Chiara Valsecchi
Federal University of Pampa, Brazil
Biography
Chiara Valsecchi graduate in Chemistry from the University of Milano – Bicocca, Italy, in 2009, received her master degree from the University of Victoria, Canada, in 2013 and her PhD from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil, in 2018. During the first years, she specialized on the study, characterization and fabrication of gold nanoholes arrays as biosensors based on surface plasmon resonance. More recently, she started to focus on material and biomaterial synthetization and characterization, in order to aggregate value to a large industrial waste present in the rural part of the south -west side of Brazil. Currently, she works on silica and activated carbon based filters for water purification and, particularly, silica extraction from bio-waste for glass production and applications.
Abstract
Abstract : Transparent soda-lime glass fabrication with silica from rice husk ashes