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Recent Publications

  1. Stability of optical and electroluminescence properties of a semiconducting polymer over a decade
    Gustaf Winroth, Sergio Brovelli, Rusli Daik, W. James Feast, Franco Cacialli
    ORGANIC ELECTRONICS, 11, 1445-1448 (2010)

  2. Electrochemical synthesis of Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) nanotube arrays using ZnO templates
    Markus Döbbelin, Ramon Tena-Zaera, Pedro M. Carrasco, Jose R. Sarasua, Germán Cabañero, David Mercerreyes
    JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART A: POLYMER CHEMISTRY, accepted

  3. Innovative materials and applications based on Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) and ionic liquids
    Markus Döbbelin, Rebeca Marcilla, Cristina Pozo-Gonzalo, David Mercerreyes
    JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY (feature article), DOI: 10.1039/c0jm00114g

  4. White electroluminescence from Single-Layer Devices of Nonresonant Polymer Blends
    Sergio Brovelli, Hao Guan, Gustaf Winroth, Oliver Fenwick, Francesco Di Stasio, Rusli Daik, W. James Feast, Francesco Meinardi and Franco Cacialli
    APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS, 96, 213301 (2010)

  5. Enhanced Luminescence Properties of Highly Threaded Conjugated Polyelectrolytes with Potassium Counter-Ions upon Blending with Poly(ethylene oxide)
    Gianluca Latini, Gustaf Winroth, Sergio Brovelli, Shane O. McDonnell, Harry L. Anderson, Jeffrey M. Mativetsky, Paolo Samorì and Franco Cacialli
    JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS, 107, 124509 (2010)

  6. A Conjugated Thiophene-Based Rotaxane: Synthesis, Spectroscopy and Modeling
    Leszek Zalewski, Michael Wykes, Sergio Brovelli, Massimo Bonini, Thomas Breiner, Marcel Kastler, Florian Dotz, David Beljonne, Harry L. Anderson, Franco Cacialli and Paolo Samorì
    7. CHEMISTRY - A EUROPEAN JOURNAL, 16, 3933-3941 (2010)

  7. White Electroluminescence by Supramolecular Control of Energy Transfer in Blends of Organic-Soluble Encapsulated Polyfluorenes
    8. Sergio Brovelli, Francesco Meinardi, Gustaf Winroth, Oliver Fenwick, Giuseppe Sforazzini, Michael J. Frampton, Leszek Zalewski, James A. Levitt, Francesco Marinello, Piero Schiavuta, Klaus Suhling, Harry L. Anderson and Franco Cacialli
    ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, 20, 272-280 (2010)

  8. Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells using Polymeric Ionic Liquid/polyfluorene Blends as Luminescent Material
    9. Rebeca Marcilla, David Mercerreyes, Gustaf Winroth, Sergio Brovelli, Maria del Mar Rodriguez Yebra and Franco Cacialli
    APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS, 96, 043308 (2010)

  9. Light-Responsive Reversible Solvation and Precipitation of Gold Nanoparticles
    10. Corinna Raimondo, Federica Reinders, Umut Soydaner, Marcel Mayor and Paolo Samorì
    CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS, 46, 1147-1149 (2010)

  10. Single Molecular Wires get a Lift
    11. Jeffrey M. Mativetsky and Paolo Samorì
    SMALL, 5, 1927-1930 (2009)

  11. Laser Action from a Sugar-Threaded Polyrotaxane
    12. Marta M. Mroz, Stefano Perissinotto, Tersilla Virgili, Giuseppe Gigli, Marco Salerno, Michael J. Frampton, Giuseppe Sforazzini, Harry L. Anderson and Guglielmo Lanzani
    APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS, 95, 031108 (2009)

  12. Photoinduced On-Chain Charge-Separation and Ultrafast Recombination in Sugar-Coated Insulated Molecular Wire
    13. Marta M. Mroz, Guglielmo Lanzani, Tersilla Virgili, Shane O. Mc Donnel, Michael J. Frampton and Harry L. Anderson
    PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 80, 045111 (2009)

  13. Dynamics of guest molecules in PHTP Inclusion Compounds as Probed by Solid-State NMR and Fluorescence Spectroscopy
    14. G. Srinivasan, J.A. Villanueva-Garibay, K. Muller, D. Oelkrug, B. Milian Medina, D. Beljonne, J. Cornil, M. Wykes, L. Viani, J. Gierschner, R. Martinez-Alvarez, M. Jazdzyk, M. Hanack and H. J. Egelhaaf
    PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 11, 4996-5009 (2009)

  14. Mechanism of Charge Transport along Zinc Porphyrin-Based Molecular Wires
    15. Aleksey A. Kocherzhenko, Sameer Patwardhan, Ferdinand C. Grozema, Harry L. Anderson and Laurens D. A. Siebbeles
    JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 131, 5522-5529 (2009)

  15. Multi-responsive PEDOT-ionic liquid materials for the design of surfaces with switchable wettability
    16. Markus Döbbelin, Ramon Tena-Zaera, Rebeca Marcilla, Jagoba Iturri, Sergio Moya, Jose A. Pomposo, David Mercerreyes
    ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, 19, 3326-3333 (2009)

  16. Self-Assembly of a Donor-Acceptor Dyad across Multiple Length Scales: Functional Architectures for Organic Electronics
    17. Jeffrey M. Mativetsky, Marcel Kastler, Rebecca C. Savage, Desirée Gentilini, Matteo Palma, Wojciech Pisula, Klaus Mullen and Paolo Samorì
    ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, 19, 2486-2494 (2009)

  17. Competitive Phyisisorption Among Alkyl-Substituent pi-Conjugated Oligomers at the Solid-Liquid Interface: Toward Prediction of Self-Assembly at Surfaces from a Multicomponent Solution
    18. Massimo Bonini, Leszek Zalewski, Thomas Breiner, Florian Dotz, Marcel Kastler, Mathieu Surin, Roberto Lazzaroni and Paolo Samorì
    SMALL, 5, 1521-1526 (2009)

  18. Electrochemical synthesis of PEDOT derivatives bearing imidazolium-ionic liquid moieties
    Markus Döbbelin, Cristina Pozo-Gonzalo, Rebeca Marcilla, Raúl Blanco, José L. Segura, Jose A. Pomposo, David Mecerreyes
    JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART A: Polymer Chemistry 47, 12, 3010-3021, 2009.

  19. Influence of cyclodextrin size on fluorescence quenching in conjugated polyrotaxanes by methyl viologen in aqueous solution
    Francine E. Oddy, Sergio Brovelli, Matthew T. Stone, Eric J. F. Klotz, Franco Cacialli and Harry L. Anderson
    J. MATER. CHEM.., 19, 2846 - 2852, 2009

  20. Supramolecular Crystal Engineering at the Solid-Liquid Interface from First Principles: Toward Unraveling the Thermodynamics of 2D Self-Assembly (p NA)
    Carlos-Andres Palma, Massimo Bonini, Thomas Breiner, Paolo Samorì
    ADVANCED MATERIALS, Volume 21 Issue 13, Pages 1383 - 1386, 2009

  21. Exploring Electronic Transport in Molecular Junctions by Conducting Atomic Force Microscopy,
    J.M. Mativetsky, M. Palma, P. Samori',
    TOPICS IN CURRENT CHEMISTRY, 2008, 285, 157-202

  22. Tuning Intrachain versus Interchain Photophysics via Control of the Threading Ratio of Conjugated Polyrotaxanes
    Sergio Brovelli, Gianluca Latini, Michael J. Frampton, Shane O. McDonnell, Francine E. Oddy, Oliver Fenwick, Harry L. Anderson and Franco Cacialli
    NANO LETTERS, 2008, 8 (12), 4546-4551

  23. A new approach to hydrophobic and water-resistant poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) poly(styrenesulfonate) films using ionic liquids
    Markus Döbbelin, Rebeca Marcilla, Christopher Tollan, José A. Pomposo,a Jose-Ramon Sarasuab and David Mecerreyes
    JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY, 18, 5354-5358, 2008

  24. Tuning Surface Wettability of Poly(3-sulfopropyl methacrylate) Brushes by Cationic Surfactant-Driven Interactions
    Markus Döbbelin, Garciela Arias, Iraida Loinaz, Irantzu Llarena, David Mecerreyes, Sergio Moya
    MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS, 29, 11, 871-875, 2008

  25. Self-assembly of hydrogen-bond assisted supramolecular azatriphenylene architectures
    Matteo Palma, Jérémy Levin, Olivier Debever, Yves Geerts, Matthias Lehmann, and Paolo Samorì
    SOFT MATTER, 4, 2, 303-310, 2008

  26. Guanosine-based Hydrogen-bonded Scaffolds Controlling the Assembly of Oligothiophenes
    Gian Piero Spada, Stefano Lena, Stefano Masiero, Silvia Pieraccini, Mathieu Surin, and Paolo Samorì
    ADVANCED MATERIALS, 20, 12, 2433, 2008

  27. Azobenzenes as Light-Controlled Molecular Electronic Switches in Nanoscale Metal−Molecule−Metal Junctions
    Jeffrey M. Mativetsky, Giuseppina Pace, Mark Elbing, Maria A. Rampi, Marcel Mayor, and Paolo Samorì
    JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 130, 29, 9192, 2008

  28. Exploring Electronic Transport in Molecular Junctions by Conducting Atomic Force Microscopy
    Jeffrey M. Mativetsky, Matteo Palma, Paolo Samorì
    STM AND AFM STUDIES ON (BIO)MOLECULAR SYSTEMS: UNRAVELLING THE NANOWORLD
    Book Series: TOPICS IN CURRENT CHEMISTRY, Volume: 285, Pages: 157-202, Published: 2008

  29. Light-Powered Electrical Switch Based on Cargo-Lifting Azobenzene Monolayers
    Violetta Ferri, Mark Elbing, Giuseppina Pace, Michael D. Dickey, Michael Zharnikov, Paolo Samorì, Marcel Mayor, and Maria Anita Rampi
    ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION, 47, 18, 3407-3409, 2008

  30. Subnanometer-Resolved Patterning of Bicomponent Self-Assembled Monolayers on Au(111)
    Giuseppina Pace, Anne Petitjean, Marie-Noëlle Lalloz-Vogel, Jack Harrowfield, Jean-Marie Lehn, and Paolo Samorì
    ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION, 47, 13, 2484-2488, 2008

  31. Ground- and Excited-State Pinched Cone Equilibria in Calix[4]arenes Bearing Two Perylene Bisimide Dyes
    Catharina Hippius, Ivo H. M. van Stokkum, Ennio Zangrando, Rene´ M. Williams, Michael Wykes, David Beljonne, and Frank Würthner
    J. PHYS. CHEM.C 2008, 112, 14626–14638

  32. Amylose-wrapped luminescent conjugated polymers
    Michael J. Frampton, Timothy D. W. Claridge, Gianluca Latini, Sergio Brovelli, Franco Cacialli, and Harry L. Anderson
    CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS, 24, 2797-2799, 2008

  33. Synthesis and Optoelectronic Properties of Nonpolar Polyrotaxane Insulated Molecular Wires with high Solubility in Organic Solvents
    Michael J. Frampton, Giuseppe Sforazzini, Sergio Brovelli, Gianluca Latini, Emily Townsend, Charlotte C. Williams, Ana Charas, Leszek Zalewski, Naeem S. Kaka, Mallena Sirish, Lisa J. Parrott, Joanne S. Wilson, Franco Cacialli, and Harry L. Anderson
    ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS , 2008, 18, 3367–3376

  34. Cyclodextrin-threaded conjugated polyrotaxanes for organic electronics- the influence of the counter cations
    Gianluca Latini, Lisa-Jodie Parrott, Sergio Brovelli, Michael J. Frampton, Harry L. Anderson and Franco Cacialli
    ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, 18, 16, 2419-2427, 2008

  35. Control of Rapid Formation of Interchain Excited States in Sugar-Threaded Supramolecular Wires
    Annamaria Petrozza, Sergio Brovelli, Jasper J. Michels, Harry L. Anderson, Richard H. Friend, Carlos Silva, and Franco Cacialli
    ADVANCED MATERIALS, 2008, 20, 17, 3218-3223

  36. Self-assembled monolayers of protonated poly(amidoamine) dendrimers on indium-tin-oxide electrodes
    Gianluca Latini, Robert Schlapak, Stefan Howorka, Franco Cacialli
    APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS, 92, 013511 (2008)

  37. Polyfluorene-based light-emitting diodes with an azide photocross-linked poly(3,4-ethylene dioxythiophene):(polystyrene sulfonic acid) hole-injecting layer
    Gustaf Winroth, Gianluca Latini, Dan Credgington, Loke-Yuen Wong, Lay-Lay Chua, Peter K.-H. Ho, and Franco Cacialli
    APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS , 92, 103308 (2008)

  38. Macroscopically Aligned Films of Discotic Liquid Crystalline Phthalocyanine by Zone Casting.
    Adam Tracz, Tomasz Makowski, Sylwia Masirek, Wojciech Pisula, Yves Henri Geerts
    NANOTECHNOLOGY, 18, 48, 2007. Article Number: 485303

  39. Organic Reactivity in Confined Space under Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Control: Tailoring the nanoscale world
    Luc Piot, Davide Bonifazi and Paolo Samorì
    ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, 17, 3689-3693 (2007)

  40. Exploring nanoscale electrical and electronic properties of organic and polymeric functional materials by atomic force microscopy based approaches
    Vincenzo Palermo, Andrea Liscio, Matteo Palma, Mathieu Surin, Roberto Lazzaroni, Paolo Samorì
    CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS, 32, 3326-3337, 2007

  41. Influence of Ionic Liquids on the Electrical Conductivity and Morphology of PEDOT:PSS Films
    Markus Döbbelin, Rebeca Marcilla, Maitane Salsamendi, Cristina Pozo-Gonzalo, Pedro M. Carrasco, Jose A. Pomposo, David Mecerreyes
    CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS, 19, 9, 2147-2149, 2007

  42. Scanning force microscopy and optical spectroscopy of phase-segregated thin films of poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene-alt-benzothiadiazole) and poly(ethylene oxide)
    Laura Sardone, Cristiana Sabatini, Gianluca Latini, Francesco Barigelletti, Giovanni Marletta, Franco Cacialli and Paolo Samorì
    JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY, 17, 14, 1387-1391, 2007

  43. Molecular self-assembly across multiple length scales: when enemies become friends
    Vincenzo Palermo and Paolo Samorì
    ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION, 46, 24, 4428-4432, 2007

  44. Cooperative Light Induced Molecular Movements of Highly Ordered Azobenzene SAMs
    Giuseppina Pace, Violetta Ferri, Christian Grave, Mark Elbing, Carsten von Hänisch, Michael Zharnikov, Marcel Mayor, Maria Anita Rampi, Paolo Samorì
    PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 104, 24, 9937-9942, 2007

  45. Supramolecular Control of Charge Transport in Molecular Wires
    Ferdinand C. Grozema, Coralie Houarner-Rassin, Paulette Prins, Laurens D. A. Siebbeles, and Harry L. Anderson
    J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2007, 129 (44), 13370-13371 DOI: 10.1021/ja0751274

  46. Nucleation-Governed Reversible Self-Assembly of an Organic Semiconductor at Surfaces: Long-Range Mass Transport Forming Giant Functional Fibers 
    G. De Luca, A. Liscio, P. Maccagnani, F. Nolde, V. Palermo, K. Müllen, P. Samorì
    Adv. Funct. Mater. 2007, 17, 3791-3798 & 3687

Relevant Publications

  1. Zone-Casting Technique for Device Fabrication of Field-Effect Transistors Based on Discotic Hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene
    Wojciech Pisula, Anoop Menom, Michael Stepputat, Ingo Lieberwirth, Ute Kolb, Adam Tracz, Henning Sirringhaus, Tadeusz Pakula and Klaus Müllen
    Advanced Materials, 17, 6, 684, 2005

  2. Long-Range Ordered Thin Films of Block Copolymers Prepared by Zone-Casting and Their Thermal Conversion into Ordered Nanostructured Carbon
    Chuanbing Tang, Adam Tracz, Michal Kruk, Rui Zhang, Detlef-M. Smilgies, Krysztof Matyjaszewski and Tomasz Kowalewski
    Journal of the American Chemical Society, 127, 19, 6918-6919, 2005

  3. Zone casting - a universal method of preparing oriented anisotropic layers of organic materials
    Adam Tracz, Tadeus Pakula and Jermiasz K. Jeszka
    MATERIALS SCIENCE-POLAND, 22, 4, 415-421, 2004

  4. Uniaxial Alignment of the Columnar Super-Structure of a Hexa (Alkyl) Hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene on Untreated Gladd by Simple Solution Processing
    Adam Tracz, Jeremiasz K. Jeszka, Mark D. Watson, Wojciech Pisula, Klaus Müllen and Tadeusz Pakula
    Journal of the American Chemical Society, 125, 7, 1682-1683, 2005

  5. J.S. Wilson, M.J. Frampton, J. J. Michels, L. Sardone, G. Marletta, R. H. Friend, P. Samorì, H. L. Anderson, F. Cacialli.
    "Supramolecular complexes of conjugated polyelectrolytes with poly(ethylene oxide): multifunctional luminescent semiconductors exhibiting electronic and ionic transport ".
    Advanced Materials 17, 2659-2663 (2005).

  6. J. J. Michels, M. J. O'Connell, P. N. Taylor, J.S. Wilson, F. Cacialli, and H. L. Anderson.
    "Synthesis of conjugated polyrotaxanes".
    Chem. Eur. J. 9, 6167-6176 (2003).

  7. J.S. Wilson, M.J. Frampton, J. J. Michels, L. Sardone, G. Marletta, R. H. Friend, P. Samorì, H. L. Anderson, F. Cacialli.
    "Supramolecular complexes of conjugated polyelectrolytes with poly(ethylene oxide): multifunctional luminescent semiconductors exhibiting electronic and ionic transport ".
    Advanced Materials 17, 2659-2663 (2005).

  8. F. Cacialli, J.S. Wilson, J. J. Michels, C. Daniel, C. Silva, R. H. Friend, N. Severin, P. Samorì, J. P. Rabe, M. J. O' Connell, P. N. Taylor and H. L. Anderson."Cyclodextrin-threaded conjugated polyrotaxanes as electroluminescent insulated molecular wires with reduced interstrand interactions".
    Nature materials, 1, 160-164 (2002).

  9. M.J. Frampton and H.L. Anderson, "Insulated Molecular Wires".
    Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2007, 46, 1028-1064.

  10. E.J.F. Klotz, T.D.W. Claridge, and H.L. Anderson, "Homo- and Hetero-[3]Rotaxanes with Two pi-Systems Clasped in a Single Macrocycle.
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 15374-15375.

  11. J.J. Michels, M.J. O'Connell, P.N. Taylor, J.S. Wilson, F. Cacialli and H.L. Anderson, "Synthesis of conjugated polyrotaxanes".
    Chem. Eur. J. 2003, 9, 6167-6176.
  • Number of scientific papers published by the project:
    latest update 26.07.10

2007 = 9

2008 = 17

2009 = 11

2010 = 9

TOTAL = 46

  • "In press" and "accepted" pubblications to be added soon