Venice Vincenzo

Biography

incenzo Venditto graduated in Chemistry at the University of Naples, where he held various research activities in the group led by prof. Corradini. Since 1996 he has been researching at the University of Salerno where he holds the position of prof. associated with industrial chemistry. The research activity of prof. Venditto was mainly aimed at the study of polymeric materials, from a both theoretical modeling and purely experimental point of view. Part of his research activity was devoted to the study of the stereospecific polymerization mechanisms of alpha-olefins, based on simulation techniques based on molecular mechanics. Much of his research activity, however, focused on the aspects of the chemical-physical and structural characterization of polymeric materials, with particular attention to property-structure relationships. In particular, the incidence and role of the crystalline structure in the physical behavior of polymers of significant (or potentially significant) industrial interest has been studied. In recent years, he has developed specific knowledge in the field of polymers having crystalline nanofaces, and in particular with regard to the properties and the chemical-physical properties of the syndiotactic polystyrene, a thermoplastic polymer having the peculiar characteristic of generating complex hosts -guest (co-crystals), where the polymer phase is a crystalline nanoporous phase and guest molecules are organic molecules of suitable shape and size. These materials have multiple potential applications both for the possibility of exploiting the optical properties of isolated molecules in the co-crystalline phase (fluorescence, photoisomerization, refractive index etc. The research activity of prof. Venditto is witnessed by 60 articles published in international scientific journals and 4 Italian industrial patents and 2 international patents

Research Interest

crystalline nanofaces, and in particular with regard to the properties and the chemical-physical properties of the syndiotactic polystyrene, a thermoplastic polymer having the peculiar characteristic of generating complex hosts -guest (co-crystals), where the polymer phase is a crystalline nanoporous phase and guest molecules are organic molecules of suitable shape and size