@fravicentini

Postdoctoral researcher @SuNMIL_EPFL @EPFL. Interested in organic synthesis, antivirals, artificial cells, and good food 🧪🔬🍝.

 Lausanne, Suisse
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Joined April 2022
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A nice way to close the year 🎄✨ Our latest work has just been published in @J_A_C_S! We report how mechanical energy can induce dissipative self-assembly of nano-sized coacervates into vesicles with cell-like capabilities. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac… @UniTrieste @DSCF_UniTS

Mechanical Energy Drives Dissipative Self-Assembly of Nanocoacervates into Vesicles with Cell-like...

Abstract. Dissipative self-assembly, which relies on continuous energy input to form and sustain functional structures, underpins the adaptive behaviors of

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J. Am. Chem. Soc.@J_A_C_SJan 23
On the cover of this week's issue: "Mechanical Energy Drives Dissipative Self-Assembly of Nanocoacervates into Vesicles with Cell-like Properties" Read it here 🔗 go.acs.org/dIh
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🎉 The cover is out! 🎉 Our work is featured on the cover of @J_A_C_S 🧪✨ We show how mechanical energy enables dissipative self-assembly of nanocoacervates into cell-like coacervate vesicles. 🔗🔓 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac… @ACSPublications @UniTrieste @BristolChem @DSCF_UniTS
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J. Am. Chem. Soc.@J_A_C_S26 Dec 2025
Mechanical Energy Drives Dissipative Self-Assembly of Nanocoacervates into Vesicles with Cell-like Properties | Journal of the American Chemical Society pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…

Mechanical Energy Drives Dissipative Self-Assembly of Nanocoacervates into Vesicles with Cell-like...

Abstract. Dissipative self-assembly, which relies on continuous energy input to form and sustain functional structures, underpins the adaptive behaviors of

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Many thanks to my supervisors, co-authors, and collaborators for this great journey. #JACS #chemistry #SyntheticBiology
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Università di Trieste@UniTrieste12 Sep 2025
🔵 LA CHIMICA IN UNA BOLLA. ALLA SCOPERTA DEI MATERIALI DEL FUTURO Cosa hanno in comune uno slime, una bolla rimbalzante e una sfera gelatinosa? A #TriesteNext potrai scoprirlo con esperimenti divertenti sulla scienza dei materiali. ℹ️ triestenext.it/spazio-9-la-c…
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Fancy a back-to-work read 🔓🧪? Check out our latest article and dive into coacervate vesicles, a novel protocellular model that can be formed and engineered in many fascinating ways! #SyntheticBiology #Chemistry #ChemistryEurope
ChemEurJ: Chemistry - A European Journal@ChemEurJ21 Aug 2025
Coacervate Vesicles as Adaptive Platforms for Synthetic Biology and Smart Materials (Pierangelo Gobbo and co-workers @UniTrieste) #ChemEurJReviews #openaccess 🔓 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Coacervate Vesicles as Adaptive Platforms for Synthetic Biology and Smart Materials

Coacervate vesicles are emerging protocells that merge coacervates’ functionality within membranised architectures. Their diverse formation mechanisms from coacervate droplets yield tunable, respon...

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Claudia@ClaudiaBonfio10 Dec 2024
PhD alert! I have two ERC-funded PhD positions to uncover the chemical origins of life! Starting date: October 2025. *UK fees only*. Projects described here: lclu.cam.ac.uk/studentship-o… Email me if interested - deadline (PhD in Biochemistry, Uni of Cambridge): January 7th!
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plankt-on@plankt_onEU13 Nov 2024
Our consortium had its 3rd progress meeting on Oct 28th at Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica - Universidade NOVA de Lisboa where all partners presented their last results. Looking forward to the next steps! 🔬 #PLANKTON #Research #Innovation #Science
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Tomoya Kojima@Tomoya__Kojima12 Jul 2024
Happy to share my new article in collaboration with @GobboGroup! Title: Programmed Fabrication of Vesicle-Based Prototissue Fibers with Modular Functionalities Vesicle-based fibers can "swim"! Now online on @ChemRxiv See here: doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-20…
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🩷 Girl or boy? 🩵 Nah, just the new cooling liquid in the rotavapor chiller. #ChemTwitter #RealTimeChem #scicomm
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!!PLS RT!! Hey #SupraChem community, have you already registered for the #ISCSummerSchool2024?!?! No?? 😱no worries, there is still one week to do it! The deadline is fixed to April 10th!! So, check it out on the website for all the info 👇👇convegni.unica.it/iscsummers…!!!
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Tomoya Kojima@Tomoya__Kojima29 Feb 2024
I'm so happy to share my recent research "Engineering pH-Responsive, Self-Healing Vesicle-Type Artificial Tissues with Higher-Order Cooperative Functionalities"! @Small @artificialcells onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Engineering pH‐Responsive, Self‐Healing Vesicle‐Type Artificial Tissues with Higher‐Order Coopera...

Inspired by multicellular organisms, new artificial tissues derived from multiple vesicles via salt bridges are reported, exhibiting reversible tissue formation/destruction in response to pH,...

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Group Christmas dinner in Italy: teaching visiting students how to make a proper #scarpetta 🥖🎄 @GobboGroup #Christmas #Chemistry #lablife
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The Nobel Prize
@NobelPrize4 Oct 2023
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.”
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How do #protocells communicate? How can we develop new and fully synthetic signal transduction machineries? Have a look at our new #ConceptArticle to find out! @GobboGroup @DSCF_UniTS
EurJOC@EurJOC21 Sep 2023
Protocell Communication through the Eyes of Synthetic Organic Chemists by Pierangelo Gobbo and co-workers @GobboGroup @DSCF_UniTS @UniTrieste @SCIorganica @SciGiovani onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Protocell Communication through the Eyes of Synthetic Organic Chemists

In this Concept, the bio-derived signal transduction machineries utilised for protocell communication are reviewed and categorised into enzyme cascades, DNA strand displacement, and gene-mediated...

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Back in R(h)ome at the #CDCO2023 @SCIorganica. Yesterday I presented my advancements on photocatalytic protocells and ate one of the best Carbonaras. Looking forward for more good science and good food! @GobboGroup @DSCF_UniTS – at Rome, Lazio
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Tim Casey-Clyde@TimCaseyClyde2 Aug 2023
normal microscope posture – at San Francisco, CA
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Mary Jenkinson-Finch@FinchJenkinson1 Aug 2023
Very pleased to say that my PhD work on light responsive protocells has been published this week - give it a read here! @PatrickGrimes37 @GobboGroup chemistry-europe.onlinelibra…

A Photo‐degradable Crosslinker for the Development of Light‐responsive Protocell Membranes

A novel photocleavable, poly(ethylene) glycol-based crosslinker, reactive to biological nucleophiles is synthesized and used to covalently stabilise proteinosome membranes. The crosslinker effectiv...

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Maria Sbacchi@MariaSbacchi19 Jul 2023
Replying to @ChemCatChem @lab_carbon @DSCF_UniTS
Proud to publish my first paper as first author, looking forward to keep doing amazing science with @lab_carbon and @GobboGroup ✨ #photocatalysis #carbondots #chemistry
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