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.
Covers
Supervisões em Curso
Clara Alves Ponte
Estudante de doutoramento
Nuno Fortunato
Bolseiro de investigação
Ricardo Ortiz Cano
Investigador Júnior
Sergey Pyrlin
Investigador Júnior
Veniero Lenzi
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...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...Superredes Supercondutoras Alternativas (SuperSuper)
Coordenador LocalFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Superconductividade; Materiais Bidimensionais; Grafeno; Materiais SinteticosGrafeno Funcionalizado para tecnologias quânticas (PTDC/FIS-NAN/4662/2014)
Coordenador LocalFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Grafeno; tecnología quânticas; defeitos pontuais paramagnéticas; spin interactionsProjeto 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
Quasi-Barrierless Submolecular Motion in Mechanically Interlocked Carbon Nanotubes
Villalva, J; Nieto-Ortega, B; Melle-Franco, M; Perez, EM
2020, JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C, 124, 28, 15541-15546.
ISBN:
1932-7455
Thiophene- and Carbazole-Substituted N-Methyl-Fulleropyrrolidine Acceptors in PffBT4T-2OD Based Solar Cells
Gaspar, H; Figueira, F; Strutynski, K; Melle-Franco, M; Ivanou, D; Tome, JPC; Pereira, CM; Pereira, L; Mendes, A; Viana, JC; Bernardo, G
2020, MATERIALS, 13, 6.
ISBN:
1996-1944
Clar Goblet and Aromaticity Driven Multiradical Nanographenes
Gil-Guerrero, S; Melle-Franco, M; Pena-Gallego, A; Mandado, M
2020, CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL, 26, 68, 16138-16143.
ISBN:
1521-3765
Using COSMO-RS to design choline chloride pharmaceutical eutectic solvents
Abranches, DO; Larriba, M; Silva, LP; Melle-Franco, M; Palomar, JF; Pinho, SP; Coutinho, JAP
2019, FLUID PHASE EQUILIBRIA, 497, 71-78.
ISBN:
1879-0224
What a difference a methyl group makes - probing choline-urea molecular interactions through urea structure modification
Silva, LP; Araujo, CF; Abranches, DO; Melle-Franco, M; Martins, MAR; Nolasco, MM; Ribeiro-Claro, PJA; Pinho, SP; Coutinho, JAP
2019, PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 21, 33, 18278-18289.
ISBN:
1463-9084
A partially-planarised hole-transporting quart-p-phenylene for perovskite solar cells
Mora-Fuentes, JP; Cortizo-Lacalle, D; Collavini, S; Strutynski, K; Tress, WR; Saliba, M; Zakeeruddin, SM; Kosta, I; Melle-Franco, M; Gratzel, M; Delgado, JL; Mateo-Alonso, A
2019, JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY C, 7, 15, 4332-4335.
ISBN:
2050-7534
Isolation and Characterization of the Unexpected 1-n-Octyloxyperopyrene: A Solution-Processable p-Type Organic Semiconductor
Martinez-Abadia, M; Antonicelli, G; Saeki, A; Melle-Franco, M; Mateo-Alonso, A
2019, JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, 84, 6, 3270-3274.
Charge transport modulation in pseudorotaxane 1D stacks of acene and azaacene derivatives
Gozalvez, C; Zafra, JL; Saeki, A; Melle-Franco, M; Casado, J; Mateo-Alonso, A
2019, CHEMICAL SCIENCE, 10, 9, 2743-2749.
ISBN:
2041-6539
Ythrene: From the Real Radical Fullerene Substructure to Hypothetical (yet?) Radical Molecules
Khamatgalimov, AR; Melle-Franco, M; Gaynullina, AA; Kovalenko, VI
2019, JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C, 123, 3, 1954-1959.
Giant Star-Shaped Nitrogen-Doped Nanographenes
Mora-Fuentes, JP; Riano, A; Cortizo-Lacalle, D; Saeki, A; Melle-Franco, M; Mateo-Alonso, A
2019, ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION, 58, 2, 552-556.
ISBN:
1521-3773