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Dr. Elena VillaniAssistant Professor

Education

May 2017, Ph.D.: University of Bologna
Mar. 2009, B.Sc.: University of Ferrara

Employment

Oct. 2021 -: Assistant professor: School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Oct. 2019 - Sept. 2021: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Overseas Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Host researcher: Prof. Shinsuke Inagi)
May 2018 - Sept. 2019: Postdoctoral Researcher: University of Bordeaux (Supervisor: Prof. Alexander Kuhn)

Awards

Mar. 2024: Women Advancement Award of the Electrochemical Society of Japan (ECSJ)
Feb. 2017: Prof. Gian Piero Spada Medal Award for the best paper in Physical Chemistry published in the XXIX cycle of the PhD in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry “G. Ciamician”, University of Bologna
Dec. 2016: Best Flash Communication, The Italian congress XVI Giornata della Chimica dell’Emilia-Romagna, University of Ferrara and Italian Chemical Society
Aug. 2016: Best Poster Prize, The 67th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry

Refereed Papers

Tomoki Hirohata, Naoki Shida, Elena Villani, Tomoki Ogoshi, Ikuyoshi Tomita, Shinsuke Inagi*
Morphologically Controlled Electrochemical Assembly of Pillar[6]quinone Crystals through the Interaction with Electrolytes
ChemElectroChem, 2024, 11, e202300480.
Elena Villani,* Yanyun Zhang, Zhenghao Chen, Yaqian Zhou, Mariko Konishi, Ikuyoshi Tomita, Shinsuke Inagi*
AC-Bipolar Electrosynthesis and Luminol Electrochemiluminescence Imaging of Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) and its Composite Films
ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 2023, 5, 6186-6198.
Tomoki Shirokura, Tomoki Hirohata, Kosuke Sato, Elena Villani, Kazuyasu Sekiya, Yu-An Chien, Tomoyuki Kurioka, Ryoyu Hifumi, Yoshiyuki Hattori, Masato Sone, Ikuyoshi Tomita, Shinsuke Inagi*
Site-Selective Synthesis and Concurrent Immobilization of Imine-Based Covalent Organic Frameworks on Electrodes Using an Electrogenerated Acid
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2023, 62, e202307343.
Zhenghao Chen, Yaqian Zhou, Elena Villani, Naoki Shida, Ikuyoshi Tomita, Shinsuke Inagi*
AC-Bipolar Electropolymerization of 3,4-Ethylenedioxythiophene in Ionic Liquids
Langmuir, 2023, 39, 4450-4455.
Yulin Shi, Elena Villani, Yequan Chen, Yaqian Zhou, Zhenghao Chen, Altaf Hussain, Guobao Xu, Shinsuke Inagi*
High-Throughput Electrosynthesis of Gradient Polypyrrole Film Using a Single-Electrode Electrochemical System
Analytical Chemistry, 2023, 95, 1532-1540.
Yaqian Zhou, Elena Villani, Tomoyuki Kurioka, Yanyun Zhang, Ikuyoshi Tomita, Shinsuke Inagi*
Fabrication of Luminescent Patterns Using Aggregation-Induced Emission Molecules by an Electrolytic Micelle Disruption Approach
Aggregate, 2023, 4, e202.
Suguru Iwai, Taichi Suzuki, Hiroki Sakagami, Kazuhiro Miyamoto, Zhenghao Chen, Mariko Konishi, Elena Villani, Naoki Shida, Ikuyoshi Tomita, Shinsuke Inagi*
Electropolymerization without an Electric Power Supply
Communications Chemistry, 2022, 5, 66.
Hiroki Sakagami, Hiroaki Takenaka, Suguru Iwai, Naoki Shida, Elena Villani, Akihiro Gotou, Tomohiro Isogai, Akiyoshi Yamauchi, Yosuke Kishikawa, Toshio Fuchigami, Ikuyoshi Tomita, Shinsuke Inagi*
A Flow Electrochemical Cell with Split Bipolar Electrode for Anodic Oxidation of Organic Compounds
ChemElectroChem, 2022, 9, e202200084 (Selected as a Very Important Paper).
Naoki Shida, Elena Villani, Mokurai Sanuki, Kazuhiro Miyamoto, Akihiro Gotou, Tomohiro Isogai, Akiyoshi Yamauchi, Toshio Fuchigami, Ikuyoshi Tomita, Shinsuke Inagi*
Bipolar electrochemical fluorination of triphenylmethane and bis(phenylthio)diphenylmethane derivatives in a U-shaped cell
Electrochemistry, 2021, 89, 476-479.
Elena Villani, Naoki Shida, Shinsuke Inagi*
Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence of Luminol on Wireless Conducting Polymer Films
Electrochimica Acta, 2021, 389, 138718.
Elena Villani, Shinsuke Inagi*
Mapping the Distribution of Potential Gradient in Bipolar Electrochemical Systems through Luminol
Analytical Chemistry, 2021, 93, 8152-8160.
G. Salinas, A. L. Dauphin, C. Colin, E. Villani, S. Arbault, L. Bouffier, A. Kuhn
Chemo- and magnetotaxis of self-propelled light-emitting chemo-electronic swimmers
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2020, 59, 7508-7513.
E. Villani, G. Valenti, M. Marcaccio, L. Mattarozzi, S. Barison, D. Garoli, S. Cattarin, F. Paolucci
Coreactant electrochemiluminescence at nanoporous gold electrodes
Electrochimica Acta, 2018, 277, 168-175.
S. Kudruk, E. Villani, F. Polo, S. Lamping, M. Körsgen, H. F. Arlinghaus, F. Paolucci, B. J. Ravoo, G. Valenti, F. Rizzo
Solid state electrochemiluminescence from homogeneous and patterned monolayers of bifunctional spirobifluorene
Chemical Communications, 2018, 54, 4999-5002.
G. Valenti, S. Scarabino, B. Goudeau, A. Lesch, M. Jović, E. Villani, M. Sentic, S. Rapino, S. Arbault, F. Paolucci, N. Sojic
Single cell electrochemiluminescence imaging: from the proof-of-concept to disposable device-based analysis
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2017, 139, 16830-168370.
K. Imai, G. Valenti, E. Villani, S. Rapino, E. Rampazzo, M. Marcaccio, L. Prodi, F. Paolucci
Numerical simulation of doped silica nanoparticle electrochemiluminescence
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2015, 119, 26111-26118.
G. Valenti, E. Rampazzo, E. Biavardi, E. Villani, G. Fracasso, M. Marcaccio, F. Bertani, D. Ramarli, E. Dalcanale, F. Paolucci, L. Prodi
An electrochemiluminescence-supramolecular approach to sarcosine detection for early diagnosis of prostate cancer
Faraday Discussions, 2015, 185, 299-309.

Book Chapters

Elena Villani, Shinsuke Inagi, Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence in Functional Redox Chemistry
Sustainable and Functional Redox Chemistry, S. Inagi (ed.), Royal Society of Chemistry, Chapter 15, pp 359-374 (2022)
Elena Villani, Shinsuke Inagi, Bipolar Electrochemistry for Synthesis
Science of Synthesis: Electrochemistry in Organic Synthesis, L. Ackermann (ed.), Thieme, Stuttgart, Vol 1, pp 153-171 (2021)
G. Valenti, A. Fiorani, E. Villani, A. Zanut and F. Paolucci, The essential role of electrode materials in ECL applications
Analytical electrogenerated chemiluminescence: from fundamentals to bioassays, Neso Sojic Ed., RSC Detection Science, pp 159-175 (2020)
A. Fiorani, G. Valenti, E. Villani, M. Marcaccio, E. Rampazzo, L. Prodi and F. Paolucci, Electrochemically driven luminescence in organometallic and inorganic systems
Luminescence in Electrochemistry: applications in analytical chemistry, physics and biology, Fabien Miomandre and Pierre Audebert Eds., Springer International Publishing, pp 293-326 (2017)

Review Articles

Elena Villani, Shinsuke Inagi*
Electrosynthesis with Split-Bipolar Electrodes
Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, 2024, 44, 101443.
Elena Villani,* Kohei Sakanoue, Yasuaki Einaga, Shinsuke Inagi, Andrea Fiorani*
Photophysics and Electrochemistry of Ruthenium Complexes for Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence
Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 2022, 921, 116677
Zhenghao Chen, Elena Villani, Shinsuke Inagi*
Recent progress in bipolar electropolymerization methods toward one-dimensional conducting polymer structures
Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, 2021, 28, 100702
Kaoru Hiramoto, Elena Villani, Tomoki Iwama, Keika Komatsu, Shinsuke Inagi, Kumi Y. Inoue, Yuji Nashimoto, Kosuke Ino,* Hitoshi Shiku*
Recent advances in electrochemiluminescence-based systems for mammalian cell analysis
Micromachines, 2020, 11, 530