Paolo Samorì

Paolo Samorì (born in Imola, Italy, 1971) is an Italian physical chemist and Distinguished Professor (PRCE) and director of the Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (ISIS) of the Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA) & CNRS where he is also head of the Nanochemistry Laboratory.

He obtained a Laurea (master's degree) in Industrial Chemistry at University of Bologna in 1995. In 2000 he received his PhD in Chemistry from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Prof. Jürgen P. Rabe). He was permanent research scientist at Istituto per la Sintesi Organica e la Fotoreattività of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche of Bologna from 2001 till 2008, and Visiting Professor at ISIS from 2003 til 2008.

He has published over 360 papers on applications of nanochemistry and materials chemistry with a particular focus on graphene and related 2D materials, supramolecular electronics, scanning probe microscopies beyond imaging, hierarchical self-assembly of hybrid functional architectures at surfaces and interfaces, and the fabrication of organic- and graphene-based nanodevices.

He is using the supramolecular chemistry approach in order to generate ordered 1D, 2D and 3D architectures at surfaces and interfaces, with the ultimate goal of controlling an improving the properties of opto-electronic and sensing devices.

He exploited supramolecular scaffolds based on H-bonding[1] and metal-ligand[2] interactions to control the patterning of functional groups in two-dimensions. He has fabricated the first dynamer operating at the solid-liquid interface which were monitored on the sub-molecular scale by means of Scanning Tunneling Microscopy[3]

At the University of Strasbourg he showed that combining organic semiconductors with photochromic systems it is possible to fabricate optically switchable field-effect transistor as a first step towards multifunctional devices.[4][5] He is exploiting supramolecular methods to generate graphene based materials with tunable properties.[6] His current research is focused on the architecture vs function relationship in supramolecular and graphene-based materials for applications in (opto)electronics, sensing, energy storage and materials science.

His present research interests are centered around internet of functions in ad hoc 0D to 3D functionalized multicomponent nanostructures and networks thereof for energy, sensing and optoeletronic applications.

- Chemistry of two-dimensional materials (graphene and other layered compounds): production, tuning of their properties, fabrication of devices.

- Multiscale tailoring of smart supramolecular systems: development of multiresponsive coatings and composites.

- High-performance multifunctional materials and (nano)devices for opto-electronics, chemical and physical sensing, data storage, energy generation and storage, etc.

He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC), member of the Academia Europaea (MAE), foreign member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (KVAB), and senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF).

Awards


Associate Editor

Member to the advisory boards

References
  1. G.P. Spada, S. Lena, S. Masiero, S. Pieraccini, M. Surin, P. Samorì, Guanosine based H-bonded scaffolds: controlling the assembly of oligothiophenes, Adv. Mater. 20, 2433 (2008)
  2. M. Surin, P. Samorì, A. Jouaiti, N. Kyritsakas, M.W. Hosseini, Molecular tectonics on surfaces: bottom-up fabrication of 1-D coordination networks that form 1D and 2D arrays on graphite, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 46, 245 (2007)
  3. A. Ciesielski, S. Lena, S. Masiero, G.P. Spada, P. Samorì, Dynamers at the solid-liquid interface: controlling the reversible assembly/re-assembly process between two highly ordered supramolecular guanine motifs, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 49, 1963 (2010)
  4. E. Orgiu, N. Crivillers, M. Herder, L. Grubert, M. Pätzel, J. Frisch, E. Pavlica, G. Bratina, N. Koch, S. Hecht, P. Samorì, Optically switchable transistor via energy level phototuning in a bi-component organic semiconductor, Nature Chemistry 4, 675 (2012)
  5. C. Raimondo, N. Crivillers, F. Reinders, F. Sander, M. Mayor, P. Samorì, Enhanced current photo-switching in a field-effect transistor based on photoresponsive gold nanoparticles blended with poly(3-hexylthiophene), Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 109, 12375 (2012)
  6. A. Ciesielski, P. Samorì, Graphene via sonication assisted liquid-phase exfoliation, Chem. Soc. Rev. 43, 381 (2014)
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