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Renato Noto is affiliated with the University of Palermo in Italy and has contributed extensively to the field of Materials Science. Their research spans multiple subfields including Materials Chemistry, Biomaterials, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Organic Chemistry, and Complementary and Manual Therapy.

The scientist's work heavily focuses on topics related to clay minerals and soil interactions, iron oxide chemistry and applications, layered double hydroxides synthesis and applications, therapeutic uses of natural elements, graphene and nanomaterials applications, graphene research and applications, and supramolecular self-assembly in materials.

Renato Noto has published research in various scientific journals. Frequent venues for their publications include ChemPlusChem, Applied Clay Science, ARKIVOC, the Bulletin of the Gioenia Academy of Natural Sciences of Catania, and Molecules.

Some of their recent papers are:

  • Past, Present and Future Perspectives on Halloysite Clay Minerals, 2020, Molecules
  • One-pot synthesis of ZnO nanoparticles supported on halloysite nanotubes for catalytic applications, 2020, Applied Clay Science
  • Halloysite Nanotubes: Smart Nanomaterials in Catalysis, 2022, Catalysts
  • Halloysite nanotubes: a green resource for materials and life sciences, 2020, RENDICONTI LINCEI
  • Synthesis, characterization and study of covalently modified triazole LAPONITE® edges, 2020, Applied Clay Science

Renato Noto often collaborates with several researchers. Frequent co-authors include Marina Massaro, Serena Riela, Giuseppe Lazzara, and Ivana Pibiri.

Best Publications

  • Supported proline and proline-derivatives as recyclable organocatalysts

    Michelangelo Gruttadauria;Francesco Giacalone;Renato Noto

  • Water in Stereoselective Organocatalytic Reactions

    Michelangelo Gruttadauria;Francesco Giacalone;Renato Noto

  • Low-loading asymmetric organocatalysis

    Francesco Giacalone;Michelangelo Gruttadauria;Paola Agrigento;Renato Noto

  • Covalently modified halloysite clay nanotubes: synthesis, properties, biological and medical applications

    M. Massaro;G. Lazzara;S. Milioto;R. Noto

  • Supported ionic liquids. New recyclable materials for the L-proline-catalyzed aldol reaction

    Michelangelo Gruttadauria;Serena Riela;Carmela Aprile;Paolo Lo Meo

  • Halloysite nanotubes as support for metal-based catalysts

    M. Massaro;C. G. Colletti;G. Lazzara;S. Milioto

  • Supported ionic liquid asymmetric catalysis. A new method for chiral catalysts recycling. The case of proline-catalyzed aldol reaction

    Michelangelo Gruttadauria;Serena Riela;Paolo Lo Meo;Francesca D'Anna

  • Direct chemical grafted curcumin on halloysite nanotubes as dual-responsive prodrug for pharmacological applications

    M. Massaro;Riccardo Amorati;G. Cavallaro;Susanna Guernelli

  • Polystyrene-supported proline and prolinamide. Versatile heterogeneous organocatalysts both for asymmetric aldol reaction in water and α-selenenylation of aldehydes

    Francesco Giacalone;Michelangelo Gruttadauria;Adriana Mossuto Marculescu;Renato Noto

  • Synthesis and Characterization of Halloysite–Cyclodextrin Nanosponges for Enhanced Dyes Adsorption

    Marina Massaro;Carmelo G. Colletti;Giuseppe Lazzara;Susanna Guernelli

  • Past, Present and Future Perspectives on Halloysite Clay Minerals.

    Marina Massaro;Renato Noto;Serena Riela

  • Chemical modification of halloysite nanotubes for controlled loading and release

    Marina Massaro;Giuseppe Cavallaro;Carmelo G. Colletti;Giuseppe Lazzara

  • Hydrophobically Directed Aldol Reactions: Polystyrene-Supported L-Proline as a Recyclable Catalyst for Direct Asymmetric Aldol Reactions in the Presence of Water

    Michelangelo Gruttadauria;Francesco Giacalone;Adriana Mossuto Marculescu;Paolo Lo Meo

  • New Simple Hydrophobic Proline Derivatives as Highly Active and Stereoselective Catalysts for the Direct Asymmetric Aldol Reaction in Aqueous Medium

    Francesco Giacalone;Michelangelo Gruttadauria;Paolo Lo Meo;Serena Riela

  • Development and characterization of co-loaded curcumin/triazole-halloysite systems and evaluation of their potential anticancer activity.

    Serena Riela;Marina Massaro;Carmelo G. Colletti;Alessandra Bommarito

  • Study of aromatic nucleophilic substitution with amines on nitrothiophenes in room-temperature ionic liquids: are the different effects on the behavior of para-like and ortho-like isomers on going from conventional solvents to room-temperature ionic liquids related to solvation effects?

    Francesca D'Anna;Vincenzo Frenna;Renato Noto;Vitalba Pace

  • Novel Prolinamide‐Supported Polystyrene as Highly Stereoselective and Recyclable Organocatalyst for the Aldol Reaction

    Michelangelo Gruttadauria;Francesco Giacalone;Adriana Mossuto Marculescu;Renato Noto

  • “Release and catch” catalytic systems

    Michelangelo Gruttadauria;Francesco Giacalone;Renato Noto

  • Biocompatible Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-halloysite Nanotubes for Thermoresponsive Curcumin Release

    Giuseppe Cavallaro;Giuseppe Lazzara;Marina Massaro;Stefana Milioto

  • Halloysite Nanotubes as Support for Metal-Based Catalysts

    M. Massaro;G. Cavallaro;C. Colletti;G. Lazzara

Frequent Co-Authors

Giuseppe Lazzara
Giuseppe Lazzara University of Palermo
Stefana Milioto
Stefana Milioto University of Palermo
Giuseppe Cavallaro
Giuseppe Cavallaro University of Palermo
Leonarda F. Liotta
Leonarda F. Liotta National Research Council (CNR)
Carla Giordano
Carla Giordano Sapienza University of Rome
Marco Lucarini
Marco Lucarini University of Bologna
Maurizio Prato
Maurizio Prato University of Trieste
Giuseppe Pantaleo
Giuseppe Pantaleo University of Lausanne
Kenneth R. Seddon
Kenneth R. Seddon Queen's University Belfast

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