Processes Webinar | Advances in Supercritical CO₂ Processing: from Industrial Scale-up to Drug Delivery Systems
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29th Processes Webinar
Advances in Supercritical CO₂ Processing: from Industrial Scale-up to Drug Delivery Systems
Good morning/afternoon everyone, and welcome to today's webinar, "Advances in Supercritical CO₂ Processing: From Industrial Scale-Up to Drug Delivery Systems."
It is my pleasure to moderate this session, which brings together two complementary perspectives on one of the most versatile and sustainable technologies available in modern process engineering.
Supercritical carbon dioxide has evolved from being a niche processing medium to becoming a powerful platform for applications ranging from large-scale industrial manufacturing to the development of highly sophisticated pharmaceutical and biomedical products. Thanks to its unique physicochemical properties, supercritical CO₂ enables solvent reduction, mild operating conditions, precise control of material properties, and environmentally friendly processing routes.
Today's webinar has been designed to illustrate this broad spectrum of applications through two invited presentations.
Our first speaker, Prof. Renata Adami from the University of Salerno, will discuss how supercritical CO₂ technologies can be successfully translated from laboratory research to industrial-scale implementation, highlighting the challenges and opportunities associated with process scale-up.
The second presentation, delivered by Dr. Pier Francesco Ferrari from the University of Genoa, will focus on the use of supercritical-assisted processes for the encapsulation of bioactive compounds into liposomes, demonstrating how these technologies are contributing to the development of innovative drug delivery systems with enhanced performance and sustainability.
Thank you all for joining us today, and I hope you enjoy the presentations.
Date: 30 July 2026
Time: 03:00 pm CEST | 9:00 am EDT | 9:00 pm CST Asia
Webinar ID: 886 3039 9917
Webinar Secretariat: journal.webinar@mdpi.com
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Speaker |
Presentation Title |
Time in CEST |
Time in EDT |
Time in CST Asia |
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Diana-Elena Radulescu |
Processes and Webinar introduction |
3:00–3:05 p.m. |
9:00–9:05 a.m. |
9:00–9:05 p.m. |
|
Dr. Paolo Trucillo |
Chair Introduction |
3:05–3:10 p.m. |
9:05–9:10 a.m. |
9:05–9:10 p.m. |
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Prof. Renata Adami |
Supercritical CO2 Processes: from Laboratory to Industrial Scale |
3:10–3:40 p.m. |
9:10–9:40 a.m. |
9:10–9:40 p.m. |
| Dr. Pier Francesco Ferrari | Encapsulation of Bioactive Compounds in Liposomes via a Supercritical-assisted Process |
3:40–4:10 p.m. |
9:40–10:10 a.m. |
9:40–10:10 p.m. |
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Diana-Elena Radulescu |
Processes Journal report |
4:10–4:20 p.m. |
10:10–10:20 a.m. |
10:10–10:20 p.m. |
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Q&A Session |
4:20–4:35 p.m. |
10:20–10:35 a.m. |
10:20–10:35 p.m. |
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Dr. Paolo Trucillo |
Closing of Webinar |
4:35–4:40 p.m. |
10:35–10:40 a.m. |
10:35–10:40 p.m. |
Meet Our Speakers
Prof. Renata Adami
University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy;
Renata Adami is an Associate Professor at the Department of Physics “E.R. Caianiello”, University of Salerno, Italy, with dual doctoral backgrounds in Chemical Engineering (University of Salerno) and Food Chemistry (University of Turku, Finland). She earned her honours chemical engineering degree in 2001 and has undertaken long-term academic visits at universities across Germany, the UK, Finland and Ecuador as an invited lecturer and researcher.
Her core research spans supercritical fluid technology, nanomaterial synthesis, micronization and sustainable nanotechnology over two decades. Current projects focus on recovering valuable bioactive compounds from agro-industrial waste, developing sustainable aviation biofuels, application of innovative technologies based on the electrochemistry and electrospinnig, and nanostructure characterization. She serves as a principal investigator for university-funded green technology research projects.
In teaching, she delivers master-level courses on physical sustainable processes, laboratory on nanotechnologies and innovative processes and supercritical fluid nanomaterial fabrication, supervising graduate and doctoral students. Her academic output includes 76 peer-reviewed publications with an h-index of 25, and she regularly presents findings at international conferences while maintaining cross-disciplinary collaborations with pharmacy and engineering
Dr. Pier Francesco Ferrari
University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy;
Pier Francesco Ferrari is an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering in the Department of Civil, Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of Genoa. He also serves as a staff scientist in the Cardiac and Vascular Research Center of San Martino Hospital in Genoa and is an active member in the Research Center for Biologically Inspired Engineering in Vascular Medicine and Longevity. After earning his Ph.D. in Chemical, Materials and Process Engineering, focused on functionalized biodegradable electrospun scaffolds and nanoengineered particles as innovative tools for vascular medicine, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Surgical and Integrated Diagnostic Sciences at the University of Genoa. His research interests are primarily devoted to the design and evaluation of nanosystems based on biological macromolecules for cardiovascular theranostics, integrating in vitro experimentation with in vivo validation. He is involved in the fabrication and characterization of advanced biomaterials for application as scaffolds in vascular tissue engineering, with a particular emphasis on their functional assessment in high-performance bioreactors. His team has been developing polyphenol-based bioinspired materials with antioxidant, antibacterial, and antibiofilm properties. His experiences abroad at the University of Lorraine and at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg have significantly strengthened his expertise in nanotechnology and biomaterials for cardiac tissue engineering, respectively. He is a member of the editorial board of BMC Biomedical Engineering and is the inventor of three national and international patents. He is also co-founder of the start-up "Biologically Inspired Engineering for Symbiotic Treatments", dedicated to the production of microorganism-based biofertilizers.
Feature Review Papers in Section “Pharmaceutical Processes”
Edited by Paolo Trucillo
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2026
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