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  • 2018 - Fellow of the Combustion Institute for innovative research in combustion science, especially in the area of soot formation

Overview

Andrea D'Anna is affiliated with the University of Naples Federico II in Italy and has contributed extensively to the field of Engineering, focusing on areas such as Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes, Atmospheric Science, Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Computational Mechanics.

Their research covers multiple specific topics, including:

  • Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Combustion and flame dynamics
  • Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
  • Vehicle emissions and performance
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Carbon Nanotubes in Composites

D'Anna has significant publication records in venues such as:

  • Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
  • Fuel
  • ACS Nano
  • Combustion and Flame
  • Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science

Recent notable papers include:

  • "A Review of Terminology Used to Describe Soot Formation and Evolution under Combustion and Pyrolytic Conditions," 2020, ACS Nano
  • "π-Diradical Aromatic Soot Precursors in Flames," 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Evidence on the formation of dimers of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in a laminar diffusion flame," 2020, Communications Chemistry
  • "On the effect of pressure on soot nanostructure: A Raman spectroscopy investigation," 2020, Combustion and Flame
  • "Electronic band gap of flame-formed carbon nanoparticles by scanning tunneling spectroscopy," 2020, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute

The scientist frequently collaborates with colleagues such as Mario Commodo, Gianluigi De Falco, Patrizia Minutolo, and Francesca Picca, with collaboration counts ranging from 7 to 28 joint works.

Andrea D'Anna was named a Fellow of the Combustion Institute in 2018 for innovative research in combustion science, particularly in the area of soot formation.

Best Publications

  • Combustion-formed nanoparticles

    Andrea D’Anna

  • A Review of Terminology Used to Describe Soot Formation and Evolution under Combustion and Pyrolytic Conditions.

    Hope A. Michelsen;Meredith B. Colket;Per Erik Bengtsson;Andrea D'Anna

  • Surface deposition and coagulation efficiency of combustion generated nanoparticles in the size range from 1 to 10 nm

    A. D’Alessio;A.C. Barone;R. Cau;A. D’Anna

  • Combustion generated fine carbonaceous particles

    Henning Bockhorn;Andrea D'Anna;Adel F. Sarofim;Hai Wang

  • A reaction pathway for nanoparticle formation in rich premixed flames

    A D’Anna;A Violi;A D’Alessio;A.F Sarofim

  • A wide-range modeling study of iso-octane oxidation

    Eliseo Ranzi;Tiziano Faravelli;Paolo Gaffuri;Angelo Sogaro

  • A kinetic model for the formation of aromatic hydrocarbons in premixed laminar flames

    Andrea D'Anna;Angela Violi

  • Precursor formation and soot inception in premixed ethylene flames

    A. D'Alessio;A. D'Anna;A. D'Orsi;P. Minutolo

  • On the early stages of soot formation: Molecular structure elucidation by high-resolution atomic force microscopy

    Mario Commodo;Katharina Kaiser;Gianluigi De Falco;Patrizia Minutolo

  • Insights into incipient soot formation by atomic force microscopy

    Fabian Schulz;Mario Commodo;Katharina Kaiser;Gianluigi De Falco

  • Morphological characterization of the early process of soot formation by atomic force microscopy

    A.C. Barone;A. D’Alessio;A. D’Anna

  • Detection of combustion formed nanoparticles.

    L.A Sgro;G Basile;A.C Barone;A D’Anna

  • Modeling the rich combustion of aliphatic hydrocarbons

    A. D’Anna;A. violi;A. D’Alessio

  • The spectroscopic characterisation of UV absorbing nanoparticles in fuel rich soot forming flames

    A. D’Alessio;A. D’Anna;G. Gambi;P. Minutolo

  • The effect of temperature on soot inception in premixed ethylene flames

    A. Ciajolo;A. D'anna;R. Barbella;A. Tregrossi

  • Modeling of particulate formation in combustion and pyrolysis

    Angela Violi;Andrea D’Anna;Antonio D’Alessio

  • Modeling Formation and Oxidation of Soot in Nonpremixed Flames

    Mariano Sirignano;John Kent;Andrea D’Anna

  • Nano-organic carbon and soot particle measurements in a laminar ethylene diffusion flame

    A. D’Anna;A. Rolando;C. Allouis;P. Minutolo

  • A model of particulate and species formation applied to laminar, nonpremixed flames for three aliphatic-hydrocarbon fuels

    A. D'Anna;J.H. Kent

  • Physicochemical evolution of nascent soot particles in a laminar premixed flame: From nucleation to early growth

    Mario Commodo;Gianluigi De Falco;Annalisa Bruno;Carmela Borriello

Frequent Co-Authors

Angela Violi
Angela Violi University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Adel F. Sarofim
Adel F. Sarofim University of Utah
Markus Kraft
Markus Kraft University of Cambridge
Hai Wang
Hai Wang Stanford University
JoAnn S. Lighty
JoAnn S. Lighty Boise State University
Rita Patrizia Aquino
Rita Patrizia Aquino University of Salerno
Assaad R. Masri
Assaad R. Masri University of Sydney
Leo Gross
Leo Gross IBM (United States)
Tiziano Faravelli
Tiziano Faravelli Polytechnic University of Milan
Raffaele Ragucci
Raffaele Ragucci National Research Council (CNR)

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