Pincella Francesca

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Senior Lecturer
Homepage URL (1)： https://www.scl.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~elements/en/pro_Francesca.html

Research field (3)： Green/sustainable/environmental chemistry , Nanomaterials , Energy chemistry

Research keywords (9)： lacquer , urushi , lignin , SERS , catalysis , Raman spectroscopy , biomass , sustainable chemistry , nanomaterials

Research theme for competitive and other funds (1)：

2017 - 2020 Development of Lignin-Recognizing Magnetic Nanoparticle Catalysts for Valorization of Wood Biomass

Papers (11)：

Francesca Pincella, Katsuhiro Isozaki, Ryota Sato, Toshiharu Teranishi, Hikaru Takaya, Masaharu Nakamura. Reusable Magnetite Nanoparticle (Fe3O4 NP) Catalyst for Selective Oxidation of Alcohols under Microwave Irradiation. ACS Omega. 2024. 9. 23. 24477-24488
Katsuhiro Isozaki, Hiroshi Matsuda, Ryosuke Agata, Jaeyoung Jeon, Beiling Wu, Francesca Pincella, Makoto Ikenaga, Yoichi Tachibana, Yukari Ohta, Masaharu Nakamura. Synthetic urushiols from biorenewable carbon resources: chemical conversion of enzymatic degradation products of wood lignin to an ancient yet future coating material. RSC Sustainability. 2024. 2. 5. 1358-1362
Mineo Keito, Nakagawa-Kawahara Yuka, Nakamura Yuki, Imai Makiko, Matsumura Hiroyuki, Aoki Satoshi, Pincella Francesca, Isozaki Katsuhiro, Nakamura Masaharu. Challenges toward chemical use of woody biomass : from forest policy and economic view. The Japanese Forest Society Congress. 2023. 134. 207
Isozaki, Katsuhiro, Shimoaka, Takafumi, Oshiro, Satoshi, Yamaguchi, Asako, Pincella, Francesca, Ueno, Ryo, Hasegawa, Takeshi, Watanabe, Takashi, Takaya, Hikaru, Nakamura, Masaharu. Robust Surface Plasmon Resonance Chips for Repetitive and Accurate Analysis of Lignin-Peptide Interactions. ACS OMEGA. 2018. 3. 7. 7483-7493
PINCELLA Francesca, YAMASHITA Yoshiyuki, KUMARA Rosantha, YANG Anli, OCHIAI Takao, ISHIMARU Satoshi, MIKI Kazushi, SAKATA Osami. Evaluation by HAXPES of the Chemical State of the Components of a Close-packed Array of Bi-metallic (Au-Ag) Nanoparticles on ITO. SPring-8 Section A: Scientific Research Report. 2017. 5. 1. 38-44

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MISC (8)：

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Patents (3)：

Crystal-anchorable near-field light structure, and crystal-anchored same structure capable of multiphoton excitation
Substrate for surface enhancement Raman spectra
Method for the preparation of imidazole derivatives

Lectures and oral presentations (10)：

Biomass valorization: new building blocks for a more sustainable chemical industry
(First AIRJ Symposium - Association of Italian Researchers in Japan 2022)
Biomedical and environmental applications of plasmonic sensors
(Optics seminars at OIST (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology) 2021)
Microwave-assisted One-pot Conversion of Lignin to Fluorescent Imidazole Compounds
(The 20th International Symposium on Wood, Fiber and Pulping Chemistry 2019)
Microwave-Assisted Oxidation of Secondary Alcohols Catalyzed by Magnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles
(The 17th Annual Meeting of the Society of Nano Science and Technology, 2019)
Microwave-assisted Facile Conversion of Lignin to Fluorescent Imidazole Compounds
(The 99th CSJ Annual Meeting 2019)

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Education (3)：

2011 - 2014 Tsukuba University Materials Science and Engineering PhD in Engineering
2008 - 2010 University of Parma Department of Physics Master of Physics
2004 - 2008 University of Parma Department of Physics Bachelor of Physics

Professional career (1)：

PhD (University of Tsukuba)

Work history (5)：

2020/04 - 現在 Kyoto University Institute for Chemical Research Senior lecturer
2019/07 - 2020/03 Kyoto University Institute for Chemical Research Program-specific Senior Lecturer
2017/07 - 2019/06 Kyoto University Institute for Chemical Research JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow
2016/07 - 2017/06 Kyoto University Institute for Chemical Research Project-specific Researcher
2014/12 - 2016/06 National University of Singapore Department of Biomedical Engineering Research Fellow

Awards (2)：

2019/04 - Chemical Society of Japan CSJ presentation award Microwave-assisted facile conversion of lignin to fluorescent imidazole compounds
2015/07 - Nature Publishing Group LSA award for outstanding paper A visible light-driven plasmonic photocatalyst

Association Membership(s) (4)：

Association of Italian Researchers in Japan , Society of Nano Science and Technology , THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN , THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY

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