Supramolecular Liquid Crystals

I have always been interested in the design and synthesis of supramolecular structures showing liquid crystalline properties and driven by specific non-covalent interactions, such as hydrogen bonding, metal coordination or halogen bonding.

Photoresponsive Materials

Azobenzene-based supramolecular materials capable of giving highly efficient photoalignment and surface-relief-grating formation are one of my field of research.

Crystal Engineering

One of my main and principal topic of research has been the design of organic/metallorganic solids with desired shape and function, with a particular focus on fluorinated solids.

Studies of non-covalent Interactions and Aspects of Bonding in Metallorganic Complexes

Recent reseach focus on the theory and quantification of non-covalent interactions in the solid state and in aspects of bonding in ligand-actinide complexes.