P. (Patrizio) Raffa, Prof Dr

Granted PhD projects

- New polymeric surfactants for enhanced oil recovery (DPI project in collaboration with Shell and SNF)

- From sugar industry side stream to coatings and other polymeric materials (CCC project in collaboration with DSM and Royal Cosun)

- Functional polymeric materials for soft robotic at microscale via 2 photon 3D printing (in collaboration with IIT, Italy)

- Conductive hydrogels based on IPN for biomedical strain sensors (CSC scholarship)

- Modification of starch in supercritical CO2 for new sustainable materials (SNN)

- Sustainable super absorbent polymers from biobased building blocks (CSC scholarship)

Past projects

- Design and synthesis of new amphiphilic copolymers using controlled radical polymerization (concluded PhD project)

- MWCNT reinforced materials with thermal and electrical response

- Thermoreversible materials based on Diels-Alder chemistry

- EPDM based hybrid swelling elastomers

- EPDM/PP ThermoPlastic Vulcanizates

- IPNs based on modified polyketones/MWCNT with thermal and electrical response

- Formulation of green adhesives from mixtures of soy proteins

- Polymeric surfactants based on polyketones