Nicola Pinna

Researcher

Short CV

Current affiliations:
- From 2009: World Class University Professorship at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
of the Seoul National University, Korea.
- From 2006: Investigador Coordenador (highest research position in Portugal) at the Department of
Chemistry and CICECO, University of Aveiro, Portugal.

Professional experience:
- March 2009: Invited Professor at the University of Bordeaux I.
- May 2008: Offer of a professor position at the University of Namur, Belgium.
- 2005-2006: Nachwuchsgruppenleiter (Assistant Professor), leading the group of inorganic nanoparticles
at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.
- 2005-2006: Guest scientist at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle.
- 2003-2004: Research associate at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (Professor M.
Antonietti): Synthesis, characterization, assembly and properties of metal oxide nanoparticles.
- 2002-2003: Post Doc at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society (Professor R. Schlögl
and Professor J. Urban): Synthesis, characterization and catalytic studies of vanadium oxide based
nanomaterials.
- 1998-2001 PhD Thesis at the LM2N, Laboratoire des Matériaux Mesoscopiques et Nanométriques and
at CEA (Commissariat pour l’Energie Atomique) (Supervisor: Professor M.-P. Pileni):
Nanomaterials: structural studies and optical properties.
- 1997-1998: Master: DEA Electrochemistry (University Paris VI).
- 1993-1997: Bachelor: Physical Chemistry (University Paris VI).

Scientific Interests

- Nanostructured materials 
- Non-aqueous sol gel routes
- Structural properties of nanomaterials 
- Optical properties of nanomaterials 
- Catalytic and gas sensing properties
- Energy applications

Present Research Group

Dr. Gianvito Caputo (Post Doc)
Dr. Guylhaine Clavel (Post Doc)
Catherine Marichy (PhD student)
Andrea Pucci (PhD student)
Susana Gomes (PhD student)
Valentina Rebuttini (PhD student)

Main present collaborators

Teaching Activity

Please see: http://www.pinna.info

Present projects

Selected Publications

Nicola Pinna has published more than 70 articles in the field of nanostructured materials in the last 10 years. The number of citations is larger than 2500 and the corresponding h-index is 30 (source ISI December 2010).

For a full list please see: http://www.pinna.info/nano/articles_list.html

Projects

Publications

Single-Step Formation of Metal Oxide Nanostructures Wrapped in Mesoporous Silica and Silica-Niobia Catalysts for the Condensation of Furfural with Acetone

Skrodczky, K; Antunes, MM; Zhu, QJ; Valente, AA; Pinna, N; Russo, PA
2023, NANOMATERIALS, 13, 23.

Niobium pentoxide nanomaterials with distorted structures as efficient acid catalysts

Skrodczky, K; Antunes, MM; Han, XY; Santangelo, S; Scholz, G; Valente, AA; Pinna, N; Russo, PA
2019, COMMUNICATIONS CHEMISTRY, 2.

Tuning the sensitivity of lanthanide-activated NIR nanothermometers in the biological windows

Cortelletti, P; Skripka, A; Facciotti, C; Pedroni, M; Caputo, G; Pinna, N; Quintanilla, M; Benayas, A; Vetrone, F; Speghini, A
2018, NANOSCALE, 10, 5, 2568-2576.

Effect of 10 different TiO2 and ZrO2 (nano)materials on the soil invertebrate Enchytraeus crypticus

Gomes, SIL; Caputo, G; Pinna, N; Scott-Fordsmand, JJ; Amorim, MJB
2015, ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY, 34, 10, 2409-2416.

Sensing behavior of SnO2/reduced graphene oxide nanocomposites toward NO2

Neri, G; Leonardi, SG; Latino, M; Donato, N; Baek, S; Conte, DE; Russo, PA; Pinna, N
2013, SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL, 179, 61-68.

In-Vacuum Projection of Nanoparticles for On-Chip Tunneling Spectroscopy

Yu, Q; Cui, LM; Lequeux, N; Zimmers, A; Ulysse, C; Rebuttini, V; Pinna, N; Aubin, H
2013, ACS NANO, 7, 2, 1487-1494.

Nanoparticle self-assembly using pi-pi interactions

Caputo, G; Pinna, N
2013, JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A, 1, 7, 2370-2378.

Zirconia-doped nanoparticles: organic coating, polymeric entrapment and application as dual-imaging agents

Rebuttini, V; Pucci, A; Arosio, P; Bai, X; Locatelli, E; Pinna, N; Lascialfari, A; Franchini, MC
2013, JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY B, 1, 7, 919-923.

Nanoparticles charge response from electrostatic force microscopy

Mottaghizadeh, A; Lang, PL; Cui, LM; Lesueur, J; Li, J; Zheng, DN; Rebuttini, V; Pinna, N; Zimmers, A; Aubin, H
2013, APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS, 102, 5.

In Situ Infrared Spectroscopic Study of Atomic Layer-Deposited TiO2 Thin Films by Nonaqueous Routes

Ramos, KB; Clavel, G; Marichy, C; Cabrera, W; Pinna, N; Chabal, YJ
2013, CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS, 25, 9, 1706-1712.

Patents

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