Alessandro Abbotto
Professor
Materials Science
University of Milano-Bicocca
Italy
Biography
Born in Milan in 1963, graduated in Chemistry from the University of Milan in 1989 (with honors). In 1990 he was awarded a prize (Dow Italy) for best student in Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry of the University of Milan. Graduate student from 1990 to 1993, receiving his Ph.D. in Chemistry from University of Milan (Mentor: Prof. G. A. Pagani). He worked at the University of Berkeley, CA (USA) (Mentor: Prof. Andrew Streitwieser) as a post-doctoral fellow (NSF funding) from February 1994 to September 1995 and at the University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Erlangen (D) (Mentor: Prof. Paul v. R. Schleyer) with a NATO fellowship from October to December 1995. He joined the Materials Science Faculty of the University of Milan in December 1995 as Assistant Professor in Organic Chemistry. In 1998 he moved to the University of Milano-Bicocca where he got an Associate Professor position in Organic Chemistry in 2001.
Research Interest
Current scientific interests involve design, synthesis and characterization of organic and organometallic materials and devices for solar energy, artificila photosynthesis, photonics, and optoelectronics.
Publications
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Calderon, E.; Dangate, M.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A.; Salamone, M.; Ruffo, R.; Mari, C. “Electrochemical and Spectroelectrochemical Properties of a New Donor-Acceptor Polymer Containing 3,4-Dialkoxythiophene and 2,1,3-Benzothiadiazole Units†Polymers 2013, 5, 1068-1080.
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Collini, E.; Bolzonello, L.; Zerbetto, M.; Ferrante, C.; Manfredi, N.; Abbotto, A. “Lifetime shortening and fast energy transfer processes upon dimerization of a A-π-D-π-A molecule†ChemPhysChem 2013, ; dx.doi.org/10.1002/cphc.201300694.
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Lobello, M. G.; Fantacci, S.; Manfredi, N.; Coluccini, C.; Abbotto, A.; Nazeeruddin, Md. K.; De Angelis, F. “Design of Ru(II) sensitizers endowed by three anchoring units for adsorption mode and light harvesting optimization†Thin Solid Films 2013, ; dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2013.08.112.
