Prof. G. M. Farinola will give a lecture on Sustainable routes to optoelectronic materials
His public lecture will take place on Wednesday, October 5, 14:00, room A109 of the Faculty of Chemistry.
Prof. Gianluca Maria Farinola: Sustainable routes to optoelectronic materials: from organic semiconductors to photosynthetic microorganisms
The lecture will present our studies on sustainable routes to organic and bio-hybrid optoelectronic materials exploring both organic synthesis and synthetic biology, and also combining the two approaches. We have developed green synthetic protocols for molecular semiconductors based on direct arylation reactions which avoid the use of organometallic reagents, occur in solventless conditions and replace thermal heating with IR irradiation. Besides the classical synthetic methods, we are exploring new concepts in materials design based on functional structures extracted from photosynthetic microorganisms for photoconversion and photonics. Examples are photosynthetic enzymes from cyanobacteria as active components in photoelectrochemical cells and in light-activated field effect transistors, or photonic structures from biosilica shells of microalgae. Finally we report the use of living photosynthetic bacteria in photoelectrochemical cells for solar energy conversion.
Prof. Gianluca Maria Farinola is Vice President of the Italian Chemical Society, President of the Organic Chemistry Division (European Society of Chemistry) and Rector Delegate for Research and Innovation at the University of Bari.
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