Specially Appointed Assistant Professor

Elena Villani

Elena Villani

Specially Appointed Assistant Professor
School of Materials and Chemical Technology
Institute of Science Tokyo

EDUCATION

EMPLOYMENT

May. 2017, Ph.D  University of Bologna

Mar. 2009, B.Sc  University of Ferrara

Oct.2024 – Specially Appointed Assistant professor School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Institute of Science of Tokyo 

Oct. 2021 – Sept. 2024 Specially Appointed 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 Woman Advancement Award of the Electrochemical Society of Lapan (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 Poster Prize, The 67th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry

Aug. 2016 Best Flash Communication, The Italian congress XVI Giornata della Chimica dell’Emilia-Romagna, University of Ferrara and Italian Chemical Society

Original Papers

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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).
  9. 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.
  10. Elena Villani, Naoki Shida, Shinsuke Inagi*
    Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence of Luminol on Wireless Conducting Polymer Films
    Electrochimica Acta, 2021, 389, 138718.
  11. Elena Villani, Shinsuke Inagi*
    Mapping the Distribution of Potential Gradient in Bipolar Electrochemical Systems through Luminol
    Analytical Chemistry, 2021, 93, 8152-8160.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.

PUBLICATION

  1. 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)
  2. 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)
  3. 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)
  4. 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 ARTICLE

  1. Elena Villani, Shinsuke Inagi*
    Electrosynthesis with Split-Bipolar Electrodes
    Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, 2024, 44, 101443.
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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