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Sergio Brovelli

Phone: 505-606-2291
Email: brovelli@lanl.gov

Professional Career

• 1/11/2010 - Present: - Director's Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Physical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy Division , C-PCS, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
• 1/11/2010 - 11/14/2010: - Postdoctoral Research Associate, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Physical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy Division , C-PCS, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA

Education

• PhD in Materials Science, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy.
  Founded by: PIRELLI LABS and Tronchetti Provera Foundation, Milano, Italy.
• MS Materials Science, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy.

Scholarships and Awards

• Los Alamos National Laboratory Director's Fellowship, 2010
• Marie Curie Research Fellowship (Experienced Researcher), 2007- 2010
• Angelo Della Riccia Fellowship, 2006-2007
• Silvio Tronchetti Provera Fellowship, 2003-2006

Selected Publications

• A. Pandey, S. Brovelli, R. Viswanatha, L. Li, J.M. Pietryga, V. I. Klimov and S. A. Crooker,Long-lived photoinduced magnetization in copper doped ZnSe–CdSe core–shell nanocrystals, Nature Nanotechnology, 7, 792–797 (2012)
• Sergio Brovelli , Christophe Galland, Ranjani Viswanatha, and Victor I. Klimov, Tuning Radiative Recombination in Cu-Doped Nanocrystals via Electrochemical Control of Surface Trapping, Nano Lett., 2012, 12 (8), pp 4372–4379
• Sergio Brovelli, Giuseppe Sforazzini, Michele Serri, Gustaf Winroth, Kosuke Suzuki, Francesco Meinardi, Harry L. Anderson, Franco Cacialli, Emission color trajectory and white electroluminescence through supramolecular control of energy transfer and exciplex formation in binary blends of conjugated polyrotaxanes, Advanced Functional Materials, 2012, Advanced Functional Materials, 22, 20, 4284–4291 (2012)
• Sergio Brovelli, Norberto Chiodini, Roberto Lorenzi, Alessandro Lauria, Marco Romagnoli, and Alberto Paleari, Fully Inorganic Oxide-in-oxide Ultraviolet Nanocrystal Light-Emitting Devices, Nature Communications, 3, 690, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1683, Highlight in Materials Today, Highlights in other international venues
• Norberto Chiodini, Alessandro Lauria, Roberto Lorenzi, Sergio Brovelli, Franco Meinardi, and Alberto Paleari, Sol-Gel Strategy for Self-Induced Fluorination and Dehydration of Silica with Extended VUV Transmittance and Radiation-Hardness, Chemistry of Materials, 2012, 24 (4), pp 677–681
• Bhola N. Pal, Yagnaseni Ghosh, Sergio Brovelli, et al. 'Giant' CdSe/CdS core/shell nanocrystal quantum dots as efficient electroluminescent materials: Strong influence of shell thickness on light-emitting diode performance Nano Lett., 12 (1), pp 331–336 (2012)
• Ranjani Viswanatha, Sergio Brovelli, Anshu Pandey, Scott A. Crooker, and Victor I. Klimov, "Copper-Doped Inverted Core/Shell Nanocrystals with "Permanent" Optically Active Holes", Nano Letters, 2011, 11 (11), pp 4753–4758
• Brovelli, S., R. D. Schaller, et al. Nano-engineered electron–hole exchange interaction controls exciton dynamics in core–shell semiconductor nanocrystals. Nature Communications 2: 280, (2011). - download pdf
• García-Santamaría, F., S. Brovelli, et al. Breakdown of Volume Scaling in Auger Recombination in CdSe/CdS Heteronanocrystals: The Role of the Core−Shell Interface. Nano Letters 11: 687–693, (2011). - Highlight in C&EN
• Brovelli S., Cacialli F., Optical and Electroluminescent Properties of Conjugated Polyrotaxanes. Small, 6, 24, 2796–2820 (2010)
• Di Stasio, F., P. Korniychuk, S. Brovelli, et al. Highly Polarized Emission from Oriented Films Incorporating Water-Soluble Conjugated Polymers in a Polyvinyl Alcohol Matrix. Advanced Materials 23(16): 1804-1804, (2011). - Journal cover page
• Brovelli, S., Virgili, T. et al. Ultra-broad optical gain and two-colour amplified spontaneous emission in binary blends of insulated molecular wires. Advanced Materials, 22, 3690–3694 (2010).
• Paleari, A., Brovelli, S. et al. Tunable dielectric function in electric-responsive glass with tree like percolating pathways of chargeable conductive nanoparticles. Advanced Functional Materials, 20, 3511–3518, (2010). - Journal cover page
• Brovelli, S., Meinardi, F. et al. White Electroluminescence by Supramolecular Control of Energy Transfer in Blends of Organic-Soluble Encapsulated Polyfluorenes. Advanced Functional Materials, 20, 272-280, (2010).
• Brovelli, S., Chiodini, N. et al. Confined diffusion of erbium excitations in SnO₂ nanoparticles embedded in silica: A time-resolved infrared luminescence study. Physical Review B, 79, 153108, (2009).
• Petrozza, A., Brovelli, S. et al. Control of rapid formation of interchain excited states in sugar-threaded supramolecular wires. Advanced Materials, 20, 3218, (2008).
• Brovelli, S., Latini, G. et al. Tuning Intrachain versus Interchain Photophysics via Control of the Threading Ratio of Conjugated Polyrotaxanes. Nano Letters, 8, 4546-4551, (2008).
• Schmidt, K., Brovelli, S. et al. Intersystem crossing processes in nonplanar aromatic heterocyclic molecules. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 111, 10490-10499, (2007).
• Brovelli, S., Chiodini, A. et al. Energy transfer to erbium ions from wide-band-gap SnO₂ nanocrystals in silica. Physical Review B 73, 073406 (2006)
• Brovelli, S., Baraldi, A. et al. Growth of SnO₂ nanocrystals controlled by erbium doping in silica. Nanotechnology, 17, 4031-4036, (2006).

Book Chapters

• Brovelli, S. and Cacialli, F. Optical and electroluminescent properties of conjugated polyrotaxanes, in Functional Supramolecular Architectures (Wiley VCH., Weinheim, 2011, ISBN: 978-3-527-32611-2).