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Hello! Here is a list of recent publications the PhD students of COSMIC have been involved with. Hopefully you will find something of interest 🙂 Continuous flow synthesis of menthol via tandem cyclisation–hydrogenation of citronellal catalysed by scrap catalytic converters. (Alessio Zuliani, Camilla Maria Cova, Roberta Manno, Victor Sebastian, Antonio A. Romero and Rafael Luque) A continuous flow synthesis of menthol ...

PhD students begin their career as just that – students, though more experienced and battle-hardened than their counterparts at the undergraduate level. However, a fully mature and independent researchers are expected to emerge at the other end of this journey and pave their own way into the intricate world of academia or industry. Naturally, the pressures of consistent expansion of ...

Although writing a document presenting your work seems the least attractive part of doing research more or less for all researchers, it is maybe the most important part. As long as you present your work, you can have contact with all other researchers, you can contribute to literature and your work becomes valuable. You can present your academic work by ...

Awareness and responsibility are two faces of the same coin, which makes them vulnerable. We are living in a society in which we are responsible for our own action, and in fact, we are well aware of it. As a matter of fact, we don’t want to cross the line awareness and turn this into our responsibility. We have to ...

The excerpt below is from a an excellent article, “Alliances Through Networking: It Is Not Rocket Science,” by Jaleh Daie. Although written for a science audience, there is very little in it that does not apply to all areas of academia. The full article appears in, The Scientist, Vol:12, #22, p. 13, November 9, 1998, and can be accessed at: ...

Balancing work life with hobbies is always a challenging task. Especially when you enjoy your work. I would say that a hobby becomes a job if you are able to do it professionally – meaning that you are able to earn a significant income from it. In such scenarios I feel that what you’re doing lies somewhere in between a ...

As the weather is starting to get sunnier and warmer, everyone starts wondering about fancy and exotic locations to go to on next summer…everyone but those who’ve committed themselves to research in academia. I’ve already given up to the idea that summer, for a PhD student, is when the usual summer tanning is replaced by increased work and productivity, driven ...

3D printing research has grown exponentially only over the past 40 years. Technologies more and more accurate have been developed in order to achieve the perfect 3D model. What about the association 3D printing technology using sound waves? Nowadays the ultrasound technology has been associated to the 3D printing systems not only solid systems but also liquid. One of the ...

An oxygen concentrator is a device that concentrates the oxygen from a gas supply, usually ambient air, by selectively removing nitrogen to supply an oxygen-enriched product gas stream. They arrived as a solution to replace the heavy high pressure oxygen cylinders or small cryogenic liquid oxygen systems, allowing patients using medical oxygen therapy to be treated in their home facilities. ...

For the majority of the PhD students writing a paper or an abstract can be a nightmare. No ideas to write something on the white screen in front of you?Don’t worry! You don’t have to adopt your imagination or to be an excellent writer, just follow the following order. Results section: Start collocating graphs and tables, highlight the main funding ...