Professor Alessandro Troisi
Professor Chemistry
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- Work email A.Troisi@liverpool.ac.uk
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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 Phase 2
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
April 2016 - March 2026
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