Laserra, I. Cacciatore, C. Cornacchia, E. S. Di Filippo, S. Fulle, A. Fontana, A. Di Crescenzo, M. Grilli, M. Marchi, A. Di Stefano,* Memantine-sulfur containing antioxidant conjugates as potential prodrugs to improve the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. Eur. J. Pharm. Sci., 49, 187 – 198 (2013).

8. A. Di Crescenzo, M. Aschi,* A. Fontana, Toward a better understanding of steric stabilization when using block copolymers as stabilizers of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) aqueous dispersions. Macromolecules, 45, 8043-8050 (2012).

7. A. Di Crescenzo, I. Kopf, S. Pieraccini, S. Masiero, E. Del Canto, G. P. Spada,* S. Giordani,* A. Fontana,* Lipophilic guanosine derivatives as carbon nanotube dispersing agents. Carbon, 50, 4663-4672 (2012).

6. A. Di Crescenzo, R. Germani, E. Del Canto, S. Giordani, G. Savelli, A. Fontana,* Effect of surfactant structure on carbon nanotube sidewalls adsorption. Eur. J. Org. Chem., 5641–5648 (2011).

5. P. Marracino, A. Amadei, F. Apollonio, G. d’Inzeo, M. Liberti, A. Di Crescenzo, A. Fontana, R. Zappacosta, M. Aschi,* Modeling of chemical reactions in micelle: water-mediated keto-enol interconversion as a case study. J. Phys. Chem. B, 115, 8102-8111 (2011).

4. A. Di Crescenzo, M. Aschi,* E. Del Canto, S. Giordani, D. Demurtas, A. Fontana,* Structural modifications of ionic liquid surfactants for improving the water dispersibility of carbon nanotubes: an experimental and theoretical study. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 13, 11373-11383 (2011).

3. A. Di Crescenzo, D. Velluto, J. A. Hubbell, A. Fontana,* Biocompatible dispersions of carbon nanotubes: a potential tool for intracellular transport of anticancer drugs. Nanoscale, 3, 925-928 (2011), published online 23 December 2010.

2. E. M. Di Meo, A. Di Crescenzo, D. Velluto, C. P. O’Neil, D. Demurtas, J. A. Hubbell, A. Fontana,* Assessing the role of poly(ethylene glycol-bl-propylene sulfide) (PEG-PPS) block copolymers in the preparation of carbon nanotube biocompatible dispersions. Macromolecules, 43, 3429-3437 (2010).

1. A. Di Crescenzo, D. Dermutas, A. Renzetti, G. Siani, P. De Maria, M. Meneghetti, M. Prato, A. Fontana,* Disaggregation of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) promoted by the ionic liquid based surfactant 1-hexadecyl-3-vinylimidazolium bromide in aqueous solution. Soft Matter, 5, 62-66 (2009), published online 15 September 2008.


Proceedings

1. R. Di Carlo, A. Di Crescenzo, V. Ettorre, S. Zara, A. Cataldi, A. Fontana, A. Piattelli,

Covalent Functionalization of titanium discs with Graphene oxide for the improvement of biocompatibility and DPSC proliferation

J. Tissue Eng. Regen. Med., 8, 4(Suppl), 65-65 (2017).

Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine – Barcelona, Spain, 2-4 October 2017