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Professor Alessandro Troisi

Professor Chemistry

Research

Theoretical Chemistry and Materials Science

The systems investigated in my group currently include semiconducting polymers, molecular crystals, organic solar cells, dye sensitized solar cells, molecular aggregates, excitonics systems (atificial and biological). A common tread is that we employ a broad range of computational chemistry methods (classical, quantum & analytical theories) but focusing mostly on the theories linking computable quantities with experimental observables. I am keen on combining atomistic models and phenomenological models often using the former to the develope the latter. More recently we are considering the study of large database of experimental results in conjunction with computational chemistry to determine structure property relations. We strongly support the (old) idea that theory should be used to predict new suprising properties rather than explaining retrospectively the observations.

Research Group Membership

Research Grants

Royce Recurrent grant

ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL

April 2016 - March 2027

A Theory of Organic Bioelectronics Materials (A-TO-B)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

October 2021 - September 2026

From Biopigments to Bioelectronics: Modelling Semiconducting Interfaces based on Eumelanin

DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY AND INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY (BEIS) (UK)

March 2019 - March 2020

From Biopigments to BIOelectronics: MOdelling Semiconducting EumelAnin-based InterfaCes (BIOMOSAIC)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

April 2020 - March 2022

Discovery of New Singlet Fission Materials

ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL

March 2020 - September 2022

DINEMOS: Discovery of New Molecular Semiconductors

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

July 2019 - June 2021

Rethinking the models of charge transport in polymeric semiconductors

ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL

April 2017 - November 2018

ESTYMA— Excited state quantum dynamics in molecular aggregates: a unified description from biology to devices

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

April 2017 - March 2019