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The 9th EuChemS Chemistry Congress (ECC9), organised by the Institute of Chemistry of Ireland (ICI), was held in Dublin, Ireland, on July 7-11, 2024. All current members of the Giordani Group participated in the conference and presented their research.

This training school is part of the COST Action CA20121 and was hosted by Dr. Anna Grochot-Przeczek from Jagiellonian University. During the training school Yingru presented our research, facilitating in-depth discussions and knowledge exchange with experts in the field.

A facile functionalization of carbon nano-onions (CNO), through an atom economical one-step process, with a series of different generation (2.0, 2.5, and 3.0G) poly(amidoamine) (PAMAM) dendrimers with a cystamine core and endowed with either methyl ester or amino groups in the periphery has been reported. The radical addition reaction onto CNO surface, after the homolytic rupture of the S–S bond …

The human enzyme myeloperoxidase, found majorly in the blood secreted by the immune cells (neutrophils), is capable of degrading the carbon nano-onions (CNOs) or multilayer fullerenes. The biodegradation of CNOs mainly occurs through generating radical intermediates of peroxidase and by reacting with in-situ generated hydroxy radicals under UV-light catalyzed photo-Fenton reaction.

Soapbox Science is a novel public outreach platform promoting women and non-binary scientists and their work. At this years Soapbox Science Ireland event, Prof. Silvia Giordani engaged the public with her talk on “How can Nano-onions go to the target?”.

The funding announcement by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) was announced on Monday and has been welcomed by the delighted DCU researchers involved. The SFI Frontiers for the Future Programme provides opportunities for independent investigators to conduct innovative, collaborative research with the potential to deliver impact, whilst also providing opportunities for high-risk, high-reward research projects.