Prof Matteo Palma

Professor of Physical Chemistry and Nanomaterials
School of Physical and Chemical Sciences
Queen Mary University of London
Queen Mary University of London
Research
Nanomaterials, NanoBiotechnology, Mixed-dimensional heterostructures, Biosensors, Optoelectronics, Nanohybrids
Interests
Our research focuses on the controlled assembly of functional nanostructures, down to single-molecule resolution. We use (supra)molecular interactions to drive the self- organization of nanoscale moieties into low-dimensional heterostructures, and from solution to nanopatterned substrates. We employ different building blocks for this: carbon nanotubes and 2D nanomaterials. (as transducers) and DNA origami (as nanoscale scaffolds). Applications range from studies in the field of (supra)molecular optoelectronics, to biosensing and single-molecule biological investigations.Publications

2024

Fernandez‐Yague MA, Palma M, Tofail SAM, Duffy M, Quinlan LR, Dalby MJ, Pandit A and Biggs MJ
Advanced Science, Wiley vol. 11 (45)
22-10-2024

Sun L, Che L, Li M, Chen K, Leng X, Long Y, Guo X, Palma M and Lu Y
Small, Wiley vol. 20 (51)
06-10-2024

Lin W, Palma M and Di Tommaso D
Molecular Catalysis, Elsevier vol. 569, 114591-114591.
02-10-2024

Mengrani Z, Hong W and Palma M
Acs Nanoscience Au, American Chemical Society (Acs)
06-09-2024

Gwyther REA, Côté S, Lee C-S, Miao H, Ramakrishnan K, Palma M and Dafydd Jones D
Nature Communications, Springer Nature vol. 15 (1)
29-08-2024

Lin W, Nabi AG, Palma M and Di Tommaso D
Acs Applied Nano Materials, American Chemical Society (Acs)
29-02-2024

Zhang H, Krynski M, Fortes AD, Saunders TG, Palma M, Hao Y, Krok F, Yan H and Abrahams I
Journal of The American Chemical Society, American Chemical Society vol. 146 (8), 5569-5579.
14-02-2024

Zheng T, O’Neill C, Marshall JF, Iskratsch T and Palma M
Materials Advances, Royal Society of Chemistry (Rsc) vol. 5 (23), 9376-9382.
01-01-2024
2023

Gilhooly-Finn PA, Jacobs IE, Bardagot O, Zaffar Y, Lemaire A, Guchait S, Zhang L, Freeley M, Neal W, Richard F, Palma M, Banerji N, Sirringhaus H, Brinkmann M and Nielsen CB
Chemistry of Materials, American Chemical Society (Acs)
26-10-2023

Zhang H, Giddens H, Saunders TG, Palma M, Abrahams I, Yan H and Hao Y
Journal of The European Ceramic Society, Elsevier
17-10-2023

Xu Y, Xie R, Li Q, Feng J, Luo H, Ye Q, Guo Z, Cao Y, Palma M, Chai G, Titirici MM and Jones CR
Small, Wiley
07-07-2023

Cervantes-Salguero K, Gutiérrez Fosado YA, Megone W, Gautrot JE and Palma M
Molecules, Mdpi vol. 28 (9)
24-04-2023

Wind SJ, Penzo E, Palma M, Wang R, Fazio T, Porath D, Rotem D, Livshits G and Stern A
Journal of Self-Assembly and Molecular Electronics (Same), River Publishers, 177-194.
18-03-2023

Marcial-Hernandez R, Giacalone S, Neal WG, Lee C-S, Gilhooly-Finn PA, Mastroianni G, Meli D, Wu R, Rivnay J, Palma M and Nielsen CB
Nanoscale, Royal Society of Chemistry
17-03-2023

Sun L, Che L, Li M, Neal WG, Leng X, Long Y, Jia Y, Gao Y, Palma M and Lu Y
Susmat, Wiley vol. 3 (2), 207-221.
06-03-2023

Manoharan G, Bösel P, Thien J, Holtmannspötter M, Meingast L, Schmidt M, Eickmeier H, Haase M, Maultzsch J, Steinhart M, Wollschläger J, Palma M and Meyer C
Molecules, Mdpi vol. 28 (5)
25-02-2023

Talha-Dean T, Chen K, Mastroianni G, Gesuele F, Mol J and Palma M
Bioconjugate Chemistry
18-01-2023

Degousée T, Neal WG, Edwards Z, Singh S, Selvarajah J, Talha-Dean T, Palma M, Schroeder BC and Mol JA
Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Royal Society of Chemistry (Rsc) vol. 11 (47), 16518-16526.
01-01-2023
2022

Zhang H, Fortes AD, Giddens H, Saunders TG, Palma M, Abrahams I, Yan H and Hao Y
Inorganic Chemistry, American Chemical Society vol. 61 (50), 20316-20325.
06-12-2022

Iskratsch T, Hawkes W, Marhuenda E, Reynolds P, O'Neill C, PANDEY P, Wilson D, FREELEY M, HUANG D, Junquiang H, Gondarenko S, Hone J, Gadegaard N and Palma M
Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, The Royal Society
21-11-2022

Lee CS, Gwyther REA, Freeley M, Jones D and Palma M
Chembiochem, Wiley vol. 23 (23)
03-11-2022

Cervantes-Salguero K, Freeley M, Gwyther REA, Jones DD, Chávez JL and Palma M
Biophysics Reviews, Aip Publishing vol. 3 (3)
18-08-2022

Zhang M, Xu X, Ahmed S, Yue Y, Palma M, Svec P, Gao F, Abrahams I, Reece MJ and Yan H
Acta Materialia, Elsevier, 117815-117815.
16-03-2022

Huang D, Haddad L, Rahman F, Palma M and Sapelkin A
Rsc Advances, Royal Society of Chemistry (Rsc) vol. 12 (37), 23778-23785.
01-01-2022
2021

Yue Y, Xu X, Zhang M, Yan Z, Koval V, Whiteley RM, Zhang D, Palma M, Abrahams I and Yan H
Acs Applied Materials and Interfaces vol. 13 (48), 57548-57559.
29-11-2021

Fernandez‐Yague MA, Trotier A, Demir S, Abbah SA, Larrañaga A, Thirumaran A, Stapleton A, Tofail SAM, Palma M, Kilcoyne M, Pandit A and Biggs MJ
Advanced Materials, Wiley vol. 33 (40)
23-08-2021

Kousseff CJ, Taifakou FE, Neal WG, Palma M and Nielsen CB
Journal of Polymer Science
12-08-2021

Ye Q, Xu X, Paghi A, Bamford T, Horrocks BR, Houlton A, Barillaro G, Dimitrov S and Palma M
Advanced Functional Materials
08-08-2021

Xu X, Bowen BJ, Gwyther REA, Freeley M, Grigorenko B, Nemukhin AV, Eklöf‐Österberg J, Moth‐Poulsen K, Jones DD and Palma M
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Wiley vol. 60 (37), 20184-20189.
06-08-2021

Degousée T, Untilova V, Vijaykumar V, Xu X, Sun Y, Palma M, Brinkmann M, Biniek L and Fenwick O
Journal of Materials Chemistry A
07-07-2021

Freeley M, Gwyther REA, Jones DD and Palma M
Biomolecules, Mdpi Ag
29-06-2021

Xu X, Mukadam Z, Amoroso G, Freeley M and Palma M
Journal of Applied Physics, Aip Publishing vol. 129 (2)
12-01-2021

Zhang M, Xu X, Yue Y, Palma M, Reece MJ and Yan H
Materials and Design, Elsevier, 109447-109447.
02-01-2021

Backes C, Behera RK, Bianco A, Casiraghi C, Doan H, Criado A, Galembeck F, Goldie S, Gravagnuolo AM, Hou H-L, Kamali AR, Kostarelos K, Kumar V, Lee WH, Martsinovich N, Palermo V, Palma M, Pang J, Prato M, Samori P, et al.
Faraday Discussions, Royal Society of Chemistry (Rsc) vol. 227, 245-258.
01-01-2021
2020

Zhang H, Gidden H, Saunders TG, Liu N, Aurallo-Peters V, Xu X, Palma M, Reece MJ, Abrahams I, Yan H and Hao Y
Chemistry of Materials, American Chemical Society (Acs)
17-11-2020

Finn P, Jacobs IE, Armitage J, Wu R, Paulsen B, Freeley M, Palma M, Rivnay J, Sirringhaus H and Nielsen C
Journal of Materials Chemistry C
19-10-2020

Cervantes-Salguero K, Freeley M, Chávez JL and Palma M
Journal of Materials Chemistry B, Royal Society of Chemistry vol. 8 (30), 6352-6356.
05-08-2020

Parr ZS, Rashid RB, Paulsen BD, Poggi B, Tan E, Freeley M, Palma M, Abrahams I, Rivnay J and Nielsen CB
Advanced Electronic Materials
15-05-2020

Zhang H, Giddens H, Yue Y, Xu X, Araullo-Peters V, Koval V, Palma M, Abrahams I, Yan H and Hao Y
Journal of The European Ceramic Society, Elsevier
19-04-2020

Amoroso G, Sapelkin A, Ye Q, Araullo-Peters V, Cecconello A, Fernandez G and Palma M
Faraday Discussions, Royal Society of Chemistry
27-03-2020
2019

Bode DC, Freeley M, Nield J, Palma M and Viles JH
J Biol Chem vol. 294 (19), 7566-7572.
10-05-2019

Clément P, Xu X, Stoppiello CT, Rance GA, Attanzio A, O'Shea JN, Temperton RH, Khlobystov AN, Lovelock KRJ, Seymour JM, Fogarty RM, Baker A, Bourne RA, Hall B, Chamberlain TW and Palma M
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl
06-05-2019

Clement P, Trinchera P, Cervantes-Salguero K, Ye Q, Jones CR and Palma M
Chempluschem, Wiley
30-04-2019

Hawkes W, Huang D, Reynolds P, Hammond L, Ward M, Gadegaard N, Marshall JF, Iskratch T and Palma M
Faraday Discussions, Royal Society of Chemistry (Rsc)
18-03-2019

Amoroso G, Ye Q, Cervantes-Salguero K, Fernández G, Cecconello A and Palma M
Chemistry of Materials vol. 31 (5), 1537-1542.
12-03-2019

HUANG D, PATEL K, Perez-Garrido S, MARSHALL J and PALMA M
Acs Nano, American Chemical Society
09-01-2019

Azevedo HS, Braunschweig AB, Chiechi RC, Claridge SA, Cronin L, Diaz Fernandez Y, Feizi T, Hartmann L, Huang M, Miura Y, Palma M, Qiu X, Ravoo BJ, Schmidt S, Turnbull WB, Werner C, Zheng Z and Zhou D
Faraday Discussions, Royal Society of Chemistry (Rsc) vol. 219, 252-261.
01-01-2019
2018

Freeley M, Attanzio A, Cecconello A, Amoroso G, Clement P, Fernandez G, Gesuele F and Palma M
Adv Sci (Weinh) vol. 5 (10), 1800596-1800596.
17-10-2018

Attanzio A, Rosillo-Lopez M, Zampetti A, Ierides I, Cacialli F, Salzmann CG and Palma M
Nanoscale vol. 10 (42), 19678-19683.
12-10-2018

Vallejo-Giraldo C, Krukiewicz K, Calaresu I, Zhu J, Palma M, Fernandez-Yague M, McDowell B, Peixoto N, Farid N, O'Connor G, Ballerini L, Pandit A and Biggs MJP
Small vol. 14 (28), e1800863-e1800863.
01-07-2018

Huang D, Freeley M and Palma M
Methods Mol Biol vol. 1811, 231-251.
21-06-2018

Xu X, Clément P, Eklöf-Österberg J, Kelley-Loughnane N, Moth-Poulsen K, Chávez JL and Palma M
Nano Letters, American Chemical Society vol. 18 (7), 4130-4135.
20-06-2018

Xu X, Clement P, Eklöf JVR, Moth-Poulsen K, Chavez J and Palma M
Ecs Meeting Abstracts, The Electrochemical Society vol. MA2018-01 (7), 742-742.
13-04-2018
2017

Freeley M, Worthy HL, Ahmed R, Bowen B, Watkins D, Macdonald JE, Zheng M, Jones DD and Palma M
J Am Chem Soc vol. 139 (49), 17834-17840.
13-12-2017

Taroni PJ, SANTAGIULIANA G, WAN K, Calado P, QIU M, ZHANG H, PUGNO N, PALMA M, Stingelin-Stutzmann N, Heeney M, FENWICK O, BAXENDALE M and BILOTTI E
Advanced Functional Materials, Wiley
11-12-2017

Biggs MJP, Fernandez M, Thomas D, Cooper R, Palma M, Liao J, Fazio T, Dahlberg C, Wheadon H, Pallipurath A, Pandit A, Kysar J and Wind SJ
Advanced Materials, Wiley vol. 29 (39)
01-09-2017

McMorrow J, Freeley M and Palma M
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, American Chemical Society (Acs) vol. 56 (18), 5302-5308.
26-04-2017

Huang D, Freeley M and PALMA M
Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group
28-03-2017

Attanzio A, Sapelkin A, Gesuele F, van der Zande A, Gillin W, Zheng M and Palma M
Small, Wiley - V C H Verlag Gmbbh & Co.
10-02-2017
2016

Wang J, Campos I, Wu F, Zhu J, Sukhorukov GB, Palma M, Watkinson M and Krause S
Electrochimica Acta vol. 208, 39-46.
04-05-2016

Hardy JG, Palma M, Wind SJ and Biggs MJ
Adv Mater vol. 28 (27), 5717-5724.
27-04-2016

Zhu J, McMorrow J, Crespo-Otero R, Ao G, Zheng M, Gillin WP and Palma M
J Am Chem Soc vol. 138 (9), 2905-2908.
09-03-2016

Penzo E, Palma M, Chenet DA, Ao G, Zheng M, Hone JC and Wind SJ
Acs Nano, American Chemical Society (Acs) vol. 10 (2), 2975-2981.
01-02-2016
2015

PALMA M, Hardy JG, Tadayyon G, Farsan M and Wind SJ
Advanced Healthcare Materials, Wiley Online vol. 4 (16), 2500-2519.
18-11-2015

Penzo E, Palma M, Wang R, Cai H, Zheng M and Wind SJ
Nano Letters, American Chemical Society (Acs) vol. 15 (10), 6547-6552.
09-09-2015
2013

Cai H, Depoil D, Palma M, Sheetz MP, Dustin ML and Wind SJ
J Vac Sci Technol B Nanotechnol Microelectron vol. 31 (6)
01-11-2013

Kinz-Thompson CD, Palma M, Pulukkunat DK, Chenet D, Hone J, Wind SJ and Gonzalez RL
Acs Nano vol. 7 (9), 8158-8166.
24-09-2013

Palma M, Wang W, Penzo E, Brathwaite J, Zheng M, Hone J, Nuckolls C and Wind SJ
J Am Chem Soc vol. 135 (23), 8440-8443.
12-06-2013

Wang R, Palma M, Penzo E and Wind SJ
Nano Research vol. 6 (6), 409-417.
01-01-2013
2012

Abramson J, Palma M, Wind SJ and Hone J
Adv Mater vol. 24 (16), 2207-2211.
24-04-2012

Schiros T, Mannsfeld S, Chiu C-Y, Yager KG, Ciston J, Gorodetsky AA, Palma M, Bullard Z, Kramer T, Delongchamp D, Fischer D, Kymissis I, Toney MF and Nuckolls C
Advanced Functional Materials vol. 22 (6), 1167-1173.
01-01-2012
2011

Palma M, Abramson JJ, Gorodetsky AA, Penzo E, Gonzalez RL, Sheetz MP, Nuckolls C, Hone J and Wind SJ
J Am Chem Soc vol. 133 (20), 7656-7659.
25-05-2011

Schvartzman M, Palma M, Sable J, Abramson J, Hu X, Sheetz MP and Wind SJ
Nano Lett vol. 11 (3), 1306-1312.
09-03-2011

Palma M, Abramson JJ, Gorodetsky AA, Nuckolls C, Sheetz MP, Wind SJ and Hone J
Methods Mol Biol vol. 749, 169-185.
01-01-2011

Penzo E, Wang R, Palma M and Wind SJ
Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B vol. 29 (6)
01-01-2011

Savage RC, Mativetsky JM, Orgiu E, Palma M, Gbabode G, Geerts YH and Samori P
Journal of Materials Chemistry vol. 21 (1), 206-213.
01-01-2011
2010

Gorodetsky AA, Chiu C-Y, Schiros T, Palma M, Cox M, Jia Z, Sattler W, Kymissis I, Steigerwald M and Nuckolls C
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl vol. 49 (43), 7909-7912.
18-10-2010
2009

Schvartzman M, Nguyen K, Palma M, Abramson J, Sable J, Hone J, Sheetz MP and Wind SJ
J Vac Sci Technol B Microelectron Nanometer Struct Process Meas Phenom vol. 27 (1), 61-65.
01-01-2009

Mativetsky JM, Kastler M, Savage RC, Gentilini D, Palma M, Pisula W, Muellen K and Samori P
Advanced Functional Materials vol. 19 (15), 2486-2494.
01-01-2009
2008

Mativetsky JM, Palma M and Samorì P
Top Curr Chem vol. 285, 157-202.
01-01-2008

Palma M, Levin J, Debever O, Geerts Y, Lehmann M and Samori P
Soft Matter vol. 4 (2), 303-310.
01-01-2008
2007

Palermo V, Liscio A, Palma M, Surin M, Lazzaroni R and Samori P
Chemical Communications (32), 3326-3337.
01-01-2007
2006

Palermo V, Palma M and Samorì P
In Scanning Probe Microscopies Beyond Imaging, Wiley 390-429.
06-06-2006

Palermo V, Palma M and Samorì P
Advanced Materials vol. 18 (2), 145-164.
01-01-2006

Palermo V, Morelli S, Palma M, Simpson C, Nolde F, Herrmann A, Müllen K and Samorì P
Chemphyschem vol. 7 (4), 847-853.
01-01-2006

Palma M, Pace G, Roussel O, Geerts Y and Samori P
Australian Journal of Chemistry vol. 59 (6), 376-380.
01-01-2006

Palma M, Levin J, Lemaur V, Liscio A, Palermo V, Cornil J, Geerts Y, Lehmann M and Samori P
Advanced Materials vol. 18 (24), 3313-+.
01-01-2006
2005

Palermo V, Palma M, Tomovic Z, Watson MD, Friedlein R, Müllen K and Samori P
Chemphyschem vol. 6 (11), 2371-2375.
01-01-2005
2004

Palermo V, Palma M, Tomovic Z, Watson MD, Müllen K and Samorì P
SYNTHETIC METALS. vol. 147 (1-3), 117-121.
01-01-2004
Grants


Matteo Palma
£130,000 Defence Science and Technology Lab.-GOV UK
01-04-2024 - 31-03-2025

Matteo Palma and Jan Mol
£95,848 Defence Science and Technology Lab.-GOV UK
01-10-2022 - 30-09-2025

Matteo Palma
£230,206 Air Force office of Scientific Research (USA)
01-01-2021 - 28-02-2025

Conrad Mullineaux, Caroline Brennan, Alexandre De Mendoza Soler, Viji Draviam Sastry, Maurice Elphick, Christoph Engl, Isabel M Palacios, Matteo Palma, Marina Resmini, Alexander Ruban, Peter Thorpe, Angelika Stollewerk, Chema Martin Duran, Paulo Baptista Ribeiro, Susana Alves Godinho, Richard Grose, Stephanie Kermorgant, Peter McCormick and Tyson Sharp
£390,834 BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
01-08-2022 - 31-07-2023

Wen Wang, Ketao Zhang, Matteo Palma and Ildar Farkhatdinov
£497,496 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-11-2020 - 30-04-2022

Matteo Palma
£50,000 HEFCE Higher Education Funding Council for England
01-12-2017 - 30-11-2018

Matteo Palma
£226,637 Air Force office of Scientific Research (USA)
01-06-2017 - 31-05-2021

Matteo Palma
£176,977 Air Force office of Scientific Research (USA)
30-09-2016 - 29-09-2019