Prof. Colombo research focuses on the design, synthesis, and crystallographic aspects of solid-state science, with particular emphasis on the understanding of solid-state transformations by in situ (and operando) X-ray diffraction techniques, both on single crystals and polycrystalline powders. After a PhD devoted to the development of synthetic techniques for the synthesis of porous materials, her research interests become focused on their solid-state characterization with advanced X-ray diffraction techniques. Specifically, she is interested in the description of host- guest interactions, adsorption processes, surface reactivity, catalytically active metal centres, and structural flexibility in porous metal-organic frameworks. From 2019, as independent researcher, she is responsible of the Functional Porous Materials Group of the University of Milan consisting (Feb. 2024) of 1 Researcher (RTD-A), 4 PhD students, 2 post-doctoral researchers. Given her research experience, she participates to, and coordinates the research activities related to the synthesis of porous metal-organic frameworks for environmental and industrial applications, such as catalysis, purification of organic pollutants from drinking water, CO2 valorization and CO2 and VOCs capture/separation. She also leads the group’s efforts in the development of innovative experimental setups (e.g., laboratory-scale conditioning chambers for non-ambient crystallography), crystal structure determination from powder and single crystal XRD both with laboratory and large-scale facilities sources. She leads the commissioning and the development of research programs devoted to the understanding of polymorphism and crystal forms in the pharma industry, for more than 50.000 euros/year.
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H. 17:10 - Wednesday - July 3rd |
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"In Situ Insights into adsorption and catalysis in Metal-organic Frameworks" |
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https://expertise.unimi.it/get/person/valentina-colombo |