Anna Angela Barba

annaangela150Associate Professor SSD ING-IND 25 (DIFARMA)

telephone  +39.089.969240

mail  aabarba@unisa.it

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Academic Curriculum

Dr. Anna Angela Barba got her Laurea in Chemical Engineering, summa cum laude, in May 1997, then she gained the Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering in 2002. Starting from 1999 she had a CNR fellowship (one year), a post-doctoral grant (2002-2004) and worked at some research projects as external consultant at the Department of Chemical and Food Engineering, faculty of Engineering, University of Salerno.
In February 2005 she obtained a position as assistant professor in Chemical Plants at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, which she joined in October 2005.
She had, since a.y. 2005/2006, the cathedra of Pharmaceutical Industrial Plants. She also had and has didactic activity in post-degree corse. She is a member of the faculty board of the doctorate of research in Chemical Engineering.
The research activities of dr. Barba, developed mainly at the University of Salerno, are developed in the field of power applications of electromagnetic field to the development of innovative methodologies and equipments for microwave assisted heating. From October 2002 to March 2003 she worked as post-doc research fellow at the Technical University of Eindhoven, TUE (NL) – Department of Electrical Engineering / Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry – where was involved in research activities on pulsed plasma.
Recently, dr. Barba addressed her research activities to the transfer of Chemical Engineering processes and methods to pharmaceutical productions. Her activities, developed in different scientific collaborations and characterized by experimental and modeling actions, are based on the use of electromagnetic energy (microwaves region) in heating intensified processes (cooking, drying, blanching, curing) of vegetal matrices and pharmaceutical ingredients. Non-conventional analytic procedures are also developed to study the dielectric behavior of materials (nanometallic powders, composite, biopolymeric hydrogels).
Dr. Anna Angela Barba was scientific responsible of research projects funded bybudget Ateneo and she was involved and is currently involved in different financed projects.
She is co-authors of many publications: papers on international and national journals, communications to international and national conferences, chapters in books/monographs.

Publications

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2020

De Piano, Raffaella ; Caccavo, Diego; Cascone, Sara; Festa, Caterina; Lamberti, Gaetano; Barba, Anna Angela

Drug release from hydrogel-based matrix systems partially coated: experiments and modeling Journal Article

Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology, 2020.

Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: drug release, Modeling, Tablets, Theophylline

Caccavo, Diego; Lamberti, Gaetano; Barba, Anna Angela

Mechanics and drug release from poroviscoelastic hydrogels: Experiments and modeling Journal Article

European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, 152 , pp. 299-306, 2020.

Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Agarose, drug delivery, Hydrogels, Modeling, Poroviscoelasticity

Barba, Anna Angela; Dalmoro, Annalisa; Bochicchio, Sabrina; Simone, Veronica De; Caccavo, Diego; Iannone, Marco; Lamberti, Gaetano

Engineering approaches for drug delivery systems production and characterization Journal Article

International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 2020.

Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: drug delivery, Hydrogel, Innovation in Europe, Microvectors, Modeling, Nanovectors

2017

Caccavo, Diego; Cascone, Sara; Lamberti, Gaetano; Dalmoro, Annalisa; Barba, Anna Angela

Modeling of the behavior of natural polysaccharides hydrogels for bio-pharma applications Journal Article

Natural Product Communications, 12 (6), pp. 867-871, 2017, ISSN: 1934-578X.

Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Hydrogel Characterization, Hydrogel Modeling, Hydrogels, Mathematical modeling, Modeling

2015

Caccavo, Diego; Lamberti, Gaetano; Cascone, Sara; Barba, Anna Angela; Larsson, Anette

Understanding the adhesion phenomena in carbohydrate-hydrogel-based systems: Water up-take, swelling and elastic detachment Journal Article

Carbohydrate Polymers, 131 , pp. 41–49, 2015, ISSN: 01448617.

Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Bio-adhesion, Carbopol, Elastic behavior, Hydrogel Characterization, Hydrogel Modeling, Modeling, Water transport

Caccavo, Diego; Cascone, Sara; Lamberti, Gaetano; Barba, Anna Angela

Controlled drug release from hydrogel-based matrices: Experiments and modeling. Journal Article

International journal of pharmaceutics, 486 (1-2), pp. 144–152, 2015, ISSN: 1873-3476.

Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Hydrogel Characterization, Hydrogel Modeling, Hydrogels, Modeling, Texture analysis, Transport phenomena, Water uptake

2014

Barba, Anna Angela; Lamberti, Gaetano; Rabbia, Luca; Grassi, Mario; Larobina, Domenico; Grassi, Gabriele

Modeling of the reticulation kinetics of alginate/pluronic blends for biomedical applications Journal Article

Materials Science and Engineering: C, 37 , pp. 327–331, 2014, ISSN: 09284931.

Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Alginate, Hydrogel Modeling, Modeling, Pluronic, Reticulation

2009

Barba, Anna Angela; D'Amore, Matteo; Chirico, Serafina; Lamberti, Gaetano; Titomanlio, Giuseppe

A general code to predict the drug release kinetics from different shaped matrices. Journal Article

European journal of pharmaceutical sciences : official journal of the European Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences, 36 (2-3), pp. 359–68, 2009, ISSN: 1879-0720.

Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: drug release, Hydrogel Modeling, Matrix geometry, Modeling