Alessandra Catellani
Professor
Physics
Istituto Nanoscienze Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Pisa
Italy
Biography
Catellani, Alessandra was born on January 4, 1958 in Modena, Italy. He completed his Master of Science in Physics, University Modena, Italy, 1981. He started his career as a Staff researcher Institute Corbino Italian National Research Council, Rome, 1986—1988, Institute Electromagnetic Sensing of Environment Italian National Research Council, Parma, since 1988. Post doctoral Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1984—1986. His major achievements include research in computational solid state physics. Research in interfaces, including water/solid.
Research Interest
Ab initio study of the structural and electronic properties of nanostructures and interfaces.
Publications
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Calzolari A, Ruini A, Catellani A (2011) Anchor group versus conjugation: toward the gap-state engineering of functionalized ZnO (1010) surface for optoelectronic applications. J Am Chem Soc 133: 5893-5899.
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Bertoni G, Grillo V, Brescia R, Ke X, Bals S, et al. (2012) Direct determination of polarity, faceting, and core location in colloidal core/shell wurtzite semiconductor nanocrystals. ACS nano 6: 6453-6461.
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Virgili T, Calzolari A, SuaÌrez LoÌpez I, Vercelli B, Zotti G, et al. (2013) Charge Separation in the Hybrid CdSe Nanocrystal–Organic Interface: Role of the Ligands Studied by Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Density Functional Theory. J Phys Chem C 117: 5969-5974.
