Director of the Institute
Giannini Cinzia
Bari
I am an extremely curious person. Curiosity drives me to acquire tools to look at the world around me, trying to grasp its most intimate meanings. Since 2001 I have been working in the Crystallography Institute of the National Research Council and Crystallography has provided me with some of these tools to read the intelligible trace (handwriting) of crystals when properly illuminated with X-rays.
In these nearly 30 years of activity I have collaborated with numerous national and international research groups, offering my knowledge for the investigation of new materials that can be used for the most fascinating applications (nanomedicine, bioelectronics, energy).
I have worked with conventional, laboratory X-ray sources, but also with much more complex instrumentation, using European synchrotron light sources on numerous occasions.
If I had to summarize myself in a few words, I would rely on the words of Rita Levi Montalcini: I feel a highly imperfect person but capable of total dedication and of closing my eyes to the difficulties of life so that I can face problems that others, more critical and more acute, [or simply better than me,] they would not cope with (taken from “Elogio per l’imperfezione”).
Since 1991 I have been interested in structural studies on new materials of technological interest using numerous X-ray techniques. In particular in the experiments carried out in recent years in synchrotron light laboratories (as Main Proposer or co-Proposer) of which: 1 @ NSLS ( NY Usa), 3 @ LURE (Paris, France), 11 @ ESRF (Grenoble, France), 5 @ LNLS (Campinas, Brazil), 2 @ Elettra (Trieste, Italy), 11 @ SLS (Villigen, Switzerland) I used instrumentation, always at the forefront, which allowed me to acquire / deepen knowledge on the following X-ray diffraction and scattering techniques:
• Grazing Incidence diffraction (GID), X-ray Specular Reflectivity (XRR), Grazing Incidence Small Angle X-ray Scattering (GISAXS) & X-ray Standing Waves (XSW) for the study of surfaces, thin films and planar multilayer structures;
• Reciprocal Space Mapping (RSM) & High angular resolution diffraction (HRXRD) for the study of hetero-interfaces, multilayers, multiwires, lamellar structures deposited with physical techniques;
• Coherent X-ray Diffractive Imaging (CDI) & X-ray holography for the study of single non-periodic objects with coherent radiation, with the use of micro beams;
• Scanning X-ray Microscopy with SAXS and WAXS contrast for the study of tissues with the use of micro beams.
• Institute for Polymers, Composites and Biomaterials (IPCB)
• Institute for Physical Chemical Processes (IPCF)
• Institute of Science and Technology of Ceramic Materials (ISTEC)
• Institute of Nanotechnology (NANOTEC)
• Institute of Materials Workshop (IOM)
• Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) Headquarters Genoa;
• Center for Nano Science and Technology (CNST) IIT-Polimi;
• Center for Advanced Biomaterials for Healthcare@CRIB IIT-Napoli;
• Center for Biomolecular Nanotechnologies IIT-Lecce
• University of Bari – Dept. of Chemistry;
• Federico II University of Naples – Dept. of Chemical Sciences and Dept. of Pharmacy;
• Catholic-Sacred Heart University – Rome;
• University of Eastern Piedmont “A. Avogadro” – Biocompatibility Research Center Dept. of Health Sciences, Novara;
• University of Salento – Department of Innovation Engineering; University of Bologna – Dept. of Pharmacy and Biotechnology;
• Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa – Institute of Life Sciences;
• University of Pavia – Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences
• Medical Technology Lab – Rizzoli Orthopedic Institute, Bologna;
• Maugeri Scientific Clinical Institutes, Pavia
• Polytechnic of Bari – Dept. of Civil, Environmental, Land, Construction and Chemistry Engineering (DICATECh);
• Polytechnic of Turin – Dept. Applied Science and Technology (DISAT);
• Polytechnic of Milan – Dept. of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering (DEIB)
• SMILEs Lab (Structural Molecular Imaging by Light Enhanced spectroscopies) Kaust University, Saudi Arabia;
• Massachusetts General Hospital, Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Cambridge MA – USA;
• Instituto de Tecnología en Polímeros y Nanotecnología ITPN – Facultad de Ingeniería – Universidad de Buenos Aires – Argentina;
• Macromolecules and Bioimaging (LSB) – Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) – Villigen / Switzerland;
• Excelsus Structural Solutions (Swiss) AG (chemical and pharmaceutical industrial research)
• Novartis Pharma (Swiss) AG (chemical and pharmaceutical industrial research)
Fibre e tessuti intelligenti ed ECOsostenibili per l’abbigliamento TECnico e l’alta moda
Research and development of technologies for the hydrogen supply chain
A system approach for identifying connective tissue degeneration in diabetic analogues (SAPIENT)
NutrAge2
Eco-Progettazione, sintesi e caratterizzazione di film polimerici nano-rinforzati biodegradabili per applicazioni nel food packaging
Potentiating the Italian Capacity for Structural Biology Services in Instruct-ERIC
Matrici extracellulari biomimetiche a base di collagene per la medicina rigenerativa
Svil MicroNanotecn per Predit, Diagn, Terapia e Tratt Rigen delle Alteraz Patol Osso e Osteo-Articol
Advanced X-ray Characterization of Pb-free perovskite nanomaterials
Contact: Dr. Thomas Huthwelker, Paul Scherrer Institut, E-mail: thomas.huthwelker@psi.ch Dr. Oliver Bunk, Paul Scherrer Institut, E-mail: oliver.bunk@psi.ch Dr. Cinzia Giannini, Istituto di Cristallografia, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, E-mail: cinzia.giannini@ic.cnr.it Whitlockite has a characteristic distribution in mammary microcalcifications and it is not associated with breast cancer
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X-ray dating
Stimulus-response studies on materials through in situ / operando crystallographic measurements and multivariate analysis
Small angle x-ray scattering dealing with flexible/multidomain protein structures
Structural characterization by single crystal or micro/nanocrystalline powder diffraction of frontier compounds of interest for Materials Science.
Wide and Small Angle X-ray Scattering for the structural characterization of fibers
Danila Quarta, Stefano Toso, Antonio Fieramosca, Lorenzo Dominici, Rocco Caliandro, Anna Moliterni, David Maria Tobaldi, Gabriele Saleh, Irina Guschchina, Rosaria Brescia, Mirko Prato, Ivan Infante, Adriano Cola, Cinzia Giannini, Liberato Manna, Giuseppe Gigli, Carlo Giansante
Danila Quarta Stefano Toso, Gabriele Saleh, Rocco Caliandro, Anna Moliterni, Andrea Griesi, Giorgio Divitini, Ivan Infante, Giuseppe Gigli, Cinzia Giannini, Liberato Manna and Carlo Giansante
Toso, Stefano; Baranov, Dmitry; Filippi, Umberto; Giannini, Cinzia; Manna, Liberato
Cadamuro F.; Marongiu L.; Marino M.; Tamini N.; Nespoli L.; Zucchini N.; Terzi A.; Altamura D.; Gao Z.; Giannini C.; Bindi G.; Smith A.; Magni F.; Bertini S.; Granucci F.; Nicotra F.; Russo L.
Gallo N.; Terzi A.; Sibillano T.; Giannini C.; Masi A.; Sicuro A.; Blasi F.S.; Corallo A.; Pennetta A.; De Benedetto G.E.; Montagna F.; Maffezzoli A.; Sannino A.; Salvatore L.
Carlotta Giacobbe, Anna Moliterni, Dario Di Giuseppe, Daniele Malferrari, Jonathan P. Wright, Michele Mattioli, Simona Ranieri, Cinzia Giannini, Laura Fornasini, Enrico Mugnaioli, Paolo Ballirano and Alessandro F. Gualtieri
Aniruddha Ray, Beatriz Martín-García, Mirko Prato, Anna Moliterni, Simone Bordignon, Davide Spirito, Sergio Marras, Luca Goldoni, Karunakara Moorthy Boopathi, Fabrizio Moro, Nicola Pietro Maria Casati, Carlotta Giacobbe, Makhsud I. Saidaminov, Cinzia Giannini, Michele R. Chierotti, Roman Krahne, Liberato Manna, and Ahmed L. Abdelhady
Giorgio Rizzo, Valentina Petrelli, Teresa Sibillano, Liberato De Caro, Maria Michela Giangregorio, Marco Lo Presti, Fiorenzo G. Omenetto, Cinzia Giannini, Piero Mastrorilli, and Gianluca M. Farinola
Alberta Terzi , Nunzia Gallo, Teresa Sibillano, Davide Altamura, Annalia Masi, Rocco Lassandro, Alessandro Sannino, Luca Salvatore, Oliver Bunk, Cinzia Giannini and Liberato De Caro
Skafi, Zeynab; Xu, Jie; Mottaghitalab, Vahid; Mivehi, Leila; Taheri, Babak; Jafarzadeh, Farshad; Podapangi, Suresh Kumar; Altamura, Davide; Guascito, Maria Rachele; Barba, Luisa; Giannini, Cinzia; Rizzo, Aurora; De Rossi, Francesca; Javanbakht Lomeri, Hamed; Sorbello, Luca; Matteocci, Fabio; Brunetti, Francesca; Brown, Thomas M.
Morasso, Carlo; Vanna, Renzo; Piccotti, Francesca; Frizzi, Lidia; Truffi, Marta; Albasini, Sara; Borca, Camelia; Huthwelker, Thomas; Villani, Laura; Bunk, Oliver; Giannini, Cinzia; Corsi, Fabio
Antonino Madonia, Gianluca Minervini, Angela Terracina, Ashim Pramanik, Vincenzo Martorana, Alice Sciortino, Carlo M. Carbonaro, Chiara Olla, Teresa Sibillano, Cinzia Giannini, Elisabetta Fanizza, Maria L. Curri, Annamaria Panniello, Fabrizio Messina, and Marinella Striccoli
Elisabetta Rosa, Enrico Gallo, Teresa Sibillano, Cinzia Giannini, Serena Rizzuti, Eliana Gianolio, Pasqualina Liana Scognamiglio, Giancarlo Morelli, Antonella Accardo and Carlo Diaferia
De Caro Liberato; Barta, César; Fanti, Giulio; Matricciani, Emilio; Sibillano, Teresa; Giannini, Cinzia
De Caro L.; Giudice A.D.; Morin M.; Reinle-Schmitt M.; Grandeury A.; Gozzo F.; Giannini C.
Zhang, Baowei; Altamura, Davide; Caliandro, Rocco; Giannini, Cinzia; Peng, Lucheng; De Trizio, Luca; Manna, Liberato
Leoncini, M.; Capodilupo, A-L; Altamura, D.; Giannini, C.; Accorsi, G.; Fabiano, E.; Rizzo, A.; Gigli, G.; Gambino, S.
Jan?ík, Jan; Pospí?il, Jan; Kratochvíl, Matou?; Truksa, Jan; Altamura, Davide; Giannini, Cinzia; Weiter, Martin; Blasi, Davide; Luke?, Vladimír; G?owacki, Eric D.; Kraj?ovi?, Jozef
Minervini G.; Panniello A.; Madonia A.; Carbonaro C.M.; Mocci F.; Sibillano T.; Giannini C.; Comparelli R.; Ingrosso C.; Depalo N.; Fanizza E.; Curri M.L.; Striccoli M.
Rosa, Elisabetta; Gallo, Enrico; Sibillano, Teresa; Giannini, Cinzia; Rizzuti, Serena; Gianolio, Eliana; Scognamiglio, Pasqualina Liana; Morelli, Giancarlo; Accardo, Antonella; Diaferia, Carlo
Bravetti, Gianluca; Altamura, Davide; Paci, Barbara; Generosi, Amanda; Carallo, Sonia; Guaragno, Marco; Gigli, Giuseppe; Listorti, Andrea; Grancini, Giulia; Giannini, Cinzia; Colella, Silvia; Rizzo, Aurora
Terzi A.; Sibillano T.; De Caro L.; Altamura D.; Gallo N.; Natali M.L.; Sannino A.; Salvatore L.; Blasi F.S.; Corallo A.; Giannini C.
Gentile L.; Sixta H.; Giannini C.; Olsson U.
Gallo N.; Natali M.L.; Quarta A.; Gaballo A.; Terzi A.; Sibillano T.; Giannini C.; De Benedetto G.E.; Lunetti P.; Capobianco L.; Blasi F.S.; Sicuro A.; Corallo A.; Sannino A.; Salvatore L.
La Manna S.; Florio D.; Di Natale C.; Lagreca E.; Sibillano T.; Giannini C.; Marasco D.
Rosa E.; Diaferia C.; Gianolio E.; Sibillano T.; Gallo E.; Smaldone G.; Stornaiuolo M.; Giannini C.; Morelli G.; Accardo A.
Gubitosa J.; Rizzi V.; Laurenzana A.; Scavone F.; Frediani E.; Fibbi G.; Fanelli F.; Sibillano T.; Giannini C.; Fini P.; Cosma P.
Toso S.; Imran M.; Mugnaioli E.; Moliterni A.; Caliandro R.; Schrenker N.J.; Pianetti A.; Zito J.; Zaccaria F.; Wu Y.; Gemmi M.; Giannini C.; Brovelli S.; Infante I.; Bals S.; Manna L.
Quarta D.; Toso S.; Giannuzzi R.; Caliandro R.; Moliterni A.; Saleh G.; Capodilupo A.-L.; Debellis D.; Prato M.; Nobile C.; Maiorano V.; Infante I.; Gigli G.; Giannini C.; Manna L.; Giansante C.
Dibenedetto C.N.; Fanizza E.; De Caro L.; Brescia R.; Panniello A.; Tommasi R.; Ingrosso C.; Giannini C.; Agostiano A.; Curri M.L.; Striccoli M.
De Caro L.; Sibillano T.; Lassandro R.; Giannini C.; Fanti G.
Rizzo G.; Albano G.; Sibillano T.; Giannini C.; Musio R.; Omenetto F.G.; Farinola G.M.
Ray A.; Martin-Garcia B.; Moliterni A.; Casati N.; Boopathi K.M.; Spirito D.; Goldoni L.; Prato M.; Giacobbe C.; Giannini C.; Di Stasio F.; Krahne R.; Manna L.; Abdelhady A.L.
Siliqi, Dritan and Adamiano, Alessio and Ladisa, Massimo and Giannini, Cinzia and Iafisco, Michele and Degli Esposti, Lorenzo
Romano, Mariele; Bravin, Alberto; Mittone, Alberto; Eckhardt, Alicia; Barbone, Giacomo E.; Sancey, Lucie; Dinkel, Julien; Bartzsch, Stefan; Ricke, Jens; Alunni-Fabbroni, Marianna; Hirner-Eppeneder, Heidrun; Karpov, Dmitry; Giannini, Cinzia; Bunk, Oliver; Bouchet, Audrey; Ruf, Viktoria; Giese, Armin; Coan, Paola
Giancaspro, Mariangela; Sibillano, Teresa; Panzarea, Francesca; Giannini, Cinzia; Schmitzer, Silvia; Vischio, Fabio; Depalo, Nicoletta; Agostiano, Angela; Curri, M. Lucia; Striccoli, Marinella; Fanizza, Elisabetta
De Caro, Liberato; Terzi, Alberta; Fusaro, Luca; Altamura, Davide; Boccafoschi, Francesca; Bunk, Oliver; Giannini, Cinzia
Degli Esposti L.; Adamiano A.; Siliqi D.; Giannini C.; Iafisco M.
Ur Rahim, Hafeez; Qaswar, Muhammad; Uddin, Misbah; Giannini, Cinzia; Herrera, Maria Lidia; Rea, Giuseppina
Rizzo G.; Lo Presti M.; Giannini C.; Sibillano T.; Milella A.; Guidetti G.; Musio R.; Omenetto F.G.; Farinola G.M.
La Manna S.; Florio D.; Di Natale C.; Scognamiglio P.L.; Sibillano T.; Netti P.A.; Giannini C.; Marasco D.
Toso, Stefano; Baranov, Dmitry; Altamura, Davide; Scattarella, Francesco; Dahl, Jakob; Wang, Xingzhi; Marras, Sergio; Alivisatos, A. Paul; Singer, Andrej; Giannini, Cinzia; Manna, Liberato
Gallo E.; Diaferia C.; Balasco N.; Sibillano T.; Roviello V.; Giannini C.; Vitagliano L.; Morelli G.; Accardo A.
Dhanabalan, Balaji; Biffi, Giulia; Moliterni, Anna; Olieric, Vincent; Giannini, Cinzia; Saleh, Gabriele; Ponet, Louis; Prato, Mirko; Imran, Muhammad; Manna, Liberato; Krahne, Roman; Artyukhin, Sergey; Arciniegas, Milena P.
Scattarella, Francesco; Altamura, Emiliano; Albanese, Paola; Siliqi, Dritan; Ladisa, Massimo; Mavelli, Fabio; Giannini, Cinzia; Altamura, Davide
Cinquino M.; Fieramosca A.; Mastria R.; Polimeno L.; Moliterni A.; Olieric V.; Matsugaki N.; Panico R.; De Giorgi M.; Gigli G.; Giannini C.; Rizzo A.; Sanvitto D.; De Marco L.
Riccardo Scarfiello, Carmela Tania Prontera , Marco Pugliese , Giuseppe Valerio Bianco, Giovanni Bruno, Concetta Nobile, Sonia Carallo, Angela Fiore, Teresa Sibillano, Cinzia Giannini, Roberto Giannuzzi, Luigi Carbone , Giuseppe Gigli and Vincenzo Maiorano
Grisorio R.; Conelli D.; Fanizza E.; Striccoli M.; Altamura D.; Giannini C.; Allegretta I.; Terzano R.; Irimia-Vladu M.; Margiotta N.; Suranna G.P.
Polimeno L.; Lerario G.; De Giorgi M.; De Marco L.; Dominici L.; Todisco F.; Coriolano A.; Ardizzone V.; Pugliese M.; Prontera C.T.; Maiorano V.; Moliterni A.; Giannini C.; Olieric V.; Gigli G.; Ballarini D.; Xiong Q.; Fieramosca A.; Solnyshkov D.D.; Malpuech G.; Sanvitto D.
Cinzia Giannini, Liberato De Caro, Alberta Terzi, Luca Fusaro, Davide Altamura, Ana Diaz, Rocco Lassandro, Francesca Boccafoschi and Oliver Bunk
