e-mail: direzione @isof.cnr.it

Office phone: +39 051 639 9757

Lab phone: +39 051 639 9853

Vincenzo Palermo is a research director of the CNR Institute for Organic Synthesis and Photoreactivity (ISOF) in Bologna, Italy, and associated professor of Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden). He uses nanotechnology and supramolecular chemistry to create new materials for electronics, aerospace and biomedical applications, collaborating with key industrial partners in Europe (Airbus, FCA, Leonardo, BASF, Nokia, STMicroelectronics etc.). He has been awarded the Lecturer Award for Excellence of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS), the Research Award of the Italian Society of Chemistry (SCI) and the Science dissemination awards of the Italian Book Association. He writes as a columnist for the science magazine SAPERE and has published two books on the life and science of Albert Einstein (Hoepli, Milano, 2015) and of Isaac Newton (Hoepli, Milano, 2016).

Scientific interests

SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY	SURFACE SCIENCE	MATERIALS SCIENCE
COMPOSITES	NANOTECHNOLOGY	CARBON ELECTRONICS
	AEROSPACE

Recent Publications

Sensing of ions using machine learning and 2D-3D composite materials

Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical (2025). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2024.137194

Graphene-based filters for customized drinking water purification

Nature Water volume 3, 369–371 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-025-00427-6

Graphene oxide electrodes enable electrical stimulation of distinct calcium signalling in brain astrocytes

Nature Nanotechnology (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-024-01711-4

Amino acid modified graphene oxide for the simultaneous capture and electrochemical detection of glyphosate

Materials Today Chemistry 36 (2024) 101936

Tuneable Permeability to H₂, CO₂, He, and Ar in Graphene Oxide−PDDA Self-Assembled Multilayers, Yielding Good Selectivity at High Flux

Selective ion transport in large-area graphene oxide membrane filters driven by the ionic radius and electrostatic interactions

Chemical Tailoring of β-Cyclodextrin-Graphene Oxide for Enhanced Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Adsorption from Drinking Water

Surface chemistry and structure manipulation of graphene-related materials to address the challenges of electrochemical energy storage

Chem. Commun., (2023) 59, 2571. This article is part of the themed collection: Celebrating 10 years of ChemComm Emerging Investigators.

Continuous capillary-flow sensing of glucose and lactate in sweat with an electrochemical sensor based on functionalized graphene oxide

Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical – Volume 344, 1 October 2021, 130253

Graphene-Paper-Based Electrodes on Plastic and Textile Supports as New Platforms for Amperometric Biosensing

Adv. Funct. Mater. 2021, 2107941

All-Electrochemical Nanofabrication of Stacked Ternary Metal Sulfide/Graphene Electrodes for High-Performance Alkaline Batteries

Small 2022, 2106403

Tuneable conductivity at extreme electric fields in ZnO tetrapod-silicone composites for high-voltage power cable insulation

Scientific Reports volume 12, Article number: 6035 (2022)

Electrophoretic coating of LiFePO₄/Graphene oxide on carbon fibers as cathode electrodes for structural lithium ion batteries

Composites Science and Technology, Volume 208, 26 May 2021, 108768

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Research Track record

•    >220 articles published. Cited >16000 times, h-index=64.
•    Awards from the Italian Society of Chemistry, Royal Society of Chemistry, Federation of the European Material Societies.
•    Editor for Wiley of a book on Flexible Carbon-based Electronics.
•    >70 invited talks at scientific conferences.

Dissemination track record

•    Lecturer for science festivals, university and high-school programs, television programs.
•    >60 public lectures on science, chemistry, history and nanotechnology, given to general public and to >40 classes of high-school students.
•    Columnist since 2014 for the scientific magazine “Sapere”.
•    Author of two biographies on A. Einstein and I. Newton.
•    Scientific dissemination awards received in 2015-2016-2017.

Leadership track record

•    Director of research institute ISOF.
•    Coordinator of several European and national research projects (ESF, Marie-Curie actions).
•    Supervisor of postdoc, Ph.D. and master students.
•    Vice-director and work package leader of the Graphene Flagship project (>150 partners, 10 years duration, 1B€ budget).