Fausto Sanz Carrasco
Professor
Bioengineering
Parc Cientific de Barcelona
Spain
Biography
"Fausto Sanz obtained his PhD in Experimental Sciences from the University of Barcelona, where he has been Full Professor since 1988. He currently teaches in the Department of Physical Chemistry in the fields of Surface Science, Electrochemistry and SPM applications. As Visiting Investigator at the University of Utrecht (1985-86) in Prof. SluytersÂ’ laboratory, he acquired expertise in Impedance Spectroscopy and Chrono-electrochemical techniques. Elected Director of the Physical Chemistry Department (1986-1991), he successfully promoted a research agreement to improve research outputs under which, in ten years, the Department went to the top of University records. He was Sabbatical Visiting Scholar at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (1991-92) in Prof. SalmeronÂ’s SPM group and within the Surface & Catalysis Program led by Prof. Somorjai. Now his research is mainly devoted to three subjects: Molecular functionalization of surfaces and particulate systems, Nanomechanics & Nanotribology linked with surface phenomena and including Molecular Force Spectroscopy, and Electrochemical Scanning Tunneling microscopy and Spectroscopy. He is an active member of ISE since 1982, of the Electrochemical Society since 1989, of the Northern California Chapter of the AVS since 1992, and of The Biophysical Society since 2005. He has published more than 150 contributions in peer-reviewed journals and a few other publications. For the last twenty years he have conducted graduate Courses in Electrochemistry, Surface Electrochemistry, Surface Science, Scanning Probe Microscopies and Nanobiotechnology with more than the average number of students from several PhD programmes. He mentored 21 PhD Students, the majority of them integrated today as Staff in the University or Research Centers, and more than 30 Graduate Students with a (Master) Diploma in Experimental Chemistry. He is Member of the Executive Board of the “Sociedad de Microscopia Española” associated to the European Microscopy Society."
Research Interest
Molecular functionalization of surfaces and particulate systems, Nanomechanics & Nanotribology linked with surface phenomena and including Molecular Force Spectroscopy, and Electrochemical Scanning Tunneling microscopy and Spectroscopy
Publications
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Obiols-Rabasa, M., Oncins, G., Sanz, F., Tadros, T. F., Solans, C., Levecke, B., Booten, K., Esquena, J., (2017). Investigation of the elastic and adhesion properties of adsorbed hydrophobically modified inulin films on latex particles using Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 524, 185-192
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Aragonès, A. C., Darwish, N., Ciampi, S., Sanz, F., Gooding, J. J., DÃez-Pérez, I., (2017). Single-molecule electrical contacts on silicon electrodes under ambient conditions Nature Communications 8, 15056
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Aragonès, A. C., Aravena, D., Valverde-Muñoz, F. J., Real, J. A., Sanz, F., DÃez-Pérez, I., Ruiz, E., (2017). Metal-controlled magnetoresistance at room temperature in single-molecule devices Journal of the American Chemical Society 139, (16), 5768-5778
