Manuel Melle-Franco

Investigador Principal

Research

Manuel Melle-Franco leads the Advanced Modelling Lab , a multidisciplinary group focussing on the understanding of relevant problems in a broad area including chemistry, physics, molecular biology, and materials science with a current output of 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.* (x11); Angewandte Chemie* (x10); Nano Letters* (x3); ACS Nano (x2); Nature Communications (x2)*; Small; Small Methods (x2); BioMaterials; Journal of Materials Chemistry A* (x2); PNAS; Chemical Science* (x4); 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.

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.

Covers

JACS COVER 2021

CS Cover

 

Fullerenes at High Pressures

Videos

 

 

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

 

Supervisões em Curso

Projectos

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...

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 dur...

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...

Superredes Supercondutoras Alternativas (SuperSuper)

Coordenador LocalFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Superconductividade; Materiais Bidimensionais; Grafeno; Materiais Sinteticos

Publicações

Carbon Nano-onions: Potassium Intercalation and Reductive Covalent Functionalization

Perez-Ojeda, ME; Castro, E; Krockel, C; Lucherelli, MA; Ludacka, U; Kotakoski, J; Werbach, K; Peterlik, H; Melle-Franco, M; Chacon-Torres, JC; Hauke, F; Echegoyen, L; Hirsch, A; Abellan, G
2021, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 143, 45, 18997-19007.
ISBN: 1520-5126

Singlet Fission in Pyrene-Fused Azaacene Dimers

Mora-Fuentes, JP; Papadopoulos, I; Thiel, D; Alvarez-Boto, R; Cortizo-Lacalle, D; Clark, T; Melle-Franco, M; Guldi, DM; Mateo-Alonso, A
2020, ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION, 59, 3, 1113-1117.
ISBN: 1521-3773

Electroactive Organic Building Blocks for the Chemical Design of Functional Porous Frameworks (MOFs and COFs) in Electronics

Souto, M; Strutynski, K; Melle-Franco, M; Rocha, J
2020, CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL, 26, 48, 10912-10935.
ISBN: 1521-3765

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

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