Carlo Giansante

Senior Researcher

Carlo Giansante is a chemist, dealing with the design, synthesis, and self-assembly of solution-processable nanomaterials as photo- and electro-active units for light energy conversion applications.

CG earned a doctoral degree at the Università di Bologna (2008) studying the photophysics and electrochemistry of discrete supramolecular systems. He also studied the non-linear optical properties of conjugated polymers at the University of California Santa Barbara. He then worked at the Université de Bordeaux on self-assembled nanostructures and their photophysics down to the single molecule level.

In Lecce since 2011, CG established a research line at CNR NANOTEC devoted to the study of nanoscopic surfaces and interfaces, which are ubiquitous at the size scale of nanomaterials. More recently, CG started a novel research line on mixed anion semiconductor nanomaterials, by proposing the first colloidal method to synthesize nanocrystals of heavy pnictogen chalcohalides for light-harvesting purposes.

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• List of CG’s publications