Raffaella Buonsanti

Raffaella Buonsanti
Portrait of Raffaella Buonsanti
Born1981 (age 42–43)
Matera, Italy
NationalityItalian
Known forColloidal inorganic nanocrystals
Electrochemical CO2 reduction
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Bari
University of Salento
Academic work
DisciplineChemistry
Materials Science
Sub-disciplineNanochemistry
InstitutionsÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Main interestsSynthetic development of inorganic nanocrystals via colloidal chemistry
Electrocatalysis
Websitehttps://lnce.epfl.ch

Raffaella Buonsanti (born 1981 in Matera, Italy) is an Italian chemist and material scientist. Her research is at the interface between materials chemistry and catalysis as she focuses on the synthesis of nanocrystals to drive various energy-related reactions, such as CO2 reduction. She is currently a tenure-track assistant professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)[1] and director of the Laboratory of Nanochemistry for Energy located at EPFL's Valais campus.[2]

Career

Buonsanti received in 2006 her Master's degree in chemistry from the University of Bari, Italy, with a thesis supervised by Pantaleo Davide Cozzoli and Angela Agostiano.[3] She then joined the research group of Pantaleo Davide Cozzoli at University of Salento, Italy, and graduated in 2010 with a PhD in nanoscience.[4] In 2010, she moved as a postdoctoral researcher to the Molecular Foundry of the Materials Science Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she became project scientist in 2012.[5] In 2013, she gained a position as tenure-track staff scientist at the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.[6][7] She was appointed as a tenure-track assistant Professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 2015 and has since lead the Laboratory of Nanochemistry for Energy located at EPFL's Valais campus in Sion, Switzerland.[1][8]

Research

Buonsanti’s research focuses on the interface of materials sciences and catalysis. Her interdisciplinary approach encompasses chemistry, material chemistry and chemical engineering, and aims at rendering energy technologies more sustainable. She is interested in the synthesis of novel colloidal nanocrystals that can be used as controlled and adaptable electrocatalysts for the value-added conversion of small molecule.[9][10][11][12] In particular, Buonsanti's research group is keen to gain an understanding of the mechanisms of the electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction.[11]

Distinctions

Buonsanti has been a board member of the Early Career Advisory Board for ACS Materials Letters,[13] the Scientific Advisory Board for Chemistry of Materials,[14] and Scientific Reports.[15] She is a member of the Swiss Chemical Society (2016), the Royal Society of Chemistry (2017), and the Materials Research Society (2015).[15]

In 2019, she was awarded the ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship,[16] and in 2018, she received the Endowed Chair from the Sandoz Family Foundation.[17] In 2013 she received the R&D 100 Award for the Universal Smart Window Coating.[18]

Publication

  • Garcia, Guillermo; Buonsanti, Raffaella; Runnerstrom, Evan L.; Mendelsberg, Rueben J.; Llordes, Anna; Anders, Andre; Richardson, Thomas J.; Milliron, Delia J. (2011). "Dynamically Modulating the Surface Plasmon Resonance of Doped Semiconductor Nanocrystals". Nano Letters. 11 (10): 4415–4420. Bibcode:2011NanoL..11.4415G. doi:10.1021/nl202597n. PMID 21859093.
  • Buonsanti, Raffaella; Llordes, Anna; Aloni, Shaul; Helms, Brett A.; Milliron, Delia J. (2011). "Tunable Infrared Absorption and Visible Transparency of Colloidal Aluminum-Doped Zinc Oxide Nanocrystals". Nano Letters. 11 (11): 4706–4710. Bibcode:2011NanoL..11.4706B. doi:10.1021/nl203030f. PMID 21970407.
  • Loiudice, Anna; Lobaccaro, Peter; Kamali, Esmail A.; Thao, Timothy; Huang, Brandon H.; Ager, Joel W.; Buonsanti, Raffaella (2016). "Tailoring Copper Nanocrystals towards C2 Products in Electrochemical CO2 Reduction". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 55 (19): 5789–5792. doi:10.1002/anie.201601582. PMID 27059162.
  • Buonsanti, Raffaella; Milliron, Delia J. (2013). "Chemistry of Doped Colloidal Nanocrystals". Chemistry of Materials. 25 (8): 1305–1317. doi:10.1021/cm304104m.
  • Buonsanti, Raffaella; Grillo, Vincenzo; Carlino, Elvio; Giannini, Cinzia; Kipp, Tobias; Cingolani, Roberto; Cozzoli, Pantaleo Davide (2008). "Nonhydrolytic Synthesis of High-Quality Anisotropically Shaped Brookite TiO2Nanocrystals". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 130 (33): 11223–11233. doi:10.1021/ja803559b. PMID 18646847.
  • Rosen, Evelyn L.; Buonsanti, Raffaella; Llordes, Anna; Sawvel, April M.; Milliron, Delia J.; Helms, Brett A. (2012). "Exceptionally Mild Reactive Stripping of Native Ligands from Nanocrystal Surfaces by Using Meerwein's Salt". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 51 (3): 684–689. doi:10.1002/anie.201105996. PMID 22147424.

References

  1. ^ a b "14 professors appointed at the two Federal Institutes of Technology | ETH-Board". www.ethrat.ch. Retrieved 2020-09-15.
  2. ^ "Laboratory of Nanochemistry". www.epfl.ch. Retrieved 2020-09-15.
  3. ^ Buonsanti, Raffaella; Grillo, Vincenzo; Carlino, Elvio; Giannini, Cinzia; Curri, Maria Lucia; Innocenti, Claudia; Sangregorio, Claudio; Achterhold, Klaus; Parak, Fritz Günter; Agostiano, Angela; Cozzoli, Pantaleo Davide (2006-12-09). "Seeded Growth of Asymmetric Binary Nanocrystals Made of a Semiconductor TiO 2 Rodlike Section and a Magnetic γ-Fe 2 O 3 Spherical Domain". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 128 (51): 16953–16970. doi:10.1021/ja066557h. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 17177447.
  4. ^ Fragouli, Despina; Buonsanti, Raffaella; Bertoni, Giovanni; Sangregorio, Claudio; Innocenti, Claudia; Falqui, Andrea; Gatteschi, Dante; Cozzoli, Pantaleo Davide; Athanassiou, Athanassia; Cingolani, Roberto (2010-04-27). "Dynamical Formation of Spatially Localized Arrays of Aligned Nanowires in Plastic Films with Magnetic Anisotropy". ACS Nano. 4 (4): 1873–1878. doi:10.1021/nn901597a. ISSN 1936-0851. PMID 20356062.
  5. ^ Risbud, Aditi (2011-09-06). "Get the Light, Beat the Heat". News Center. Retrieved 2020-09-16.
  6. ^ "15.01.16 RH Perovskite Solar Cells". JCAP. Retrieved 2020-09-16.
  7. ^ Li, Yanbo; Cooper, Jason K.; Buonsanti, Raffaella; Giannini, Cinzia; Liu, Yi; Toma, Francesca M.; Sharp, Ian D. (2015-02-05). "Fabrication of Planar Heterojunction Perovskite Solar Cells by Controlled Low-Pressure Vapor Annealing". The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 6 (3): 493–499. doi:10.1021/jz502720a. PMID 26261969.
  8. ^ "Research Units". www.epfl.ch. Retrieved 2020-09-16.
  9. ^ Garcia, Guillermo; Buonsanti, Raffaella; Runnerstrom, Evan L.; Mendelsberg, Rueben J.; Llordes, Anna; Anders, Andre; Richardson, Thomas J.; Milliron, Delia J. (2011-10-12). "Dynamically Modulating the Surface Plasmon Resonance of Doped Semiconductor Nanocrystals". Nano Letters. 11 (10): 4415–4420. Bibcode:2011NanoL..11.4415G. doi:10.1021/nl202597n. ISSN 1530-6984. PMID 21859093.
  10. ^ Buonsanti, Raffaella; Llordes, Anna; Aloni, Shaul; Helms, Brett A.; Milliron, Delia J. (2011-11-09). "Tunable Infrared Absorption and Visible Transparency of Colloidal Aluminum-Doped Zinc Oxide Nanocrystals". Nano Letters. 11 (11): 4706–4710. Bibcode:2011NanoL..11.4706B. doi:10.1021/nl203030f. ISSN 1530-6984. PMID 21970407.
  11. ^ a b Loiudice, Anna; Lobaccaro, Peter; Kamali, Esmail A.; Thao, Timothy; Huang, Brandon H.; Ager, Joel W.; Buonsanti, Raffaella (2016-05-04). "Tailoring Copper Nanocrystals towards C 2 Products in Electrochemical CO 2 Reduction". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 55 (19): 5789–5792. doi:10.1002/anie.201601582. PMID 27059162.
  12. ^ Buonsanti, Raffaella; Grillo, Vincenzo; Carlino, Elvio; Giannini, Cinzia; Kipp, Tobias; Cingolani, Roberto; Cozzoli, Pantaleo Davide (2008-07-23). "Nonhydrolytic Synthesis of High-Quality Anisotropically Shaped Brookite TiO 2 Nanocrystals". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 130 (33): 11223–11233. doi:10.1021/ja803559b. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 18646847.
  13. ^ "Introducing the ACS Materials Letters Early Career Advisory Board". ACS Axial. 2020-05-21. Retrieved 2020-09-16.
  14. ^ "Chemistry of Materials". pubs.acs.org. Retrieved 2020-09-16.
  15. ^ a b "People". www.epfl.ch. Retrieved 2020-09-16.
  16. ^ "Raffaella Buonsanti and Corinna Schindler: Winners of the ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship 2019! – Chemical Communications Blog". Retrieved 2020-09-16.
  17. ^ Huang, Jianfeng; Mensi, Mounir; Oveisi, Emad; Mantella, Valeria; Buonsanti, Raffaella (2019-02-13). "Structural Sensitivities in Bimetallic Catalysts for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction Revealed by Ag–Cu Nanodimers" (PDF). Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141 (6): 2490–2499. doi:10.1021/jacs.8b12381. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 30657662. S2CID 58614871.
  18. ^ "Berkeley Lab wins eight 2013 R&D 100 Awards". Research & Development World. 2013-07-09. Retrieved 2020-09-17.