Research Group
Manuel Melle-Franco leads the Advanced Modelling Lab, a strongly multidisciplinary group that focuses on the understanding of relevant problems in different broad areas such as chemistry, physics, molecular biology, and materials science. This has led to 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.* (x10); Angewandte Chemie* (x10); Nano Letters* (x3); ACS Nano (x2); Nature Communications*; Small; Small Methods (x2); BioMaterials; Journal of Materials Chemistry A; PNAS; Chemical Science* (x3); 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
Jorge Diogo Marques Laranjeira
Estudante de doutoramento
Nuno Fortunato
Estudante de doutoramento
Rita Maria Bolota Velho Pires da Fonseca
Estudante de doutoramento
Veniero Lenzi
Bolseiro de pós-Doutoramento
Óscar Toledano
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...Estruturas baseadas em Redes Orgânicas Covalentes para monitorização de poluentes farmacêuticos (Charm)
Coordenador LocalFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
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 during the f...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 FerroelectricidadeSuperredes 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
A Sterically Congested Nitrogenated Benzodipentaphene with a Double pi-Expanded Helicene Structure
Chen, FK; Gu, WT; Saeki, A; Melle-Franco, M; Mateo-Alonso, A
2020, ORGANIC LETTERS, 22, 9, 3706-3711.
ISBN:
1523-7052
Bow in awe to the new nanographene
Melle-Franco, M
2020, NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY, 15, 1, 8-9.
ISBN:
1748-3395
Carbon nanostructure morphology templates nanocomposites for phosphoproteomics
Piovesana, 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.
ISBN:
1998-0000
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.
ISBN:
1998-0000
Clar Rules the Electronic Properties of 2D pi-Conjugated Frameworks: Mind the Gap
Strutynski, K; Mateo-Alonso, A; Melle-Franco, M
2020, CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL, 26, 29, 6569-6575.
ISBN:
1521-3765
Dibenzoanthradiquinone Building Blocks for the Synthesis of Nitrogenated Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
Martinez, JI; Mora-Fuentes, JP; Carini, M; Saeki, A; Melle-Franco, M; Mateo-Alonso, A
2020, ORGANIC LETTERS, 22, 12, 4737-4741.
ISBN:
1523-7052
Different agglomeration properties of PC61BM and PC71BM in photovoltaic inks - a spin-echo SANS study
Bernardo, G; Melle-Franco, M; Washington, AL; Dalgliesh, RM; Li, FK; Mendes, A; Parnell, SR
2020, RSC ADVANCES, 10, 8, 4512-4520.
ISBN:
2046-2069
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