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  1. Recyclable IPN Photocatalysts Supported by Polymer Matrices: From Soluble Copolymers to Core-Polymer Brush Shell Nanostructures

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, February 2026, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  2. Structural Dispersity as a Determinant of Li-Ion Transport in Ethylene-Oxide-Based Graft Polymer Electrolytes

    Article • Chemistry of Materials, February 2026, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  3. Effect of Initiator Density, Catalyst Concentration, and Surface Curvature on the Uniformity of Polymers Grafted from Spherical Nanoparticles

    Article • Macromolecules, January 2026, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  4. Open-Air Growth of Polymer Brushes by Surface-Initiated PhotoATRP under Red-Light Irradiation

    Article • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, June 2025, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  5. The Topology of Poly(2-methyl-2-oxazine) Shells on Nanoparticles Determines Their Interaction with Serum and Uptake by Immune Cells

    Article • Biomacromolecules, December 2024, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  6. The Structural Dispersity of Oligoethylene Glycol-Containing Polymer Brushes Determines Their Interfacial Properties

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, June 2024, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  7. Polymer Brushes on Nanoparticles for Controlling the Interaction with Protein-Rich Physiological Media

    Article • Langmuir, May 2024, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  8. Application of Polymer Brush-Shells on Nanoparticles for Controlling Interaction with Serum

    Article • May 2024, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  9. Effects of Solvent and Monomer on the Kinetics of Radical Generation in Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization

    Article • ChemElectroChem, February 2024, Wiley

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  10. Reactivity Prediction of Cu-Catalyzed Halogen Atom Transfer Reactions Using Data-Driven Techniques

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, September 2023, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi, Mr Grzegorz Bogusław Szczepaniak

  11. Oxygen Tolerance during Surface-Initiated Photo-ATRP: Tips and Tricks for Making Brushes under Environmental Conditions

    Article • ACS Macro Letters, August 2023, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  12. Atom transfer radical polymerization in dispersed media with low-ppm catalyst loading

    Article • Polymer, April 2023, Elsevier

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  13. (Invited) A Formalism Relating the Relative Humidity to the Proton Conductivity Mechanism of Membranes

    Article • ECS Meeting Abstracts, October 2022, The Electrochemical Society

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  14. Interplay between Composition, Physicochemical Properties and Conductivity Mechanisms of Ionic Liquid-Based Electrolytes

    Article • ECS Meeting Abstracts, October 2022, The Electrochemical Society

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  15. Zip Membranes: The Coveted Blockade for the Vanadium Crossover in Flow Batteries

    Article • ECS Meeting Abstracts, October 2022, The Electrochemical Society

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  16. Hierarchical Metal–[Carbon Nitride Shell/Carbon Core] Electrocatalysts: A Promising New General Approach to Tackle the ORR Bottleneck in Low-Temperature Fuel Cells

    Article • ACS Catalysis, September 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  17. Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization: A Mechanistic Perspective

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, July 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  18. (Invited) Correlation between the Porosimetric Features, Morphology, “Ex-Situ” and “in-Situ” electrochemical Performance of Hierarchical “Core-Shell” Carbon Nitride Pt-Alloy ORR Electrocatalysts

    Article • ECS Meeting Abstracts, July 2022, The Electrochemical Society

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  19. A Formalism Adopting Thin-Film Rotating Ring-Disk Electrode Studies to Compare Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction (ORR)

    Article • ECS Meeting Abstracts, July 2022, The Electrochemical Society

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  20. Magnesium- and Tin-Based Ionic Liquid Electrolytes for Advanced Multivalent Metal Batteries

    Article • ECS Meeting Abstracts, July 2022, The Electrochemical Society

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  21. Polymer-Stabilized Liquid Metal Nanoparticles as a Scalable Current Collector Engineering Approach Enabling Lithium Metal Anodes

    Article • ACS Applied Energy Materials, March 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  22. Red-Light-Induced, Copper-Catalyzed Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization

    Article • ACS Macro Letters, February 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi, Mr Grzegorz Bogusław Szczepaniak

  23. Toward Green Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization: Current Status and Future Challenges

    Article • Advanced Science, February 2022, Wiley

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  24. Effect of halogen and solvent on iron-catalyzed atom transfer radical polymerization

    Article • Polymer Chemistry, January 2022, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  25. Dual electrochemical and chemical control in atom transfer radical polymerization with copper electrodes

    Article • Chemical Science, January 2022, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  26. Distribution of Alternating Sequences in Methyl Methacrylate/n-Butyl Acrylate Copolymers Prepared by Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization

    Article • Macromolecules, October 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  27. Conjugated Cross-linked Phenothiazines as Green or Red Light Heterogeneous Photocatalysts for Copper-Catalyzed Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, June 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi, Mr Grzegorz Bogusław Szczepaniak

  28. Depolymerization of P(PDMS11MA) Bottlebrushes via Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization with Activator Regeneration

    Article • Macromolecules, June 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  29. Polymer Stabilized Liquid Metal Nanodroplets As an Artificial Interphase Layer for Lithium Metal Anodes

    Article • ECS Meeting Abstracts, May 2021, The Electrochemical Society

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  30. Self-Healing Commodity Polymer Electrolytes for Reliable Li Metal Batteries

    Article • ECS Meeting Abstracts, May 2021, The Electrochemical Society

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  31. Comparative Performance of Ex Situ Artificial Solid Electrolyte Interphases for Li Metal Batteries with Liquid Electrolytes

    Article • iScience, May 2021, Elsevier

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  32. Cu-Catalyzed Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization in the Presence of Liquid Metal Micro/Nanodroplets

    Article • Macromolecules, February 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  33. Reflection on the Matyjaszewski Lab Webinar Series and the Rise of Webinars in Polymer Chemistry

    Article • ACS Macro Letters, January 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi, Mr Grzegorz Bogusław Szczepaniak

  34. Biocompatible photoinduced CuAAC using sodium pyruvate

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2021, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi, Mr Grzegorz Bogusław Szczepaniak

  35. Grafting polymer from oxygen-vacancy-rich nanoparticles to enable protective layers for stable lithium metal anode

    Article • Nano Energy, July 2020, Elsevier

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  36. p ‐Substituted Tris(2‐pyridylmethyl)amines as Ligands for Highly Active ATRP Catalysts: Facile Synthesis and Characterization

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, June 2020, Wiley

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi, Mr Grzegorz Bogusław Szczepaniak

  37. p ‐Substituted Tris(2‐pyridylmethyl)amines as Ligands for Highly Active ATRP Catalysts: Facile Synthesis and Characterization

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, June 2020, Wiley

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi, Mr Grzegorz Bogusław Szczepaniak

  38. Investigating Temporal Control in Photoinduced Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization

    Article • Macromolecules, June 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  39. Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization of Acrylic and Methacrylic Acids: Preparation of Acidic Polymers with Various Architectures

    Article • ACS Macro Letters, April 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  40. Biocompatible polymers via aqueous electrochemically mediated atom transfer radical polymerization

    Article • Journal of Polymer Science, January 2020, Wiley

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  41. An isocyanide ligand for the rapid quenching and efficient removal of copper residues after Cu/TEMPO-catalyzed aerobic alcohol oxidation and atom transfer radical polymerization

    Article • Chemical Science, January 2020, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi, Mr Grzegorz Bogusław Szczepaniak

  42. Understanding the Relationship between Catalytic Activity and Termination in photoATRP: Synthesis of Linear and Bottlebrush Polyacrylates

    Article • Macromolecules, December 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  43. Biocompatible polymers via aqueous electrochemically mediated atom transfer radical polymerization

    Article • Journal of Polymer Science Part A Polymer Chemistry, August 2019, Wiley

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  44. Impact of Organometallic Intermediates on Copper-Catalyzed Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization

    Article • Macromolecules, May 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi, Mr Grzegorz Bogusław Szczepaniak

  45. Solvent-Processed Metallic Lithium Microparticles for Lithium Metal Batteries

    Article • ACS Applied Energy Materials, March 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  46. Redox-switchable atom transfer radical polymerization

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  47. Photoinduced atom transfer radical polymerization in ab initio emulsion

    Article • Polymer, January 2019, Elsevier

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  48. Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization: Billion Times More Active Catalysts and New Initiation Systems

    Article • Macromolecular Rapid Communications, October 2018, Wiley

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  49. Electrochemically mediated atom transfer radical polymerization of acrylonitrile and poly(acrylonitrile-b-butyl acrylate) copolymer as a precursor for N-doped mesoporous carbons

    Article • Electrochimica Acta, September 2018, Elsevier

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  50. Ab Initio Emulsion Atom-Transfer Radical Polymerization

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, May 2018, Wiley

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  51. Electrochemical triggering and control of atom transfer radical polymerization

    Article • Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, March 2018, Elsevier

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  52. Electrochemical Procedures To Determine Thermodynamic and Kinetic Parameters of Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization

    Article • January 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  53. New protocol to determine the equilibrium constant of atom transfer radical polymerization

    Article • Electrochimica Acta, January 2018, Elsevier

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  54. Miniemulsion ARGET ATRP via Interfacial and Ion-Pair Catalysis: From ppm to ppb of Residual Copper

    Article • Macromolecules, November 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  55. Tuning the reactivity and efficiency of copper catalysts for atom transfer radical polymerization by synthetic modification of tris(2-methylpyridyl)amine

    Article • Polymer, October 2017, Elsevier

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  56. Electron Transfer Reactions in Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization

    Article • Synthesis, July 2017, Thieme Publishing Group

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  57. Harnessing the Interaction between Surfactant and Hydrophilic Catalyst To Control eATRP in Miniemulsion

    Article • Macromolecules, April 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  58. Electrochemical characterization of common catalysts and initiators for atom transfer radical polymerization in [BMIm][OTf]

    Article • Electrochemistry Communications, March 2017, Elsevier

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  59. Sustainable Electrochemically-Mediated Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization with Inexpensive Non-Platinum Electrodes

    Article • Macromolecular Rapid Communications, June 2016, Wiley

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  60. Electrochemically mediated atom transfer radical polymerization of n-butyl acrylate on non-platinum cathodes

    Article • Polymer Chemistry, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  61. Boosting carbon quantum dots/fullerene electron transfer via surface group engineering

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi

  62. RDRP in the presence of Cu0: The fate of Cu(I) proves the inconsistency of SET-LRP mechanism

    Article • Polymer, August 2015, Elsevier

    Dr. Francesca FL Lorandi