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Research lines
Research lines associated with this Doctorate program are organised in five wide research fields:

1. Supramolecular chemistry, molecular recognition and molecular self-assembly in Nanoscience
Design of functional molecules and molecular-based nanostructures. Organization of molecules in surfaces and interfaces. Study of crystalline materials under extreme conditions.

2. Crystalline Engineering and Molecular Materials Design
Molecular conductors and superconductors. Magnetic molecular materials. Molecular photonic materials. Switchable molecular materials. Porous coordination polymers (MOFs) and 2D materials

3. Molecular electronics
Preparation, study and theoretical modelling of optoelectronics materials, nanostructures and devices (solar cells, OLEDs, OFETs, molecular lasers?). Carbon nanostructures (fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, graphene, etc.) and its use in molecular electronics. Preparation, study and theoretical modelling of unimolecular devices.

4. Molecular Nanomagnetism
Preparation, study and theoretical modelling of molecular nanomagnets and molecular nanostructures. Molecules and materials for molecular spintronics. Molecules and materials for molecular spintronics. Magnetic molecules for quantum computing. Structural, electronic and magnetic characterization of molecules and magnetic nanomaterials by proximity microscopy techniques (STM, AFM, MFM).

5. Applications of Molecular Nanoscience
Applications of coordination chemistry in molecular magnetism and spintronics. Applications of coordination chemistry in molecular electronics. Biomedical applications of molecules and molecular nanomaterials. Molecular sensors. Molecular optoelectronic devices (solar cells, OLEDs, molecular lasers, etc.). Direct fuel production with solar light. Molecular spintronics devices (molecular spin-valves, spin-OLEDs, spin-OFETs, etc.).
Thesis supervisors
Professors and researchers that take part in this PhD program, are associated in the following research teams.

Research lines: 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5

Clemente Juan, Juan Modesto
Coronado Miralles, Eugenio
Forment Aliaga, Alicia
Lorenz Fonfria, Victor Armando
Mendoza Valderrey, Abraham
Soriano López, Joaquín
Lahoz Zamarro, Fernando
Ahrazem El Kadiri, Oussama
Colino García, José Miguel
De Toro Sánchez, Jose Angel
Gómez Gómez, Lourdes
Normile, Peter Stephen
Rodríguez Rodríguez, Gabriel
Research lines: 3 & 5

Aragó March, Juan
Bolink, Hendrik Jan
Ortí Guillén, Enrique
Roldan Carmona, Cristina
Sessolo, Michele
Tordera, Daniel
Zanoni, Kassio
Barrejón Araque, Miriam
Caballero Briceño, Ruben
De la Cruz Manrique, Pilar
Domínguez Martín, Rocío
Douhal Alaui, Abderrazzak
Gómez-Escalonilla Romojaro, Maria Jose
Gutiérrez Tovar, Mario
Cohen Cohen, Boyko Youda
Langa de la Puente, Fernando
Díaz García, María A.
Sabater Piqueres, Carlos
Research lines: 1, 2 & 4

Albelda Gimeno, María Teresa
Bartual Murgui, Carlos
Blasco Llopis, Salvador
Cano Boquera, Joan
Castro Belda, Isabel
Clares García, Mª Paz
Ferrando Soria, Jesús
García-España Monsonís, Enrique
Gaspar Pedrós, Ana Belén
González García, Jorge
Llinares Berenguer, José Miguel
Lloret Pastor, Francisco
Martínez Lillo, Francisco José
Pardo Marín, Emilio
Real Cabezos, José Antonio
Stiriba Lakani, Salah-Eddine
Verdejo Viu, Begoña
Ruiz García, María José
Research lines: 2 & 3

Abánades Lázaro, Isabel
Abellán Saez, Gonzalo
Almora Barrios, Neyvis
Clemente León, Miguel
Giménez Marqués, Mónica
Lucherelli, Matteo Andrea
Marqués Hueso, José
Martí Gastaldo, Carlos
Mínguez Espallargas, Guillermo
Muñoz Padial, Natalia
Rubio Giménez, Víctor
Tatay Aguilar, Sergio
Ayala Díaz, Juan Heliodoro
González Platas, Javier
Lago Blanco, Ana Belén
Martín Benenzuela, Inocencio Rafael
Pasán García, Jorge
Pino, Verónica
Niza, Enrique
Denton Zanello, Cristian Diego
Research lines: 2, 3, 4 & 5

Baldoví Jachán, José Jaime
Bedoya Pinto, Amilcar
Canet Ferrer, Josep
Cantarero Sáez, Andrés
Cardona Serra, Salvador
Córdoba Castillo, Rosa
Gaita Ariño, Alejandro
Navarro Moratalla, Efrén
Del Castillo Vargas, Francisco Javier
Binns, Christopher
Gálvez Alonso, Fernando
Caturla Terol, María José
Fernández Rossier, Joaquín Ignacio
Fullana Font, Andrés
Jacob, David
Soriano, David
Untiedt Lecuona, Carlos
Facilities
The PhD program in "Nanoscience and Nanotechnology" utilizes the facilities of the Departments, Faculties, and University Research Institutes where the participating research groups are located.

The available scientific equipment can be found on the websites of the corresponding groups/institutes/departments.

UV
• Institute of Molecular Science (ICMol)
• Central Service for Experimental Research (SCSIE)

UA
• Organic Electronics and Photonics Group
• Laboratory of Low Temperatures and Nanometric Systems (LT-Nanolab)
• Research Technical Services

ULL
• Research support general service

UCLM
• Institute of Nanoscience, Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials (INAMOL)
• Organic Molecular Materials Group
• Magnetic Nanostructures, Superconductivity and Local Probe Microscopy Group

The fact that the research groups are integrated into various research networks and other European projects also allows access to the facilities of external research groups belonging to these consortia.
Regulations
Regulations for the deposit, evaluation and defense of the thesis are those established by the University of Valencia for all students, independently of where the student is enrolled.

Procedures and established deadlines for the assignment of a tutor and a thesis director will follow the regulations of the University of Valencia for all students.

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PhD thesis database
List of doctoral thesis in process and the ones already defended within the PhD Program.
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Universitat de València
PhD Student: Varghese Alapatt
Tittle: "Hybrid materials and devices, based on physical or chemical design of 2D heterostructures, for spintronics and energy storage"
PhD Student: Beatriz Alba Sangrós
Tittle: "Materiales híbridos basados en láminas 2D quirales funcionalizadas con moléculas reconfigurables. Hacia el control molecular de filtros de espín bidimensionales."
PhD Student: Javier Alda Gómez
Tittle: "Design of Prussian Blue-Based Hybrid Nanostructures for Stimuli-Responsive Cancer Therapy"
PhD Student: Alba Arroyo Fructuoso
Tittle: "Design and nanofabrication of advanced superconducting nanostructures and devices using Focused Ion Beams"
Tittle: "Towards functional heterostructures based on 2D ferroic materials"
Tittle: "Synergistic effect between metal-organic framework nanocarriers properties and gene cargoes"
PhD Student: Kristofer Bonilla
Tittle: "Reticular Design and Porosity Modulation in Metal¿Organic Frameworks Constructed from Acyl Hydrazide¿Hydrazone Linkers."
PhD Student: Daniel Brown
Tittle: "Óptica, transporte y magnetoóptica en aislantes topológicos con aplicaciones en termoelectricidad y espintrónica"
PhD Student: Mateo Calle Velásquez
Tittle: "Controlling amphipathic peptide insertion into lipid membranes: from pH-driven to light-driven processes"
Tittle: "MOLECULAR DESIGN OF BIOMATERIALS"
Tittle: "Power Generation from Vacuum Deposited Narrow-Bandgap Perovskite Architectural Elements"
PhD Student: Daniela Alejandra Cespedes Llanos
Tittle: "Hybrid two-dimensional materials for energy and spintronics"
Tittle: "Laser-Enabled Microfabrication of High-Mobility 2D Semiconductor Devices and Perovskite-Based Optoelectronics."
Tittle: "Laser-Enabled Microfabrication of High-Mobility 2D Semiconductor Devices and Perovskite-Based Optoelectronics."
PhD Student: Pau Congost Escoin
Tittle: "Materiales 2D para aplicaciones biomédicas."
PhD Student: Calisa Carolina Da Silva Dias De Oliveira
Tittle: "Spin transport in two-dimensional easy-plane magnets grown by molecular beam epitaxy."
PhD Student: Subhrajit Dalai
Tittle: "Growth of van der Waals easy-plane magnets by molecular-beam epitaxy and the effect of substrate interaction on their electronic and magnetic properties"
Tittle: "Determinación de la eficiencia cuántica de semiconductores."
Director/s: Juan P. Martínez Pastor | Jose Marques Hueso
PhD Student: Serhii Derenko
Tittle: "Vapor-Deposited Perovskite Photodetectors with Unconventional Architectures"
PhD Student: Youssra Diouane
Tittle: "Layered double hydroxides for energy storage applications"
PhD Student: Jaime Dorado Almiñana
Tittle: "Roll-E: Self-supported electrodes via roll-to-roll manufacturing using noncritical materials for green hydrogen production."
Co-director: Jorge, Romero Pascual
PhD Student: Nadia El Alouani Dahmouni
Tittle: "MULTIFUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC MATERIALS BASED ON HETEROMETALLIC DITHIOOXALATE CLUSTERS"
PhD Student: Hanane El Mansour El Jastimi
Tittle: "DESIGN OF CHIRAL SPIN CROSSOVER MOLECULES FOR MULTIFUNCTIONAL COMPOUNDS AND SURFACES "
Tittle: "Intrinsic and artificial multiferroicity in 2D materials via magnetic, electric and stacking orders"
Director/s: Efrén Navarro
Tittle: "Hidrógeno verde mediante nueva química radicalaria y semiconductores 2D avanzados"
PhD Student: Jaime García Caba
Tittle: "Redes metal-orgánicas como nanoreactores químicos: Relevancia del reconocimiento molecular en catálisis, descontaminación ambiental y aplicaciones biológicas. "
PhD Student: Alejandro García Regueiro
Tittle: "Design of chiral spin-crossover molecules for multifuctional compounds and surfaces (Super-SCO)"
PhD Student: Inma Gomar Fernández
Tittle: "Close-Space Sublimation for Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells"
Director/s: Henk Bolink
Tittle: "Engineering Chiral Porosity in Metal-Organic Frameworks"
Tittle: "Pares de Lewis Cooperativos en MOFs de Titanio-Lantánidos"
Tittle: "Computational Modelling of Magnetic Exchange and Quantum Effects in Molecular Nanomagnets"
PhD Student: Ghofrane Hmaidi
Tittle: "“Propiedades ópticas de nuevos materiales laminares multiferroicos”"
PhD Student: Annena Jesuman
Tittle: "Exploring the coordination and host-guest chemistry of iron(II) Hofmann clathrate compounds"
Tittle: "Design and optimization of a test bench for anion exchange membrane water electrolyzers (AEMWE), along with the design of new catalyst materials based on layered double hydroxides (LDHs) and their implementation and optimization in electrode substrates (CCSs)."
PhD Student: Ivona Kosic
Tittle: "From bulk crystals to the atomically thin limit in helimagnetic and semiconducting layered halides through top-down and bottom-up synthesis"
Director/s: Efrén Navarro
Tittle: "Novel tripodal ligands for targeting non‐canonical nucleic acid structures"
PhD Student: Maria Amparo Lopo March
Tittle: "Novel Supramolecular delivering strategies for targeting G-quadruplex in cell."
PhD Student: Diego López Alcalá
Tittle: "Chemical design of smart molecular/2D devices for information technologies"
Tittle: "Exploring chemical byways towards pnictogens-based heterostructures"
Tittle: "TWISTRONICS IN TWO-DIMENSIONAL MAGNETIC MATERIALS"
PhD Student: Sonia Martínez Giménez
Tittle: "Defect engineering in reticular solids"
PhD Student: Sergio Martínez Saiz
Tittle: "Efficient and Stable Dry-Processed Light-Emitting Diodes"
Tittle: "Radical chemistry in valorization processes"
Tittle: "Novel crystalline and vitreous phases in zeolitic imidazolate frameworks"
PhD Student: Filippo Mione
Tittle: "Ferroic orders and non-reciprocity in the 2D limit"
Director/s: Efrén Navarro
PhD Student: Clara Miranda Pérez
Tittle: "Magnetism in two-dimensional materials and fabrication of vertical van der Waals heterostructures"
PhD Student: Alberto Montoya Ruiz
Tittle: "Theoretical study of 2D materials with interest in magnonics and quantum computing."
PhD Student: Andrés Mora Martínez
Tittle: "New perspectives on Chiral Induced Spin Selectivity effect."
PhD Student: Laura Mulet Rivero
Tittle: "Desarrollo de complejos metálicos para la interacción y detección de estructuras no canónicas de ácidos nucleicos."
Tittle: "Deciphering structure-property relationships in two-dimensional materials for energy applications"
PhD Student: Victor Manuel Orlando Curbelo
Tittle: "Crecimiento y caracterización de materiales bidimensionales ferroicos mediante epitaxia de haz molecular ( MBE)"
PhD Student: Estrella Parra Guillén
Tittle: "MATERIALES CUASI-2D CON PROPIEDADES ALTERMAGNÉTICAS: DICALCOGENUROS DE METALES DE TRANSICIÓN INTERCALADOS CARACTERIZACIÓN Y APLICACIONES DE SISTEMAS ALTERMAGNÉTICOS LAMINARES EN ESPINTRÓNICA"
PhD Student: Umberto Pelliccia
Tittle: "First principles modelling of 2D Van Der Waals multiferroic materials."
PhD Student: Manuel Piot
Tittle: "Additive engineering for efficient wide bandgap perovskite via co-evaporation"
Director/s: Henk Bolink
PhD Student: Carlos David Prado Socorro
Tittle: "Fabrication, characterization, and applications of novel memristive devices based on molecular materials."
PhD Student: Ana Puchades Ortiz
Tittle: " Flash evaporated perovskite for opto-electronic devices."
Director/s: Henk Bolink
PhD Student: Priyanshu Raj
Tittle: "Electrical control of spin waves in two-dimensional multiferroic materials "
PhD Student: Joost Reinders
Tittle: "Sustainable semiconductor thin films for renewable energy applications"
PhD Student: Julia Mónica Requena Ramírez
Tittle: "Carbon-based nanomaterials for biomedical applications"
PhD Student: Gerardo Gustavo Ripoll Rascheya
Tittle: "Metalloligand based MOFs"
PhD Student: Gonzalo Rivero Carracedo
Tittle: "Theoretical study of 2D magnetic materials and hybrid heterostructures"
PhD Student: Christian Rodriguez Boscà
Tittle: "Synthesis of new Metal-Organic Cages based on oxo-dimolybdenum clusters and M(II) paddlewheels"
PhD Student: Alba Román Flores
Tittle: "Desarrollo de biocomposites basados en materiales reticulares porosos"
Tittle: "Coding multivariate modulated MOFs composition,structure, and adaptability for enhanced applications"
PhD Student: Sergio Ruiz Gamarra
Tittle: "MOFs based on TTF-derivated ligands."
PhD Student: Andrey Rybakov
Tittle: "Magnon dynamics calculations in 2D materials from Maximally localized Wannier functions"
Tittle: "Scaling Up Fully Evaporated Solar Cells on Flexible Substrates with Enhanced Stability and Efficiency"
Director/s: Henk Bolink
Tittle: "CCMatt: Application of scalable materials based on layered double hydroxides (LDHs) of transition metals to improve the production, stability, and scaling of Catalytic Coat Membranes (CCMs) for anion exchange membrane (AEM) cells in alkaline medium."
Tittle: "Dynamic bond and framework flexibility to enable non-conventional sorbent response to CO2 adsorption/desorption"
PhD Student: Ali Sheraz
Tittle: "“Aplicaciones de aislantes topológicos a espintrónica y termoelectricidad”,"
PhD Student: Alejandra Silva Mayo
Tittle: "Sensitive perovskite photodetectors for near infrared and X-ray photons"
PhD Student: Edoardo Stanzani
Tittle: "Accessing OLED degradation by combining device simulations and characterization "
Director/s: Henk Bolink
Co-director: Jenatsch, Sandra
Tittle: "Ultrastable pyrazolate porphyrin metal-organic frameworks for environmentally relevant applications"
Tittle: "Diseño de sistemas magnéticos moleculares y su integración en superficies"
PhD Student: Noor Ul Huda
Tittle: "“Vapour-phase Fabrication of Pyrazolate Porphyrin Metal-Organic Frameworks Thin Films for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction” "
Tittle: "Preparación de materiales híbridos (MOF-sobre-MOF y HOF-sobre-MOF) con aplicaciones bioquímicas y físicas. "
PhD Student: David Valcarreras Sanlorenzo
Tittle: "Valorization of raw materials into important products using redox active carbenes"
PhD Student: Shaoqiang Wang
Tittle: "Stabilizing Perovskite Solar Cells through Molecularly Engineered SAM Interlayers"
Universitat de Alicante
Tittle: " Electrónica molecular"
Director/s: Carlos Untiedt
Tittle: "Study of materials with topological and superconducting states using nanofabricated devices"
Director/s: Carlos Untiedt
PhD Student: Mar Ferri Cortes
Tittle: "Quantum computing with atomic and molecular networks on surfaces"
PhD Student: Abel Carlos Gutiérrez Camacho
Tittle: "Connection between defect induced local stress and macroscopic properties in ion irradiated FeCr alloys for fusion applications"
Tittle: "Quantum transport in simple and twisted nanojunctions"
Tittle: "Estudio atomístico de los efectos de la irradiación en la nanoestructura de aleaciones para la fusión nuclear."
Tittle: "Dispositivos optoelectrónicos basados en redes difractivas poliméricas."
PhD Student: Guillem Pellicer
Tittle: "Electronic and Spin Transport in Molecular and 2D Twisted Junctions"
Tittle: "Theory of nanographene based quantum devices on superconducting substrates"
Director/s: David Jacob
PhD Student: David Sanz Ruiz
Tittle: "2D Ferromagnets: Novel Applications and Twistronics"
Universidad de La Laguna
PhD Student: Yaiza Martín García
Tittle: "Diseño, síntesis, caracterización de nuevos materiales compuestos por redes metal orgánicas "
Tittle: "MOFs multivariados como plataformas para perfiles de adsorción de contaminantes emergentes"
Universidad de Castilla La Mancha
Tittle: "SISTEMAS HÍBRIDOS NANOESTRUCTURADOS PARA APLICACIONES EN TERMOELECTRICIDAD"
PhD Student: Lina Fernanda Castaño Esquilin
Tittle: "DISEÑO Y SÍNTESIS DE METALOPORFIRINAS PARA APLICACIONES FOTOVOLTAICAS"
PhD Student: Mario de la Hoz Tomás
Tittle: "Hacia LEDs basados en Redes Organo-Metálicas, y unidas por enlaces de Hidrógeno (MOFs, HOFs). "
Tittle: "MOFs hiperfluorescentes para la fabricación de OLEDs de 5ª generación."
Tittle: "Formulación de subproductos nutracéuticos y cosméticos ricos en carotenoides obtenidos a partir de plantas biofactoría"
PhD Student: Alicia Maldonado Medina
Tittle: "____"
PhD Student: María Mondéjar López
Tittle: "Nanotecnología en tratamientos fitosanitarios y nanotecnología cosmética "
Tittle: "Empleo de Fluoróforos de Transferencia Protónica en MOFs para Dispositivos Fotónicos"
PhD Student: Paula Torres García
Tittle: "Efectos de proximidad en heteroestructuras superconductor/ferromagnético con alto acoplamiento spin- órbita."
Tittle: "Diseño, simulación y caracterización de nanoestructuras magnéticas para sensores multifuncionales y estudio de dinámicas de relajación magnética con interacciones dipolares. "