Rocco Di Girolamo
Italian Aerospace Research Centre, University of Naples Federico II
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About
Rocco Di Girolamo is a materials scientist and polymer chemist whose research sits at the intersection of space exploration and sustainable soft materials. His work addresses two critical challenges: mitigating the hazards of lunar dust for future space missions, and developing next-generation elastomers from renewable feedstocks. In his highly cited 2023 study on "Design of Innovative High-Performance Polymer for Passive Lunar Dust Mitigation," Di Girolamo tackles the pervasive problem of abrasive lunar regolith—a major obstacle for manned and robotic exploration—by engineering polymer surfaces that passively repel dust particles. This work has already garnered 4 citations and positions him at the forefront of space materials engineering. More recently, his 2025 paper on "Comonomer Discrimination in Copolymerization of β-Myrcene" introduces a sustainable catalytic approach to producing soft elastomers, using abundant, non-toxic catalysts to copolymerize bio-derived myrcene with various dienes. With 2 citations already, this work addresses the growing demand for eco-friendly materials in robotics and biomedical devices. Di Girolamo’s dual focus on space-hardy materials and green polymer chemistry marks him as an innovative researcher bridging fundamental catalysis with real-world engineering challenges.
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