Annalisa Chiappone obtained a Bachelor degree (2006) and then a Master degree (2008) in Materials Engineering from Politecnico di Torino. In 2008 she also achieved the French second level Master degree (Polymers for advanced technologies) from the J. Fourier University in Grenoble (FR). Afterwards, she obtained a Ph.D. in Materials Science from Politecnico di Torino in 2012 with a Thesis on polymer electrolytes membranes reinforced with natural fibers for Li-ion batteries. In 2012 she moved to Italian Institute of Technology(IIT), Center for Sustainable Future Technologies. She worked on the development of functional polymeric materials for different applications including sensors and materials for energy and electronic. In 2015 she moved her interests towards the development of smart formulations for 3D printing. In 2018, she moved back to Politecnico di Torino as researcher to set up a platform dedicated to 3D printing, specifically focused on light activated reactions. In 2021 Annalisa obtained the position of Assisatan Professor in Industrial Chemistry at University of Cagliari.

She is author of more than 70 papers on international peer-reviewed journals and several book chapters.

Her research interests are focused on the development of polymeric formulations for light induced 3D printing for innovative applications. One of the goal of her research is to move toward bio-based monomers and initiators.

Selected publications:

Cortés, A., Cosola, A., Sangermano, M., Campo, M., González Prolongo, S., Pirri, C.F., Jiménez-Suárez, A., Chiappone, A.* DLP 4D-Printing of Remotely, Modularly, and Selectively Controllable Shape Memory Polymer Nanocomposites Embedding Carbon Nanotubes (2021) Advanced Functional Materials, 31 (50), 2106774 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202106774

Cosola A., Conti R., Grützmacher H., Sangermano M., Roppolo I., Pirri C.F., Chiappone A.*  Multiacrylated Cyclodextrin: A Bio-Derived Photocurable Macromer for VAT 3D Printing (2020) Macromolecular Materials and Engineering 305(9), 2000350 DOI:10.1002/mame.202000350

Gillono, M., Roppolo, I., Frascella, F., Scaltrito, L., Pirri, C.F., Chiappone*, A. CO2 permeability control in 3D printed light responsive structures (2020) Applied Materials Today, 18, 100470 DOI: 10.1016/j.apmt.2019.100470

Roppolo, I., Frascella, F., Gastaldi, M., Castellino, M., Ciubini, B., Barolo, C., Scaltrito, L., Nicosia, C., Zanetti, M., Chiappone, A* Thiol-yne chemistry for 3D printing: Exploiting an off-stoichiometric route for selective functionalization of 3D objects (2019) Polymer Chemistry, 10 (44), pp. 5950-5958. DOI: 10.1039/c9py00962k

Wang, J., Chiappone, A.*, Roppolo, I., Shao, F., Fantino, E., Lorusso, M., Rentsch, D., Dietliker, K., Pirri, C.F., Grützmacher, H. All-in-One Cellulose Nanocrystals for 3D Printing of Nanocomposite Hydrogels (2018) Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 57 (9), pp. 2353-2356. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201710951

Fantino, E., Chiappone, A*., Roppolo, I., Manfredi, D., Bongiovanni, R., Pirri, C.F., Calignano, F. 3D Printing of Conductive Complex Structures with in Situ Generation of Silver Nanoparticles (2016) Advanced Materials, 28 (19), pp. 3712-3717. DOI: 10.1002/adma.201505109