Alessandra Valentini
University of Birmingham, UK
Biography
Alessandra Valentini is pursuing her PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of Birmingham. She is part of a Marie Curie-Sklodowska ITN project called Bioclean, which aims to achieve deep down and long lasting clean surfaces via surface modification and photocatalytic approaches. She has completed her Master’s in Analytical Chemistry at the University of Bari (Italy). In her Master’s thesis, she developed a new UHPLC-ESI-MSMS approach to characterize the composition of free fatty acids in mussels and how this could be affected by thermal treatments. She has six months experience with the use of plasma etching treatments for silica biosensor applications.
Abstract
Abstract : Surface modifi cation of polyester via soil release polymers for cleaning enhancement