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The Department of Chemistry promotes scientific research thanks to the work of more than 70 professors and researchers, more than 110 students (PhD students, scholarships or collaboration contracts) and more than 30 technicians (distributed among the administrative, technical-scientific, library and service areas).
The teaching component is distributed over the various scientific disciplines in the field of chemistry and chemical engineering, with research activities of international impact and marked competitiveness in the public and private sectors. An extensive network of collaborations between sectors and numerous interactions with groups at international level allow the Department of Chemistry to develop interdisciplinary themes of particular relevance to technological and scientific development, addressing issues of global interest such as health and sustainable development. The integration of the different research areas leads to the development of innovative systems in nanotechnology, biomedicine, green chemistry and cultural heritage. The list of the main research lines of the Department is available in the Thematic Areas and Research Groups section.
The Department's scientific laboratories provide its staff and the University with advanced scientific infrastructure and instrumentation. Among these, some have recently been acquired for Grande Attrezzature di Ateneo projects, consisting of a multifunctional X-ray scattering system SAXS/GISAXS/WAXS (SAXSLab Sapienza), a 600 MHz NMR (Sapienza NMLAB), a departmental NMR service (Lab Orione with a Bruker Avance NEO 400 Nanobay NMR spectrometer for liquids), a SCIEX QTRAP 6005+ mass spectrometer, an advanced nanoscale electrochemical synthesis and characterisation platform based on atomic force microscopy (PESCA), an integrated time-resolved chemical imaging FTIR microscopy system (microFTIR) and a microfluidic viscometry instrument. High performance computing platforms equipped with specific software for computational chemistry (6DOT scientific computing cluster) complete the picture. The department also participates in the management of the Centre for Applied Nanotechnologies in Engineering (CNIS), where high-resolution field emission scanning electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy instruments are available in addition to those listed.
The Department's scientific research is also supported by a number of Sapienza Research Centers to which its researchers belong (some of which are hosted within the Department - see Research Centers), by active collaboration with researchers from CNR institutes and INAIL researchers hosted by the Department, and by some spin-off and start-up company activities.