Moliterni Anna

Dr. Moliterni graduated in Physics (general address) at the University of Bari in December 1991 and received a mark of 110/110 cum laude (Title of the Thesis: ’Generazione di radiazione laser in processi di ’scattering’ Raman per applicazioni a diagnostiche in fase gassosa’).
She carried out the work of Thesis during a stay of 18 months (July 1990 – December 1991) at the Raman Spectroscopy and Remote Sensing Laboratories of the ENEA in Frascati (RM).

Dr. Moliterni has over 30 years experience in the field of Crystallography and started her research activity  in 1992 by collaborating, for more than twenty years, with Prof. Carmelo Giacovazzo, internationally renowned scientist.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

• February 2001 – Present: Researcher (full time/permanent position) -Institute of Crystallography (IC)- CNR, Bari – Italy;
• November 1998 – February 2001: Researcher (full time/not permanent position) – Institute for the Development of Crystallographic Methodologies (IRMEC) – CNR, Bari – Italy;
• July 1997 – June 1998: Collaboration with IRMEC – CNR, Bari – Italy;
• June 1996 – June 1997: Research Fellow at IRMEC – CNR, Bari – Italy;
• April 1996 – June 1996 : Collaboration with IRMEC – CNR, Bari – Italy;
• March 1995 – February 1996: Research Fellow at IRMEC – CNR, Bari – Italy;
• December 1992 – November 1994: Research Fellow at IRMEC – CNR, Bari – Italy;
• September 1992 – November 1992: Research Fellow at Istituto dei Materiali – CNR, Tito Scalo (PZ),  Italy;
• January 1992 – July 1992: ENEA Guest, Frascati (RM).

Since March 2004, Dr. Moliterni is faulty in charge of the X-ray single crystal diffraction laboratory at the IC-CNR of Bari (KappaCCD Bruker-Nonius diffractometer).

The impact of the research activity of Dr. Moliterni in the field of the Crystallography  is proved by her role of:

• co-author of relevant and largely used crystallographic computing programs ( i.e., OChemDb, QUALX2.0, EXPO2014, EXPO2009, QUALX, EXPO2004, Quanto, EXPO, SIR97, EXTRA), that are distributed to national and international academic institutions and industries via the web site of the Institute of Crystallography, National Research Council (http://www.ba.ic.cnr.it/softwareic/);
• co-author of two chapters published in 2019 on the International Tables for Crystallography, Volume H: Powder Diffraction (https://it.iucr.org/Ha/, doi:10.1107/97809553602060000949, doi:10.1107/97809553602060000957);
• co-organizer of n. 7 international crystallographic Schools, held in the period 2012-2018;
• co-organizer of the EPDIC15 (https://www.cnr.it/en/event/14314/the-european-powder-diffraction-conference-epdic15-bari), held in 2016, and of four international Workshops held in 1993, 1996, 2009 and 2014.
• Bibliometric parameters (December, 2023):

ISI Web of Knowledge source: Overall number of publications: 150 documents, H-index = 29; Sum of Times Cited (Without self citations): > 13200, Citing articles (Without self citations) > 12500;

Scopus source:  Overall number of publications: 123 documents, H-index = 26; Number of citations  > 13100, Co-authors > 290 (Scopus Author ID: 7004663206)

Google scholar source: https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=O5XpDScAAAAJ&hl=en

• Ab-initio structure solution of crystalline materials with different chemical composition and complexity by micro or nanocrystalline powder diffraction data (PDD) or single crystal diffraction data (SCDD);
• Development and implementation in crystallographic software of innovative theoretical, methodological and computing tools devoted to 1) structure solution and refinement by SCDD; 2) structure solution and refinement by PDD; 3) qualitative and quantitative phase analysis by PDD.
  In case of PDD, her research activity covers the following topics: indexing, space group determination, structure solution by traditional methods (direct methods and Patterson methods) and global optimization methods, structural optimization and Rietveld analysis, phase identification;
• experimental expertise in single-crystal and powder diffraction.

Very recently, the expertise in Crystallography allowed Dr. Moliterni to characterize challenging new compounds like 2D organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites [see https://www.psi.ch/en/macromolecular-crystallography/scientific-highlights/lighting-up-the-appealing-world-of-hybrid; Adv. Mater. (2022). 34, 2106160] and nanocrystalline metal chalcohalides [see  https://www.cnr.it/it/comunicato-stampa/11017/nanomateriali-inesplorati-per-semiconduttori-senza-piombo; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (2022). 61, e202201747; Nat. Comm. (2022). 13, 3976].

• Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Genova, Italy (Prof. L. Manna, Dr. M. Arciniegas, Dr. A. L. Abdelhady)
• Institute of Nanotechnology, CNR NANOTEC, Lecce, Italy (Dr. L. De Marco, Dr. C. Giansante, Dr. A. Rizzo)
• Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy (Prof. A.F. Gualtieri)
• Ruder Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia (Dr. J. Popović, Dr. M. Vrankić)
• European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France (Dr. C. Giacobbe)
• Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI, Switzerland ( Dr. V. Olieric, Dr. N.M. Casati)
• NEST, Istituto Nanoscienze, CNR, Pisa, Italy (Dr. A. Camposeo, Dr. D. Pisignano)
• Dipartimento di Fisica ‘E. Fermi’, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy (Dr. D. Pisignano)
• Laboratory of Applied and Environmental Chemistry (LCAE), Mohamed first University, Oujda, Morocco (Prof. R. Touzani)
• Laboratory of Technology and Solid Properties (LTPS), Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Abdelhamid Ibn Badis University, Mostaganem, Algeria (Prof. A. Chouaih)
• Laboratoire Physico-Chimie de l’Etat Solide, Département de Chimie, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia (Prof. H. Naili)

• A is a monovalent cation (e.g., Cs⁺, MA⁺, FA⁺,…, with MA= methylammonium, FA=formamidinium);
• B is a divalent metal cation (e.g., Sn²⁺, Pb²⁺);
• X is a halide anion (e.g., Cl^–, Br^–, or I^–).