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Elena Galoppini is a chemist. She is a tenured professor of Rutgers University in the Newark College of Arts and Sciences^[1].

Biography

Born in

Elena Galoppini has spoken about her experiences as a woman academic in the sciences. She had a strong female mentor while obtaining her master’s degree. While completing her Ph.D. she was the only female out of sixteen candidates under her Ph.D. thesis supervisor. She liked her unique experiences as a woman. She was strongly inspired by her grandmother. Galoppini’s grandmother highly valued education, but was not able to study herself.[3]

Current Research

Her study of interest includes molecular linkers and semiconductor

Her current research group focuses on the synthesis of rigid molecular linkers in order to help the nanostructured semiconductor nanoparticles with dyes, chromophores, and redox-active groups, function^[4]. The ongoing research projects of Elena Galoppini include:^[5]

• Dye/ Semiconductor Interfaces: In this project, her main focus is to discover the interface of semiconductors with chromophoric compounds. There color producing compounds are developed to study the charge transfer at the interface of semiconductors for solar cell applications.
• ‘Shielded Dyes’ in solutions and on surfaces by new linker designs or molecular hosts: The complex charge transfer of the dye-linker-anchor sensitizers at metal oxide metal oxide (MO) semiconductor interfaces and to control the positioning on these dyes on the MO surfaces is close to impossible. Therefore her research focuses on the synthesis of the ‘star’ complexes. The process uses a series of homoleptic ‘star-shaped’ Ru complexes for the insulation of the chromophric unit on the surface of the semiconductor.
• Zinc Oxide Nanowires Sensors: In this project, Galoppini and her student developed the first stepwise, layer-by-layer, methodology, which produces a stable attachment and defined interfacial chemistry for biomolecules. She also extracted a DNA strand and placed it upon the ZnO nanowire, which then was hybridized with complementary DNA. The base of this research deals with the solar energy conversion by the vertically aligned nail-bed morphologies.
• Semiconductor Morphologies: This research project focuses on the one dimensional nanostructured metal oxides and single crystal surfaces.

Most Recent Publications

• Synthesis and Electronic Properties of 1, 2-Hemisquarimines and The Encapsulation in a Cucurbit [7] uril Host (2014)^[6]
• Synthesis of bifunctional Ru complexes with 1, 2-dithiolane and carboxylate-substituted ligands (2014)^[7]
• Adsorption geometry of ZnTPP molecules on Au (111): self-assembly and surface interaction (2014)^[8]
• Turnin Energy Level Alignment at Organic/semiconductor Interfaces Using a Built-in Dipole in Chromophore-bridge-anchor Compounds (2014)^[9]
• Energy level alignment of polythiophene/ZnO hybrid solar cells (2014)^[10]

The main focus is on energy level alignment and the use of chromophoric compounds in order to examine properties of certain electrons on semiconductor surfaces^[11].

References