The research group is involved in the study of mineral fibers.
Mineral fibres are ubiquitous on Earth and because many of them possess outstanding technological properties, they have been used since ancient times for a huge number of applications. It is now widely accepted that they represent one of the most interesting and curious example of inorganic to organic sphere interaction with direct consequences for the human health.
The most important mineral fibres are serpentine asbestos (chrysotile), five amphibole asbestos species (amosite = asbestos grunerite), crocidolite = asbestos riebeckite, asbestos actinolite, asbestos anthophyllite and asbestos tremolite, and fibrous erionite. Because of their peculiar fibrous-asbestiform crystal habit and chemical-physical surface reactivity, these mineral fibres may induce, if inhaled, fatal lung diseases.
All amphibole asbestos minerals are banned worldwide whereas chrysotile is banned only in the countries strictly following the indication of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) which includes chrysotile in Group 1 ”substance carcinogenic to humans”. No ban has been proposed for the zeolite erionite so far.
Despite the clear position of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, chrysotile asbestos is still largely used in about 66% of the countries worldwide including Brasil, China, and Russia. These countries do not apply the ban of chrysotile for which a safe use is permitted. Their position is entrenched in the assumption that only amphibole asbestos minerals are hazardous (the amphibole hyphothesis). The chrysotile ban litigation is still an open issue mostly because revealing the relationship between asbestos and human toxicity is not straightforward at all. The difficulties stem from the fact that mineral fibers possess a variety of chemical compositions, atomic structural arrangements, morphologies that affect biogeochemical reactions in the body. Due to the interplay of all these factors, the mechanisms by which mineral fibres induces cyto- and geno-toxic damage remain unclear.
In this scenario, our mission is to study the nature of mineral fibers, their activity and biological interaction in order to develop a general model to assess their toxicity potential.
Parallel to the research line on mineral fibres, our group is also involved in the study of the thermal transformation of asbestos containing wastes in view of their safe recycling as secondary raw materials.
Actual policies for the reduction of exposure of the population to asbestos fibres prompt the abatement and disposal of asbestos containing materials (ACMs). The removal of large amounts of ACMs calls for another problem: where to safely dispose such hazardous wastes? There are only a few active landfills for the disposal of ACMs in Europe and the recent European directives clearly indicate that dumping in landfill should be discouraged. In fact, such dumping sites do not assure zero risk of fibre dispersion in air and water in the very short and long term. An alternative solution to landfill disposal is the recycling of ACMs via direct temperature induced transformation and recycling of the product of transformation (a safe secondary raw material) for the production of building materials. The transformation product must be asbestos free, as a result of crystal-chemical transformation, and it is a source of calcium and silica to be recycled as secondary raw material. This secondary raw material can be safely recycled for the production of many industrially attractive products such as bricks, plastic materials, glasses, glass-ceramics, ceramic frits, ceramic pigments, cement and concrete.
Our mission is to find a sustainable environmentally friendly solution for the thermal denaturation of asbestos containing watstes and safe recycling of the secondary raw material.
The actual research lines include:
- characterization of the structure, crystal chemistry and surface activity of mineral fibres;
- study of the dissolution in vitro of mineral fibres;
- synchrotron radiation based studies of the interaction of mineral fibers with organic (rat, human) tissues;
- development of a general model of toxicity of mineral fibres and case studies;
- industrial applications of the concept of thermal transformation of asbestos containing wastes and recycling of the secondary raw material.
Related granted past projects:
1) FAR2017 (2018-2019, 70k euro) FONDO DI ATENEO PER LA RICERCA ANNO 2017 PROGETTO DI RICERCA INTERDISCIPLINARE – Fibre potential toxicity Index (FPTI). Resp. scientifico: prof. A.F. Gualtieri.
2) Bando per il cofinanziamento di progetti di ricerca finalizzati allo sviluppo di tecnologie di recupero, riciclaggio e trattamento di rifiuti non rientranti nelle categorie già servite dai consorzi di filiera, all’ecodesign dei prodotti ed alla corretta gestione dei relativi rifiuti (2018-2020, 125k euro). Resp. scientifico: prof. G. Lusvardi.
3) PRIN2017 20173X8WA4 FIBRES: A multidisciplinary mineralogical, crystal-chemical and biological project to amend the paradigm of toxicity and cancerogenicity of mineral fibres (2019-2021, 449k euro). Coordinatore Nazionale: prof. A.F. Gualtieri.
Recent papers:
322) Di Giuseppe, D., Scarfì, S., Alessandrini, A., Bassi, A.M., Mirata, S., Almonti, V., Ragazzini, G., Mescola, A., Filaferro, M., Avallone, R., Vitale, G., Scognamiglio, V. Acute cytotoxicity of mineral fibres observed by time-lapse video microscopy. Toxicology, 46630, 153081.
323) Giordani M., Mattioli M., Cangiotti M., Fattori A., Ottaviani M.F., Betti M., Ballirano P., Pacella A., Di Giuseppe D., Scognamiglio V., Hanuskova M., Gualtieri A.F. Characterisation of potentially toxic natural fibrous zeolites by means of electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy and morphological-mineralogical studies. Chemosphere, 2022, 133067
324) Mirata, S., Almonti, V., Di Giuseppe, D., Fornasini, L., Raneri, S., Vernazza, S., Bersani, D., Gualtieri, A.F., Bassi, A.M., Scarfì, S. The Acute Toxicity of Mineral Fibres: A Systematic In Vitro Study Using Different THP-1 Macrophage Phenotypes. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022, 23(5), 2840.
325) Fornasini, L., Raneri, S., Bersani, D., Mantovani, L., Scognamiglio V., Di Giuseppe, D., Gualtieri, A.F. Identification of iron compounds in chrysotile from the Balangero mine (Turin, Italy) by micro-Raman spectroscopy. Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 2022, 53(11), 1931–1941.
327) Gualtieri, A.F. (2023). Journey to the Centre of the Lung. The Perspective of a Mineralogist on the Carcinogenic Effects of Mineral Fibres in the Lungs. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 130077.
329) Giacobbe, C., Moliterni, A., Di Giuseppe, D., Malferrari, D., Wright, J. P., Mattioli, M., Raneri, S., Giannini, C., Fornasini, L., Mugnaioli, E., Ballirano, P., Gualtieri, A. F. (2023). The crystal structure of the killer fibre erionite from Tuzköy (Cappadocia, Turkey). IUCrJ, 10(4).
331) Arletti, R., Conte, S., Zanelli, C., De Iuliis, M., Di Giuseppe, D., Scognamiglio, V., Malferrari, D., Dondi, M., Gualtieri, A. F. (2023). Recycling the Product of Thermal Inertization of Man-Made Vitreous Fibres for the Manufacture of Stoneware Tiles. Waste and Biomass Valorization, 14(5), 1721-1736.
332) Gualtieri, A. F., Malferrari, D., Di Giuseppe, D., Scognamiglio, V., Sala, O., Gualtieri, M. L., Bersani, D., Fornasini, L., Mugnaioli, E. (2023). There is plenty of asbestos at the bottom. The case of magnesite raw material contaminated with asbestos fibres. Science of The Total Environment, 898, 166275.
333) A.F. Gualtieri, M. Leoncini, S. Fantone, S. Di Valerio, G. Tossetta, A.D. Procopio, D. Marzioni, A. Pugnaloni, A. Maria Bassi, V. Almonti, S. Mirata, S. Vernazza, S. Tirendi, B. Marengo, N. Traverso, M. Passalacqua, S. Scarfì, S. Raneri, L. Fornasini, D. Bersani, N. Perchiazzi , P. Ballirano, A. Pacella, A. Bloise, M.F. Ottaviani, M. Mattioli, M. Giordani, G. Della Ventura (2023) PRIN 2017 Fibres – A Multidisciplinary Mineralogical, Crystal-Chemical and Biological Project. What have we learned after four years of research? Periodico di Mineralogia, 92, 143-158.
334) A. Pugnaloni, S. Di Valerio, G. Tossetta, T. Armeni, L. Cianfruglia, L. Tiano, F. Marchegiani, P. Stipa, E. Laudadio, S. Sabbatini, C. Minnelli, S. Vaiasicca, D. Ramini, A.D. Procopio, F. Fazioli, A.F. Gualtieri (2023) Cytotoxicity in vitro of two non-commercial samples of chrysotile and fibrous erionite. Periodico di Mineralogia, 92, 241-259.
335) Mirata, S., Bassi, A. M., Almonti, V., Tirendi, S., Vernazza, S., Fornasini, L., Raneri, S., Bersani, D., Passalacqua, M., Gualtieri, A.F., Scarfì, S. (2023). Cytotoxic and pro-inflammatory early effects of mineral fibres on human alveolar epithelial and immune cells. Periodico di Mineralogia, 92(2), 223-239.
336) Gualtieri, A.F., Mirata, S., Almonti, V., Bassi, A. M., Meo, C., Scarfì, S., Zapparoli, M., Armeni, T., Cianfruglia, L., Marzioni, D., Fantone, S., Tossetta, G., Stipa, P., Laudadio, E., Sabbatini, S., Minnelli, C., Di Valerio, S., Vaiasicca, S., Procopio, A.D., Pugnaloni, A. (2023). In vitro toxicity of short vs long chrysotile fibres. Periodico di Mineralogia, 92(2), 203-222.
337) Gualtieri, A.F. (2023) Contributi della Mineralogia alla transizione verde sostenibile. Il caso del riciclo delle lane minerali. Acc. Sc. Torino, A cura di R. Oberti, Quaderni, 41, 33-51.
338) Gualtieri, A.F., Cocchi, M., Muniz-Miranda, F., Pedone, A., Castellini, E., & Strani, L. (2024). Iron nuclearity in mineral fibres: Unravelling the catalytic activity for predictive modelling of toxicity. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 469, 2022, 134004.
339) Almonti, V., Vernazza, S., Mirata, S., Tirendi, S., Passalacqua, M., Gualtieri, A.F., Di Giuseppe, D., Scarfì, S. & Bassi, A. M. (2024). Toxicity and inflammatory potential of mineral fibres: The contribute of released soluble metals versus cell contact direct effects. Journal of Applied Toxicology.
340) Fantone, S., Tossetta, G., Cianfruglia, L., Frontini, A., Armeni, T., Procopio, A. D., Pugnaloni, A., Gualtieri A.F. & Marzioni, D. (2024). Mechanisms of action of mineral fibres in a placental syncytiotrophoblast model: An in vitro toxicology study. Chemico-Biological Interactions, 390, 110895.
341) Raneri, S., Gianoncelli, A., Bonanni, V., Mirata, S., Scarfì, S., Fornasini, L., Bersani, D., Baroni, D., Picco, C. & Gualtieri, A.F. (2024). The influence of cation exchange on the possible mechanism of erionite toxicity: A synchrotron-based micro-X-ray fluorescence study on THP-1-derived macrophages exposed to erionite-Na. Environmental Research, 252, 118878.
343) Fantini, R., Sisti, M., Arletti, R., Malferrari, D., Gamberini, M. C., Zapparoli, M., Da Val, F., Cavallo, A., & Gualtieri, A.F. (2024). Identification and quantification protocol of hazardous-metal bearing minerals: Ni in serpentinite rocks from Valmalenco (Sondrio, Central Alps, Northern Italy). Journal of Hazardous Materials, 134928.
344) Patel, J. P., Brook, M., Kah, M., Hamilton, A., Gamberini, M. C., Zoboli, C., Mugnaioli, E., Malferrari, D., Fantini, R., Arletti, R. & Gualtieri, A.F. (2024). Characterization and potential toxicity of asbestiform erionite from Gawler Downs, New Zealand. American Mineralogist, 109(9), 1499-1512.
345) Gualtieri, A.F., Marchetti Dori, S., Malferrari, D., Giovanardi, T., Fantini, R., Colombo, F., Sisti, M., Arletti, R., Gamberini, M.C., Braschi, E., Orlando, A. & Mugnaioli, E. (2024). When detection and quantification of mineral fibres in natural raw materials are at their limit–the case of a clay from the Gomsiqe–Puka mining area (Albania). European Journal of Mineralogy, 36(5), 749-765.
346) Fan, W. W., Gualtieri, A.F., Dirks, K. N., Young, P. G., & Salmond, J. A. (2024). Investigating the deposition of fibrous zeolite particles on leaf surfaces: A novel low-cost method for detecting the presence of airborne hazardous mineral fibers. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 480, 135982.
348) Gualtieri, A.F., Ferrari, E., Rigamonti, L., Ruozi, B., Mirata, S., Almonti, V., Passalacqua, M., Vernazza, S., Di Valerio, S., Tossetta, G., Vaiasicca, S., Procopio, A.D., Fazioli, F., Marzioni, D., Pugnaloni, A. & Scarfì, S. (2024). Bridging the gap between toxicity and carcinogenicity of mineral fibres by connecting the fibre parameters to the key characteristics of carcinogens: A comprehensive model inspiring asbestos-induced cancer prevention strategies. Current Research in Toxicology, 100202.
349) Leslie T Stayner, Tania Carreón-Valencia, Paul A Demers, Jason M Fritz, Malcolm R Sim, Patricia Stewart, Hiroyuki Tsuda, Andres Cardenas, Dario Consonni, Laurie Davies, Sara De Matteis, Emanuela Felley-Bosco, Andrew J Ghio, Thomas Göen, Yann Grosse, Alessandro F Gualtieri, P David Josephy, Stella Koutros, Igor Linhart, Henriqueta Louro, Katie M O’Brien, Simona Panzacchi, Laura Peña, Pavel Rössner, Joellen M Schildkraut, Aleksandr B Stefaniak, Nicolas Wentzensen, Pascal Wild, Yuanyuan Xu, Aline de Conti, Caterina Facchin, Roland Wedekind, Ayat Ahmadi, Jessica Blanco, Shirisha Chittiboyina, Shalini Kulasingam, Richard MacLehose, Melitah Motlhale, Sanam Shah, Eero Suonio, Heidi Mattock, Andrew Kunzmann, Federica Madia, Elisa Pasqual, Lamia Benbrahim-Tallaa, Mary K Schubauer-Berigan (2024). Carcinogenicity of talc and acrylonitrile. The Lancet Oncology, 25(8), 962-963.
351) Scarfì, S., Almonti, V., Mirata, S., Passalacqua, M., Vernazza, S., Patel, J. P., Brook, M., Hamilton, A., Kah, M. & Gualtieri, A.F. (2025). In vitro cyto-and geno-toxicity of asbestiform erionite from New Zealand. Environmental Research, 120415.
353) Leslie T Stayner, Tania Carreón-Valencia, Paul A Demers, Jason M Fritz, Malcolm R Sim, Patricia Stewart, Hiroyuki Tsuda, Andres Cardenas, Dario Consonni, Laurie Davies, Sara De Matteis, Emanuela Felley-Bosco, Andrew J Ghio, Thomas Göen, Yann Grosse, Alessandro F Gualtieri, P David Josephy, Stella Koutros, Igor Linhart, Henriqueta Louro, Katie M O’Brien, Simona Panzacchi, Laura Peña, Pavel Rössner, Joellen M Schildkraut, Aleksandr B Stefaniak, Nicolas Wentzensen, Pascal Wild, Yuanyuan Xu, Aline de Conti, Caterina Facchin, Roland Wedekind, Ayat Ahmadi, Jessica Blanco, Shirisha Chittiboyina, Shalini Kulasingam, Richard MacLehose, Melitah Motlhale, Sanam Shah, Eero Suonio, Heidi Mattock, Andrew Kunzmann, Federica Madia, Elisa Pasqual, Lamia Benbrahim-Tallaa, Mary K Schubauer-Berigan (2025). Talc and Acrylonitrile. IARC Monographs on the Identification of Carcinogenic Hazards to Humans Volume 136. ISBN-13, 978-92-832-0293-6, pp. 469.
354) Tossetta, G., Fantone, S., Procopio, A. D., Pugnaloni, A., Gualtieri, A. F., & Marzioni, D. (2025). Effects of mineral fibres in an in vitro placental syncytiotrophoblast model. Current Research in Toxicology, 8, 100231.
355) Andreozzi, G. B., Di Giuseppe, D., Gualtieri, A. F., Scognamiglio, V., Fornasini, L., Bersani, D., Giovanardi, T., Lugli, F. & Pezzotta, F. (2025). Fibrous tourmaline from San Piero in Campo (Elba, Italy). European Journal of Mineralogy, 37(4), 437-453.
357) Mirata, S., Almonti, V., Passalacqua, M., Vernazza, S., Bassi, A. M., Di Giuseppe, D., Gualtieri, A.F. & Scarfì, S. (2025). Toxicity of size separated chrysotile fibres: The relevance of the macrophage-endothelial axis crosstalk. Toxicology, 511, 154032.
359) Gualtieri, A. F., & Leoncini, M. (2025). Comparison of the toxicity/carcinogenicity of regulated and unregulated mineral fibres using the Fibre Potential Toxicity Index (FPTI). Journal of Hazardous Materials, 139202.
360) Gualtieri, A. F., Mirata, S., Passalacqua, M., Bassi, A. M., & Scarfì, S. (2025). In vitro testing of hazardous mineral fibres: The issue of the concentration metric. Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology, 104813.
361) Gualtieri, A. F., Glossop, L., Malferrari, D., Castellini, E., Gualtieri, M. L., Hanuskova, Nodari, L., M., Ogor, J. & Fantini, R. (2025). Evaluation of the potential toxicity of respirable halloysite elongate mineral particles: Insights from the Fibre Potential Toxicity Index (FPTI) model. Applied Clay Science, 276, 107917.
362) Fan, W. W., Dirks, K. N., Gualtieri, A. F., Young, P. G., Hamilton, A., Patel, J. P., & Salmond, J. A. (2025). Evidence of airborne dispersion of respirable-sized carcinogenic erionite fibres of volcanic origin. Environmental Research, 122571.
363) Fan, W., Gualtieri, A. F., Hamilton, A., Patel, J. P., & Salmond, J. A. (2025). Determining factors affecting the accuracy of SEM-EDX data-based quantitative chemical analysis for identifying naturally occurring individual carcinogenic erionite fibers. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 25316.
365) Fan, W. W., Dirks, K. N., Gualtieri, A. F., Young, P. G., Hamilton, A., Patel, J. P., Christopher, T.D. & Salmond, J. A. (2026). Respirable mineral fibres in leaf surface dust: Micro-characterisation and evidence of a geogenic origin. Chemosphere, 394, 144787.
Selected ORAL Congress Contributions
A.F. Gualtieri (2015) Asbestos detection and prevention: the European Experience. 2015 Weinman Symposium “International Conference on Mesothelioma in populations exposed to Naturally Occurring Asbestiform fibers”, Sullivan Conference Center, University of Hawai’i, Honolulu (Hawai’i USA), 9-10/11/2015 (O).
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A.F. Gualtieri (2016) Towards a general model to predict the toxicity of mineral fibres? The perspective of the fibre. 11th International Particle Toxicity Conference, Singapore, 26-30 September 2016.
A.F. Gualtieri, S. Pollastri, N. Bursi Gandolfi, M. Lassinannti Gualtieri (2016) In vitro acellular dissolution of mineral fibres 11th International Particle Toxicity Conference, Singapore, 26-30 September 2016.
166) Giacobbe, C., Wright, J., Dejoie, C., Vigliaturo, R., Berruyer, C., Gualtieri, A.F. (2019) When diffraction meets tomography: the ferrierite case for the improvement of mineral fibres crystallographic characterization. Congresso AIC, Napoli, 4-7 Settembre 2019.
167) Gualtieri, A.F. (2019) Introduction to the global issue of Naturally Occurring Asbestos (NOA). The 2nd EMU (European Mineralogical Union) school on mineral fibres – Casale Monferrato (Alessandria, Italy) – September 9-13, 2019.
168) Gualtieri, A.F. (2019) FPTI: a general model to predict the toxicity of mineral. The 2nd EMU (European Mineralogical Union) school on mineral fibres – Casale Monferrato (Alessandria, Italy) – September 9-13, 2019.
169) Gualtieri, A.F. (2019) L’amianto. Workshop “Cancerogeni nell’edilizia”, Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Geologiche, UNIMORE, 13 Dicembre 2019.
170) Gualtieri, A.F., Lusvardi G., Ligabue M.L., Malferrari D. (2020) Stato dell’arte del progetto KRYAS: sviluppi e nuove applicazioni nell’ottica dell’economia circolare. Workshop Materie prime per piastrelle ceramiche. Sassuolo (MO), 20 Febbraio 2020.
171) Gualtieri, A.F., Di Giuseppe D. (2020) Fibrous ferrierite from Lovelock, Nevada (USA). IAEG NOA-EMP Online Symposium, May 13-14, 2020.
180) Danilo Bersani, Laura Fornasini, Simona Raneri, Luciana Mantovani, Valentina Scognamiglio, Dario Di Giuseppe, and Alessandro F. Gualtieri. Micro-Raman investigation on Fe-bearing impurities in chrysotile fibres. EGU22-8515 | Presentations | NH8.3. Wed, 25 May, 09:18 09:25. European Union of Geology (EGU) General Assembly, Vienna, Austria & Online, 23 27 May 2022.
181) Janki Patel, Martin Brook, Dario Di Giuseppe, Valentina Scognamiglio, Alessandro F. Gualtieri, Melanie Kah, and Ayrton Hamilton. Erionite in New Zealand: initial assessment and characterization. Wed, 25 May, 08:43 08:50. European Union of Geology (EGU) General Assembly, Vienna, Austria & Online, 23 27 May 2022.
187) Ann G. Wylie, Giovanni B. Andreozzi, Mark Bailey, Bryan Bandli, Bruce W. Case, Giancarlo Della Ventura, Laurie Glossop, Alessandro F. Gualtieri, Mickey Gunter, Don Halterman, Peter Heaney, Erell Leocat, Brooke T. Mossman. A Report of the IMA Working Group on Asbestiform Minerals. IMA 2022. 23rd General Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association. Cité Centre the Congrès de Lyon, Lyon, France, 18-23 July 2022.
193) Gualtieri A.F. Globalization and asbestos. The issue of the flow of asbestos-contaminated raw materials in the free world market. CONGRESSO SGI-SIMP 2022 – GEOSCIENCES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE. Torino, 19-22 Settembre 2022.
194) Mirata S., Di Giuseppe D., Almonti V., Vernazza S., Gualtieri A.F., Bassi A.M., Scarfì S., Fornasini L., Raneri S., Bersani D. The acute toxicity of mineral fibres: a systematic in vitro study using different THP-1 macrophage phenotypes. CONGRESSO SGI-SIMP 2022 – GEOSCIENCES FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE. Torino, 19-22 Settembre 2022.
196) A.F. Gualtieri (2023) There is plenty of asbestos at the bottom. The case of magnesite raw material contaminated with asbestos. FAMANZ Australian & New Zealand 2023 Conference – Asbestos Collaboration is the key. Auckland (New Zealand), 21-22 March 2023.
200) Gualtieri A.F. (2023) Assessing and Managing Risks Associated with Erionite and Low-Level Asbestos. AUCKLAND IN PERSON EVENT – ALGA Australasian Land & Groundwater Association Workshop Building leaders in the sustainable management of contaminated land and groundwater . Simpson Grierson 27/88 Shortland Street, Auckland (New Zealand), August 17th, 2023.
201) Gualtieri A.F. (2023) Actual and potential hazard represented by Naturally occurring Erinote (NOE). AusIMM New Zealand Brach Annual Conference Enabling a sustainable future , Rydges Latimer Christchurch (New Zealand), 20-22 August 2023.
202) Patel, J., Brook, M., Gualtieri, A.F., Kah, M., Hamilton, A. (2023) New data on the Geology and characteristics of erionite in New Zealand. AusIMM New Zealand Brach Annual Conference Enabling a sustainable future , Rydges Latimer Christchurch (New Zealand), 20-22 August 2023.
203) Fan, W., Lim, S., Salmond J.A., Young, P., Gualtieri, A.F., Brook, M., Dirks, K.N. (2023) Detection and characterization of airborne zeolite fibres on leaf surfaces across different locations. AusIMM New Zealand Brach Annual Conference Enabling a sustainable future , Rydges Latimer Christchurch (New Zealand), 20-22 August 2023.
204) Gualtieri A.F. (2023) (KEY-NOTE) Erionite: the story and the hazard. 1st Erionite and Mineral Fibers Symposium, Faculty of Science, University of Auckland, Auckland (New Zealand), 28-29 August 2023.
205) Patel, J., Brook, M., Gualtieri, A.F., Kah, M., Hamilton, A. (2023) Characterization and Geological occurrence of erionite in New Zealand 1st Erionite and Mineral Fibers Symposium, Faculty of Science, University of Auckland, Auckland (New Zealand), 28-29 August 2023.
206) Fan, W., Lim, S., Salmond J.A., Young, P., Gualtieri, A.F., Brook, M., Dirks, K.N. (2023) Unveiling environmental mineral fibres in ambient air: a novel approach through leaf surface sampling and electron microscopic analysis. 1st Erionite and Mineral Fibers Symposium, Faculty of Science, University of Auckland, Auckland (New Zealand), 28-29 August 2023.
210) Fantini R., Sisti M., Arletti R., Malferrari D., Cavallo A. & Gualtieri A.F. – Identification and quantification of Ni occurrence in serpentinites from the Valmalenco mining area (Sondrio, Central Alps, Northern Italy). Congresso congiunto SIMP, SGI, SOGEI, AIV – The Geoscience paradigm: Resources, Risks and future perspectives, Potenza, 19-21 September 2023.
211) Gualtieri A.F. (KEY-NOTE), Fantone S., Di Valerio S., Tossetta G., Procopio A.D., Marzioni D., Pugnaloni A., Bassi A.M., Almonti V., Mirata S., Vernazza S., Tirendi S., Marengo B., Traverso N., Passalacqua M., Scarfì S., Raneri S., Fornasini L., Bersani D., Perchiazzi N., Ballirano P., Pacella A., Bloise A., Ottaviani M.F., Mattioli M., Giordani M. & Della Ventura G. – PRIN 2017 Fibres – A Multidisciplinary Mineralogical, Crystal-Chemical and Biological Project. What have we learned after four years of research? Congresso congiunto SIMP, SGI, SOGEI, AIV – The Geoscience paradigm: Resources, Risks and future perspectives, Potenza, 19-21 September 2023.
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A closer look at the toxicity mechanisms of erionite, a major natural carcinogen
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