Personale docente

Claudia Graiff received the degree in Chemistry at the University of Parma and the PhD in 1998 at the same University, working on the synthesis and characterization of organometallic compounds. In 1995-1999, she worked at the University of Strasbourg with Prof. Pierre Braunstein and at the Sevilla University, with Prof. Ernesto Carmona to improve her knowledge in synthesis and methodologies in inorganic synthesis and spectroscopic characterization. From 2006 she is associate professor in Chemistry at the Engineering Faculty of the University of Parma. In 2004 she received the Bonati "Junior" prize, for young researchers. The research activity of Prof. Graiff has been focused on different areas and in particular: (1) From 1994 till 2004 she studied the chalcogen transfer reactions from selenido tertiary phosphanes to carbonyl metal clusters; (2) more recently, she is collaborating in the study of new alcali activated materials to be used in plaster and mortar for sustainable building and construction; (3) she is actually involved in the production and characterization of nanostructured functional materials, mainly obtained by sol-gel methods and used for the protection of lignocellulosic and stone artifacts. In particular, (i) she is engaged in elucidating the molecular structure both in solution and in the solid state of different systems, such as polyamidoamines, a type of hybrid organic-inorganic polymer functionalized with hydrophilic and siloxanic groups, (ii) she is studying the preparation and characterization of suspension of crystalline nanocellulose to be used as consolidant material for lignocellulosic material, as well as adsorbant material for pollutants from waste water and (iii) she is also studying the preparation of suspension of titanium dioxide for its fotocatalytic ability towards water pollutants.