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Jorge Follana Berná
Associate Professor
E-mail: jfollana@umh.es
Telephone: +34966658927
Jorge Follana Berná was born in Callosa de Segura (Alicante, Spain) in 1989. He graduated in Chemistry from the Universidad de Alicante in 2013 and obtained a Master's degree in Fine and Molecular Chemistry from the Universidad de Murcia in
2014. His Master's thesis, entitled “New Platinum(II) Complexes with N-Heterocyclic
Carbenes for Cancer Treatment”, was supervised by Dr. Natalia Cutillas and Prof. José
Ruiz.
In July 2014, he joined the research group led by Prof. Ángela Sastre Santos at the
Instituto de Bioingeniería of the Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, where he began his research career in the field of phthalocyanines. In October 2020, he defended his PhD thesis, entitled “Synthesis of Phthalocyanine-Based Systems as Artificial Photosynthetic Analogues and Models and as Active Components in Solar Cells”, receiving the highest distinction, cum laude, and the Extraordinary Doctoral Award.
During his doctoral studies, he carried out a research stay at the Institut de Biologie Intégrative de la Cellule (I2BC), CEA Saclay (France), under the supervision of Prof. Ally Aukauloo. His research focused on the development of supramolecular assemblies for artificial photosynthesis.
In September 2017, he was appointed as an Assistant Lecturer, a position that allowed
him to combine research with university teaching. In 2022, he became an Assistant
Professor, and he currently holds an Associate Professor position at the Universidad
Miguel Hernández de Elche.
In 2024, he undertook a postdoctoral research stay at the Università degli Studi di
Trieste (Italy), under the supervision of Prof. Maurizio Prato. There, he investigated the combination of carbon nanodots and phthalocyanines to study electron transfer
processes and chirality-induced spin selectivity in donor–acceptor systems.
His research focuses on the synthesis and characterization of phthalocyanines and the
study of their photophysical and electronic properties for their integration into light-harvesting systems and their application in fields such as energy conversion, catalysis, and biomedicine. He also works on the development of novel hybrid systems based on phthalocyanines and carbon nanomaterials, aiming to explore their properties and expand their potential applications.
Selected Publications
Lakshman Sundar Arumugam, Javier E. Durantini, Jorge Follana-Berná, Frederik Schiller, Ane Etxebarria, Lorenzo Forzanini, Sara Barja, Ángela Sastre-Santos and Sixto Giménez. Hybrid Carbon Nitride/Cobalt Phthalocyanine Nanocomposites for Efficient Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation, ACS Applied Energy Materials 2025,
8,
5056–5066
Chanjuan Zhang, Jorge Follana-Berná, Diana Dragoe, Zakaria Halime, Philipp Gotico, Ángela Sastre-Santos and Ally Aukauloo. Cobalt Tetracationic 3,4-pyridinoporphyrazine for Direct CO2 to Methanol Conversion Escaping the CO Intermediate Pathway, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024,
63,
e202411967
Joaquín Bonelli, Enrique Ortega-Forte, Gloria Vigueras, Jorge Follana-Berná, Pezhman Ashoo, Diego Abad-Montero, Neus Isidro, Marta López-Corrales, Adrián Hernández, Javier Ortiz, Eduardo Izquierdo-García, Manel Bosch, Josep Rocas, Ángela Sastre-Santos, José Ruiz and Vicente Marchán. A Nanoencapsulated Ir(III)-Phthalocyanine Conjugate as a Promising Photodynamic Therapy Anticancer Agent, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2024,
16,
38916-38930
Jorge Follana-Berná, Andrew Dawson, Ram R. Kaswan, Sairaman Seetharaman, Paul A. Karr, Ángela Sastre-Santos and Francis D’Souza. π-Extended Pyrazinepyrene-Fused Zinc Phthalocyanines: Synthesis and Excited-State Charge Separation Involving Coordinated C60, Journal of Physical Chemistry A 2023,
127,
6191–6203
Desiré Molina, Jorge Follana-Berná and Ángela Sastre-Santos. Phthalocyanines, Porphyrins and Other Porphyrinoids as Components of Perovskite Solar Cells, Journal of Materials Chemistry C 2023,
11,
7885-7919
Peng Huang, Adrián Hernández, Samrana Kazim, Jorge Follana-Berná, Javier Ortiz, Luis Lezama, Ángela Sastre-Santos and Shahzada Ahmad. Asymmetrically Substituted Phthalocyanines as Dopant-Free Hole Selective Layers for Reliability in Perovskite Solar Cells, ACS Applied Energy Materials 2021,
4,
10124-10135
Alfonsina Abat Amelenan Torimtubun, Jorge Follana-Berná, José G. Sánchez, Josep Pallarès, Ángela Sastre-Santos and Lluis F. Marsal. Fluorinated Zinc and Copper Phthalocyanines as Efficient Third Components in Ternary Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells, ACS Applied Energy Materials 2021,
4,
5201-5211
Jorge Follana-Berná, Rajaa Farran, Winfried Leibl, Annamaria Quaranta, Ángela Sastre-Santos and Ally Aukauloo. Phthalocyanine as Bioinspired Model for Chlorophyll f Containing Photosystem II Pushing Photosynthesis in the Far‐Red, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021,
60,
12284-12288
Sairaman Seetharaman, Jorge Follana-Berná, Luis Martín-Gomis, Georgios Charalambidis, Adelais Trapali, Paul A. Karr, Athanassios G. Coutsolelos, Fernando Fernández-Lázaro, Ángela Sastre-Santos and Francis D’Souza. Sequential, Ultrafast Energy Transfer and Electron Transfer in a Fused Zinc Phthalocyanine‐Free‐base Porphyrin‐C60 Supramolecular Triad, CHEMPHYSCHEM 2019,
20,
163-172
Jorge Follana-Berná, Sairaman Seetharaman,Luis Martín-Gomis, Georgios Charalambidis, Adelais Trapali, Paul A. Karr, Athanassios G. Coutsolelos, Fernando Fernández-Lázaro, Francis D’Souza and Ángela Sastre-Santos. Supramolecular complex of a fused zinc phthalocyanine–zinc porphyrin dyad assembled by two imidazole-C60 units: ultrafast photoevents, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2018,
20,
7798-7807
Laura Caliò, Jorge Follana-Berná, Samrana Kazim, Morten Madsen, Horst-Günter Rubahn, Ángela Sastre-Santos and Shahzada Ahmad. Cu(II) and Zn(II) based phthalocyanines as hole selective layers for perovskite solar cells , Sustainable Energy & Fuels 2017,
1,
2071-2077
Jorge Follana-Berná, Damla Inan, Vicente M. Blas-Ferrando, Natalie Gorczak, Javier Ortiz, Félix Manjón, Fernando Fernández-Lázaro, Ferdinand C. Grozema, and Ángela Sastre-Santos. Synthesis and Photophysical Properties of Conjugated and Nonconjugated Phthalocyanine–Perylenediimide Systems, Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2016,
120,
26508-26513
Vicente M. Blas-Ferrando, Javier Ortiz, Jorge Follana-Berná, Fernando Fernández-Lázaro, Antonio Campos, Marta Mas-Torrent and Ángela Sastre-Santos. Large-Size Star-Shaped Conjugated (Fused) Triphthalocyaninehexaazatriphenylene, Organic Letters 2016,
8,
1466-1469
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