Autor: Leonardo Palmisano

Giovanni Palmisano (b.1981) ended (Dec 2008) his Ph D in Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Palermo, where he got his MSc cum laude in Chemical Engineering (2005). He works on sol-gel materials and reactors for selective photo- and electro-catalytic conversions and photovoltaics based on dye sensitized solar cells, under the supervision of Prof. V. Augugliaro and Dr. M. Pagliaro. He is co-author of two books (on thin film photovoltaics), ca. 25 papers in international peer-reviewed journals, 20 oral or poster communications and 2 book chapters. The recently co-authored feature article Photocatalysis: A Promising Route for 21st Century Organic Chemistry was the most accessed paper from the online version of Chem Comm in Aug 2007.