Manuel Melle-Franco

Investigador Principal

Short Bio

Manuel Melle-Franco was born in Lugo (Spain) and has a  degree in Physical-Chemistry from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) and an M.Sc. in Materials Chemistry from the University of Kent (UK). Manuel worked one year in the Materials Department of the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy) with Gianfranco Pacchioni and got his PhD in Chemical Physics from the University of Kent (UK) with Alan Chadwick.  

After that, he joined the group of Francesco Zerbetto in the Department of Chemistry of the University of Bologna (Italy) for 8 years. Later, he moved to Portugal, where he worked as an independent researcher at the University of Porto and the University of Minho. He joined CICECO - Aveiro Institute of Materials, at the University of Aveiro in 2016. 

Manuel leads the Applied Computer Modelling Lab which uses computer models to understand experimental problems in chemistry, physics, molecular biology and materials science, especially focusing on carbon-based molecules and nanomaterials. Manuel has 120 accepted publications, of which 25% as first or corresponding author, with an added impact factor ~ 1000.

Manuel has several publications in a variety of high visibility journals such as:

Nature, 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 (x4); ACS Appl Mater Interfaces (x4); Nano Research; NanoScale (x4); Chem. Comm.* (x6); Organic Letters* (x7); Chem. Eur. J.* (x5); 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 work has been highlighted in general media, such as radio and newspapers, and in several specialized outlets like Nature Reviews Chemistry, Chemistry World (x7), Physics World (x3), Chemistry Views (x4), SynFacts (x2),   and Computational Chemistry Highlights.

International Projects

 

 

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

 

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.

Artwork and Covers

JACS COVER 2021

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Supervisões em Curso

Projectos

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

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