Marco Molinari

Senior Lecturer in Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemical Sciences
School of Applied Sciences
Member, Centre for Functional Materials
Associate Member, Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery Centre
Associate Member, Structural, Molecular and Dynamic Modelling Centre

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7144-6075

Phone01484 472973
EmailM.Molinari@hud.ac.uk
Websitehttps://research.hud.ac.uk

17 h-Index

Research output per year

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Personal profile

Biography

Marco Molinari is a senior lecturer in physical and computational chemistry at the School of Applied Sciences. He is a full member of the EPSRC funded Materials Chemistry Consortium and of the Huddersfield High Performance Computing Research Group.

He carried out his undergraduate studies at the University of Pavia (Italy, 2006) before taking his PhD in computational chemistry (2009) as a collaboration between the Universality of Pavia and Bath (UK). He started his EPSRC funded postdoctoral research in computational chemistry in the group of Stephen Parker at the University of Bath, working on surface science, materials science and computational chemistry.

Research Expertise and Interests

Computational modelling
Properties of minerals and oxide materials
Surface adsorption and reactivity
Transport of gasses
Nanoparticle morphology, aggregation and reactivity

Research Degree Supervision

PhD Studentships in Materials Science

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Projects

2 Finished

NanoCeO2: Design of CeO2 Nanostructures with Enhanced Catalytic Properties

Molinari, M.

1/06/17 → 31/08/17

Project: Research

Computational Design and Engineering of Metal Oxide Nanozymes

Molinari, M.

1/01/18 → 30/04/19

Project: Research

Research Output

17 h-Index
52 Article
5 Conference contribution
1 Review article

Strongly Bound Surface Water Affects the Shape Evolution of Cerium Oxide Nanoparticles

Symington, A., Molinari, M., Moxon, S., Flitcroft, J., Sayle, D. C. & Parker, S. C., 13 Feb 2020, In : Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 124, 6, p. 3577-3588 12 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

The energetics of carbonated PuO₂ surfaces affects nanoparticle morphology: a DFT+U study

Moxon, S., Symington, A. R., Tse, J., Dawson, J., Flitcroft, J., Parker, S. C., Cooke, D., Harker, R. M. & Molinari, M., 21 Apr 2020, In : Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 22, 15, p. 7728-7737 10 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Computer-Aided Design of Nanoceria Structures as Enzyme Mimetic Agents: The Role of Bodily Electrolytes on Maximizing Their Activity

Molinari, M., Symington, A., Sayle, D., Sakthivel, T. S., Seal, S. & Parker, S. C., 18 Mar 2019, In : ACS Applied Bio Materials. 2, 3, p. 1098-1106 9 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

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5 Citations (Scopus)

Controlling the {111}/{110} Surface Ratio of Cuboidal Ceria Nanoparticles

Castanet, U., Feral-Martin, C., Demourgues, A., Neal, R., Sayle, D., Caddeo, F., Flitcroft, J., Caygill, R., Pointon, B., Molinari, M. & Majimel, J., 27 Mar 2019, In : ACS applied materials & interfaces. 11, 12, p. 11384-11390 7 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

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