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
Water Dispersible Few-Layer Graphene Stabilized by a Novel Pyrene Derivative at Micromolar Concentration
Cunha, E; Proenca, MF; Pereira, MG; Fernandes, MJ; Young, RJ; Strutynski, K; Melle-Franco, M; Gonzalez-Debs, M; Lopes, PE; Paiva, MD
2018, NANOMATERIALS, 8, 9.
TiO2/graphene and TiO2/graphene oxide nanocomposites for photocatalytic applications: A computer modeling and experimental study
Martins, PM; Ferreira, CG; Silva, AR; Magalhaes, B; Alves, MM; Pereira, L; Marques, PAAP; Melle-Franco, M; Lanceros-Mendez, S
2018, COMPOSITES PART B-ENGINEERING, 145, 39-46.
A thiadiazole-capped nanoribbon with 18 linearly fused rings
Cortizo-Lacalle, D; Gozalvez, C; Franco, MM; Mateo-Alonso, A
2018, NANOSCALE, 10, 24, 11297-11301.
Oxidized Nanocarbons-Tripeptide Supramolecular Hydrogels: Shape Matters!
Iglesias, D; Melle-Franco, M; Kurbasic, M; Melchionna, M; Abrami, M; Grassi, M; Prato, M; Marchesan, S
2018, ACS NANO, 12, 6, 5530-5538.
High conductance values in pi-folded molecular junctions
Carini, M; Ruiz, MP; Usabiaga, I; Fernandez, JA; Cocinero, EJ; Melle-Franco, M; Diez-Perez, I; Mateo-Alonso, A
2017, NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 8.
Twisted Aromatic Frameworks: Readily Exfoliable and Solution-Processable Two-Dimensional Conjugated Microporous Polymers
Marco, AB; Cortizo-Lacalle, D; Perez-Miqueo, I; Valenti, G; Boni, A; Plas, J; Strutynski, K; De Feyter, S; Paolucci, F; Montes, M; Khlobystov, AN; Melle-Franco, M; Mateo-Alonso, A
2017, ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION, 56, 24, 6946-6951.
Permeation of skin with (C-60) fullerene dispersions
Martins, M; Azoia, NG; Melle-Franco, M; Ribeiro, A; Cavaco-Paulo, A
2017, ENGINEERING IN LIFE SCIENCES, 17, 7, 732-738.
ISBN:
1618-2863
Carbon nanotubes accelerate methane production in pure cultures of methanogens and in a syntrophic coculture
Salvador, AF; Martins, G; Melle-Franco, M; Serpa, R; Stams, AJM; Cavaleiro, AJ; Pereira, MA; Alves, MM
2017, ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY, 19, 7, 2727-2739.
ISBN:
1462-2920
Pyrene-fused bisphenazinothiadiazoles with red to NIR electroluminescence dagger
Cortizo-Lacalle, D; Pertegas, A; Melle-Franco, M; Bolink, HJ; Mateo-Alonso, A
2017, ORGANIC CHEMISTRY FRONTIERS, 4, 5, 876-881.
Synthesis and Properties of a Twisted and Stable Tetracyano-Substituted Tetrabenzoheptacene
Martinez-Abadia, M; Antonicelli, G; Zuccatti, E; Atxabal, A; Melle-Franco, M; Hueso, LE; Mateo-Alonso, A
2017, ORGANIC LETTERS, 19, 7, 1718-1721.
ISBN:
1523-7052