ENTREPRENEURING DYNAMIC SELF-ORGANIZED INTERFACES IN PHOTOCATALYSIS: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY TRAINING NETWORK CONVERTING LIGHT INTO PRODUCTS

Project Information

PHOTOTRAIN

Grant agreement ID: 722591

DOI 10.3030/722591

Project closed

EC signature date 10 August 2016

Start date 1 October 2016

End date 30 September 2020

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost € 3 630 212,28

EU contribution € 3 630 212,28

Coordinated by

ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA
Italy

Deliverables

Documents, reports (7)

Characterization of sealed chips
Design and fabrication of non-mixing microchannels
Simulation of laminar interfaces
Publications on scientific and popular journals

Report on all publications on scientific and popular journals

Self-assembly at the liquid-liquid and solid-liquid interfaces
Energy and electron transfer rates at dynamic interfaces
Photo and electrochemical characterization

Other (14)

Preparation of surfactant aggregates loaded with photoactive units
Synthesis of nanostructured catalysts
4° Core science school

Microfluidic circuits and laser fabrication

5° Transferable skills workshop

Entrepreneurship, leadership and ethics

3° Core science school

Photophysical characterisation

Implementation of synthetically valuable photocatalytic processes
1° Transferable skills workshop

Project management and co-ordination

4° Transferable skills workshop

Intellectual properties, business plan and commercialization

1° Core science school

Bases and state of the art of photocatalytic processes

3° Transferable skills workshop

Presentation and communication skills, media exploitation

2° Transferable skills workshop

Data analysis and scientific writing

2° Core science school

Molecular design and synthesis

Functionalization of surfaces
Synthesis of green, red and blue chromophore modules

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (2)

Social media and dissemination activities

Twitter and Facebook accounts, report on dissemination activities

Website

PHOTOTRAIN website launch

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (2)

Z-scheme microfluidic photoreactor for water splitting
Half-reaction water splitting photoreactors

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (28)

Generalized Plasmonic Modelling of the Effect of Refractive Index on Laser-Induced Periodic Nanostructures

Author(s): A. Abdelmalek, Z. Bedrane, V. Bharadwaj, E.-H. Amara, R. Ramponi, S. M. Eaton
Published in: Journal of Materials and Applications, Issue 8/2, 2019, Page(s) 73-79, ISSN 2051-7750
Publisher: Tech Reviews Ltd.
DOI: 10.32732/jma.2019.8.2.73

Photosynthetic H2 generation and organic transformations with CdSe@CdS-Pt nanorods for highly efficient solar-to-chemical energy conversion

Author(s): Amedeo Agosti, Yifat Nakibli, Lilac Amirav, Giacomo Bergamini
Published in: Nano Energy, Issue 70, 2020, Page(s) 104510, ISSN 2211-2855
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2020.104510

Synthetic Methods Driven by the Photoactivity of Electron Donor–Acceptor Complexes

Author(s): Giacomo E. M. Crisenza, Daniele Mazzarella, Paolo Melchiorre
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 142/12, 2020, Page(s) 5461-5476, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c01416

Organic room-temperature phosphorescence from halogen-bonded organic frameworks: hidden electronic effects in rigidified chromophores

Author(s): Jiawang Zhou, Ljiljana Stojanović, Andrey A. Berezin, Tommaso Battisti, Abigail Gill, Benson M. Kariuki, Davide Bonifazi, Rachel Crespo-Otero, Michael R. Wasielewski, Yi-Lin Wu
Published in: Chemical Science, 2021, ISSN 2041-6520
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d0sc04646a

Efficient Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction with MIL-100(Fe)-CsPbBr3 Composites

Author(s): Ruolin Cheng, Elke Debroye, Johan Hofkens, Maarten B. J. Roeffaers
Published in: Catalysts, Issue 10/11, 2020, Page(s) 1352, ISSN 2073-4344
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/catal10111352

Laser-Inscribed Diamond Waveguide Resonantly Coupled to Diamond Microsphere

Author(s): Nurperi Yavuz, Mustafa Mert Bayer, Hüseyin Ozan Ҫirkinoğlu, Ali Serpengüzel, Thien Le Phu, Argyro Giakoumaki, Vibhav Bharadwaj, Roberta Ramponi, Shane M. Eaton
Published in: Molecules, Issue 25/11, 2020, Page(s) 2698, ISSN 1420-3049
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/molecules25112698

Photochemical Organocatalytic Borylation of Alkyl Chlorides, Bromides, and Sulfonates

Author(s): Daniele Mazzarella, Giandomenico Magagnano, Bertrand Schweitzer-Chaput, Paolo Melchiorre
Published in: ACS Catalysis, Issue 9/7, 2019, Page(s) 5876-5880, ISSN 2155-5435
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.9b01482

Tailored Synthesis of N - Substituted peri -Xanthenoxanthene Diimide (PXXDI) and Monoimide (PXXMI) Scaffolds

Author(s): Andrea Sciutto, Andrey Berezin, Matteo Lo Cicero, Tanja Miletić, Antoine Stopin, Davide Bonifazi
Published in: The Journal of Organic Chemistry, Issue 83/22, 2018, Page(s) 13787-13798, ISSN 0022-3263
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.8b02076

Comment on “Zemplén transesterification: a name reaction that has misled us for 90 years” by B. Ren, M. Wang, J. Liu, J. Ge, X. Zhang and H. Dong, Green Chemistry , 2015, 17 , 1390–1394

Author(s): Cristofer Pezzetta, Sofja Tshepelevitsh, Ivo Leito, Giovanni Poli
Published in: Green Chemistry, Issue 20/10, 2018, Page(s) 2392-2394, ISSN 1463-9262
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/c7gc03795c

Incorporation of Cesium Lead Halide Perovskites into g-C 3 N 4 for Photocatalytic CO 2 Reduction

Author(s): Ruolin Cheng, Handong Jin, Maarten B. J. Roeffaers, Johan Hofkens, Elke Debroye
Published in: ACS Omega, Issue 5/38, 2020, Page(s) 24495-24503, ISSN 2470-1343
Publisher: ACS Publications
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.0c02960

Efficient and Selective Photocatalytic Oxidation of Benzylic Alcohols with Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Perovskite Materials

Author(s): Haowei Huang, Haifeng Yuan, Kris P. F. Janssen, Guillermo Solís-Fernández, Ying Wang, Collin Y. X. Tan, Dries Jonckheere, Elke Debroye, Jinlin Long, Jelle Hendrix, Johan Hofkens, Julian A. Steele, Maarten B. J. Roeffaers
Published in: ACS Energy Letters, Issue 3/4, 2018, Page(s) 755-759, ISSN 2380-8195
Publisher: ACS Publications
DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.8b00131

Direct Stereoselective Installation of Alkyl Fragments at the β-Carbon of Enals via Excited Iminium Ion Catalysis

Author(s): Charlie Verrier, Nurtalya Alandini, Cristofer Pezzetta, Mauro Moliterno, Luca Buzzetti, Hamish B. Hepburn, Alberto Vega-Peñaloza, Mattia Silvi, Paolo Melchiorre
Published in: ACS Catalysis, Issue 8/2, 2018, Page(s) 1062-1066, ISSN 2155-5435
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.7b03788

Customizing Photoredox Properties of PXX-based Dyes through Energy Level Rigid Shifts of Frontier Molecular Orbitals

Author(s): Andrea Sciutto, Andrea Fermi, Andrea Folli, Tommaso Battisti, Joseph M. Beames, Damien M. Murphy, Davide Bonifazi
Published in: Chemistry - A European Journal, Issue 24/17, 2018, Page(s) 4382-4389, ISSN 0947-6539
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201705620

Asymmetric Photocatalytic C–H Functionalization of Toluene and Derivatives

Author(s): Daniele Mazzarella, Giacomo E. M. Crisenza, Paolo Melchiorre
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 140/27, 2018, Page(s) 8439-8443, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b05240

Oxygen-Doped Zig-Zag Molecular Ribbons

Author(s): Andrey Berezin, Nicolas Biot, Tommaso Battisti, Davide Bonifazi
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Issue 57/29, 2018, Page(s) 8942-8946, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201803282

Templated chromophore assembly on peptide scaffolds: a structural evolution

Author(s): Lou Rocard, Darren Wragg, Samuel Alexander Jobbins, Lorenzo Luciani, Stefano Leoni, Johan Wouters, Davide Bonifazi
Published in: Chemistry - A European Journal, 2018, ISSN 0947-6539
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201803205

Femtosecond laser written photonic and microfluidic circuits in diamond

Author(s): Vibhav Bharadwaj, Ottavia Jedrkiewicz, J P Hadden, Belén Sotillo, María Ramos Vázquez, Paola Dentella, Toney T Fernandez, Andrea Chiappini, Argyro N Giakoumaki, Thien Le Phu, Monica Bollani, Maurizio Ferrari, Roberta Ramponi, Paul E Barclay, Shane M Eaton
Published in: Journal of Physics: Photonics, Issue 1/2, 2019, Page(s) 022001, ISSN 2515-7647
Publisher: IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/2515-7647/ab0c4e

C(sp 3 )–H Bond Activation by Perovskite Solar Photocatalyst Cell

Author(s): Haowei Huang, Haifeng Yuan, Jiwu Zhao, Guillermo Solís-Fernández, Chen Zhou, Jin Won Seo, Jelle Hendrix, Elke Debroye, Julian A. Steele, Johan Hofkens, Jinlin Long, Maarten B. J. Roeffaers
Published in: ACS Energy Letters, Issue 4/1, 2019, Page(s) 203-208, ISSN 2380-8195
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.8b01698

Single-Step Synthesis of Dual Phase Bright Blue-Green Emitting Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystal Thin Films

Author(s): Harshita Bhatia, Julian A. Steele, Cristina Martin, Masoumeh Keshavarz, Guillermo Solis-Fernandez, Haifeng Yuan, Guillaume Fleury, Haowei Huang, Iurii Dovgaliuk, Dmitry Chernyshov, Jelle Hendrix, Maarten B. J. Roeffaers, Johan Hofkens, Elke Debroye
Published in: Chemistry of Materials, Issue 31/17, 2018, Page(s) 6824-6832, ISSN 0897-4756
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b01277

Rapid Fabrication of Membrane-Integrated Thermoplastic Elastomer Microfluidic Devices

Author(s): Alexander H. McMillan, Emma K. Thomée, Alessandra Dellaquila, Hussam Nassman, Tatiana Segura, Sasha Cai Lesher-Pérez
Published in: Micromachines, Issue 11/8, 2020, Page(s) 731, ISSN 2072-666X
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/mi11080731

Laser-Inscribed Glass Microfluidic Device for Non-Mixing Flow of Miscible Solvents

Author(s): Valeria Italia, Argyro Giakoumaki, Silvio Bonfadini, Vibhav Bharadwaj, Thien Le Phu, Shane Eaton, Roberta Ramponi, Giacomo Bergamini, Guglielmo Lanzani, Luigino Criante
Published in: Micromachines, Issue 10/1, 2019, Page(s) 23, ISSN 2072-666X
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/mi10010023

Amide Synthesis by Nickel/Photoredox‐Catalyzed Direct Carbamoylation of (Hetero)Aryl Bromides

Author(s): Nurtalya Alandini, Luca Buzzetti, Gianfranco Favi, Tim Schulte, Lisa Candish, Karl D. Collins, Paolo Melchiorre
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Issue 59/13, 2020, Page(s) 5248-5253, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202000224

Photochemical generation of acyl and carbamoyl radicals using a nucleophilic organic catalyst: applications and mechanism thereof

Author(s): Eduardo de Pedro Beato, Daniele Mazzarella, Matteo Balletti, Paolo Melchiorre
Published in: Chemical Science, Issue 11/24, 2020, Page(s) 6312-6324, ISSN 2041-6520
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d0sc02313b

Divergent Terpyridine-Based Coordination for the Construction of Photoactive Supramolecular Structures

Author(s): Amedeo Agosti, Ewelina Kuna, Giacomo Bergamini
Published in: European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, Issue 2019/5, 2019, Page(s) 577-584, ISSN 1434-1948
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/ejic.201801263

Towards Solar Factories: Prospects of Solar‐to‐Chemical Energy Conversion using Colloidal Semiconductor Photosynthetic Systems

Author(s): Amedeo Agosti, Mirco Natali, Lilac Amirav, Giacomo Bergamini
Published in: ChemSusChem, Issue 13/18, 2020, Page(s) 4894-4899, ISSN 1864-5631
Publisher: Wiley - V C H Verlag GmbbH & Co.
DOI: 10.1002/cssc.202001274

Enantioselective Synthesis of N -Benzylic Heterocycles: A Nickel and Photoredox Dual Catalysis Approach

Author(s): Cristofer Pezzetta, Davide Bonifazi, Robert W. M. Davidson
Published in: Organic Letters, Issue 21/22, 2019, Page(s) 8957-8961, ISSN 1523-7060
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.9b03338

Quantum Micro–Nano Devices Fabricated in Diamond by Femtosecond Laser and Ion Irradiation

Author(s): Shane M. Eaton, John P. Hadden, Vibhav Bharadwaj, Jacopo Forneris, Federico Picollo, Federico Bosia, Belen Sotillo, Argyro N. Giakoumaki, Ottavia Jedrkiewicz, Andrea Chiappini, Maurizio Ferrari, Roberto Osellame, Paul E. Barclay, Paolo Olivero, Roberta Ramponi
Published in: Advanced Quantum Technologies, Issue 2/5-6, 2019, Page(s) 1900006, ISSN 2511-9044
Publisher: Wiley Online Library
DOI: 10.1002/qute.201900006

Synthetic strategies tailoring colours in multichromophoric organic nanostructures

Author(s): Olesia Kulyk, Lou Rocard, Laura Maggini, Davide Bonifazi
Published in: Chemical Society Reviews, 2020, ISSN 0306-0012
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/c9cs00555b

Book chapters (1)

Lung-on-a-chip platforms for modeling disease pathogenesis

Author(s): Alessandra Dellaquila, Emma K. Thomée, Alexander H. McMillan, Sasha Cai Lesher-Pérez
Published in: Organ-on-a-chip, 2020, Page(s) 133-180, ISBN 9780128172025
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-817202-5.00004-8