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Liberato Manna

Senior Scientist
Senior Researcher Tenured - Principal Investigator
NanoChemistry
Liberato Manna
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Appointments:

2024-current:           Associate Director for Blue-Sky Research, IIT, Genova (Italy)

2022-current:           Associate Editor – Nano Letters (American Chemical Society)

2018-2022:                Associate Editor – Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances (Royal Society of Chemistry)

2016-current:           Part time professor, University of Genova (Italy)

2015-2022:                Associate Director for Materials and Nanotechnologies, IIT, Genova

2010-2021:                part-time Professor of Quantum Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands)

2009-current:            Head of the Nanochemistry Department at IIT, Genova (Italy)

2003- 2009:               Head of the Chemistry Group at the National Nanotechnology Lab in Lecce (Italy)

2003:                          Visiting Scientist at the Center for Nanoscience, Munich (Germany)

2001-2003:                Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, USA

1999-2000:                Visiting student, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Education

Title: PhD in Chemistry
Institute: University of Bari
Location: Bari
Country: Italia
From: 1997 To: 2001

Title: M.S. in Chemistry
Institute: University of Bari
Location: Bari
Country: Italia
From: 1990 To: 1996

Skills

Functional Inorganic Materials and Devices

All Publications
2026
Zhang B., Manna L.
Anti-Thermal-Quenching Phosphors Based on Metal Halides
ACS Energy Letters, vol. 11, (no. 1), pp. 345-355
Review Journal
2026
Filippi U., Schleusener A., Lauciello S., Krahne R., Baranov D., Manna L., Kuno M.
Deterministic Nucleation of Nanocrystal Superlattices on 2D Perovskites for Light-Funneling Heterostructures
Advanced Materials
Article Journal
2026
Sun Y., Zeng Y., Wang Q., Liu X., Li M., Manna L., Wei J., Liu F., Li H.
Efficient Near-Infrared CdSe/CdZnSe/CdZnS Core/Shell/Shell Nanoplatelet Light-Emitting Diodes by Controlling Gradient Alloy Shells
ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, vol. 18, (no. 35), pp. 47961-47970
Article Journal
2026
Guo W., Dai J., He S., Yang L., He Y., Duan J., Cen H., Yang X., Yuan F., Li J., Wu Z., Manna L., Xi J.
Electron-Phonon Interactions Facilitating Large Polaron-Related Charge-Carrier Dynamics for Efficient Perovskite Nanocrystal Solar Cells
Advanced Science
2026
Luo Y., Dang Z., Jabrane M., Zhang Z., Wang H., Zhou S., Yu L., Lin Y., Xu Y., Zeng H., Wang Y., Ding H., Yin X., Manna L., Xie J., Gao P.
Impact of Perovskite Surface Termination Dependent Molecular Interaction on Interfacial Energetics and Phase Stability
ACS Nano, vol. 20, (no. 31), pp. 22149-22159
Article Journal
Awards and Achievements
2026
Manna L.
2026 Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate Analytics)
2026
Manna L.
Elected Member of the Academia Europaea
2025
Manna L.
2025 Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate Analytics)
2025
Manna L.
Elected Member of the Academy of Engineering and Technology of Italy
2025
Manna L.
Elected Member of the European Academy of Sciences