Dr Paolo Coppo

Laurea in Medicinal Chemistry, Univerista’ di Pavia 2000.

PhD in Chemistry, University of Sheffield 2003

Post-Doc: Universitat van Amsterdam (UvA) 2003-2005

The University of Manchester 2005-2007

Research Interests

Research Activity

Current lines of research include new luminescent materials for sustainable organic light emitting devices. Copper in particular is under intense scrutiny in my group as a possible alternative to the well established Iridium triplet emitters.

Light emitting nanoparticles is a further line of research which is gaining rapid momentum. We are particularly interested in stable nanophosphors functionalised for attachment to biological substrates, such as polypeptides (enzymes and antibodies in particular), as well as nanoparticles compatible with processable polymers.

Materials and Manufacturing lectures, in module ME 2601, Degree course in Mechanical Engineering.

Guest Lecturer in Materials in module DM 1602, degree course in Design.

Publications

Journal Papers

(2012) Coppo, P., Tome, IA., Monkman, AP., Iacobellis, G., Fyson, J. and Baiao Dias, F., Copper (I) complexes with bipyridyl and phosphine ligands: a systematic study., Dalton Transactions: an international journal of inorganic chemistry 41 (28) : 8669- 8674

(2012) Coppo, P. and Marcelli, T., On the emission of bis-arylacetylide trinuclear Cu(I) complexes, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 710 86- 89

(2012) Coppo, P. and Marcelli, T., On the emission of bis-arylacetylide trinuclear Cu(I) complexes, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry

(2010) Andrés-Tomé, I., Winscom, CJ. and Coppo, P., Copper(I) trinuclear phosphorescent complexes with tuneable optical and photophysical properties, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2010 (23) : 3567- 3570

(2008) Smith, AM., Williams, RJ., Tang, C., Coppo, P., Collins, RF., Turner, ML., Saiani, A. and Ulijn, RV., Fmoc-diphenylalanine self assembles to a hydrogel via a novel architecture based on π-π interlocked β-sheets, Advanced Materials 20 (1) : 37- 41 Download publication

(2006) Teasdale, I., Harper, EC., Coppo, P., Wilson, B. and Turner, ML., Photochemically cross-linked poly(aryl ether ketone) rings, Macromolecular Rapid Communications 27 (23) : 2032- 2037 Download publication

(2005) Coppo, P. and Yeates, SG., Shining light on a pentacene derivative: the role of photoinduced cycloadditions, Advanced Materials 17 (24) : 3001- 3005 Download publication

(2005) Coppo, P., Duati, M., Kozhevnikov, V., Hofstraat, JW. and De Cola, L., White light emission from an assembly comprising luminescent iridium and europium complexes, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 44 (12) : 1806- 1810 Download publication

(2005) Coppo, P. and Turner, ML., Cyclopentadithiophene based electroactive materials, JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY 15 (11) : 1123- 1133

(2005) Coppo, P., Duati, M., Kozhevnikov, VN., Hofstraat, JW. and De Cola, L., White-light emission from an assembly comprising luminescent iridium and europium complexes, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 44 (12) : 1806- 1810

(2004) Gagliardo, M., Dijkstra, HP., Coppo, P., De Cola, L., Lutz, M., Spek, AL., van Klink, GPM. and van Koten, G., Synthesis, crystal structure, and redox and photophysical properties of novel bisphosphinoaryl Ru-II-terpyridine complexes, Organometallics 23 (24) : 5833- 5840 Download publication

(2004) Coppo, P., Schroeder, R., Grell, M. and Turner, ML., Investigation of solution processed poly (4,4-dioctylcyclopentadithiophene) thin films as transparent conductors, SYNTHETIC METALS 143 (2) : 203- 206

(2004) Coppo, P., Plummer, EA. and De Cola, L., Tuning iridium(III) phenylpyridine complexes in the "almost blue" region, CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS (15) : 1774- 1775

(2003) Coppo, P., Adams, H., Cupertino, DC., Yeates, SG. and Turner, ML., Synthesis, solid state structure and polymerisation of a fully planar cyclopentadithiophene., Chem Commun (Camb) (20) : 2548- 2549 Download publication

(2003) Coppo, P., Cupertino, DC., Yeates, SG. and Turner, ML., Synthetic routes to solution processable polycyclopentadithiophenes, Macromolecules 36 (8) : 2705- 2711 Download publication

(2002) Coppo, P., Cupertino, DC., Yeates, SG. and Turner, ML., New routes to poly(4,4-dialkylcyclopentadithiophene-2,6-diyls), JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY 12 (9) : 2597- 2599

(2001) Mella, M., Coppo, P., Guizzardi, B., Fagnoni, M., Freccero, M. and Albini, A., Photoinduced, ionic Meerwein arylation of olefins, Journal of Organic Chemistry 66 (19) : 6344- 6352 Download publication

(2001) Coppo, P., Fagnoni, M. and Albini, A., Photochemical conversion of 4-chloroaniline into 4-alkylanilines, TETRAHEDRON LETTERS 42 (25) : 4271- 4273

Conference Papers

(2003) Coppo, P., Turner, ML., Blom, PWM., Greenham, NC., Dimitrakopoulos, CD. and Frisbie, CD., Investigation of the electronic properties of cyclopentadithiophene polymers and copolymers, Symposium on Organic and Polymeric Materials and Devices held at the 2003 MRS Spring Meeting, ORGANIC AND POLYMERIC MATERIALS AND DEVICES (771) : 61- 64

(2003) Turner, ML., Coppo, P., Cupertino, D. and Yeates, SG., Synthetic routes to solution processable polycyclopentadithiophenes, , Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society (226) : U428- U428

Book Chapters

(2009) Coppo, P., The day lighting became organic. In: Albini, A. ed. Photochemistry. Royal Society of Chemistry (37) : 393- 406