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A data base of the "Antonio Zampolli Fund" has been created and the respective catalogue has been published1. The work of analysis and selection of texts for cataloguing helped in creating this bibliography, in large part built on references extracted by books and journals. Very old bibliographical references have also been retrieved by curricula prepared by Professor Zampolli for various projects and commissions.

Cellulose nanofibrils (CNF) are steadily gaining attention since this material is a renewable alternative to artificial polymers. Moreover, waste products from cellulose-based industries (e.g. paper mills) or from agricultura can be used as raw material for CNF isolation. However, the up-scaling from the laboratory to the industry can only be achieved if the energy costs are low enough to compete against low-price petroleum derivatives. The objective of this work is to present an energy-related study of the direct fibrillation of cellulose-based materials using a grinding process. Two waste materials, namely wheat straw and recycled newspaper, have been investigated as starting materials, together with bleached Wood pulp for comparison purposes. The mechanical properties and specific surface áreas of the resulting fibrillated materials are then presented and systematically compared with each other. The properties of the bleached wood-pulp fibres exhibited the highest values that were reached already at low energy inputs. The different properties of CNF isolated out the waste materials could reach values close to their máxima for energy inputs as low as about 5 kWh/kg compared to the ca. 10kWh/kg needed with high pressure homogenization.

One of the most challenging aspects of using nanofibrillated cellulose (NFC) for membranes production is their limited permeance. When NFC membranes are produced from aqueous suspensions, depending on their grammage, the permeances are in the range of a few decades of L/(hm(2)MPa) not matching satisfactory filtration times. We present a fast and sustainable solution to increase the permeances of such membranes through a combination of solvent exchange of the NFC suspension with ethanol and the use of a removable template, a mixture of calcium compounds (CC). The effect of the CC/NFC ratio was screened for various concentrations. The permeance of water could be increased by as much as 2-3 times as compared to nontemplated membranes. Further, the membranes showed the ability for penetration of water-soluble macromolecules, contaminant rejection of suspended solid particles, and thus fluids (such as orange juice) could be concentrated, with a view to applications in food industry.