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We are delighted to welcome Aravind Kannoth Anilkumar to the team as an SFI-funded first-year PhD student. Aravind has completed his BSc in Chemistry in 2022 at Sacred Heart College, Thevara, following which he graduated with a MSc in Chemistry in 2024 from IISER Thiruvananthapuram, India. He joins us here in Dublin, continuing his passion for biomaterials and chemistry, and will undoubtedly make a valuable contribution to our research group and the scientific community. We look forward to working with him and witnessing his continued success in his PhD journey. Welcome, Aravind!

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.