Departament de Física

Michela Romanini

Lecturer
Campus Besós (UPC), Edifici DBA, Despatx C-2.1
Avda. Eduard Maristany, s/n
08019 Barcelona

Telèfon: +34 4137561
E-Mail: michela.romaniniupc.edu
Web del grup de recerca: https://gcm.upc.edu/en
Web personal: http://gcm.upc.edu/members/michela

Dr. Michela Romanini carries out experimental research on glass forming materials, orientational disordered (OD) solids, and solid-state transitions. Her current research focuses on the characterization of thermal, structural, electrical, and molecular dynamic properties of molecular and polymeric materials, and the study of baro- and electro-caloric effects to assess phase transition kinetics and heat release in materials displaying solid-solid phase transformations upon mechanical compression or application of an electric bias.


Short CV


2023 - present: Serra Húnter" Lecturer. Department of Physics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
2021 - 2023: Juan de la Cierva – Incorporación postoctoral fellow. Department of Physics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
2018 - 2021: Juan de la Cierva – Formación postoctoral fellow. Department of Physics of Condensed Matter, Universitat de Barcelona
2015 - 2018: Postoctoral researcher in the Grup de Caracterització de Materials and Assistant professor at the EEBE. Department of Physics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
2009 - 2015: PhD in Applied and Computacional Physics and professor Ajudant at the EEBE. Department of Physics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
2005 - 2007: Master’s Degree in Instrumentation and Informatics in Physics, Astronomy and Space Research. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, the Netherlands
1998- 2002: Bachelor’s Degree in Physics. Universitá degli Studi di Trieste, Italy


1- Alginate-graft-polyacrylic acid electro-responsive hydrogels: Impact of the conducting polymer and application as hydrogen peroxide sensor
Ramirez, M.; Álvarez, A.; Resina, L.; Romanini, M.; Macovez, R.; Perez, M.; Aleman, C.
European polymer journal 219, article 113388 (2024)

2- Unraveling thermal depolarization phenomena in biphasic polarized calcium phosphate catalyst
Arnau, M.; Sans, J.; Tamarit, J. Ll.; Romanini, M.; Turon, P.; Aleman, C.
Advanced materials interfaces 11, 33 (2024)

3- Eutectic binary phase diagram and kinetically stable homogeneous co-amorphous mixtures of two imidazole drugs
Noor, W.; Macovez, R.; Zamora, P.; Tamarit, J. Ll.; Romanini, M.
Journal of molecular liquids 416, part B, article 126518 (2024)

4- Prediction and understanding of barocaloric effects in orientationally disordered materials from molecular dynamics simulations
Escorihuela, C.; Pardo, L.; Romanini, M.; Obrecht, N.; Loehlé, S.; Lloveras, P.; Tamarit, J. Ll.; Cazorla, C.
npj computational materials 10, 13 (2024)

5- pH and electrically responsive hydrogels with adhesive property
Ramirez, M.; Molins, M.; Garcia-Torres, J.; Romanini, M.; Macovez, R.; Perez, M.; Aleman, C.
Reactive and functional polymers 196, 105841 (2024)

6- Large barocaloric effects in two novel ferroelectric molecular plastic crystals
Salvatori, A.; Aguilà, D.; Aromí, G.; Mañosa Carrera, Lluis; Planes, A.; Lloveras, P.; Pardo, L.; Appel, M.; Nataf, G.; Giovannelli, F.; Del Barrio, M.; Tamarit, J. Ll.; Romanini, M.
Journal of materials chemistry. A 23, (2023)

7- Barocaloric response of plastic crystal 2-methyl-2-nitro-1-propanol across and far from the solid-solid phase transition
Salvatori, A.; Del Barrio, M.; Negrier, P.; Massip, S.; Romanini, M.; Aznar, A.; Lloveras, P.; Tamarit, J. Ll.
JPhys energy 5, 045015 (2023)

8- Dielectric spectroscopy studies of conformational relaxation dynamics in molecular glass-forming liquids
Romanini, M.; Macovez, R.; Valenti, S.; Noor, W.; Tamarit, J. Ll.
International journal of molecular sciences 24, 17189 (2023)

9- Eutectic mixture formation and relaxation dynamics of coamorphous mixtures of two benzodiazepine drugs
Valenti, S.; Cazorla, C.; Romanini, M.; Tamarit, J. Ll.; Macovez, R.
Pharmaceutics (Basel) 15, 196 (2023)

10- Drug-biopolymer dispersions: morphology-and temperature-dependent (anti)plasticizer effect of the drug and component-specific Johari–Goldstein relaxations
Valenti, S.; del Valle, LJ.; Romanini, M.; Mitjana, M.; Puiggali, J.; Tamarit, J. Ll.; Macovez, R.
International journal of molecular sciences 23, 2456 (2022)

11- Glass transition, crystallization kinetics, and inter-conformer relaxation dynamics of amorphous mitotane and related compounds
Romanini, M.; Pérez, A.; Macovez, R.
International journal of pharmaceutics 629, 122390 (2022)

12- Inter-enantiomer conversion dynamics and Johari–Goldstein relaxation of benzophenones
Romanini, M.; Macovez, R.; Tamarit, J. Ll.
Scientific reports 11, 20248 (2021)

13- Uniaxial negative thermal expansion in polymorphic 2-bromobenzophenone, due to aromatic interactions?
Romanini, M.; Rietveld, I.; Del Barrio, M.; Negrier, P.; Mondieig, D.; Macovez, R.; Céolin, R.; Tamarit, J. Ll.
Crystal growth & design 21, 2167-2175 (2021)

14- Giant and reversible barocaloric effect in trinuclear spin-crossover complex Fe3(bntrz)6(tcnset)6
Romanini, M.; Lloveras, P.; Del Barrio, M.; Aznar, A.; Gracia-Condal, A.; Emre, B.; Tamarit, J. Ll.; Planes, A.; Manosa, L.
Advanced materials 33, 2008076:1-2008076:9 (2021)

15- Comparative physical study of three pharmaceutically active benzodiazepine derivatives: crystalline versus amorphous state and crystallization tendency
Valenti, S.; Del Barrio, M.; Negrier, P.; Romanini, M.; Macovez, R.; Tamarit, J. Ll.
Molecular Pharmaceutics 18, 1819-1832 (2021)

16- Secondary relaxation in the terahertz range in 2-adamantanone from theory and experiments
Cui, B.; Gebbia, J. F.; Romanini, M.; Fernandez- Perea, R.; Bermejo, F. J.; Tamarit, J. Ll.; Zaconne, A.
Physical review. B. 101, 10 (2020)

17- Polymorphism of 1,3-X-adamantanes (X = Br, OH, CH3) and the crystal plastic phase formation ability
Negrier, P.; Ben Hassine, B.; Del Barrio, M.; Romanini, M.; Mondieig, D.; Tamarit, J. Ll.
Crystengcomm , 1230:1-1230:9 (2020)

18- Amorphous binary dispersions of chloramphenicol in enantiomeric pure and racemic poly-lactic acid: morphology, molecular relaxations, and controlled drug release
Valenti, S.; Diaz, A.; Romanini, M.; del Valle, LJ.; Puiggali, J.; Tamarit, J. Ll.; Macovez, R.
International journal of pharmaceutics 568, 1-11 (2019)

19- Mixtures of m-fluoroaniline with apolar aromatic molecules: Phase behaviour, suppression of H-bonded clusters, and local H-bond relaxation dynamics
Romanini, M.; Del Barrio, M.; Macovez, R.; Capaccioli, S.; Tamarit, J. Ll.
Journal of molecular liquids 296, 111998:1-111998:8 (2019)

20- Polymorphism with conformational isomerism and incomplete crystallization in solid ethanolamine
Romanini, M.; Negrier, P.; Tripathi, P.; Gournis, D.; Lira, K.; Del Barrio, M.; Pardo, L.; Tamarit, J. Ll.; Macovez, R.
Crystal growth and design 19, 6360-6369 (2019)

21- Structure and dynamics of the crystalline stable phase of 2-Chlorothiophene
Romanini, M.; Negrier, P.; Del Barrio, M.; Mondieig, D.; Serra, P.; Zuriaga, J.; Macovez, R.; Tamarit, J. Ll.
Crystal growth and design 19, 6405-6413 (2019)

22- Nose temperature and anticorrelation between recrystallization kinetics and molecular relaxation dynamics in amorphous morniflumate at high pressure
Romanini, M.; Valenti, S.; Del Barrio, M.; Tamarit, J. Ll.; Macovez, R.; Rodríguez, S.
Molecular pharmaceutics 16, 3514-3523 (2019)

23- Enhancement of the physical and chemical stability of amorphous drug-polymer mixtures via cryogenic comilling
Romanini, M.; Lorente, M.; Schammé, B.; Delbreilh, L.; Dupray, V.; Coquerel, G.; Tamarit, J. Ll.; Macovez, R.
Macromolecules 51, 9382-9392 (2018)

24- Tuning the Kinetic Stability of the Amorphous Phase of the Chloramphenicol Antibiotic
Valenti, S.; Romanini, M.; Franco, L.; Puiggali, J.; Tamarit, J. Ll.; Macovez, R.
Molecular pharmaceutics 15, 5615-5624 (2018)

25- Simultaneous orientational and conformational molecular dynamics in solid 1,1,2-Trichloroethane
Romanini, M.; Mitsari, E.; Tripathi, P.; Serra, P.; Zuriaga, J.; Tamarit, J. Ll.; Macovez, R.
Journal of physical chemistry C 122, 5774-5783 (2018)

26- Protonic surface conductivity and proton space-charge relaxation in hydrated fullerol
Mitsari, E.; Romanini, M.; Del Barrio, M.; Tamarit, J. Ll.; Macovez, R.
The journal of physical chemistry. Part C, nanomaterials and interfaces 121, 4873-4881 (2017)

27- Thermodynamic scaling of the dynamics of a strongly hydrogen-bonded glass-former
Romanini, M.; Del Barrio, M.; Macovez, R.; Ruiz, M.; Capaccioli, S.; Tamarit, J. Ll.
Scientific reports 7, 1346 (2017)

28- Giant barocaloric effects over a wide temperature range in the superionic conductor AgI
Aznar, A.; Lloveras, P.; Romanini, M.; Del Barrio, M.; Tamarit, J. Ll.; Cazorla, C.; Errandonea, D.; Mathur, N.; Planes, A.; Moya, X.; Mañosa Carrera, Lluis
Nature communications 8, 1851-1-1851-6 (2017)

29- Relaxation dynamics vs crystallization kinetics in the amorphous state: the case of Stiripentol
Ruiz, G.; Romanini, M.; Del Barrio, M.; Tamarit, J. Ll.; Pardo, L.; Macovez, R.
Molecular pharmaceutics 14, 3636-3643 (2017)

30- Genuine antiplasticizing effect of water on a glass-former drug
Ruiz, G.; Romanini, M.; Hauptmann, A.; Loerting, T.; Shalaev, E.; Tamarit, J. Ll.; Pardo, L.; Macovez, R.
Scientific reports 7, 1-8 (2017)

31- Thermodynamic and kinetic fragility of Freon 113: the most fragile plastic crystal
Vispa, A.; Romanini, M.; Ramos , M.; Pardo, L.; Bermejo , F.; Hassaine, M.; Krivchikov, A.; Taylor, J.; Tamarit, J. Ll.
Physical review letters 118, 105701-1-105701-6 (2017)

32- Implanted muon spin spectroscopy on 2-O-adamantane: a model system that mimics the liquid
Romanini, M.; Tamarit, J. Ll.; Pardo, L.; Bermejo, F. J.; Fernandez- Perea, R.; Pratt, F.
Journal of Physics Condensed Matter 29, 8 (2017)

33- Variable-range electron hopping, conductivity cross-over and space-charge relaxation in C60Br6
Zachariah, M.; Romanini, M.; Zygouri, P.; Gournis, D.; Tamarit, J. Ll.; Del Barrio, M.; Macovez, R.
Synthetic metals 217, 123-128 (2016)

34- C60 solvate with (1,1,2)-trichloroethane: dynamic statistical disorder and mixed conformation
Mitsari, E.; Romanini, M.; Qureshi, N.; Tamarit, J. Ll.; Del Barrio, M.; Macovez, R.
The journal of physical chemistry. Part C, nanomaterials and interfaces 120, 12831-12839 (2016)

35- Double primary relaxation in a highly anisotropic orientational glass-former with low-dimensional disorder
Romanini, M.; Del Barrio, M.; Capaccioli, S.; Ruiz, M.; Macovez, R.; Tamarit, J. Ll.
The journal of physical chemistry. Part C, nanomaterials and interfaces 120, 10614-10621 (2016)

36- Structure and reorientational dynamics of 1-F-adamantane
Ben Hassine, B.; Negrier, P.; Romanini, M.; Del Barrio, M.; Macovez, R.; Kallel, A.; Mondieig, D.; Tamarit, J. Ll.
Physical chemistry chemical physics 18, 10924-10930 (2016)

37- Orientational relaxations in solid (1,1,2,2)tetrachloroethane
Tripathi, P.; Mitsari, E.; Romanini, M.; Serra, P.; Tamarit, J. Ll.; Zuriaga, J.; Macovez, R.
Journal of chemical physics 144, 164505 (2016)

38- Solid state physicochemical properties and applications of organic and metallo-organic fullerene derivatives
Mitsari, E.; Romanini, M.; Zachariah, M.; Macovez, R.
Current organic chemistry 20, 645-661 (2016)

39- Self-diffusion, phase behavior, and Li+ ion conduction in succinonitrile-based plastic cocrystals
Zachariah, M.; Romanini, M.; Tripathi, P.; Del Barrio, M.; Tamarit, J. Ll.; Macovez, R.
The journal of physical chemistry. Part C, nanomaterials and interfaces 119, 27298-27306 (2015)

40- Collective relaxation dynamics and crystallization kinetics of the amorphous Biclotymol antiseptic
Tripathi, P.; Romanini, M.; Tamarit, J. Ll.; Macovez, R.
International journal of pharmaceutics 495, 420-427 (2015)

41- Molecular diffusion and dc conductivity perfectly correlated with molecular rotational dynamics in a plastic crystalline electrolyte
Zachariah, M.; Romanini, M.; Tripathi, P.; Tamarit, J. Ll.; Macovez, R.
Physical chemistry chemical physics 17, 16053-16057 (2015)

42- Water-Triggered Conduction Mediated by Proton Exchange in a Hygroscopic Fulleride and Its Hydrate
Zachariah, M.; Mitsari, E.; Romanini, M.; Zygouri, P.; Gournis, D.; Del Barrio, M.; Tamarit, J. Ll.; Macovez, R.
The journal of physical chemistry. Part C, nanomaterials and interfaces 119, 685-694 (2015)

43- Ultraslow dynamics of water in organic molecular solids
Macovez, R.; Mitsari, E.; Zachariah, M.; Romanini, M.; Zygouri, P.; Gournis, D.; Tamarit, J. Ll.
The journal of physical chemistry. Part C, nanomaterials and interfaces 118, 4941-4950 (2014)

44- Polymorphism of 2-Adamantanone
Negrier, P.; Del Barrio, M.; Romanini, M.; Tamarit, J. Ll.; Mondieig, D.; Krivchikov, A.; Kepinski, L.; Jezowski, A.; Szewczyk, D.
Crystal growth and design 14, 2626-2632 (2014)

45- Hopping conductivity and polarization effects in a fullerene derivative salt
Macovez, R.; Zachariah, M.; Romanini, M.; Zygouri, P.; Gournis, D.; Tamarit, J. Ll.
The journal of physical chemistry. Part C, nanomaterials and interfaces 118, 12170-12175 (2014)

46- Silicon-Chip-Based Dielectric Spectroscopy for Conductivity and Molecular Dynamics Studies of Organic Films
Tripathi, P.; Gonzalo, J.; Mitsari, E.; Zachariah, M.; Romanini, M.; Tamarit, J. Ll.; Muñoz-Berbel, X.; Macovez, R.
Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 5, 2796-2801 (2014)

47- Emergence of glassy-like dynamics in an orientationally ordered phase
Romanini, M.; Negrier, P.; Tamarit, J. Ll.; Capaccioli, S.; Del Barrio, M.; Pardo, L.; Mondieig, D.
Physical review B: condensed matter and materials physics 85, 134201-1-134201-7 (2012)

48- Scaling the dynamics of orientationally disordered mixed crystals
Romanini, M.; Martinez, J.; Tamarit, J. Ll.; Rzoska, S.J.; Del Barrio, M.; Pardo, L.; Drozd-Rzoska, A.
Journal of chemical physics 131, 184504-1-184504-6 (2009)