CURRICULUM VITAE

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Sgobba
Vito
Dr. Ing.
ZAE Bayerisches Zentrum fr Angewandte
Energieforschung e.V. (Bavarian Center for Applied
Energy Research)
Haberstr. 2a Office 0.11
91058 Erlangen
Germany
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Energie Campus Nrnberg
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Staffelweg 3
91054 Erlangen
Germany
0049 (0)160 846 5351
v_it_o
Single
03. March 1967
70043 Monopoli, Italy

Publications:
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32 Research Papers
7 Book Chapters
13
20 (ISI)
1698 (ISI)
(1634 excluding self citations)

1. Education
High school (Abitur) and undergraduate (DiplomChemikerVorprfung)
Diploma in Chemistry (Note 43/60)
(High School)

17.10.1986

Laurea in Chemistry (Note:104/110) 21.07.2000

(Master of Science)
Chair: Prof. Dr. Francesco Naso

Dissertation in Material Engineering

(Ph.D.)
(Note: excellent)
Chair: Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Vasapollo

Industrial Technical Institute for

Chemists Luigi DellErba,
Castellana Grotte (BariItaly)
Universita' degli Studi di Bari
Via E. Orabona
70125 Bari
(Italy)

11.12.2004

Universita' del Salento

Via Arnesano
73100 Lecce
(Italy)
Title: Novel synthesis of Ru(II) bipyridine salts OPV bridged as sensitizer, and pentacene
precursor spin coated as hole conductor layer. Application and performance measurements on
dye sensitized solar cells.

2. Scholarships and Fellowships

2002
2003
2003
2003

Societa' Chimica ItalianaSummer school on Organic Synthesis

A. Corbella, Gargnano, Italy
1 year Maria CurieFellowship (Universitaat van Amsterdam)
Chair: Prof. Luisa De Cola
Dutch Polymer Institute Winter School on Organic and Polymer
Photovoltaics, Drieberghen, the Netherland
RSMC New Perspective in Photochemistry, Egmond aan Zee,
The Netherlands

3. Previous and Current Positions

06/199406/1995

Civil service Environmental monitoring by WWF c/o CTS Lecce,

Italy

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PhD and undergraduate student Tutor,

Istituto di Ingegneria dei Materiali, Universita' del Salento, Lecce,
Italy.
Chair: Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Vasapollo

02/200501/2014

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy

& Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials
FriedrichAlexanderUniversitt ErlangenNrnberg
Chair: Prof. Dr. Dirk M. Guldi

02/201402/2015 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Materials for Electronics and

Energy Technology iMEET FriedrichAlexanderUniversitt
ErlangenNrnberg and Energie Campus Nrnberg
Chair: Prof. Dr. Christoph J. Brabec
02/2015today

Group Leader, ZAE Bayerisches Zentrum fr Angewandte

Energieforschung e.V. (Bavarian Center for Applied Energy
Research).
Board: Prof. Dr. Christoph J. Brabec

4. Professional Memberships
American Chemical Society (ACS)

5. Refereed Publications
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Palladium(II) and bidentate phosphinecatalyzed selective synthesis of Naryl2

pyrrolidinones via cyclocarbonylative coupling of 2aminophenol and 2
aminothiophenol. L. Longo, G. Mele, G. Ciccarella, V. Sgobba, B. El Ali, G.
Vasapollo, Appl. Organometall. Chem. 2002, 16, 537
CNT CdTe Versatile DonorAcceptor Nanohybrids. D.M. Guldi, G.M.A.
Rahman, V. Sgobba, S. Campidelli, D. Bonifazi, N.A. Kotov, M. Prato, J. Am. Chem.
Soc. 2006, 128, 2315
Multifunctional Molecular Carbon Materials from Fullerenes to Carbon
Nanotubes. D.M. Guldi, G.M.A. Rahman, C. Ehli, V. Sgobba, Chem. Soc. Rev. 2006,
35, 471
Synthesis of a molecularly imprinted polymer for dioxin. C. Malitesta, R. A. Picca,
G. Ciccarella, V. Sgobba, M. Brattoli, Sensors 2006, 6, 915
Supramolecular Assemblies of Different Carbon Nanotubes for Photoconversion
Processes. V. Sgobba, G.M.A. Rahman, D.M. Guldi, S. Campidelli, M. Prato, Adv.
Mater. 2006, 18, 2264

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Synthesis and Characterization of Positively Capped CdTe Quantum Wires that

Exhibit Strong Luminescence in Aqueous Media. V. Sgobba, C. SchulzDrost, D.M.
Guldi, Chem. Commun. 2007, 565
Growth and Characterization of Films containing Fullerenes and Water Soluble
Porphyrins for Solar Energy Conversion Applications. V. Sgobba, G. Giancane, S.
Conoci, S. Casilli, G. Ricciardi, D.M. Guldi, M. Prato, L. Valli, J. Am. Chem. Soc.
2007, 129, 3148
LangmuirBlodgett films of cationic zinc porphyrinimidazole functionalized
fullerene dyad: Formation and photoelectrochemical studies. R. Marczak, V.
Sgobba, W. Kutner, S. Gadde, F. DSouza, D. M. Guldi, Langmuir 2007, 23, 1917
Synthesis, Characterization and Photoinduced Electron Transfer in
Functionalized Single Wall Carbon Nanohorns. C. Cioffi, S. Campidelli, C.
Sooambar, M. Marcaccio, G. Marcolongo, M. Meneghetti, D. Paolucci, F. Paolucci, C.
Ehli, G.M.A. Rahman, V. Sgobba, D.M. Guldi, M. Prato, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129,
3938
Zero versus OneDimensional WaterSoluble CdTe NanocrystalsSynthesis and
Photophysical Characterization. C. SchulzDrost, V. Sgobba, D.M. Guldi, J. Phys.
Chem. C 2007, 111, 9694
Carbon Nanotubes as Integrative Materials for Organic Photovoltaic Devices. V.
Sgobba, D.M. Guldi, J. Mater. Chem. 2008, 18 153
Improving Photocurrent Generation Supramolecularly and Covalently
Functionalized Single Wall Carbon NanotubesPolymer / Porphyrin Donor
Acceptor Nanohybrid. G.M.A. Rahman, A. Troeger, V. Sgobba, D.M. Guldi, N. Jux,
M.N. Tchoul, W.T. Ford, A. MateoAlonso, M. Prato, Chem. Eur. J. 2008, 14, 8837
Facile Decoration of Functionalized SingleWall Carbon Nanotubes with
Phthalocyanines via Click Chemistry. S. Campidelli, B. Ballesteros, A. Filoramo,
D.D. Daz, G. de la Torre, T. Torres, G.M.A. Rahman, C. Ehli, D. Kiessling, F. Werner,
V. Sgobba, D.M. Guldi, C. Cioffi, M. Prato, J.P. Bourgoin, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008,
130, 11503
Conjugating Luminescent CdTe Quantum Dots with Biomolecules. C. Gerhards, C.
SchulzDrost, V. Sgobba, D.M. Guldi, J. Phys. Chem. B 2008, 112, 14482
Carbon Nanotubes Electronic / Electrochemical Properties and Application for
Nanoelectronics and Photonics. V. Sgobba, D.M. Guldi, Chem. Soc. Rev. 2009, 38,
165
A Carbon NanoOnionFerrocene DonorAcceptor System: Synthesis,
Characterization and Properties. C.T. Cioffi, A. Palkar, F. Melin, A. Kumbhar, L.
Echegoyen, M. MelleFranco, F. Zerbetto, G.M.A. Rahman, C. Ehli, V. Sgobba, D. M.
Guldi and M. Prato, Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15, 4419
Electrostatic LbL construction and characterization of photoelectrochemical solar
cells based on water soluble polythiophenes and carbon nanotubes. V. Sgobba, A.
Troeger, R. Cagnoli, A. MateoAlonso, M. Prato, L. Schenetti and D.M. Guldi, J. Mat.
Chem. 2009, 19, 4319
Implementation of redox gradients in hydrogen bonded complexes containing
N,Ndimethylaniline, flavin and fullerene derivatives. M. Murakami, K. Ohkubo, T.

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Hasobe, V. Sgobba, D.M. Guldi, F. Wessendorf, A. Hirsch, S. Fukuzumi, J. Mat.

Chem. 2010, 20, 1457
Aligning SingleWalled Carbon Nanotubes By Means Of LangmuirBlodgett Film
Deposition: Optical, Morphological, and Photoelectrochemical Studies. G.
Giancane, A. Ruland, V. Sgobba, L. Valli, D. Manno, A. Serra, G.M. Farinola, O.H.
Omar, D.M. Guldi, Adv. Funct. Mat. 2010, 20, 2481
Innovative Inorganic Organic Nanohybrid Materials Coupling Quantum Dots to
Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes. C. SchulzDrost, V. Sgobba, C. Gerhards, S.
Leubner, R.M. Krick Calderon, A. Ruland, D.M. Guldi, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2010,
49, 6425
Carbon nanostructures for solar energy conversion schemes. D.M. Guldi, V.
Sgobba, Chem. Commun. 2011, 47, 606
Enhancing photocurrent efficiencies by resonance energy transfer in CdTe
quantum dot multilayers towards rainbow solar cells. A. Ruland, C. Schulz
Drost, V. Sgobba, D.M. Guldi, Adv. Mat. 2011, 23, 4573
Characterization of Composite PhthalocyanineFatty Acid Films from the
Air/Water Interface to Solid Supports. G. Giancane, D. Manno, A. Serra, V. Sgobba,
L. Valli, J. Phys. Chem. B 2011, 115, 14956
Spectroscopic investigations, characterization and chemical sensor application of
composite LangmuirSchfer films of anthocyanins and oligophenylenevinylene
derivatives. S. Bettini, L. Valli, A. Santino, C. Martinelli, G. Farinola, A. Cardone, V.
Sgobba, G. Giancane, Dyes and Pigments 2012, 94, 156
Pdoped Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes / Perylene Diimide Derivative
Photoelectrochemical Cells for Photocurrent Generation. A. Troeger, M.
Ledendecker, J. Margraf, V. Sgobba, D.M. Guldi, B.F. Vieweg, E. Spiecker, S.L.
Suraru, F. Wrthner, Adv. Energy Mater. 2012, 2, 536
QuantumDotSensitized Solar Cells: Understanding Linker Molecules through
Theory and Experiment. J. T. Margraf, A. Ruland, V. Sgobba, D.M. Guldi, T. Clark,
Langmuir 2013, 29, 2434
Charge carrier dynamics in a ternary bulk heterojunction system consisting of
P3HT, fullerene, and a low bandgap polymer. M. Koppe, H.J. Egelhaaf, E. Clodic,
M. Morana, L. Ler, A. Troeger, V. Sgobba, D.M. Guldi, T. Ameri, C.J. Brabec, Adv.
Energy Mater. 2013, 3, 949
Transient Absorption Spectroscopy Studies on Polythiophene Fullerene Bulk
Heterojunction Organic Blend Films Sensitized with a Low Band Gap Polymer. H.
Lslein, T. Ameri, G.J. Matt, M. Koppe, H.J. Egelhaaf, A. Troeger, V. Sgobba, D.M.
Guldi, C.J. Brabec, Macromol. Rapid Commun. 2013, 34, 1090
Two Similar NearInfrared Absorbing Benzannulated AzaBODIPY Dyes as
LightHarvesting CoSensitizers for Ternary Inverted Solar Cells. J. Min, T.
Ameri, R. Gresser, D. Baran, M. Riede, A. Troeger, V. Sgobba, D.M. Guldi, C.J.
Brabec, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2013, 5, 5609
"Theoretical and Experimental Insights into the Surface Chemistry of
Semiconductor Quantum Dots" J. Margraf, A. Ruland, V. Sgobba, D.M. Guldi, T.
Clark, Langmuir 2013, 29, 15450

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conjugate polymer and photoelectrochemical response enhancement. V. Sgobba,
G. Giancane, A. Operamolla, G. Farinola, D.M. Guldi, L. Valli, 2013, ACS Appl.
Mater. Interfaces 2014, 6, 153
(32) Morphology analysis of the near IR sensitized polymer / fullerene organic solar
cells by implementing low bandgap polymer analogous of C/SiPCPDTBT. T.
Ameri, P. Khoram, T. Heumller, D. Baran, F. Machui, A. Troeger, V. Sgobba, D.M.
Guldi, S. Rathgeber, U. Scherf and C.J. Brabec, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2014, 2, 19461

6. Unrefereed Publications
Invited Book Chapters
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Covalent and NonCovalent Approaches towards Multifunctional Carbon

Nanotube Materials. V. Sgobba, G.M.A. Rahman, C. Ehli, D.M. Guldi, In Fullerenes,
F. Langa de la Puente, J.F. Nierengarten, Eds. RSC Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Series; Cambridge, United Kingdom 2007, 329379
Carbon Nanotubes in Electron DonorAcceptor Nanocomposites. V. Sgobba,
G.M.A. Rahman, D.M. Guldi, In Chemistry of Carbon Nanotubes, V. Basiuk, Ed.
American Scientific Publishers; 2007, 109147
Ground and Excited State Charge Transfer and its Implications. D.M. Guldi, V.
Sgobba, In Carbon Nanotubes and Related Structures, D.M. Guldi, N. Martin, Eds.
Wiley.VCH: Weinheim, Germany, 2009, 233289
Covalent Approaches towards Multifunctional Carbon Nanotube Materials. V.
Sgobba, C. Ehli, D.M. Guldi, In Fullerenes, Ed. F. Langa de la Puente, J.F.
Nierengarten, Eds. RSC Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Series; Cambridge, United
Kingdom 2011, 549612
Use of extracted anthocyanin derivatives in nanostructures for solar energy
conversion. G. Giancane, V. Sgobba, L. Valli, In Handbook of Green Chemistry Ed.
P.T. Anastas, 2012, 8, 245259
Multilayer Assembly for Solar Energy Conversion. A. Troeger, V. Sgobba, D.M.
Guldi, Ed. JeanFrancois Nierengarten, Structure and Bonding, SpringerVerlag Berlin
Heidelberg, 2014, 159 (Fullerenes and Other CarbonRich Nanostructures), 5599.
Nanohybrids based on porphyrins, phthalocyanines and subphthalocyanines in
combination with graphene and related materials: recent developments. V. Sgobba,
D.M. Guldi, In Handbook of Porphyrin Science: With Applications to Chemistry,
Physics, Materials Science, Engineering, Biology and Medicine Ed. Karl Kadish, Kevin
Smith and Roger Guilard, World Scientific, Singapore, 2014, accepted.
Others

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Non Covalent Assemblies for Solar Energy Conversion. V. Sgobba, C. Ehli, G. M.

A. Rahman, D. M. Guldi, Proceedings of 20th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy
Conference, 2005, 62

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Electrostatic LbL construction and characterization of photoelectrochemical

solar cells based on water soluble polythiophenes and carbon nanotubes. V.
Sgobba, A. Troeger, R. Cagnoli, A. MateoAlonso, M. Prato, F. Parenti, A. Mucci, L.
Schenetti, D. M. Guldi, PMSE Preprints 2009, 101, 1653
Aligned singlewall carbon nanotube films by means of LangmuirBlodgett
deposition: optical, morphological and photoelectrochemical studies. V. Sgobba,
G. Giancane, A. Ruland, L. Valli, D. Manno, A. Serra, G. M. Farinola, O. H. Omar, D.
M. Guldi, PMSE Preprints 2010, 00, 0000
Perspectives on electrochemical insertion of lithium in carbon nanotubes. V.
Sgobba, D. M. Guldi, Electroch. Soc. Interf. 2010, 19, 50

7. News and Media

Chem. Soc. Rev. 2006, 35, 471 is featured:
on the Cover of issue 5 of Chemical Society Reviews, 2006.
Has been recognized to the top 20 articles, published in 2006, contributing to the
2008 ChemSocRev impact factor
Chem. Commun. 2007, 565 is featured:
as a Hot Paper in Chemical Communications, January 19th, 2007
J. Mater. Chem. 2008, 18, 143 is featured:
as a Hot Paper in Journal of Materials Chemistry, March 7th, 2008
Chem. Eur. J. 2008, 14, 8837 is featured:
as a Very Important Paper
Chem. Soc. Rev. 2009, 38, 165 is featured:
on the Cover of issue 2 of Chemical Society Reviews, 2008
Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 6425 is featured:
. as a Hot paper of Angewandte Chemie, June 22th, 2010
Adv. En. Mat., 2012, 2, 536 if featured:
on the Cover of issue of Adv. En. Mat., 2012

8. Invited Lectures and Seminars

2005
2125 September; 20th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Barcelona,
Spain
"Non Covalent Assemblies for Solar Energy Conversion"
2006
2023. June; RennesErlangen Symposium of Chemistry, Rennes, France
"Integrating SWNT into Donor Acceptor nanohybrids"
2009
4 March; Joint Winter School of Nanoelectronic Materials and Catalytic Materials,
Kirchberg, Tyrol, Austria
"Carbon nanotubes based nanohybrids for solar energy conversion"
20 August; American Chemical Society Falls 2009 National Meeting and Exposition,
Washington DC, USA
"Nanostructured and Photoelectrochemical Systems for Solar Photon Conversion"
8 October; International Conference on Carbon Nanostructured Materials, Cnano 2009,
Santorini, Greece
"Synthesis, Characterization and Photophysics of Carbon Nanostructure Hybrids for
Solar Energy Conversion"
2010
18 March; Joint Winter School of Nanoelectronic Materials and Catalytic Materials,
Kirchberg, Tyrol, Austria;
"Aligning singlewall carbon nanotubes by means of Langmuir Blodgett film
deposition optical, morphological and photoelectrochemical studies"
21 March; American Chemical Society Spring 2010 National Meeting and Exposition,
San Francisco, USA
"Aligning SWCNT by means of Langmuir Blodgett film deposition optical,
morphological and photoelectrochemical studies"
28 May; Annual ICMM Workshop, Kloster Banz, Bad Staffelstein, ICMM
"CdTe nanocrystals as photoactive materials for solar energy conversion devices"
1 September; 3rd EuCheMS Chemistry Congress, Nrnberg
"CdTe nanocrystal based devices for photocurrent generation"
2011
28 March; American Chemical Society Spring 2011 National Meeting and Exposition,
Anaheim, USA
"Enhancing photocurrent efficiency by cascade resonance energy transfer in
panchromatic CdTe quantum dot multilayers"

2012
1 March; 2nd International Symposium on "Disperse Systems for Electronic Devices",
Fraunhofer Institute Erlangen
"Quantum dot based films for photoelectrochemical solar energy conversion"
13 December; Solar Factory OPV / Mol PPV Meeting ZAE Bayern Erlangen
Photophysics of near IR sensitized organic bulk heterojunction solar cells
15 December; Miniworkshop research area B EAM Erlangen
Photophysics of near IR sensitized organic bulk heterojunction solar cells
2014
24 Februar; ZwischenevaluierungEnCN Projekt Solarfabrik der Zukunft EnCN
Nrnberg

9. Grants and Sponsored Programs

Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Principal Investigator (20082012)
Organisch/anorganische Hybridstrukturen fr potentielle Hochleistungszellen
OPVHybride
Future Technologies for Small and Mid Sized Enterprises (ZUTECH)
Arbeitsgemeinschaft industrieller Forschungsvereinigungen "Otto von Guericke" (AiF)
e. V.
Coordinator and Principal Investigator (20082012)
Entwicklung organischer flexibler Solarzellen durch Porphyrin und CNT
Funktionalisierung textiler Oberflchen "OSoPo

10. Other Notable Contributions

Proposals Evaluator

Eu Proposals: H2020FETOPEN20142015RIA
Executive Unit for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation
Funding (UEFISCDI)

Journal Reviewer
Advanced Functional Materials
Applied Surface Science
Chemical Communication
Chemistry & Sustainability ChemSusChem Energy & Materials
ChemElectroChem
Electrochemical and SolidState Letters
Fullerenes, Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructures
Journal of Photonics for Energy (JPE)

Journal of Material Chemistry A

Journal of the Electrochemical Society
Macromolecular Rapid Communications
Nanoscale
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Synthetic Metals

11. Supervision of Thesis

a. Bachelor Thesis
2006
Daniel Peitz: "Integration of light and redoxactive carbon nanotubes in electrochemical
dye sensitized solar cells"
2009
Antonio Notarnicola: "Photoelectrochemical solar cells based on CdTe quantum dots
and carbon nanotubes"
Katharina Obesser: "Inverted bulk heterojunction solar cells and photoelectrochemical
cells based on carbon nanostructures"
Rafael M. Krick Calderon:"CdTe quantum dot carbon nanotube nanohybrids for solar
energy conversion"
2010
Johannes Margraf: "Photoelectrochemical cells based on doped and undoped carbon
nanotubes and a perylene diimide derivative"
2011
Marc Ledendecker: "Investigation of the effects of doping in electrochemical
photovoltaic cells"
2012
Marcus Heilmann: "Optimierung von QuantumDotsensitized Solar Cells durch
Modifizierung der Gegenelektrode"
b. Master and Diploma Thesis
2004
Magda Brattoli: "Synthesis of a molecularly imprinted polymer for dioxin"
2008
Christian
SchulzDrost:
"Synthesis,
photophysical
characterization of rodshaped, water soluble CdTe NanoCrystals"

and

2009
Andres Ruland Palaia: "Nanostructured photoelectrochemical cells"

microscopical

Anna Troeger: "Photoelectrochemical LbL and bulk heterojunction solar cells based
on carbon nanostructures"
2010
Tobias Jochum: "Tuning water soluble CdTe nanocrystals through chemical
modification with imidazolium salt"
Sebastian Feihl: "Influence of doping on ZnO based dye sensitized solar cells"
2011
Bernhard Leitner: "Erhhung des Fotostroms durch Morphologiekontrolle von
mehrwandigen KohlenstoffNanorhren in Perylendiimidderivat / MWCNT Solarzellen"
2012
Johannes Margraf: "Probing and modeling interfaces in dye sensitized solar cells"
2014
Antoni Gimeno Alabau: "Nearinfrared absorbing nanocrystals for photovoltaic"
Ph.D. Thesis
2005
Stefano Martino: "Nuovi sviluppi nella preparazione ed applicazione di film di diadi
contenenti derivati fullerenici e sistemi donori"
2010
Christian SchulzDrost: "LowDimensional semiconductor nanocrystals en route
towards innovative nanohybrids for solar energy conversion"
2012
Anna Troeger: "Photoelectrochemical and organic bulk heterojunction solar cells based
on carbon nanostructures"
2013
Andres Ruland: "Synthesis, assembly and characterization of hybrid (organic
inorganic) nanostructured materials for solar energy conversion devices"
2015
Muhammad Atif Makhdoom: Low Temperature processed pdoped silicon
nanoparticles films for PV application