Primo Levi Award

Primo Levi Award 2018

The SCI Giovani board promotes the PRIMO LEVI AWARD 2018, to be assigned to a young SCI fellow, who is author of an original research, of wide interest in the field of Chemical Sciences, developed in Italy, and published on an international scientific journal in its final version in the timespan 01 January - 31 December 2018.
Check the Call for Papers for the requirements and all the details.

DEADLINE: MARCH 31, 2019

Documents:

• Call for Papers (ITA)
• Annex 1: Template form Impatto del lavoro (ITA)
• Annex 2: Template CV of the candidate (ITA)
• Annex 3: Template list of publications (ITA)

HALL OF FAME

Levi Award 2017

Winners:

Claudia Bonfio (UniTN, Div. Chemistry of Biological Systems)

"UV-light-driven prebiotic synthesis of iron-sulfur clusters", Nat. Chem. 9 (2017) 1229-1234
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Daniele Martella (UniFI, Div. Industrial Chemistry)

"Photonic microhand with autonomous action", Adv. Mater. 29 (2017) art. no. 1704047
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Special mentions:

Riccardo Rigo (UniPV, Div. Pharmaceutical Chemistry)

"Conformational profiling of a G-rich sequence within the c-KIT promoter", Nucleic Acids Res. 45 (2017) 13056-13067
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Sergio Rossi (UniMI, Div. Organic Chemistry)

"Stereoselective catalytic synthesis of active pharmaceutical ingredients in homemade 3D-printed mesoreactors", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 56 (2017) 4290-4294
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Levi Award 2016

Winners:

Alessia Amodio (UniROMA2, Div. Analytical Chemistry)

"pH-controlled assembly of DNA tiles", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 138 (2016) 12735-12738

Giovanni Valenti (UniBO, Div. Electrochemistry)

"Coaxial heterostructures integrating palladium/titanium dioxide with carbon nanotubes for efficient electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution", Nat. Commun. 7 (2016) 13549

Special mentions:

Francesca Arcudi (UniTS, Div. Chemistry of Biological Systems)

"Synthesis, separation, and characterization of small and highly fluorescent nitrogen-doped carbon nanodots", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 55 (2016) 2107-2112

Matteo Atzori (UniFI, Div. Inorganic Chemistry)

"Quantum coherence times enhancement in vanadium(IV)-based potential molecular qubits: the key role of the vanadyl moiety", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 138 (2016) 11234-11244

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Levi Award 2015

Winners:

Cristian Pezzato (UniPD e CNR-ISTM, Div. Organic Chemistry)

"Transient signal generation in a self-assembled nanosystem fueled by ATP", Nat. Commun. 6 (2015) 7790

Letizia Monico (UniPG, Chemistry of Environment and Cultural Heritage)

"Evidence for degradation of the chrome yellows in Van Gogh’s sunflowers: a study using noninvasive in situ methods and synchrotron-radiation-based X-ray techniques", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 54 (2015) 13923

Special mentions:

Giulio Ragazzon (UniBO, Div. Inorganic Chemistry)

"Light-powered autonomous and directional molecular motion of a dissipative self-assembling system", Nat. Nanotechnol. 10 (2015) 70

Chiara Samorì (CIRI EA e UniBO, Organic Chemistry)

"Dimethyl carbonate and switchable anionic surfactants: two effective tools for the extraction of polyhydroxyalkanoates from microbial biomass", Green Chem. 17 (2015) 1047

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Levi Award 2014

Winners:

Alessandra Campana (CNR-ISMN, Div. Physical Chemistry)

"Electrocardiographic recording with conformable organic electrochemical transistor fabricated on resorbable bioscaffold", Adv. Mater. 26 (2014) 3874

Alessandro Minguzzi (UniMI e INSTM, Div. Electrochemistry)

"Observing the oxidation state turnover in heterogeneous iridium-based water oxidation catalysts", Chem. Sci. 5 (2014) 3591

Special mentions:

Andrea Idili (UniROMA2, Div. Analytical Chemistry)

"Programmable pH-triggered DNA nanoswitches", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 136 (2014) 5836

Alberto Ceccon (UniVR, Div. Organic Chemistry)

"Dynamics of a globular protein adsorbed to liposomal nanoparticles", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 136 (2014) 13158

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Levi Award 2013

Winners:

Francesco Pineider (UniFI e CNR-ISTN, Div. Inorganic Chemistry)

"Circular magnetoplasmonic modes in gold nanoparticles", Nano Lett. 13 (2013) 4785-4789

Alessandro Porchetta (UniROMA2 e INBB, Div. Analytical Chemistry)

"Allosterically tunable, DNA-based switches triggered by heavy metals", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 135 (2013) 13238-13241

Special mentions:

Denis Gentili (CNR-ISMN)

"Logic-gate device based on printed polymer semiconducting nanostripes", Nano Lett. 13 (2013) 3643-3647

Ivan Carnimeo (SNS e INFN)

"Computational spectroscopy of large system in solution: the DFTB/PCM and TD-DFTB/PCM approach", J. Chem. Theor. Comput. 9 (2013) 2052-2071

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Levi Award 2012

Winner:

Matteo Cargnello (CNR-ICCOM)

"Exceptional activity for methane combustion over modular Pd@CeO₂ subunits on fuctionalized Al₂O₃", Science 337 (2012) 713-717

Special mentions:

Tommaso Avellini (UniBO)

Davide Ravelli (UniPV)

Alessandro Porchetta (UniROMA2)

>>> Call for Papers (ITA)