Alberto Credi
Universita degli Studi di Bologna
Professor, Chemistry
Italy
My co-authors include
Dr Tommaso Avellini
Sebastiano Campagna
Massimiliano Cavallini
My Publications
Photodriven [2]rotaxane–[2]catenane interconversion
Chemical Communications
January 2015
Luminescent sensors based on quantum dot–molecule conjugates
Chemical Society Reviews
January 2015
Reactivity of a pyridinium-substituted dimethyldihydropyrene switch under aerobic condi...
Chemical Communications
January 2015
Correction: Reactivity of a pyridinium-substituted dimethyldihydropyrene switch under a...
Chemical Communications
January 2015
The eternal youth of azobenzene: new photoactive molecular and supramolecular devices
Pure and Applied Chemistry
January 2015
Inner filter effects and other traps in quantitative spectrofluorimetric measurements: ...
Journal of Molecular Structure
December 2014
Electroactive [2]catenanes
Electrochimica Acta
September 2014
Photoinduced electron transfer from [Ru(bpy)3]2+ to a calix[6]arene-encapsulated violog...
Inorganica Chimica Acta
June 2014
A Highly Luminescent Tetramer from a Weakly Emitting Monomer: Acid- and Redox-Controlle...
Chemistry - A European Journal
May 2014
Photochemically Controlled Molecular Machines with Sequential Logic Operation
Israel Journal of Chemistry
April 2014
Nanomachines. Fundamentals and Applications. Von Joseph Wang.
Angewandte Chemie
March 2014
Nanomachines. Fundamentals and Applications. By Joseph Wang.
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
March 2014
Light to investigate (read) and operate (write) molecular devices and machines
Chemical Society Reviews
January 2014
Tailoring of quantum dot emission efficiency by localized surface plasmon polaritons in...
Nanoscale
January 2014
Synthesis and properties of ZnTe and ZnTe/ZnS core/shell semiconductor nanocrystals
Journal of Materials Chemistry C
January 2014
Photochemistry of supramolecular systems and nanostructured assemblies. In memory of Pr...
Chemical Society Reviews
January 2014
Light-Operated Machines Based on Threaded Molecular Structures
January 2014
Supramolecular assemblies of semiconductor quantum dots and a bis(bipyridinium) derivat...
RSC Advances
January 2014
Modulation of the solubility of luminescent semiconductor nanocrystals through facile s...
Chemical Communications
January 2014
Effect of Protons on CdSe and CdSe–ZnS Nanocrystals in Organic Solution
Langmuir
October 2013
Toward Directionally Controlled Molecular Motions and Kinetic Intra- and Intermolecular...
Journal of the American Chemical Society
June 2013
Photoluminescence Enhancement of CdSe and CdSe–ZnS Nanocrystals by On‐Surface Ligand Mo...
European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
May 2013
A Three-Station DNA Catenane Rotary Motor with Controlled Directionality
Nano Letters
April 2013
Synthesis and photochemical behaviour of novel uranyl–salophen complexes bearing anthra...
Supramolecular Chemistry
February 2013
Electrochemical Properties of Semiconductor Quantum Dots
January 2013
Photophysical Properties and Conformational Effects on the Circular Dichroism of an Azo...
Chemistry - A European Journal
January 2013
Ruthenium(ii) complexes based on tridentate polypyridine ligands that feature long-live...
Chemical Communications
January 2013
Self-aggreagtion of amphiphilic calix[6]arenes-derivatized rotaxanes and pseudorotaxanes
Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
January 2013
Chiral Supramolecular Switches Based on (<i>R</i>)-Binaphthalene-Bipyridinium Guests an...
Chemistry - A European Journal
November 2012
Solvent- and Light-Controlled Unidirectional Transit of a Nonsymmetric Molecular Axle T...
Chemistry - A European Journal
October 2012
ChemInform Abstract: Electrochemical Properties of CdSe and CdTe Quantum Dots
ChemInform
October 2012
Binary Logic with Synthetic Molecular and Supramolecular Species
July 2012
Morphological and thermal behavior of porous biopolymeric nanoparticles
European Polymer Journal
July 2012
Supramolecular Photochemistry. Controlling Photochemical Processes. Herausgegeben von V...
Angewandte Chemie
June 2012
Supramolecular Photochemistry. Controlling Photochemical Processes. Edited by V. Ramamu...
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
June 2012
Photochemically Driven Molecular Devices and Machines
March 2012
Photoactivated Directionally Controlled Transit of a Non-Symmetric Molecular Axle Throu...
Angewandte Chemie
March 2012
Photoactivated Directionally Controlled Transit of a Non-Symmetric Molecular Axle Throu...
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
March 2012
Electrochemical Methods
February 2012
Photosensitization of the luminescence of CdTe nanocrystals by noncovalently bound Zn t...
Inorganica Chimica Acta
February 2012
Photoinduced Memory Effect in a Redox Controllable Bistable Mechanical Molecular Switch
Angewandte Chemie
January 2012
Photoinduced Memory Effect in a Redox Controllable Bistable Mechanical Molecular Switch
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
January 2012
Reversible modulation of helicity in a binaphthyl–bipyridinium species and its cucurbit...
Chemical Communications
January 2012
Multifunctional switching of a photo- and electro-chemiluminescent iridium–dithienyleth...
Chemical Communications
January 2012
Electrochemical properties of CdSe and CdTe quantum dots
Chemical Society Reviews
January 2012
Quantum dot–molecule hybrids: a paradigm for light-responsive nanodevices
New Journal of Chemistry
January 2012
Spectrofluorimetry
November 2011
Absorption and Emission Spectroscopy with Polarized Light
November 2011
Molecular Motors and Machines
September 2011
Reading and Powering Molecular Machines by Light
August 2011
Quantum Dots Functionalized with Photo- or Redox-Active Species for Luminescence Sensin...
Current Physical Chemistry
August 2011
Structural and Size Effects on the Spectroscopic and Redox Properties of CdSe Nanocryst...
ChemPhysChem
June 2011
ChemInform Abstract: Light Operated Molecular Machines
ChemInform
May 2011
ChemInform Abstract: Electroactive Rotaxanes and Catenanes
ChemInform
May 2011
Redox Control of Molecular Motion in Switchable Artificial Nanoscale Devices
Antioxidants & Redox Signaling
March 2011
pH‐Sensitive Bis(2,2′:6′,2"‐terpyridine)ruthenium(II) Complexes – A DFT/TDDFT Investiga...
European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
February 2011
Light operated molecular machines
Chemical Communications
January 2011
A ratiometric luminescent oxygen sensor based on a chemically functionalized quantum dot
Chemical Communications
January 2011
Luminescence quenching in self-assembled adducts of [Ru(dpp)3]2+ complexes and CdTe nan...
Dalton Transactions
January 2011
Introducing the Research Front on Photoactive and Electroactive Dendrimers
Australian Journal of Chemistry
January 2011
Processing Chemical and Photonic Signals by Artificial Multicomponent Molecular Systems
Israel Journal of Chemistry
January 2011
Light-powered molecular devices and machines
Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences
December 2010
Molecular Machines Based on Rotaxanes and Catenanes
October 2010
Potential Applications of Molecular Logic
October 2010
Redox properties of CdSe and CdSe–ZnS quantum dots in solution
Pure and Applied Chemistry
October 2010
Electrochemistry of Functional Supramolecular Systems. Herausgegeben von Paola Ceroni, ...
Angewandte Chemie
October 2010
Reversible Photoswitching of Rotaxane Character and Interplay of Thermodynamic Stabilit...
Chemistry - A European Journal
September 2010
Light on Molecular Machines
ChemPhysChem
August 2010
ChemInform Abstract: Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds: An Exte...
ChemInform
June 2010
Building Molecular Machines on Surfaces
June 2010
Electrochemistry of Functional Supramolecular Systems
Journal of the American Chemical Society
June 2010
ChemInform Abstract: Molecular Meccano. Part 63. Dual-Mode “Coconformational” Switching...
ChemInform
May 2010
ChemInform Abstract: Artificial Molecular-Level Machines
ChemInform
May 2010
ChemInform Abstract: Electron Transfer Processes in Pseudorotaxanes
ChemInform
May 2010
Liposome Destabilization by a 2,7-Diazapyrenium Derivative Through Formation of Transie...
Small
April 2010
Structural Implications on the Electrochemical and Spectroscopic Signature of CdSe-ZnS ...
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
March 2010
Self-Assembly of Calix[6]arene-Diazapyrenium Pseudorotaxanes: Interplay of Molecular Re...
Chemistry - A European Journal
March 2010
Multistable Self-Assembling System with Three Distinct Luminescence Outputs: Prototype ...
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
February 2010
Electroactive Rotaxanes and Catenanes
January 2010
The Research Front on Molecular Logic
Australian Journal of Chemistry
January 2010
Probing Donor−Acceptor Interactions and <i>Co</i>-Conformational Changes in Redox Activ...
Journal of the American Chemical Society
December 2009
Electrochemistry of Functional Supramolecular Systems
December 2009
ChemInform Abstract: Light-Powered Molecular Machines
ChemInform
September 2009
Tuning Fluorescence Lifetimes through Changes in Herzberg−Teller Activities: The Case o...
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
May 2009
Towards Controlling the Threading Direction of a Calix[6]arene Wheel by Using Nonsymmet...
Chemistry - A European Journal
March 2009
Light powered molecular machines
Chemical Society Reviews
January 2009
Artificial molecular shuttles: from concepts to devices
Journal of Materials Chemistry
January 2009
Photochemical switching of luminescence and singlet oxygen generation by chemical signa...
Chemical Communications
January 2009
All-Optical Integrated Logic Operations Based on Chemical Communication between Molecul...
Chemistry - A European Journal
January 2009
ChemInform Abstract: Rotaxanes with a Calix[6]arene Wheel and Axles of Different Length...
ChemInform
November 2008
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Theoretical Computer Science
November 2008
Monolayers with an IQ
Nature Nanotechnology
September 2008
Rotaxanes with a calix[6]arene wheel and axles of different length. Synthesis, characte...
Tetrahedron
September 2008
Electrochemically Controlled Formation/Dissociation of Phosphonate‐Cavitand/Methylpyrid...
Chemistry - A European Journal
August 2008
Molecular machines operated by light
Open Chemistry
August 2008
A Simple Unimolecular Multiplexer/Demultiplexer
Angewandte Chemie
August 2008
A Simple Unimolecular Multiplexer/Demultiplexer
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
August 2008
ChemInform Abstract: Artificial Molecular Machines Driven by Light
ChemInform
June 2008
Artificial Molecular Machines Powered by Light
CHIMIA International Journal for Chemistry
April 2008
Unravelling the Shuttling Mechanism in a Photoswitchable Multicomponent Bistable Rotaxane
Angewandte Chemie
April 2008
Unravelling the Shuttling Mechanism in a Photoswitchable Multicomponent Bistable Rotaxane
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
April 2008
ChemInform Abstract: Processing Energy and Signals by Molecular and Supramolecular Systems
ChemInform
April 2008
Photochemical Conversion of Solar Energy
ChemSusChem
February 2008
Molecular Devices and Machines
February 2008
Molecular Machines Working on Surfaces and at Interfaces
ChemPhysChem
February 2008
Luminescence quenching in supramolecular assemblies of quantum dots and bipyridinium di...
Journal of Materials Chemistry
January 2008
Characterization of TiO2 coatings prepared by a modified electric arc-physical vapour d...
Surface and Coatings Technology
November 2007
Processing Energy and Signals by Molecular and Supramolecular Systems
Chemistry - A European Journal
October 2007
A Simple Molecular Machine Operated by Photoinduced Proton Transfer
Journal of the American Chemical Society
October 2007
Molecular Photochemionics
ChemInform
October 2007
Molecules that Make Decisions
ChemInform
October 2007
Self-Assembly of a Double Calix[6]arene Pseudorotaxane in Oriented Channels
Chemistry - A European Journal
September 2007
A Redox-Driven Multicomponent Molecular Shuttle
Journal of the American Chemical Society
September 2007
Moleküle, die Entscheidungen treffen
Angewandte Chemie
July 2007
Molecules That Make Decisions
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
July 2007
Molecular Photochemionics
Advanced Functional Materials
April 2007
Molecular devices and machines
Nano Today
April 2007
Using light to induce energy and electron transfer or molecular motions in multicompone...
Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences
April 2007
A Molecular Plug−Socket Connector
Journal of the American Chemical Society
March 2007
Big Challenges for Tiny Machines
Advanced Functional Materials
March 2007
Molecular Photochemionics
Advanced Functional Materials
March 2007
Cyclohexenylphenyldiazene: A Simple Surrogate of the Azobenzene Photochromic Unit
Journal of the American Chemical Society
February 2007
Artificial Nanomachines Based on Interlocked Molecular Species: Recent Advances
ChemInform
February 2007
Photophysical, photochemical and electrochemical properties of a series of aromatic ele...
Inorganica Chimica Acta
February 2007
pH-sensitive Ru(II) and Os(II) bis(2,2′:6′,2″-terpyridine) complexes: A photophysical i...
Inorganica Chimica Acta
February 2007
Chapter 2. Photochemically Controlled Molecular Devices and Machines
January 2007
Modelization and Simulation of Nano Devices in nano κ Calculus
January 2007
Photoinduced electron flow in a self-assembling supramolecular extension cable
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
December 2006
Effect of Strain on the Photoisomerization and Stability of a Congested Azobenzenophane...
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
October 2006
Artificial nanomachines based on interlocked molecules
Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
August 2006
Artificial Molecular Motors Powered by Light
ChemInform
June 2006
Towards Organization of Molecular Machines at Interfaces: Langmuir Films and Langmuir–B...
Advanced Materials
May 2006
Wire-Type Ruthenium(II) Complexes with Terpyridine-Containing [2]Rotaxanes as Ligands: ...
Chemistry - A European Journal
April 2006
Handbook of Photochemistry
February 2006
Autonomous artificial nanomotor powered by sunlight
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
January 2006
Operating Molecular Elevators
Journal of the American Chemical Society
January 2006
Artificial Molecular Motors Powered by Light
Australian Journal of Chemistry
January 2006
Artificial nanomachines based on interlocked molecular species: recent advances
Chemical Society Reviews
January 2006
Ion-Pairing Effects in the Self-Assembly of a Fluorescent Pseudorotaxane
European Journal of Organic Chemistry
January 2006
A Comparison of Shuttling Mechanisms in Two Constitutionally Isomeric Bistable Rotaxane...
Australian Journal of Chemistry
January 2006
Rotaxane-Based Molecular Machines Operated by Photoinduced Electron Transfer
ChemInform
November 2005
Molecular-Level Devices and Machines
November 2005
Shuttling Dynamics in an Acid-Base-Switchable [2]Rotaxane
ChemPhysChem
October 2005
Molecular-level devices and machines
Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography
August 2005
Rotaxane-based molecular machines operated by photoinduced electron transfer
Pure and Applied Chemistry
January 2005
From supramolecular electrochemistry to molecular-level devices
Electrochimica Acta
September 2004
Viologen-Calix[6]arene Pseudorotaxanes. Ion-Pair Recognition and Threading/Dethreading ...
The Journal of Organic Chemistry
August 2004
Molecular Devices and Machines: A Journey into the Nanoworld By Vincenzo Balzani, Marg...
Journal of the American Chemical Society
June 2004
Extreme Miniaturization: Molecular-Level Devices and Machines
ChemInform
May 2004
A Mechanically Interlocked Bundle
Chemistry - A European Journal
April 2004
Photochemical and Electronic Properties of Conjugated Bis(azo) Compounds: An Experiment...
Chemistry - A European Journal
April 2004
Towards molecular photochemionics
International Journal of Photoenergy
January 2004
Polyvalent Scaffolds. Counting the Number of Seats Available for Eosin Guest Molecules ...
Journal of the American Chemical Society
December 2003
Photochemistry of a Dumbbell-Shaped Multicomponent System Hosted Inside the Mesopores o...
The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
November 2003
Controlling Multivalent Interactions in Triply-Threaded Two-Component Superbundles
Chemistry - A European Journal
November 2003
Photoactive pseudorotaxanes and rotaxanes as artificial molecular machines
Synthetic Metals
October 2003
The Bottom-Up Approach to Molecular-Level Devices and Machines
ChemInform
March 2003
Molecular Devices and Machines– A Journey into the Nano World
January 2003
Light-powered molecular-scale machines
Pure and Applied Chemistry
January 2003
Redox-Induced Ring Shuttling and Evidence for Folded Structures in Long and Flexible Tw...
Collection of Czechoslovak Chemical Communications
January 2003
Extreme Miniaturization: Molecular-Level Devices and Machines
January 2003
Molecular Logic Circuits
ChemPhysChem
December 2002
Photoinduced Electron Transfer in a Triad That Can Be Assembled/Disassembled by Two Dif...
Journal of the American Chemical Society
October 2002
Controlled disassembling of self-assembling systems: Toward artificial molecular-level ...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
March 2002
Artificial Molecular-Level Machines: Which Energy To Make Them Work?
Accounts of Chemical Research
May 2001
Spectroscopic and Electrochemical Properties of Catenanes Containing the 2,7-Diazapyren...
Supramolecular Chemistry
March 2001
Artificial molecular-level machines
The Chemical Record
January 2001
Artificial molecular-level machines
The Chemical Record
January 2001
Artificial molecular-level machines with<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Mat...
International Journal of Photoenergy
January 2001
Artificial molecular-level machines. Dethreading–rethreading of a pseudorotaxane powere...
Chemical Communications
January 2001
Controlled dethreading/rethreading of a scorpion-like pseudorotaxane and a related macr...
New Journal of Chemistry
January 2001
Constructing Molecular Machinery: A Chemically-Switchable [2]Catenane
Journal of the American Chemical Society
March 2000
The Electrochemically-Driven Decomplexation/Recomplexation of Inclusion Adducts of Ferr...
The Journal of Organic Chemistry
March 2000
Switching of Pseudorotaxanes and Catenanes Incorporating a Tetrathiafulvalene Unit by R...
The Journal of Organic Chemistry
February 2000
Dendrimers with a Photoactive and Redox-Active [Ru(bpy)<sub>3</sub>]<sup>2+</sup>-Type ...
Journal of the American Chemical Society
June 1999
A Three-Pole Supramolecular Switch
Journal of the American Chemical Society
April 1999
Molecular-Level Devices
January 1999
Acid−Base Controllable Molecular Shuttles
Journal of the American Chemical Society
November 1998
Oligocatenanes Made to Order<sup>1</sup>
Journal of the American Chemical Society
April 1998
Diastereoselective Formation and Photophysical Behavior of a Chiral Copper(I) Phenanthr...
Inorganic Chemistry
April 1998
Simple molecular-level machines. Interchange between different threads in pseudorotaxanes
New Journal of Chemistry
January 1998
From observed to corrected luminescence intensity of solution systems: an easy-to-apply...
Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy
January 1998
Photoredox pathways for the polymerization of a pyrrole-substituted ruthenium tris(bipy...
New Journal of Chemistry
January 1998
Aggregation of self-assembling branched [n]rotaxanes
New Journal of Chemistry
January 1998
Luminescent and Redox-Active Iridium(III)-Cyclometalated Compounds with Terdentate Ligands
Inorganic Chemistry
December 1997
Photoprocesses
Current Opinion in Chemical Biology
December 1997
Electrochemically Induced Molecular Motions in Pseudorotaxanes: A Case of Dual-Mode (Ox...
Chemistry - A European Journal
December 1997
Controlling Catenations, Properties and Relative Ring-Component Movements in Catenanes ...
Journal of the American Chemical Society
December 1997
Logic Operations at the Molecular Level. An XOR Gate Based on a Molecular Machine
Journal of the American Chemical Society
March 1997
Polynuclear metal complexes of nanometre size. A versatile synthetic strategy leading t...
Journal of Materials Chemistry
January 1997
Chiroptical Absorption and Luminescence Spectra of a Dissymmetric Osmium(II)−Polypyridy...
Inorganic Chemistry
January 1997
Simple Mechanical Molecular and Supramolecular Machines: Photochemical and Electrochemi...
Chemistry - A European Journal
January 1997
Simple Molecular Machines: Chemically Driven Unthreading and Rethreading of a[2]Pseudor...
Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English
May 1996
Einfache molekulare Maschinen: chemisch gesteuertes Ausfädeln und Rückeinfädeln eines [...
Angewandte Chemie
May 1996
Supramolecular Photochemistry: Recent Advances
January 1996
Self-Assembly of [<i>n</i>]Rotaxanes Bearing Dendritic Stoppers
Journal of the American Chemical Society
January 1996
Molecular Meccano. 4. The Self-Assembly of [2]Catenanes Incorporating Photoactive .pi.-...
Journal of the American Chemical Society
November 1995
Photophysical properties of a dinuclear rack-type Ru(II) complex and of its components
Chemical Physics Letters
September 1995
Supramolecular Photochemistry and Photophysics. A Cylindrical Macrotricyclic Receptor a...
Journal of the American Chemical Society
June 1994
Supramolecular Photochemistry and Photophysics. Energy- Conversion and Information-Proc...
January 1994
Artificial Photochemical Devices and Machines
Electron Transfer Processes in Pseudorotaxanes
Artificial Molecular Motors and Machines: Design Principles and Prototype Systems
Molecular-Level Artificial Machines Based on Photoinduced Electron-Transfer Processes
