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Stefania Impellizzeri

Toronto

Position: Associate Professor, Jet Ice Research Chair in Sustainable Materials Chemistry, Dimensions Faculty Chair for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Research (Faculty of Science)

Organization: Department of Chemistry and Biology, Toronto Metropolitan University

Researcher in metallic and semiconducting nanomaterials for bioimaging and catalysis, as well as materials, energy and water sustainability in the ice-making industry. Actively involved in equity, diversity and inclusion initiatives, inclusive mentorship, and policy development for greener practices and products in sports arenas.

Areas of Expertise:

+ Photochemistry
+ Nanomaterials

Language(s):

+ English
+ Italian


About Me

Sector: Academia (Post Secondary)

English proficiency: Read, Write, Speak

French proficiency: Read

Other Language(s): Italian

Title: Dr.

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Gender: Cisgender Female

Demographic: European / White


Recent Publications

Title Year
Heat Enhancement of Ethylene Glycol/Water Mixture in the Presence of Gyroid TPMS Structure: Experimental and Numerical Comparison2025
Improved imaging and preservation of lysosome dynamics using silver nanoparticle-enhanced fluorescence2023
Single-colour, visible light activation and excitation of the luminescence of a ‘switch-on’ dye and enhancement by silver nanoparticles2022
Direct photochemical route to azoxybenzenes via nitroarene homocoupling2022
Single-Colour, Visible Light Activation and Excitation of the Luminescence of a ‘Switch-On’ Dye and Enhancement by Silver Nanoparticles2022
Facile supramolecular strategy to construct solid fluorophore@metal–organic framework composites2022
Experimental Investigation of Heat Transfer with Various Aqueous Mono/Hybrid Nanofluids in a Multi-Channel Heat Exchanger2021
The complex chemistry of diversity and inclusion: a 30-year synthesis2021
Photochemical Insights on Intramolecular Dye‐Sensitized Free‐Radical Processes with a Quinoline Antenna2021
Photochemical synthesis and radical generation of the nickel-tin dimer [Ni(SnBut3)(CNBut)2(CO)]22021
Design and engineering of a dual-mode absorption/emission molecular switch for all-optical encryption2021
Fluorescence activation, patterning and enhancement with photogenerated radicals, a prefluorescent probe and silver nanostructures2021
Single Molecule Techniques Can Distinguish the Photophysical Processes Governing Metal-Enhanced Fluorescence2020
A Reconfigurable, Dual-Output INHIBIT and IMPLICATION Molecular Logic Gate2020
Experimental and numerical investigation of heat enhancement using a hybrid nanofluid of copper oxide/alumina nanoparticles in water2020
Optical writing and single molecule reading of photoactivatable and silver nanoparticle-enhanced fluorescence2020
Tetrahydropyranyl protection and deprotection of alcohols using a niobium-based Brønsted acid catalyst2016
Two‐Photon Excitation of a Plasmonic Nanoswitch Monitored by Single‐Molecule Fluorescence Microscopy2016
Single molecule study of samarium oxide nanoparticles as a purely heterogeneous catalyst for one-pot aldehyde chemistry2016
Dye synthesis in the Pechmann reaction: catalytic behaviour of samarium oxide nanoparticles studied using single molecule fluorescence microscopy2015
Photochemical synthesis and characterization of novel samarium oxide nanoparticles: toward a heterogeneous Brønsted acid catalyst2014
Mechanistic insights into the Nb2O5 and niobium phosphate catalyzed in situ condensation of a fluorescent halochromic assembly2014
Copper nanoparticle heterogeneous catalytic ‘click’ cycloaddition confirmed by single-molecule spectroscopy2014
Synthesis, acid properties and catalysis by niobium oxide nanostructured materials2014
Sensitized excited free-radical processes as read–write tools: impact on non-linear lithographic processes2013