Claudio Zannoni is Professor of Physical Chemistry of Materials at Bologna University, Italy.
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Curriculum Vitae
and to simulate defects in droplets
and in hybrid films 
as well as their core structure and
the effect of external fields 
(movie clip) .We study nanoconfined
systems, in particular the effects on order
and memory of silica aerosils
and polymer fibrils dispersed in
nematics. We have also investigated differences in the Schlieren textures
of uniaxial and biaxial 
nematics. More recently we have developed models for liquid
crystal elastomers 
and of their nematic-isotropic and
nematic-vapour 
alignment properties have been performed. The molecular organization
near surfaces, for instance near a chiral wall or near a graphite
surface is investigated. Modeling of the macroscopic liquid crystal
properties resulting by simple changes in the molecular structure,
particularly due to the effect of permanent dipoles are studied in
smectics, where the dipole position in the molecule is shown to influence
profoundly the phases obtained, even with domain formation
and
in columnar systems 
. We have also studied flexoelectric
effects for pear shaped GB molecules
.
and
a ferroelectric nematic designed from
tapered molecules 
by
suitably combining repulsive and attractive interactions. Fullerene
mesogens 
have
recently
been studied combining GB and Girifalco potentials, with the aim of
investigating morphologies promising for transport in organic photovoltaics.
in bulk and nanoconfined
systems.
.
Recently we have also succeeded in simulating the nematic-isotropic
transition temperature and the properties of n-cyanobiphenyls (nCB,
n=5,6,7).
Presently Member of the
Past Member of the
Current
,
since 1998 (click here for a booklet with
information for participants and a few photographs). The School
has celebrated its tenth anniversary with its 15th
Course :"Liquid Crystal
Phases and Nano-Structures.(Erice, 27 October – 1 November
2008) organized
by P. Pasini and S. Zumer
.The 2009
meeting was Optics of Liquid Crystals: OLC09.Past
,
the Italian Consortium for Science and Technology of Materials (Florence)
(formerly INCM 1993-1996) and member of the Scientific Council
of this body that groups around 40 Italian universities and has about
1500 members (1996-March 2009).
coordinated by Prof. C. Taliani (CNR, ISMN, Bologna). Participant.
IP 500355 (2004-2008), coordinator Prof. Yves Geerts (ULB, Brussels).
Coordinator of WP7 (training) and of the University of Bologna Unit.
Current Collaborative Projects
FP7-216025
(Feb 2008-Jan 2011) coordinated by Prof.
Demetri Photinos (University of Patras), together with groups from University
of Oxford (Stephen Elston, Peter Raynes), Trinity College Dublin (Jagdish
Vij), University of Freiburg (Heino Finkelmann), University of Hull
(Georg Mehl), University of Halle (Carsten Tschierske) . UNIBO
unit coordinator
(Oct 2006-31 March2010) coordinated
by Prof. Alison Walker (University of Bath ), together with groups from
University of Cambridge (Neil Greenham); Universitè de Mons-Hainaut
(David Beljonne, Johannes Gierschner); Institute of Chemistry of the
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (Zhigang Shuai); Georgia Institute
of Technology (Jean-Luc Brédas, Rigoberto Hernandez, David Sherrill);
MIT, Boston (Robert Silbey ); Princeton University (Zoltan Soos); University
of Michigan (Ted Goodson); Cambridge Display Tech (Clare Foden); Atomistix,
Copenhagen (Kurt Stokbro, Jose Torres). Bologna
MODECOM workshop 14 Jan 2009. University
of Bologna Unit coordinator.
IP 212311 (Jan.
2009-Dec 2011), The ONE-P
project is coordinated by Prof. Yves Geerts (ULB, Brussels) and
comprises Université de Mons Hainaut, Mons, BE ; University of
Cambridge, UK; CSIC , Bellaterra, Spain ; Max Planck, Mainz, Germany;
CNR ISMN, Bologna, Italy; University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Linköpings
Universitet, Sweden; Chalmers University of Technology, Goeteborg, Sweden;
IMEC, Leuven, Belgium; Rijksuniversiteit, Groningen, The Netherlands;
Westfaelische-Wilhelms Universitaet Muenster, Germany; TNO, Delft, The
Netherlands; Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France; Bergische
Universität Wuppertal, Germany; University of Nova Gorica, Adjovscina,
Slovenia ; UCL, London, UK; Queen Mary and Westfield College,London,
UK; Technische Universität , Dresden, Germany; Philips Electronics,
Eindhoven, The Netherlands; STMicroelectronics, Agrate Brianza, Italy;
Merck LC, Southampton, UK; Scriba Nanotecnologie, Bologna, Italy; Johnson
Matthey, Reading, UK; BASF, Ludwigshafen, Germany; Innova, Rome, Italy;
VDI/VDE, Berlin, Germany; Imperial College, London, UK. Coordinator
of WP7 (training) and of the University of Bologna - INSTM Unit. Bologna-CNR
12M meeting Jan 18-20, 2010. The UNIBO group will organize the
ONEP
School in Erice in April 2010
CP-FP228424-2
(2009-2012) coordinated by Profs. Jérôme Cornil, David
Beljonne, Roberto Lazzaroni, University of Mons-Hainaut – UMH,
with University of Linköping (W.R. Salaneck, M.
Fahlman)
Sweden; University of Twente (M.P.de
Jong, G.H.L.A. Brocks)
The Netherlands; IMEC (P. Heremans) Belgium; University
Bordeaux, (F. Castet) France; University
of Bologna (C. Zannoni), Italy; Universitad Autonoma de Madrid (F. Flores),
Spain; BASF (C. Lennartz) , Germany; Forschungszentrum
Karlsruhe, (W. Wenzel)
Germany; Georgia Institute of Technology, (
J.-L. Brédas) USA;
Princeton University (A. Kahn) USA; Kickoff meeting Mons, June 2009.
