Nanoprobes and nanoswitches
Group Leader
Dept. Química Física | Universitat de Barcelona | Martí i Franquès 1 | 08028 | Barcelona
T. +34 934 021240
Email : fsanz
ibecbarcelona.eu
I obtained my PhD in Experimental Sciences from the University of Barcelona. Since 1988 I am Full Professor at this University and I currently teach in the Department of Physical Chemistry in the fields of Surface Science, Electrochemistry and SPM applications. As Visiting Investigator at the University of Utrecht (1985-86) in Prof. Sluyters’ laboratory, I acquired expertise in Impedance Spectroscopy and Chrono-electrochemical techniques. Elected Director of the Physical Chemistry Department (1986-1991), I promoted a research agreement to improve research outputs and, successfully, in ten years our Department went to the top of University records. Sabbatical Visiting Scholar at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (1991-92) in Prof. Salmeron’s SPM group and within the Surface&Catalysis Program leadered by Prof. Somorjai, now my research is mainly devoted to three subjects: Molecular functionalization of surfaces and particulate systems, Nanomechanics & Nanotribology linked with surface phenomena and including Molecular Force Spectroscopy and also Electrochemical Scanning Tunneling microscopy and Spectroscopy.
Active member of ISE from 1982, of the Electrochemical Society from 1989, of the Northern California Chapter of the AVS from 1992, and of The Biophysical Society from 2005, I have published more than 150 contributions in peer-reviewed journals and a few other publications. For the last twenty years I have conducted graduate Courses in Electrochemistry, Surface Electrochemistry, Surface Science, Scanning Probe Microscopies and Nanobiotechnology with more than average number of students from several PhD Programs. I mentored 21 PhD Students, the majority of them integrated today as Staff in the University or Research Centers, and more than 30 Graduate Students with(Master) Diplome in Experimental Chemistry. Member of the Executive Board of the “Sociedad de Microscopia Española” associated to the European Microscopy Society.
Publications
- Madrigal, M., Giannotti, M. I., Oncins, G., Franco, L., Armelin, E., Puiggali, J., Sanz, F., del Valle, L. & Aleman, C. (2013). Bioactive nanomembranes of semiconductor polythiophene and thermoplastic polyurethane: thermal, nanostructural and nanomechanical properties. Polym. Chem., 4, 568-583.
- Artés, J. M., Lopez-Martinez, M., Giraudet, A., Díez Pérez, I., Sanz, F. & Gorostiza, P. (2012). Current-Voltage Characteristics and Transition Voltage Spectroscopy of Individual Redox Proteins. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 134(50), 20218–20221.
- Redondo, L., Giannotti, M. I. & Sanz, F. (2012). Influence of Cholesterol on the Phase Transition of Lipid Bilayers: A Temperature-Controlled Force Spectroscopy Study. Langmuir, 28(35), 12851–12860.
- Caballero-Briones, F., Palacios-Padrós, A., Calzadilla, O., Moreira, I. D. & Sanz, F. (2012). Disruption of the chemical environment and electronic structure in p-type Cu2O films by alkaline doping. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 116(25), 13524-13535.
- Redondo, L., Giannotti, M. I. & Sanz, F (2012). Stability of Lipid Bilayers as Model Membranes: Atomic Force Microscopy and Spectroscopy Approach. In Baró, A. M. & Reifenberger, R. G. (editors), in Atomic Force Microscopy in Liquid. Weinheim, Germany : Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co.KGaA.
