Manuel Melle-Franco was born in Lugo (Spain) in 1972 and has a 5-year degree in Physical-Chemistry from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) and an M.Sc. in Materials Chemistry from the University of Kent (UK). Manuel worked one year in the Materials Department of the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy) with Gianfranco Pacchioni and got his PhD in Chemical Physics with Alan Chadwick from the University of Kent (UK) in 2001.
After that, he joined the group of Francesco Zerbetto in the Department of Chemistry of the University of Bologna (Italy) for 8 years, and later he moved to Portugal, where he worked as an independent researcher in the University of Porto and University of Minho. He currently works in CICECO - Aveiro Institute of Materials, at the University of Aveiro as a principal researcher.
Manuel leads the Applied Computer Modelling Lab which uses computer models to understand experimental problems in chemistry, physics, molecular biology and materials science, especially focusing on carbon-based molecules and nanomaterials. Manuel has more than 110 publications, of which 30% as first/corresponding author, with an added impact factor > 850.
Manuel has several works in a variety of high visibility journals such as:
Nature, J. Am. Chem. Soc. (x9)*; Angewandte Chemie* (x9); Nano Letters* (x3); ACS Nano (x2); Nature Communications*; Small; BioMaterials; Journal of Materials Chemistry A; PNAS; Chemical Science* (x3); Carbon (x4); ACS Appl Mater Interfaces (x4); Nano Research; NanoScale (x4); Chem. Comm.* (x6); Organic Letters* (x7); Chem. Eur. J.* (x5); Environmental Microbiology; J. Chem. Theo. Comp. (x2); Journal of Materials Chemistry C (x2) among others, in addition to Nature Nanotechnology* (x2) review N&V pieces (*: corresponding author).
Manuel's work has been highlighted in general media, such as radio and newspapers, and in several specialized outlets like Nature Reviews Chemistry, Chemistry World (x7), Physics World (x3), Chemistry Views (x4), SynFacts (x2), and Computational Chemistry Highlights.
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- Iglesias, Daniel, Manuel Melle-Franco, Marina Kurbasic, Michele Melchionna, Michela Abrami, Mario Grassi, Maurizio Prato, and Silvia Marchesan. “Oxidized Nanocarbons-Tripeptide Supramolecular Hydrogels: Shape Matters!” ACS Nano, May 22, 2018. doi:10.1021/acsnano.8b01182. IF=13.94, Q1, Comp-Exp.
- Cortizo-Lacalle, Diego, Juan Pedro Mora-Fuentes, Karol Strutynski, Akinori Saeki, Manuel Melle-Franco*, and Aurelio Mateo-Alonso. “Monodisperse N-Doped Graphene Nanoribbons Reaching 7.7 Nm in Length.” Angewandte Chemie International Edition, In-press. doi:10.1002/anie.201710467. IF=11.7.
- Carini, Marco, Marta P. Ruiz, Imanol Usabiaga, José A. Fernández, Emilio J. Cocinero, Manuel Melle-Franco, Ismael Diez-Perez, and Aurelio Mateo-Alonso. “High Conductance Values in π-Folded Molecular Junctions.” Nature Communications 8 (May 18, 2017): 15195. doi:10.1038/ncomms15195. IF=11.3.
- Marco, A. Belen, Diego Cortizo-Lacalle, Iñigo Perez-Miqueo, Giovanni Valenti, Alessandro Boni, Jan Plas, Karol Strutyński, et al. “Twisted Aromatic Frameworks: Readily Exfoliable and Solution-Processable Two-Dimensional Conjugated Microporous Polymers.” Angewandte Chemie International Edition, January 1, 2017, in-press. doi:10.1002/anie.201700271. IF=11.7.
- Melle-Franco, Manuel. “Graphene Fragments: When 1 + 1 Is Odd.” Nature Nanotechnology advance online publication (February 13, 2017). doi:10.1038/nnano.2017.9. IF=35.3.
- Melle-Franco, M., “Uthrene, a Radically New Molecule?” Chemical Communications 51, no. 25 (2015): 5387–90, doi:10.1039/C5CC01276G. IF=6.3.
- Höfinger, S., Melle-Franco, M., Gallo, T., Cantelli, A., Calvaresi, M., Gomes, J.A.N.F., Zerbetto, F., “A Computational Analysis of the Insertion of Carbon Nanotubes into Cellular Membranes” Biomaterials 32, no. 29 (October 2011): 7079–85, doi:10.1016/j.biomaterials.2011.06.011. IF=8.56.
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Cobalt Phosphorous Trisulfide as a High-Performance Electrocatalyst for the Oxygen Evolution ReactionyOliveira, FM; Pastika, J; Mazanek, V; Melle-Franco, M; Sofer, Z; Gusmao, R 2021, ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, 13, 20, 23638-23646.
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Twisted Molecular Nanoribbons with up to 53 Linearly-Fused RingsDubey, RK; Melle-Franco, M; Mateo-Alonso, A 2021, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 143, 17, 6593-6600.
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Imaging and analysis of covalent organic framework crystallites on a carbon surface: a nanocrystalline scaly COF/nanotube hybridWeare, BL; Lodge, RW; Zyk, N; Weilhard, A; Housley, CL; Strutynski, K; Melle-Franco, M; Mateo-Alonso, A; Khlobystov, AN 2021, NANOSCALE, 13, 14, 6834-6845.
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pi-Interpenetrated 3D Covalent Organic Frameworks from Distorted Polycyclic Aromatic HydrocarbonsMartinez-Abadia, M; Strutynski, K; Lerma-Berlanga, B; Stoppiello, CT; Khlobystov, AN; Marti-Gastaldo, C; Saeki, A; Melle-Franco, M; Mateo-Alonso, A 2021, ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION, 60, 18, 9941-9946.
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Thermoelectric properties of polypropylene carbon nanofiber melt-mixed composites: exploring the role of polymer on their Seebeck coefficientPaleo, AJ; Krause, B; Cerqueira, MF; Melle-Franco, M; Potschke, P; Rocha, AM 2021, POLYMER JOURNAL, 53, 10, 1145-1152.
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In situ laser annealing as pathway for the metal free synthesis of tailored nanographenesMilotti, V; Melle-Franco, M; Steiner, AK; Verbitskii, I; Amsharov, K; Pichler, T 2021, NANOSCALE ADVANCES, 3, 3, 703-709.
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From groove binding to intercalation: unravelling the weak interactions and other factors modulating the modes of interaction between methylated phenanthroline-based drugs and duplex DNASanchez-Gonzalez, A; Castro, TG; Melle-Franco, M; Gil, A 2021, PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 23, 47, 26680-26695.
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Understanding charge transport in wavy 2D covalent organic frameworksMartinez-Abadia, M; Strutynski, K; Stoppiello, CT; Berlanga, BL; Marti-Gastaldo, C; Khlobystov, AN; Saeki, A; Melle-Franco, M; Mateo-Alonso, A 2021, NANOSCALE, 13, 14, 6829-6833.
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Carbon Nano-onions: Potassium Intercalation and Reductive Covalent FunctionalizationPerez-Ojeda, ME; Castro, E; Krockel, C; Lucherelli, MA; Ludacka, U; Kotakoski, J; Werbach, K; Peterlik, H; Melle-Franco, M; Chacon-Torres, JC; Hauke, F; Echegoyen, L; Hirsch, A; Abellan, G 2021, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 143, 45, 18997-19007.
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Singlet Fission in Pyrene-Fused Azaacene DimersMora-Fuentes, JP; Papadopoulos, I; Thiel, D; Alvarez-Boto, R; Cortizo-Lacalle, D; Clark, T; Melle-Franco, M; Guldi, DM; Mateo-Alonso, A 2020, ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION, 59, 3, 1113-1117.
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Electroactive Organic Building Blocks for the Chemical Design of Functional Porous Frameworks (MOFs and COFs) in ElectronicsSouto, M; Strutynski, K; Melle-Franco, M; Rocha, J 2020, CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL, 26, 48, 10912-10935.
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A Sterically Congested Nitrogenated Benzodipentaphene with a Double pi-Expanded Helicene StructureChen, FK; Gu, WT; Saeki, A; Melle-Franco, M; Mateo-Alonso, A 2020, ORGANIC LETTERS, 22, 9, 3706-3711.
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Bow in awe to the new nanographeneMelle-Franco, M 2020, NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY, 15, 1, 8-9.
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Carbon nanostructure morphology templates nanocomposites for phosphoproteomicsPiovesana, S; Iglesias, D; Melle-Franco, M; Kralj, S; Cavaliere, C; Melchionna, M; Lagana, A; Capriotti, AL; Marchesan, S 2020, NANO RESEARCH, 13, 2, 380-388.
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Carbon nanostructure morphology templates nanocomposites for phosphoproteomics (vol 13, pg 380, 2020)Piovesana, S; Iglesias, D; Melle-Franco, M; Kralj, S; Cavaliere, C; Melchionna, M; Lagana, A; Capriotti, AL; Marchesan, S 2020, NANO RESEARCH, 13, 2, 596-596.
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