Ermelinda Falletta received her master’s degree in organic chemistry at the University of Palermo. More recently, she has been researching new ‘green’ approaches to the preparation of new polymeric materials at the Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano, CNR-ISTM. She is the other co-author of ‘Polyaniline: From tradition to innovation’, and is the co-author of over thirty scientific papers.