Experience

Kelpi

• United Kingdom
• Packaging and Containers Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Polymer Chemist

  • Jan 2022 - Present

  Kelpi is a world-leading sustainable materials innovation business - harnessing the properties of seaweed to create compostable, marine-safe, low-carbon bioplastic packaging. We’re addressing the major problems of marine plastic pollution by replacing fossil fuel-plastics with materials that bio-degrade fully, leaving no toxins nor micro-plastics behind. Kelpi is a world-leading sustainable materials innovation business - harnessing the properties of seaweed to create compostable, marine-safe, low-carbon bioplastic packaging. We’re addressing the major problems of marine plastic pollution by replacing fossil fuel-plastics with materials that bio-degrade fully, leaving no toxins nor micro-plastics behind.



University of Bath Institute for Sustainability

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• PHD Student

  • Oct 2017 - Dec 2021

  Xylose as a functional platform chemical for sustainable polymersSupervisor: Dr Antoine Buchard.Synthesis, characterisation and applications of renewable polymers from sugars. In particular, from D-xylose from 2nd generation feedstocks (hemicellulosic biomass). Coupling with additional biobased sources, plant oils/fatty acids in particular. Several monomer synthesis and polymerisation techniques exploited, together with post-polymerisation modification strategies. Full chemical, physical, thermal and mechanical characterisation carried out. Structure-properties relationships investigated. Polyethylene-like plastics achieved.University of Bath researcher profile: https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/marco-piccini



Politecnico di Milano

• Italy
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Internship

  • Oct 2016 - Apr 2017

  Research: Green organic chemistry applied to materials - application of biobased molecules to the chemical modification of graphene and carbon nanotubesTutors: Prof. Maurizio Galimberti and Attilio Citterio Research: Green organic chemistry applied to materials - application of biobased molecules to the chemical modification of graphene and carbon nanotubesTutors: Prof. Maurizio Galimberti and Attilio Citterio



6th International IUPAC Conference on Green Chemistry

• Conference Staff

  • Aug 2016 - Sep 2016