Nicola Pinna

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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

Non-aqueous sol-gel routes applied to atomic layer deposition of oxides

Clavel, G; Rauwel, E; Willinger, MG; Pinna, N
2009, JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY, 19, 4, 454-462.

A general nonaqueous route to crystalline alkaline earth aluminate nanostructures

Karmaoui, M; Willinger, MG; Mafra, L; Herntrich, T; Pinna, N
2009, NANOSCALE, 1, 3, 360-365.

Effect of annealing and electrical properties of high-kappa thin films grown by atomic layer deposition using carboxylic acids as oxygen source

Rauwel, E; Ducroquet, F; Rauwel, P; Willinger, MG; Matko, I; Pinna, N
2009, JOURNAL OF VACUUM SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY B, 27, 1, 230-235.

CO gas sensing of ZnO nanostructures synthesized by an assisted microwave wet chemical route

Krishnakumar, T; Jayaprakash, R; Pinna, N; Donato, N; Bonavita, A; Micali, G; Neri, G
2009, SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL, 143, 1, 198-204.

Structural, optical and electrical characterization of antimony-substituted tin oxide nanoparticles

Krishnakumar, T; Jayaprakash, R; Pinna, N; Phani, AR; Passacantando, M; Santucci, S
2009, JOURNAL OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF SOLIDS, 70, 6, 993-999.

Microwave-assisted synthesis and characterization of flower shaped zinc oxide nanostructures

Krishnakumar, T; Jayaprakash, R; Pinna, N; Singh, VN; Mehta, BR; Phani, AR
2009, MATERIALS LETTERS, 63, 2, 242-245.

Chemistry and physics of metal oxide nanostructures

Pinna, N; Hochepied, JF; Niederberger, M; Gregg, M
2009, PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 11, 19, 3607-3607.

Optical Response of Ultrafine Spherical Silver Nanoparticles Arranged in Hexagonal Planar Arrays Studied by the DDA Method

Portales, H; Pinna, N; Pileni, MP
2009, JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A, 113, 16, 4094-4099.

Transition Metal-Doped ZrO2 and HfO2 Nanocrystals

Pucci, A; Clavel, G; Willinger, MG; Zitoun, D; Pinna, N
2009, JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C, 113, 28, 12048-12058.

The controlled deposition of metal oxides onto carbon nanotubes by atomic layer deposition: examples and a case study on the application of V2O4 coated nanotubes in gas sensing

Willinger, MG; Neri, G; Bonavita, A; Micali, G; Rauwel, E; Herntrich, T; Pinna, N
2009, PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 11, 19, 3615-3622.

Atomic Layer Deposition of Nanostructured Materials

Nicola Pinna, Mato Knez
2011, Weinheim, Wiley.
ISBN: 978-3-527-32797-3

Metal Oxide Nanoparticles in Organic Solvents

Niederberger, Markus, Pinna, Nicola
2009, Springer.
ISBN: 978-1-84882-671-7

Coating of Carbon Nanotubes

In Nicola Pinna (Editor), Mato Knez (Editor) (Eds.), Atomic Layer Deposition of Nanostructured Materials
Marichy C, Pucci A, Willinger MG, Pinna N
2011, Weinheim, Wiley-VCH.
ISBN: 978-3-527-32797-3

Sol–Gel Chemistry and Atomic Layer Deposition

In Nicola Pinna, Mato Knez. (Eds.), Atomic layer deposition of nanostructured materials
Guylhaine Clavel, Catherine Marichy and Nicola Pinna
2011, Weinheim, Wiley-VCH.
ISBN: 978-3-527-32797-3

Photoluminescent rare-earth based lamellar organic-inorganic hybrid nanostructures

In Cozzoli PD (Eds.), Advanced Wet-Chemical Synthetic Approaches to Inorganic Nanostructures
Pinna N, Kamaoui M
2008, 391-406, Transworld Research Network.
ISBN: 978-81-7895-361-8

Resistive chemical sensors from metal oxides nanocrystals synthesized in organic solvents.

Nanomaterials: New research developments
Neri G, Pinna N
2008, 217-252, Nova Science Publishers .
ISBN: 978-1-60456-300-9

Nonaqueous synthesis, assembly and formation mechanisms of metal oxide nanocrystals

In Nicholas A. Kotov (Eds.), International Journal of Nanotechnology
Niederberger M, Garnweitner G, Ba J, Polleux J, Pinna N
2007, 4, 263-281, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd..

Atomic Layer Deposition of Nanostructured Materials

Nicola Pinna, Mato Knez
2011, Weinheim, Wiley.
ISBN: 978-3-527-32797-3

Metal Oxide Nanoparticles in Organic Solvents

Niederberger, Markus, Pinna, Nicola
2009, Springer.
ISBN: 978-1-84882-671-7

Patents

Method of forming an oxide thin film

Processes International

Pinna, Nicola; Rauwel, Erwan

A thin oxide film is formed by atomic layer deposition (ALD) onto a substrate by exposing the substrate to a first precursor comprising a metal alkoxide or amide or heteroleptic derivatives thereof and subsequently exposing the substrate to a second precursor comprising an ALD compatible carboxylic acid or carboxyl acid derivative compo...

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