Olivia Soliman

Publications & Recent Funding

• Publications
  • 1. Muhammad Azeem, Margaret Brennan Fournet and Olivia A. Attallah, Ultrafast 99% Polyethylene terephthalate depolymerization into value added monomers using sequential glycolysis-hydrolysis under microwave irradiation Published: Jul 2022 in Arabian Journal of Chemistry DOI: 10.1016/J.ARABJC.2022.103903
  • 2. Olivia A. Attallah, Muhammad Azeem, Efstratios Nikolaivits, Evangelos Topakas and Margaret Brennan Fournet, Progressing Ultragreen, Energy-Efficient Biobased Depolymerization of Poly(ethylene terephthalate) via Microwave-Assisted Green Deep Eutectic Solvent and Enzymatic Treatment Published: Jan 2022 in Polymers DOI: 10.3390/POLYM14010109
  • 3. Olivia A. Attallah, Arno Jansen, Muhammad Azeem, Margaret and Brennan Fournet, Fast, High Monomer Yield from Post-consumer Polyethylene Terephthalate via Combined Microwave and Deep Eutectic Solvent Hydrolytic Depolymerization Published: Dec 2021 in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering DOI: 10.1021/ACSSUSCHEMENG.1C07159
  • 4. Olivia A. Attallah, Pablo Ferrero Aguar, Ivana Aleksic, Jasmina Nikodinovic-Runic, Muhammad Azeem and Margaret Bernnan Fournet, Rendering Bio-inert Low-Density Polyethylene Amenable for Biodegradation via Fast High Throughput Reactive Extrusion Assisted Oxidation Published: Feb 2022 in Journal of Polymers and the Environment DOI: 10.1007/S10924-022-02400-W
  • 5. Olivia A. Attallah, Moneira M. Aboul Wafa, Medhat A. Al-Ghobashy, Marianne Nebsen, Hany H. Monir, Adsorptive removal of pesticides from aqueous solutions using chitosan/gelatin polymeric composite: Process monitoring and optimization, International journal of environmental science and technology, 2021.
  • 6. Olivia A. Attallah, Marija Mojicevic, Eduardo L. Garcia, Muhammad Azeem, Yuanyuan Chen, Shumayl Asmawi, and Margaret Brenan Fournet, Macro and Micro Routes to High Performance Bioplastics: Bioplastic Biodegradability and Mechanical and Barrier Properties Published: Jul 2021 in Polymers DOI: 10.3390/POLYM13132155
  • 7. EL Garcia, OA Attallah, M Mojicevic, DM Devine, M Brennan Fournet , Antimicrobial Active Bioplastics Using Triangular Silver Nanoplate Integrated Polycaprolactone and Polylactic Acid Films Published: Mar 2021 in Materials DOI: 10.3390/MA14051132
  • 8. OA Attallah, W Mamdouh, Development and optimization of pectin/chitosan magnetic sponge for efficient cationic dyes removal using Box–Behnken design, International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 2020, 18 (1), 131-140
  • 9. AAF Hetta, OA Attallah, W Mamdouh, Quality evaluation of oil recovered from Euthynnus affinis (Kawakawa) fish using ecofriendly chitosan/oil‐non‐centrifuged sequential purification technique, Journal of Food Processing and Preservation (2020), 45 (1), e15099
  • 10. OA Attallah, M Rabee, A pectin/chitosan/zinc oxide nanocomposite for adsorption/photocatalytic remediation of carbamazepine in water samples, RSC Advances (2020), 10 (67), 40697-40708
  • 11. O.A. Attallah, A. Shetta, F. Elshishiny, W. Mamdouh, Essential oil loaded pectin/chitosan nanoparticles preparation and optimization: via Box-Behnken design against MCF-7 breast cancer cell lines, RSC Adv. 10 (2020) 8703–8708. doi:10.1039/c9ra10204c.
  • 12. Attallah, O.A., Al-Ghobashy, M.A., Ayoub, A.T., and Nebsen, M., Magnetic molecularly imprinted polymer nanoparticles for simultaneous extraction and determination of 6-mercaptopurine and its active metabolite thioguanine in human plasma Published: Aug 2018 in Journal of Chromatography A DOI: 10.1016/J.CHROMA.2018.05.038
  • 13. Attallah, O.A., Al-Ghobashy, M.A., Ayoub, A.T., Tuszynski, J.A. and Nebsen, M. (2018) ‘Computer-aided design of magnetic molecularly imprinted polymer nanoparticles for solid-phase extraction and determination of levetiracetam in human plasma.’ RSC Advances, 8(26) pp. 14280–14292.
  • 14. Attallah, Olivia A., Al-Ghobashy, Medhat A., Nebsen, Marianne, El-Kholy, Rasha and Salem, Maissa Y. (2018) ‘Assessment of pectin-coated magnetite nanoparticles in low-energy water desalination applications.’ Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 25(14).
  • 15. Attallah, Olivia A., Al-Ghobashy, Medhat A., Nebsen, Marianne and Salem, Maissa Y., Adsorptive Removal of Fluoroquinolones from Water by Pectin-Functionalized Magnetic Nanoparticles: Process Optimization Using a Spectrofluorimetric Assay Published: Jan 2017 in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering DOI: 10.1021/ACSSUSCHEMENG.6B01003
  • 16. Attallah, Olivia A., Al-Ghobashy, Medhat A., Nebsen, Marianne and Salem, Maissa Y., Removal of cationic and anionic dyes from aqueous solution with magnetite/ pectin and magnetite/silica/pectin hybrid nanocomposites: kinetic, isotherm and mechanism analysis Published: 2016 in RSC Advances DOI: 10.1039/C5RA23452
• Recent Funding
  • 2022: Presidential Doctoral scholarship (PDS) awarded by TUS to fund a PhD student, (€16,000) for 48 months, PI Olivia Soliman.
  • 2021: Equipment Grant for Circular Plastics Suite (CPS), including a microwave depolymerizer, fertilization machine, polymerization rig and analytical device, funded by technology gateway and technology center, capital call 2021, call 2, (€249,018), PI Margaret Fournet, Co-PI Olivia Soliman and Yuan Chen.
  • 2021: high throughput depolymerization of mixed plastics provided by Pepsi Co. ‘’TP64 PepsiCo 03 Project ‘’Recycled PET’’ funded by AMBER, Ireland. (€269,496). PI Margaret Fournet, Co-PI Olivia Soliman.
  • 2020: “Preparation of molecularly imprinted polymers for the isolation of the bioactive sesquiterpene lactones from ambrosia maritima small scale API production”, Youth project grant funded by the Science and Technology Development Fund (STDF), Project no 43014, (100,000 Egyptian pounds) PI Mohamed Nabil, Co-PI Olivia Soliman.