Juan Pedro Mora Fuentes

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Chair of Organic Chemistry II

Visiting researchers

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Nikolaus-Fiebiger-Straße 10 (Lieferadresse: Erwin-Rommel-Straße 35)91058 Erlangen
Room: 02.132, Floor: 02

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Ph.D. Thesis

  • New Materials for Emerging Photovoltaic and Electronic Technologies

Research Area

  • Synthesis of New Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Chiral Molecules
  • Supramolecular studies of helical twisted Nanographenes with fullerenes

 

Education and Research Experience

 

2024-2026 Postdoctoral researcher, Xunta de Galicia
at the Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy of the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany).
Prof. Dr. Andreas Hirsch
2022-2024Post-doctoral position 
CiQUS / Department Organic Chemistry, University of Santiago de Compostela (USC)/ Spain
Prof. Dr. Diego Peña
2020-2022Post-doctoral position
Faculty of Science/ Department Organic Chemistry, University of Granada/ Spain
Prof. Dr. Araceli G. Campaña
2015 – 2019PhD in Organic Chemistry
CIC nanoGUNE / University of Basque Country (UPV/EHU) / POLYMAT, Spain
Prof. Dr. Aurelio Mateo-Alonso
2015Master
Faculty of Science/ Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Malaga (UMA)/ Spain
2009-2014Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry.
University of Malaga (UMA)/ Spain

  

Publications

2025

  • J. P. Mora-Fuentes,D. Villar-Castro, J. F. Barbosa de Bessa, D. Aranda, D. Pérez, A. Hirsch,M. E. Pérez-Ojeda, D. Peña:
    Tunning the Twist by Molecular Design: A New Strategy for Hexabenzocoronene-Containing Helical Twistacene
    In preparation (2025)
  • J. P. Mora-Fuentes, J. L. Páez, M. Reale, C. M. Cruz, A. Sciortino, M. Cannas, F. Messina, V. Blanco, M. E. Pérez-Ojeda, A. G. Campaña:
    Saddle-, Helix- and hoop-type curvatures in a nanographene-embedded chiral macrocycle
    In preparation (2025)

2023

  • J. P. Mora-Fuentes, M. D. Codesal, M. Reale, C. M. Cruz, V. G. Jiménez, A. Sciortino, M. Cannas, F. Messina, V. Blanco, A. G. Campaña:
    Heptagon-Containing Nanographene Embedded into [10]Cycloparaphenylene
    Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2023, 62, e202301356
    DOI: 10.1002/anie.202301356

2022

  • J. Malinčík, S. Gaikwad, J. P. Mora-Fuentes, M.-A. Boillat, A. Prescimone, D. Häussinger, A. G. Campaña, T. Šolomek:
    Circularly Polarized Luminescence in a Möbius Helicene Carbon Nanohoop
    Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2022, 61, e202208591
    DOI: 10.1002/anie.202208591

2021

  • S. Míguez-Lago, J. P. Mora-Fuentes, C. M. Cruz and A. G. Campaña
    Helicenes. Synthesis, Properties and Applications. (Book chapter, (eds J. Crassous, I.G. Stará and I. Starý).)
    10. Helical Nanographenes: Synthetic and Chiroptical Achievements Wiley-VCH APG, 2021.
    DOI: 10.1002/9783527829415.ch9

2020

  • J. P. Mora-Fuentes, I. Papadopolos, D. Thiel, R. Álvarez-Boto, D. Corizo-Lacalle, T. Clark, M. Melle-Franco, D. M. Guldi, A. Mateo-Alonso:
    Singlet Fission in Pyrene-Fused Azaacene Dimers (Hot paper)
    Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 1113-1117
    DOI: 10.1002/anie.201911529
  • A. Menon, I. Papadopoulos, C. Harreiß, J. P. Mora-Fuentes, D. Cortizo-Lacalle, A. Mateo-Alonso, E. Spiecker, D. M. Guldi:
    Collecting up to 115% of Singlet-Fission 2 Products by Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
    DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c03668
  • J. I. Martínez, J. P. Mora-Fuentes, M. Carini, A. Saeki, M. Melle-Franco, A. Mateo-Alonso:
    Dibenzoanthradiquinone Building Blocks for the Synthesis of Nitrogenated Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
    Org. Lett. 2020, 22, 4737–4741
    DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.0c01536

2019

  • J. P. Mora-Fuentes, A. Riaño, D. Cortizo-Lacalle, A. Saeki, M. Melle-Franco, A. Mateo-Alonso
    Giant Star-shaped Nitrogen-doped Nanographenes (Hot paper)
    Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 131, 562-566
    DOI: 10.1002/anie.201811015
  • J. P. Mora-Fuentes, D. Cortizo-Lacalle, S. Collavini, K. Strutyński, W. R. Tress, M. Saliba, S. M. Zakeeruddin, I. Kosta, M. Melle-Franco, M. Grätzel, J. L. Delgado, A. Mateo-Alonso:
    A Partially-planarised Hole-transporting Quart-p-phenylene for Perovskite Solar Cells
    J. Mat. Chem. C. 2019, 7, 4332-4335
    DOI: 10.1039/C9TC01076A)

2018

  • D. Cortizo-Lacalle, J. P. Mora-Fuentes, K. Strutyński, A. Saeki, M. Melle-Franco, A. Mateo-Alonso:
    Monodisperse N-doped Graphene Nanoribbons Reaching 7.7 nm in Length
    Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 703-708
    DOI: 10.1002/anie.201710467)

Peer Recognition

  • 2025 – Seal of Excellence
    Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (score: 93.2/100, FAU, Supervisors: Prof. Hirsch & Prof. Brabec)
  • 2024 – Member of the thesis evaluation committee
    PhD. Candidate: Federico Villalobos Romero “IN-SOLUTION AND ON-SURFACE SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF CURVED GRAPHENIC NANOSTRUCTURES” (24/10/2024)  University of Granada (UGR)
    Supervisors : Prof. Juan Manuel Cuerva Carvajal and Prof. Carlos Sánchez Sánchez.
  • 2024 – Awarded a grant by the Emerging Talents Initiative (ETI) in recognition of research excellence and potential
    Name of the project: ¨New Materials for Emerging Photovoltaic and Electronic Technologies¨
    Funding institution: Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU)
    Head researcher: Juan Pedro Mora Fuentes
    Institution where project takes place: Group of Prof. Hirsch at FAU
    Start and end date: 01/07/2024-01/07/2025
    Total amount: 15000€
  • 2023 – Postdoctoral research fellowship awarded by the Xunta de Galicia (Government of Galicia, Spain). (1/01/2024-31/12/2026)
  • 2021 – Postdoctoral research fellowship (Margarita Salas)