Design and Validation of Cost-effective Customizable 3-D Printed Phase-Change Material-based Thermal Energy Storage Modules

Alessia Romani*, Abolfazl Taherzadeh Fini, Megan Cockburn, Anthony Straatman, Joshua M. Pearce

SSRN, 2026 Jan

Potential of Polycarbonate-based Stained Glass Window Retrofits for Cooling Load Reduction in Hot Climates

Shafquat Rana, Emily Bow Pearce, Alessia Romani, Joshua M. Pearce*

SSRN, 2025 Nov

3D-printable PVA-based inks filled with leather particle scraps for UV-assisted direct ink writing: Characterization and printability

Luca Guida*^, Alessia Romani^, Davide Negri, Marco Cavallaro, Marinella Levi

Sustainable Materials and Technologies, vol. 44(e01335), 2025 Jul

A Materials Design Practice Between Crafts, Creativity and Technology

Sofia Soledad Duarte Poblete*, Yi Shiang Li, Alessia Romani, Jian-You Li, Valentina Rognoli

Alessandra Perlatti, Yadira Ornelas, Design Across Borders united in creativity. Proceedings of the Cumulus Monterrey 2024 Conference., vol. 4, Cumulus Association, 2025 Jun, pp. 2074-2096

Design of Alternatives to Stained Glass with Open-Source Distributed Additive Manufacturing for Energy Efficiency and Economic Savings

Emily Bow Pearce, Joshua M. Pearce, Alessia Romani*

Designs, vol. 9(4), 2025 Jun, p. 80

Recycled Filtered Contaminants from Liquid-Fed Pyrolysis as Novel Building Composite Material

Alessia Romani*, Daniel G. Kulas, Joseph Curro, David R. Shonnard, Joshua M. Pearce

Journal of Building Engineering, vol. 102(112025), 2025 May

Recycling of Personal Protective Equipment: Sanitisation, Degradation and Polymer Blend Formulations

Giulia Infurna*, Alessia Romani, Maria Chiara Riccelli, Marinella Levi, Loredana Incarnato, Nadka T. Dintcheva

Polymer degradation and stability, vol. 234(111249), 2025 Apr

Parametric Design of Easy-Connect Pipe Fitting Components Using Open-Source CAD and Fabrication Using 3D Printing

Abolfazl Taherzadeh Fini, Cameron K. Brooks, Alessia Romani, Anthony G. Straatman, Joshua M. Pearce*

Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing, vol. 9(2), 2025 Feb, p. 65

Low-Cost Open-Source Melt Flow Index System for Distributed Recycling and Additive Manufacturing

Dawei Liu, Aditi Basdeo, Catalina Suescun Gonzalez, Alessia Romani, Hakim Boudaoud, Cécile Nouvel, Fabio A. Cruz Sanchez, Joshua M. Pearce*

Materials, vol. 17(23), 2024 Dec, p. 5966

Large-Format Material Extrusion Additive Manufacturing for Circular Economy Practices: A Focus on Product Applications with Materials from Recycled Plastics and Biomass Waste

Alessia Romani*, Marinella Levi

Sustainability, vol. 16(18), 2024 Sep, p. 7966

Large-format material extrusion additive manufacturing of PLA, LDPE, and HDPE compound feedstock with spent coffee grounds

Alessia Romani*^, Martina Paramatti^, Laura Gallo, Marinella Levi

The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, vol. 134, 2024 Sep, pp. 1845–1861

Emerging materials for transition: A taxonomy proposal from a design perspective

Sofia Soledad Duarte Poblete*, Alessia Romani, Valentina Rognoli

Sustainable Futures, vol. 7(100155), 2024 Jun

Characterization of PLA feedstock after multiple recycling processes for large-format material extrusion additive manufacturing

Alessia Romani*, Lorenzo Perusin, Mattia Ciurnelli, Marinella Levi

Materials Today Sustainability, vol. 25(100636), 2024 Mar

Circularity by design, materials and additive manufacturing. Fostering sustainable and circular materialities enabled by additive manufacturing

Alessia Romani

Politecnico di Milano, 2024 Mar 21

PLA Feedstock Filled with Spent Coffee Grounds for New Product Applications with Large-Format Material Extrusion Additive Manufacturing

Martina Paramatti^, Alessia Romani*^, Gianluca Pugliese, Marinella Levi

ACS Omega, vol. 9(6), 2024 Feb, pp. 6423–6431

Provocation Through Narratives. New Speculative Design Tools for Human-Non-Human Collaborations

Francesca Casnati*, Alessandro Ianniello, Alessia Romani

Springer Series in Design and Innovation, Francesca Zanella, Giampiero Bosoni, Elisabellta Di Stefano, Gioia L. Iannilli, Giovanni Matteucci, Rita Messori, Raffaella Trocchianesi, Multidisciplinary Aspects of Design: Objects, Processes, Experiences and Narratives, vol. 37, Springer, 2024 Jan, pp. 747-755

Recycled polycarbonate and polycarbonate/acrylonitrile butadiene styrene feedstocks for circular economy product applications with fused granular fabrication-based additive manufacturing

Alessia Romani, Marinella Levi, Joshua M. Pearce*

Sustainable Materials and Technologies, vol. 38(e00730), 2023 Dec

Speculative tinkering on circular design materials through 3D printing

Alessia Romani*, Valentina Rognoli, Marinella Levi

Kristof Vaes, Jouke Verlinden, Connectivity and Creativity in times of Conflict. Proceedings of the Cumulus Antwerp 2023 Conference., Academia Press, 2023 Dec, pp. 317-321

Materials Libraries. Designing the Experiential Knowledge Transfer through Prototyping

Alessia Romani*, Valentina Rognoli, Marinella Levi

DRS EKSIG SIG, Silvia Ferraris, Valentina Rognoli, EKSIG 2023 - From Abstractness to Concreteness – experiential knowledge and the role of prototypes in design research, Politecnico di Milano, 2023 Oct, pp. 398-411

Recycling Glass and Carbon Fibers for Reusable Components in the Automotive Sector through Additive Manufacturing

Alessia Romani*, Stefan Caba, Raffaella Suriano, Marinella Levi

Applied Sciences, vol. 13(10), 2023 May, p. 5848

Sustainable Development Goals Enabled by Additive Manufacturing. A Design Perspective

Alessia Romani*, Marinella Levi, Valentina Rognoli

Springer Series in Design and Innovation, Emilia Duarte, Annalisa Di Roma, Developments in Design Research and Practice II Best Papers from the 11th Senses and Sensibility 2021: Designing Next Genera(c)tions, vol. 31, Springer, 2023 May, pp. 382-397

Fostering circular materials within the design practice: Materials and product library system

Alessia Romani*, Valentina Rognoli, Marinella Levi

Amy Lazet, Design for Adaptation. Proceedings of the Cumulus Detroit 2022 Conference., Cumulus Association., 2023 Apr, pp. 862-863

Hangprinter for large scale additive manufacturing using fused particle fabrication with recycled plastic and continuous feeding

Ravneet S. Rattan, Nathan Nauta, Alessia Romani, Joshua M. Pearce*

HardwareX, vol. 13(e00401), 2023 Mar

Biomass waste materials through extrusion-based additive manufacturing: A systematic literature review

Alessia Romani*, Raffaella Suriano, Marinella Levi

Journal of Cleaner Production, vol. 386(135779), 2023 Feb

Design for and with visual impairments through 3D printing. A case study from the covid-19 pandemic

Alessia Romani*, Federica Mattiuzzo, Marinella Levi

Claudio Gambardella, Beyond All Limits - Proceedings on International Conference on Sustainability in Architecture, Planning, and Design, DADI Press, 2023 Jan, pp. 564-570

Additive Manufacturing of Recycled Composites

Andrea Mantelli*, Alessia Romani, Raffaella Suriano, Marinella Levi, Stefano Turri

Digital Innovations in Architecture, Engineering and Construction, Marcello Colledani, Stefano Turri, Systemic Circular Economy Solutions for Fiber Reinforced Composites, chapter 8, Springer, 2022 Dec, pp. 141-166

Composite Finishing for Reuse

Alessia Romani*, Raffaella Suriano, Andrea Mantelli, Marinella Levi, Paolo Tralli, Jussi Laurila, Petri Vuoristo

Digital Innovations in Architecture, Engineering and Construction, Marcello Colledani, Stefano Turri, Systemic Circular Economy Solutions for Fiber Reinforced Composites, chapter 9, Springer, 2022 Dec, pp. 167-190

Material Library System for Circular Economy. Tangible-Intangible Interaction for Recycled Composite Materials

Alessia Romani*, Fabio Prestini, Raffaella Suriano, Marinella Levi

Digital Innovations in Architecture, Engineering and Construction, Marcello Colledani, Stefano Turri, Systemic Circular Economy Solutions for Fiber Reinforced Composites, chapter 18, Springer, 2022 Dec, pp. 363-384

Patient-specific palatal obturator prosthesis from DICOM files through low-cost 3D printing: A case study

Alessia Romani*, Luisa Paternoster, G. Gastaldi, Marinella Levi

Materials Today: Proceedings, vol. 70, 2022 Dec, pp. 106-112

Improving User Experience of Assistive Technology Through Codesign and 3D Printing: A Case Study from Cancer Treatments

Alessia Romani*, CarolinaMaria Consonni, Marinella Levi

Communications in Computer and Information Science, Constantine Stephanidis, Margherita Antona, Stavroula Ntoa, Gavriel Salvendy, HCI International 2022 – Late Breaking Posters 24th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2022, Virtual Event, June 26 – July 1, 2022, Proceedings, Part I, Interacción, vol. 1654, Springer, 2022 Nov, pp. 450-457

Technology toward more-than-human symbiosis: Critical reflections from the design perspective

Alessandro Ianniello*, Alessia Romani, Francesca Casnati

Academic Mindtrek '22: Proceedings of the 25th International Academic Mindtrek Conference, Association for Computing Machinery, 2022 Nov, pp. 158-166

Metallization of Recycled Glass Fiber-Reinforced Polymers Processed by UV-Assisted 3D Printing

Alessia Romani*, Paolo Tralli, Marinella Levi, Stefano Turri, Raffaella Suriano

Materials, vol. 15(18), 2022 Sep, p. 6242

Codesign with more-than-humans. Toward a meta co-design tool for human-non-human collaborations

Alessia Romani*, Francesca Casnati, Alessandro Ianniello

European Journal of Futures Research, vol. 10(17), 2022 Jul

Direct Ink Writing of Recycled Composites with Complex Shapes: Process Parameters and Ink Optimization

Andrea Mantelli, Alessia Romani, Raffaella Suriano*, Marinella Levi, Stefano Turri

Advanced Engineering Materials, vol. 23(9), 2021 Sep, p. 2100116

Indirect 3D Printing of recycled glass fibres from end-of-life products. Towards a design engineering approach to circular design

Alessia Romani*, Marinella Levi

Hans Schnitzer, Sibylle Braunegg, Proceedings of the 20th European Roundtable on Sustainable Consumption and Production 2021, TU Graz, 2021 Sep, pp. 515-530

Metallization of Thermoplastic Polymers and Composites 3D Printed by Fused Filament Fabrication

Alessia Romani, Andrea Mantelli, Paolo Tralli, Stefano Turri, Marinella Levi, Raffaella Suriano*

Technologies, vol. 9(49), 2021 Jul, p. 14

Design, Materials, and Extrusion-Based Additive Manufacturing in Circular Economy Contexts: From Waste to New Products

Alessia Romani*, Valentina Rognoli, Marinella Levi

Sustainability, vol. 13(13), 2021 Jun, p. 7269

UV-Assisted 3D Printing of Polymer Composites from Thermally and Mechanically Recycled Carbon Fibers

Andrea Mantelli, Alessia Romani, Raffaella Suriano*, Marco Diani, Marcello Colledani, Essi Sarlin, Stefano Turri, Marinella Levi

Polymers, vol. 13(5), 2021 Feb, p. 726

Additive Re-Manufacturing of Mechanically Recycled End-of-Life Glass Fiber-Reinforced Polymers for Value-Added Circular Design

Alessia Romani, Andrea Mantelli, Raffaella Suriano*, Marinella Levi, Stefano Turri

Materials, vol. 13(16), 2020 Aug, p. 3545

Parametric Design for Online User Customization of 3D Printed Assistive Technology for Rheumatic Diseases

Alessia Romani*, Marinella Levi

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Lucio Tommaso De Paolis, Patrick Bourdot, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Computer Graphics 7th International Conference, AVR 2020, Lecce, Italy, September 7–10, 2020, Proceedings, Part II, International Conference on Augmented and Virtual Reality, vol. 12243, Springer, 2020 Aug, pp. 174-182

Co-design, 3D printing and medicine for the design of customizable dailylife products

Alessia Romani*, Giovanni Orlando, Raffaele Convertino, Francesco Zappalà, Roberta Baldassin, Maria Grazia Pisu, Angela Lorè, Stefania Digioia, Emanuela Brambilla, Giovanna Marcato, Italia Agresta, Francesco Basciu, Valerio Fausti, Giuditta Ravalli, Andrea Mantelli, Marinella Levi, Chiara Donati

Reumatismo, vol. 71(S2), SIR - Società Italiana di Reumatologia (Italian Rheumatology Society), 2019 Nov, pp. 286-293

Circular Design for Value-added Remanufactured End-of-Life composite material via additive manufacturing technology

Alessia Romani*, Andrea Mantelli, Marinella Levi

Jordi Segalas, Boris Lazzarini, Proceedings of the 19th European Roundtable on Sustainable Consumption and Production 2019, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2019 Oct, pp. 491-512

Over 5/95. 3D Printing and Parametric Design for customizable daily life products

Alessia Romani

Politecnico di Milano, 2018 Apr 20