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Antonio Proto is affiliated with the University of Salerno in Italy. Their research primarily belongs to the field of Environmental Science, with 70 publications contributing to this area. Within this broad field, their subfields of study include Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Water Science and Technology, Pollution, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

Their principal research topics reflect a focus on environmental and pollution challenges, particularly related to water and materials. These topics include:

  • Advanced oxidation water treatment
  • Conservation Techniques and Studies
  • Building materials and conservation
  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Wastewater Treatment and Reuse

Antonio Proto has published several papers, including recent notable works such as:

  • Microplastics in the Environment: Intake through the Food Web, Human Exposure and Toxicological Effects (2021), published in Toxics
  • Endocrine-Disrupting Compounds: An Overview on Their Occurrence in the Aquatic Environment and Human Exposure (2021), published in Water
  • Microplastics in the Aquatic Environment: Occurrence, Persistence, Analysis, and Human Exposure (2021), published in Water
  • Toward More Sustainable Elastomers: Stereoselective Copolymerization of Linear Terpenes with Butadiene (2020), published in Macromolecules
  • Combination of flow cytometry and molecular analysis to monitor the effect of UVC/H2O2 vs UVC/H2O2/Cu-IDS processes on pathogens and antibiotic resistant genes in secondary wastewater effluents (2020), published in Water Research

Frequent co-authors in Proto's research include:

  • Oriana Motta
  • Maria Ricciardi
  • Antonio Faggiano
  • Antonino Fiorentino
  • Raffaele Cucciniello

Antonio Proto's research is published often in certain key venues, reflecting both the topics and collaborative projects they engage in. These frequent publication venues are:

  • Environmental Science and Pollution Research
  • Journal of Environmental Management
  • Water
  • Toxics
  • Separation and Purification Technology

Best Publications

  • Ancillary ligand effect on single-site styrene polymerization: isospecificity of group 4 metal bis(phenolate) catalysts.

    Carmine Capacchione;Antonio Proto;Henner Ebeling;Rolf Mülhaupt

  • Polymerization of propene in the presence of MgCl2‐supported Ziegler‐Natta catalysts, 1. The role of ethyl benzoate as “internal” and “external” base

    Vincenzo Busico;Paolo Corradini;Luigi De Martino;Antonio Proto

  • Endocrine-Disrupting Compounds: An Overview on Their Occurrence in the Aquatic Environment and Human Exposure

    Concetta Pironti;Maria Ricciardi;Antonio Proto;Pietro Massimiliano Bianco

  • Isospecific Styrene Polymerization by Chiral Titanium Complexes That Contain a Tetradentate [OSSO]-Type Bis(phenolato) Ligand

    Carmine Capacchione;Ramanujachary Manivannan;Marco Barone;Klaus Beckerle

  • Novel Aluminoxane-free Catalysts For Syndiotactic-specific Polymerization of Styrene

    Claudio Pellecchia;Pasquale Longo;Antonio Proto;Adolfo Zambelli

  • Reactivity of some substituted styrenes in the presence of a syndiotactic specific polymerization catalyst

    Alfonso Grassi;Pasquale Longo;Antonio Proto;Adolfo Zambelli

  • Syndiotactic specific polymerization of styrene: driving energy of the steric control and reaction mechanism†

    Pasquale Longo;Antonio Proto;Adolfo Zambelli

  • Polymerization of propene in the presence of MgCl2-supported Ziegler-Natta catalysts, 2. Effects of the co-catalyst composition†

    Vincenzo Busico;Paolo Corradini;Luigi De Martino;Antonio Proto

  • Isotactic-specific polymerization of propene with supported catalysts in the presence of different modifiers

    Antonio Proto;Leone Oliva;Claudio Pellecchia;Andrew J. Sivak

  • Polymerization of ethylene and propene in the presence of organometillic compounds of titanium and zirconium activated with tris(pentafluorophenyl)boron

    Claudio Pellecchia;Antonio Proto;Pasquale Longo;Adolfo Zambelli

  • Stereoselective Polymerization of Conjugated Dienes and Styrene−Butadiene Copolymerization Promoted by Octahedral Titanium Catalyst

    Stefano Milione;Cinzia Cuomo;Carmine Capacchione;Carla Zannoni

  • Synthesis of syndiotactic poly-1,2-(4-methyl-1,3-pentadiene)

    Adolfo Zambelli;Paolo Ammendola;Antonio Proto

  • Copolymerization of styrene and isoprene : an insight into the mechanism of syndiospecific styrene polyinsertion

    Claudio Pellecchia;Antonio Proto;Adolfo Zambelli

  • Ethylene polymerization catalyzed by metallocene/methylaluminoxane systems: quantum‐mechanical study on the role of olefin separated ion pairs (OSIP) in the polymerization mechanism

    Roberto Fusco;Luca Longo;Antonio Proto;Francesco Masi

  • Utilization of chemically oxidized polystyrene as co-substrate by filamentous fungi.

    Oriana Motta;Antonio Proto;Francesco De Carlo;Francesco De Caro

  • Binary copolymerizations of styrene and conjugated diolefins in the presence of cyclopentadienyltitanium trichloride-methylaluminoxane

    Adolfo Zambelli;Antonio Proto;Pasquale Longo;Patrizia Oliva

  • 13C-Enriched end groups of polypropylene and poly(1-butene) prepared in the presence of bis(cyclopentadienyl)titanium diphenyl and methylalumoxane

    Adolfo Zambelli;Paolo Ammendola;Alfonso Grassi;Pasquale Longo

  • Poly(glycidyl ether)s recycling from industrial waste and feasibility study of reuse as electrolytes in sodium-based batteries

    Giulia Piana;Maria Ricciardi;Federico Bella;Raffaele Cucciniello

  • Stereospecific post-metallocene polymerization catalysts: the example of isospecific styrene polymerization

    Klaus Beckerle;Carmine Capacchione;Henner Ebeling;R. Manivannan

  • Non-metallocene catalysts for the styrene polymerization: isospecific group 4 metal bis(phenolate) catalysts

    Carmine Capacchione;Antonio Proto;Henner Ebeling;Rolf Mülhaupt

  • Stereoselective polymerization of biosourced terpenes β-myrcene and β-ocimene and their copolymerization with styrene promoted by titanium catalysts

    Marco Naddeo;Antonio Buonerba;Ermanno Luciano;Alfonso Grassi

Frequent Co-Authors

Pasquale Longo
Pasquale Longo University of Salerno
Adolfo Zambelli
Adolfo Zambelli University of Salerno
Jun Okuda
Jun Okuda RWTH Aachen University
Luigi Rizzo
Luigi Rizzo University of Salerno
Alfonso Grassi
Alfonso Grassi University of Salerno
Claudio Pellecchia
Claudio Pellecchia University of Salerno
Rolf Mülhaupt
Rolf Mülhaupt University of Freiburg
Fabrizio Passarini
Fabrizio Passarini University of Bologna
Federico Bella
Federico Bella Polytechnic University of Turin
Thomas P. Spaniol
Thomas P. Spaniol RWTH Aachen University

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