Personal Data:
Address:
Roberto TERMINE
Via M. Preti 11,
87017 Roggiano Gravina (CS)
Italy
Place and date of Birth:
Cosenza, Italy - 2 Ottobre 1975
Education
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Ph.D. in Science and Technology of Mesophases and of Molecular Materials”
University of Calabria, 25 Febbraio, 2005
Thesis: “New, High Performance Photorefractive Materials: Cyclometalated
Complexes, Polymers, Liquid Crystals and Nano-Crystals Dispersions”
Supervisor: Prof. A. Golemme
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Degree in Chemistry
University of Calabria, 23 Marzo 2000
Thesis: ”Photorefractive Properties of SmA* Mesophases”.
Supervisor: Prof. A. Golemme.
Current Position:
Permanent Researcher since May 2015 at, UOS of Cosenza of CNR-Nanotec
(Chemical-Physics Process Institute of Italian National Research Council).
Previous Positions:
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Scientific Activities
02/2009-04/2015 Permanent Researcher, since since February 2009 to April 2015.
LiCryL Laboratory, UOS of Cosenza of CNR-IPCF (Chemical-Physics
Process Institute of Italian National Research Council).
03/2005-01/2009 Researcher, since March 2005 to January 2009.
Licryl Regional Laboratory CNR-INFM (National Research Council National Institute of Condensed Matter Physics).
04/2000-08/2001 Post-graduate research project with the Chemistry Department of the
University of Calabria on ” Characterization of new molecular and liquid
crystal photorefractive materials”.
08/2001-03/2002 Post-graduate research project with INSTM (Italian Interuniversity
Consortium on Material Science and Technology” on “Photorefractive
organic materials”.
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Lecturer Activities:
2007-current Member of the “Mesophases and Molecular Materials” curriculum of the
“Bernardino Telesio - Doctorate School of Science and Technique “ at
University of Calabria.
2007-2008
Member of the Board for the degree in Material Science of the Science
Faculty of University of Calabria.
2000-2004
Senior Tutor for Inorganic Chemistry with both the Pharmacy and the Science
Faculty of the University of Calabria.
Research Interests:
Thin film preparation by different techniques: Physical Vapour Deposition (PVD), Spin-Coating,
Drop-Casting, Doctor Blade.
Photorefractivity and optical characterization of organic materials: Polymers, Liquid Crystals, Low
molecular weight materials, Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Dispersions.
Organic and Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Photovoltaic Cells.
Experimental investigations of photogeneration mechanisms, charge transport and ellipsometric
properties of organic materials and development of simple models
Gold nanoparticles covered a silica shell.
Electrochromic Materials for potential use in energy saving applications.
Participation to Scientific Projects:
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POR CALABRIA FESR 2007/2013
Titolo “Smarlayer”
Unity Director
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PRIN 2012
Titolo” Accoppiamento plasmone-guadagno in nanostrutture metallo-dielettriche:
compensazione delle perdite verso azione laser”
Unity Director
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PRIN 2007 ( Research Projects of National Interest) from MIUR (Italian Ministry of
University and Scientific Research)
Title: “Photo-active Molecular and Polymeric Materials for Optoelectronics and
Photonics”
PRISMA 2007 (Innovative Research Projects on Materials Science and Technology)
from INSTM ( Italian Interuniversity Consortium on Materials Science and Technology)
Title: “ Innovative Photoconductor for Application in Optoelectronics”.
PRIN 2004 ( Research Projects of National Interest) from MIUR (Italian Ministry of
University and Scientific Research)
Title: “Molecular Materials and Nanostructures for Photonics and Nanophotonics”
PON 2006-2008 (National Operative Program) Proj. N. A15/1484/P
Title: “New materials and deep UV laser in direct mastering processing (MULDIMA)”
CENTRI DI ECCELLENZA 2001 (Excellence Centers) from MIUR ( Italian Ministry
of University and Scientific Research)
Title “Functional Nanostructured Materials”
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International Experiences
11/2002 - 04/2003: Visiting PhD student
Optical Sciences Centre, University of Arizona, Tucson (USA)
Subject: “Development of new video-rate compatible photorefractive
polymers”
Supervisor: prof. B. Kippelen
Committees:
Member of Organizing Committee of NANOPLASM 2014 meeting, Cetrato (Italia), 16-20 giugno
2014.
Member of Organizing Committee of the 9th Italian National Meeting on Liquid Crystals - SICL
2010
Technological Transfer:
Partecipation to the project selected to the final event of “GREEN” category of the
Working Capital-Premio Nazionale Innovazione 2011 organized by Telecom Italia e PNICube
Partecipation to the project winning the award “ Cervelli in Movemento 2011” organizzato
dall’associazione “Bridges to Italy”.
Partecipation to the project NOTREDAME selected by “Progetto Crescita” to be admitted in the
incubator TECHNEST of University of Calabria.
Partecipation to the project selected to partecipate to “TECHGARAGE”, organized by
TECHGARAGE ASSOCIATION, by Politecnico di Milano, by Libera Università Internazionale
degli Studi Sociali (LUISS) “Guido Gali” e by dPixel company.
Partecipation to the project selected to partecipate to “GREEN TECHNOLOGIES INVESTMENT
FORUM”, Milano, 11/02/2010, organized dall’ Italian Business Angels Network (IBAN) and
Business Region Göteborg AB.
Participation to the project to make the University SPIN OFF :
Title “ New Substrate to develop flexible, self-standing electoptical devices to be used in Energy
Saving Field, - NOTREDAME”. Coordinator: Prof. Nicola Scaramuzza
Participation to CRESCITA project from CalPark (Calabria Scientific and technological Park CALPARK”
Title “ New Substrate to develop flexible, self-standing electoptical devices to be used in Energy
Saving Field, - NOTREDAME”.
START CUP CALABRIA 2009, Rende, ITALY, October, 27 2009, -2° place in the “Business
Plan Competition” with NOTREDAME project: “ New Substrate to develop flexible, self-standing
electoptical devices to be used in Energy Saving Field”
Patent:
Marco Castriota, Enzo Cazzanelli, Giuseppe De Santo, Massimo La Deda and Roberto Termine,
“DISPOSITIVO ELETTROCROMICO”.
Italian Patent Office.
RM2011A000536, 10/10/2011, ROME, ITALY.
Book Chapter
M.Ghedini, I.Aiello, D.Dattilo, A.Golemme, R.Termine
“Cyclopalladates Complexes: a New Class of Highly Efficient Single Component Photorefractive
Materials”,
in “Metal-Ligand Interactions”, N.Russo, D.R. Salahub e M.Witko Eds.,ISBN 978-1402014956,
pag. 93-106, Kuwler (2003).
Luigi Angiolini, Tiziana Benelli, Loris Giorgini, Attilio Golemme, Elisabetta Salatelli and Roberto Termine,
“Side-Chain Multifunctional Photoresponsive Polymeric Materials”,
in “Optoelectronics - Materials and Techniques”, Padmanabhan Predeep Editor, ISBN 978-953307-276-0, pag. 187-210, InTech 2011.
Scientific Paper
Ionescu, Andreea; Lento, Raffaella; Mastropietro, Teresa F.; Aiello, Iolinda ; Termine, Roberto;
Golemme, Attilio; Ghedini, Mauro; Bellec, Nathalie; Pini, Elena; Rimoldi, Isabella; Godbert,
Nicolas
“Electropolymerized Highly Photoconductive Thin Films of Cyclopalladated and Cycloplatinated
Complexes”
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Vol. 7, pp 4019-4028, 2015
DOI: 10.1021/am506984m
Ismael Gracia, Beatriz Fering_n, Josè Luis Serrano, Roberto Termine, Attilio Golemme, Ana
Omenat, and Joaquìn Barberà“Functional Carbazole Liquid-Crystal Block Codendrimers with
Optical and Electronic Properties”Chemistry - a European Journal, vol. 21, pp. 1359-1369, 2015,
DOI:10.1002/chem.201404555
Bucos, Madalina) ;Sierra, Teresa; Golemme, Attilio; Termine, Roberto; Barbera, Joaquin;
Gimenez, Raquel ; Luis Serrano, Jose ; Romero, Pilar; Marcos, Mercedes
“Multifunctional Supramolecular Dendrimers with an s-Triazine Ring as the Central Core: Liquid
Crystalline, Fluorescence and Photoconductive Properties”
Chemistry - a European Journal, vol. 20, pp. 10027-10037, 2014
Angiolini, Luigi; Benelli, Tiziana; Giorgini, Loris; Golemme, Attilio; Mazzocchetti, Laura;
Termine, Roberto
“Effect of a chiral substituent on the photochromic and photoconductive properties of a methacrylic
polymer bearing side chain azocarbazole moieties”
Benito-Hernandez, Angela; Pandey, Upendra K.; Cavero, Emma; Termine, Roberto; GarciaFrutos, Jose L Serrano, Attilio Golemme, Berta Gomez-Lor
“High Hole Mobility in Triindole-Based Columnar phases: Removing the Bottleneck of
Homogeneous Macroscopic Orientation”
Chemistry of Material, vol. 25, pp. 117-121, 2013.
Andreea Ionescu, Nicolas Godbert, Alessandra Crispini, Roberto Termine, Attilio Golemme and
Mauro Ghedini
“Photoconductive Nile red cyclopalladated metallomesogens”
Journal of Materials Chemistry, vol. 22, pp. 23617-23626, 2012.
Pandey, UK ; Termine, R ; Ionescu, A ; Godbert, N ; De Santo, MP ; Ghedini, M ; Golemme, A
“Enhancement of Exciton Dissociation Efficiency in Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells by Using an
Intrinsic Photoconductor Component“
Molecular Crystals and Liquid, Vol. 558, pp. 148-159, 2012.
Ana Pérez, José Luis Serrano, Teresa Sierra, Alfredo Ballesteros, Diana de Saá, Roberto Termine,
Upedra Kumar Pandey, Attilio Golemne
“A Linear Conjugated Core for Multifunctional Columnar Liquid Crystals”
New Journal of Chemistry, vol. 36, pp. 830-842, 2012.
Eva M. García-Frutos, Upendra K.Pandey, Roberto Termine, Ana Omenat, Joaquín Barberá, José
L. Serrano, Attilio Golemme and Berta Gómez-Lor
"High
Charge
Mobility
in
Discotic
Liquid-Crystalline
Triindoles:
Just a Core Business?""
Angewandte Chemie, International Edition, vol. 50, pp 7399-7402, 2011.
Mauro Ghedini, Attilio Golemme, Iolinda Aiello,Nicolas Godbert,Roberto Termine,
Alessandra Crispini, Massimo La Deda, Francesco Lelj, Mario Amati, and Sandra Belviso
“Liaisons Between Photoconductivity and Molecular Frame in Organometallic Pd(II) and Pt(II)
Complexes
Journal of Materials Chemistry, vol 21, pp 13434-13444, 2011.
Huawei Li, Roberto Termine, Nicolas Godbert, , Luigi Angiolini, Loris Giorgini, Attilio Golemme
“Charge photogeneration and transport in side-chain carbazole polymers and co-polymers”
Organic Electronics, vol. 12, pp 1184-1191 , 2011.
Luigi Angiolini, Loris Giorgini, Huawei Li, Attilio Golemme, Francesco Mauriello, Roberto
Termine,
“Synthesis, characterization and photoconductive properties of optically active methacrylic
polymers bearing side-chain 9-phenylcarbazole moieties”
Polymer, vol 51, pp 368-377, 2010.
Huawei Li, Roberto Termine, Luigi Angiolini, Loris Giorgini, Francesco Mauriello, Attilio
Golemme,
“High Tg, Non-Poled Photorefractive Polymers”
Chemistry of Materials, vol. 21, pp 2403-2409, 2009.
Godbert, Nicolas; Dattilo, Davide; Aiello, Iolinda; Termine, Roberto; Bellusci, Anna; Crispini,
Alessandra; Golemme, Attilio; Ghedini Mauro,
“UV/VIS to NIR Photoconduction in Cyclopalladated Complexes”
Chemistry: an Asian Journal, vol. 4, pp 1141-1146, 2009.
Carmen Romero, Diego Peña, Dolores Pérez, Enrique Guitián, Roberto Termine, Attilio
Golemme, Ana Omenat, Emma Cavero and José Luis Serrano,
“Structural Characterization and Physical Properties of New Tetrabenzopentaphene Derivatives”
Journal of Materials Chemistry, vol. 19, pp 4725-4731, 2009.
Mara Talarico, Roberto Termine, Eva M. García-Frutos, Ana Omenat, José Luis Serrano, Berta
Gómez-Lor, Attilio Golemme,
“New electrode-friendly triindole columnar phases with high hole mobility”
Chemistry of Materials, vol. 20, pp 6589-6591, 2008.
Termine R. , Aiello I. , Gobdert N., Ghedini M. , Golemme A. ,
“Light Induced Reorientation of Nanocrystalline Dispersions”
Optics Express, vol. 16, pp 6910-6920, 2008.
Luigi Angiolini, Tiziana Benelli , Loris Giorgini , Attilio Golemme , Francesco Mauriello ,
Elisabetta Salatelli, Roberto Termine,
“Methacrilic Polymers Containing Optically Active Side-Chain Carbazole: Synthesis,
Characterization and Photoconductive Properties”
Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, vol. 209, DOI: 10.1002 /macp.200800011, 2008.
Luigi Angiolini, Renato Bozio, Tiziano Dainese, Loris Giorgini, Attilio Golemme, Francesco
Mauriello, Danilo Pedron, Roberto Termine
“Photoresponsive Polymers Containing Side-Chain Chiral Azocarbazole Chromophores as
Multifunctional Materials”
Proceedings of SPIE 2007, vol. 6653, pp 665305, 2007.
R. Termine, M. Talarico, I. Aiello, D. Dattilo, D. Pucci, M. Ghedini, A. Golemme
“Photorefractive cyclometalladated complexes”
Opto-Electronic Reviews, vol. 13, pp 287-293, 2005.
M. Talarico, D. Pucci, M. Ghedini, R. Termine. A. Golemme
“Photorefractive effects in ferroelectric liquid crystals”
Proceedings of SPIE 2005, vol 5936, pp 593606, 2005
A. Golemme, I. Aiello, D. Dattilo, D. Pucci, M. Ghedini, M. Talarico, R. Termine
“Advances in photoconductive and photorefractive cyclometalated complexes development”
Proceedings of SPIE 2004, vol. 5521, p 103-112, 2004.
M. Talarico, R. Termine, P. Prus, G. Barberio, D. Pucci, M. Ghedini, A. Golemme,
“Photorefractive Properties of Undoped Chiral Smectic C Phases of Cyclopalladated Complexes”
Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, vol.429, pp 65-76, 2005.
C. Fuentes-Hernandez, J. Thomas, R. Termine, G. Meredith, N. Peyghambarian, B. Kippelen, S.
Barlow, G. Walker, S.R. Marder, M. Yamamoto, K. Cammack, K. Matsumoto,
“Video-rate Compatible Photorefractive Polymers with Stable Dynamic Properties Under
Continuous Operation”,
Applied Physics Letters, vol. 85, pp 1887-1889, 2004.
Canek Fuentes-Hernandez, Jayan Thomas, Roberto Termine, Kevin Cammack,,Gerald Meredith,
Nasser Peyghambarian, Bernard Kippelen, and Seth R. Marder,
“Photorefractive polymers based on bis-triarylamine side-chain polymers”,
Proceedings of SPIE 2003, vol. 5216, pp 83-90, 2003.
Termine R. , Aiello I. , Dattilo D. , Ghedini M. , Golemme A. ,
"Photorefractive Performance Enhancement in Polymer Dispersions of Nano-size Crystalline
Domains".
Advanced Materials, Vol. 15, 9, pp. 723-726, 2003.
R.Termine and A.Golemme,
“ Space-Charge field Induced Refractive Index Modulation in Chiral Smectic A and C Mesophases:
a Simple model”
Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, 2003, Vol. 398, pp. 107-116.
Golemme A. , Aiello I. , Dattilo D. , Ghedini M. , Bruno A. , Termine R. ,
" Advances in Organic Photorefractive Materials Development"
Proceedings of the SPIE, 2002, Vol. 4642, pp. 32-40.
I.Aiello, D.Dattilo, M.Ghedini, A.Bruno, R.Termine, A.Golemme “Cyclopalladated Complexes as
Photorefractive Materials with High Refractive Index Modulation”
Advanced Materials, vol. 14, 17, pp1233-1236, 2002
R.Termine, A .Golemme
“Photorefractive index modulation in chiral smectic phases”
Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 106, 16, pp 4105-4111, 2002
R.Termine, A.Golemme
“Polymer dispersed chiral smectic A with photorefractive properties”,
Optics Letters, vol. 26, 13,pp 1001-1003, 2001
R.Termine, B.C.De Simone, A. Golemme
“Photorefractive Chiral Smectic A phases”,
Applied Physics Letters, vol. 78, 6, pp 688-690, 2001