Research
Manuel Melle-Franco leads the Advanced Modelling Lab , a multidisciplinary group focussing on the understanding of relevant problems in a broad area including chemistry, physics, molecular biology, and materials science with a current output of 130 publications with an added impact factor > 1000.
Manuel's education and career are highly multidisciplinary. He has a degree in Physical-Chemistry from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), followed by an M.Sc. in Materials Chemistry from the University of Kent (UK) and a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics (2001) from the University of Kent (UK) with Alan Chadwick, with a year abroad in the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy) with Gianfranco Pacchioni.
After that, he joined the group of Francesco Zerbetto at the University of Bologna (Italy) for 8 years. Later, he moved to Portugal, where he worked at the University of Porto and the University of Minho. Manuel has been working in CICECO - Aveiro Institute of Materials since 2016.
Manuel’s research has been reported in a variety of high-visibility journals, most notably: Nature, Chem, J. Am. Chem. Soc.* (x11); Angewandte Chemie* (x10); Nano Letters* (x3); ACS Nano (x2); Nature Communications (x2)*; Small; Small Methods (x2); BioMaterials; Journal of Materials Chemistry A* (x2); PNAS; Chemical Science* (x4); Carbon* (x6); ACS Appl Mater Interfaces (x5); Nano Research; NanoScale (x4); Chem. Comm.* (x6); Organic Letters* (x7); Chem. Eur. J.* (x7); 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 works have been highlighted in general media, such as radio and newspapers, and in several specialized outlets like Nature Reviews Chemistry, Chemistry World (x8), Physics World (x3), Chemistry Views (x4), SynFacts (x2), and Computational Chemistry Highlights.
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Supervisões em Curso
Clara Alves Ponte
Estudante de doutoramento
Ricardo Ortiz Cano
Investigador Júnior
Sergey Pyrlin
Investigador Júnior
Uxía Gómez Bouzó
Bolseiro de pós-DoutoramentoProjectos
Engineered Conductive Proteins for Bioelectronics (E-PROT)
Coordenador LocalEuropean Comission
Proteins demonstrate exceptional structural and electrical conduction properties for designing functional materials. The goal of the EU-funded e-Prot project is to rationally design efficient conductive protein systems and produce protein-based conductive structures and materials. This breakthrough relies on a multidisciplinary scientific approa...FantastiCOF: Fabricating and Implementing Exotic Moiré Materials from Covalent Organic Frameworks (FantastiCOF)
Coordenador LocalEuropean Comission
Superconducting devices based on Josephson Junctions (JJs) are among the most versatile devices in superconducting electronics. Yet challenges remain because conventional JJs are created using a variety of materials that have been identified as a source of noise, dissipation and dephasing, and also, that raise compatibility problems dur...Superredes Supercondutoras Alternativas (SuperSuper)
Coordenador LocalFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Superconductividade; Materiais Bidimensionais; Grafeno; Materiais SinteticosEstruturas baseadas em Redes Orgânicas Covalentes para monitorização de poluentes farmacêuticos (Charm)
Coordenador LocalFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Grafeno Funcionalizado para tecnologias quânticas (PTDC/FIS-NAN/4662/2014)
Coordenador LocalFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Grafeno; tecnología quânticas; defeitos pontuais paramagnéticas; spin interactionsMateriais para Eléctrodos de Baterias de Iões de Lítio Baseados em Redes Metalo-Orgânicas com Actividade Redox; (RedoxMOFs)
ParticipanteFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
A redução da dependência dos combustíveis fósseis é uma das principais preocupações da sociedade moderna. Devido ao seu baixo custo e impacto ambiental, os dispositivos de armazenamento de energia eléctrica estão entre as alternativas mai...Multiferróicos híbridos orgânico-inorgânicos foto-responsivos: Na senda da eletrónica multifuncional (PTDC/CTM-CTM/4044/2020)
ParticipanteFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Híbridos orgânico-inorgânico Multiferroicos Piezoelectricidade FerroelectricidadeProjeto de Investigação Exploratória: Manuel Melle (IF Manuel Melle)
CoordenadorFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Redesigning 2D Materials for the Formulation of Semiconducting Inks (2D INK)
Coordenador LocalEuropean Comission
2D-INK is targeted at developing inks of novel 2D semiconducting materials for low-cost large-area fabrication processes on insulating substrates through a new methodology, which will exceed the properties of state-of-the-art graphene- and graphene oxide based inks. Achieving this would represent an important step forward in the processing of 2D...Publicações
Lithium halide filled carbon nanocapsules: Paving the way towards lithium neutron capture therapy (LiNCT)
Gonçalves, G; Sandoval, S; Llenas, M; Ballesteros, B; Da Ros, T; Bortolussi, S; Cansolino, L; Ferrari, C; Postuma, I; Protti, N; Melle-Franco, M; Altieri, S; Tobías-Rossell, G
2023, CARBON, 208, 148-159.
An Organic Molecular Nanobarrel that Hosts and Solubilizes C60
Bera, S; Das, S; Melle-Franco, M; Mateo-Alonso, A
2023, ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION, 62, 5.
Accelerated iterative synthesis of ultralong graphene nanoribbons with full atomic precision
Dubey, RK; Marongiu, M; Fu, S; Wen, GZ; Bonn, M; Wang, HI; Melle-Franco, M; Mateo-Alonso, A
2023, CHEM, 9, 10, 2983-2996.
A Crystalline 1D Dynamic Covalent Polymer
De Bolos, E; Martinez-Abadia, M; Hernandez-Culebras, F; Haymaker, A; Swain, K; Strutynski, K; Weare, BL; Castells-Gil, J; Padial, NM; Marti-Gastaldo, C; Khlobystov, AN; Saeki, A; Melle-Franco, M; Nannenga, BL; Mateo-Alonso, A
2022, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 144, 34, 15443-15450.
An Expanded 2D Fused Aromatic Network with 90-Ring Hexagons
Riano, A; Strutynski, K; Liu, M; Stoppiello, CT; Lerma-Berlanga, B; Saeki, A; Marti-Gastaldo, C; Khlobystov, AN; Valenti, G; Paolucci, F; Melle-Franco, M; Mateo-Alonso, A
2022, ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION, 61, 2.
Clathrate structure of polymerized fullerite C-60
Laranjeira, J; Marques, L; Melle-Franco, M; Strutynski, K; Barroso, M
2022, CARBON, 194, 297-302.
Doubling the Length of the Longest Pyrene-Pyrazinoquinoxaline Molecular Nanoribbons
Hernandez-Culebras, F; Melle-Franco, M; Mateo-Alonso, A
2022, ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION, 61, 27.
Inducing Single-Handed Helicity in a Twisted Molecular Nanoribbon
Dubey, RK; Melle-Franco, M; Mateo-Alonso, A
2022, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 144, 6, 2765-2774.
Observing polymerization in 2D dynamic covalent polymers
Zhan, GL; Cai, ZF; Strutynski, K; Yu, LH; Herrmann, N; Martinez-Abadia, M; Melle-Franco, M; Mateo-Alonso, A; De Feyter, S
2022, NATURE, 603, 7903, 835-+.
Planar and Helical Dinaphthophenazines
Chen, F; Melle-Franco, M; Mateo-Alonso, A
2022, JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, 87, 12, 7635-7642.