Santato, Clara

Sustainable electronics (organic batteries and electronic devices) Electrical and optical properties of organic semiconductors - Organic Electronics (light emitting devices and photovoltaic cells) Nanostructured photocatalysts - Photoelectrochemistry (Hydrogen production)

Thin films
Semiconductors
Bio-sourced electroactive materials
Charge carrier transport
Electroluminescence
Organic Electronics
Nanostructured materials
Solar energy conversion
Metal - semiconductor interfaces
Electrochemistry

Affiliation(s)

Tier-1 Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Organic Electronics: Materials, Processes and Devices, Chairholder
Thin Film Physics and Technology Research Group (GCM), Member
Material Surface Analysis (LASM), Member
Regroupement québécois sur les matériaux de pointe (RQMP), Member
Microfabrication Laboratory, Member

Expertise type(s) (NSERC subjects)

3302 Electronic properties of solids
3303 Surfaces, interfaces and thin films
3304 Semiconductors

Publications

Recent publications

Gao, Z., Niyonkuru, D., Yelon, A., & Santato, C. (2023). Effect of structure on semiconducting properties of a small molecule n-type organic semiconductor: Phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A: Vacuum, Surfaces and Films, 41(4), 043405 (6 pages).

Poli, F., Herrera, J. R., Lan, T., Kumar, P., Santato, C., & Soavi, F. (2023). Electronic properties of lithium-ion battery cathodes studied in ion-gated transistor configuration. iScience, 26(1), 105888 (12 pages).

Matos-Peralta, Y., Gao, Z., Dar, A. A., & Santato, C. (2023). Exploiting Melanin-Metal Interactions for Emerging Technologies. In Gosset, G. (ed.), Melanins: Functions, Biotechnological Production, and Applications (111-125).

Azari, R. K., Lan, T., & Santato, C. (2023). On the factors affecting the response time of synaptic ion-gated transistors. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 7 pages.

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Biography

Clara Santato is Full Professor in the Department of Engineering Physics at Polytechnique Montréal. She earned her PhD degree in chemistry ("Preparation and Characterization of Nanostructured WO3 Films as Photoanodes in Photoelectrochemical Devices") in 2001 from the Université de Genève and her MSc degree ("Electropolymerization and Photopolymerization of a Pyrrole-Substituted Ruthenium tris (bipyridyl) Complex") in chemistry in 1995 from Università degli Studi di Bologna. The experimental work was carried out in collaboration with Université J. Fourier. She was a (permanent) research scientist at the Institute for Nanostructured Materials, part of the Italian National Research Council, from 2001 to 2011, and a visiting scientist (2007–2010) at Cornell University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering (Malliaras Laboratory for Organic Electronics). In 2006, she was a visiting scientist with a cross-appointment between the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique and McGill University (Chemistry), and in 2005, at Purdue University (Chemistry).

Santato's research focuses on semiconducting films and their interfaces with metal electrodes and electrolytes, for applications in transistors and energy conversion/storage, and has been recently recognized by her elevation to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) senior membership. With her group, she recently expanded her research interests to green electronic and energy-storage devices.

Santato is a member of the UNESCO MATECSS (Materials and Technologies for Energy Conversion, Saving and Storage) Chair. She serves as an associate editor of the Journal of Power Sources (Elsevier).

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