Manuel Melle-Franco

Investigador Principal

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.

Selected Publications up to 2018 (click to go the article)

  1. 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.
  2. 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. 
  3. 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. 
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Melle-Franco, M., “Uthrene, a Radically New Molecule?Chemical Communications 51, no. 25 (2015): 5387–90, doi:10.1039/C5CC01276G. IF=6.3.
  7. 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 MembranesBiomaterials 32, no. 29 (October 2011): 7079–85, doi:10.1016/j.biomaterials.2011.06.011. IF=8.56.

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2D-INK was our first European project, it was targeted at developing inks of novel 2D semiconducting materials for low-cost large-area fabrication processes on insulating substrates. 

 

Supervisões em Curso

Projectos

Estruturas 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 interactions

Materiais 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 Ferroelectricidade

Projeto 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.

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