Wanda Andreoni

Nationality: Italy and Switzerland

EPFL SB-DO
PH L1 500 (Bâtiment PH)
Station 3
1015 Lausanne

Office: PH L1 500
EPFLSBSB-DECPH-SB

Expertise

Computational physics and chemistry ; Materials science ; Physical Chemistry ; Nanoscience

Selected publications

How natural materials remove heavy metals from water: mechanistic insights from molecular dynamics simulations

F. Pietrucci, M. Boero, W. Andreoni
Published in Chemical Science 12, 2979 - 2985 (2021) in

Graph theory meets ab initio molecular dynamics: atomic structures and transformations at the nanoscale

F Pietrucci, W Andreoni
Published in Physical review letters 107, 085504 (2011) in

Thiols and disulfides on the Au (111) surface: the headgroup− gold interaction

H Grönbeck, A Curioni, W Andreoni
Published in JACS 122 , 3839-3842 (2000) in

The Chemistry of Water on Alumina Surfaces: Reaction Dynamics from First Principles

KC Hass, WF Schneider, A Curioni, W Andreoni
Published in Science 282, 265-268 (1998) in

Unconventional bonding of azafullerenes: Theory and experiment

W Andreoni, A Curioni, K Holczer, K Prassides, M Keshavarz-K, ... Journal of the American Chemical Society 118 (45), 11335-11336
Published in JACS 118, 11335-11336 (1996) in

Research

Editorial Activity

Handbook of Materials Modeling
Editors: Andreoni, Wanda and Yip, Sidney, Springer 2020
https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783319469713
The Chemical Physics of Fullerenes 10 (and 5) Years Later
NATO ASI Series E: Applied Sciences, Vol. 316 (Kluwer, 1996) ; Editor: Wanda Andreoni
The Physics of Fullerene-Based and Fullerene-Related Materials
Series on the Physics and Chemistry of Materials with Low Dimensional Structures vol.
23, (Kluwer, 2000) ; Editor: Wanda Andreoni

Patents

'Photovoltaic Device with Band-Stop Filter' (US2013/0312828 A1)
‘Silicon: Hydrogen Photovoltaic Devices, Such As Solar Cells, Having Reduced Light Induced Degradation And Method Of Making Such Device' (US20120216862)









‘Method to improve carrier mobility in High K based CMOS devices and to control threshold
voltage shift' (CH920070008EP1)

‘Method of forming metal/high-k gate stacks with high mobility' (US20080293259)
‘Interface Engineering for Enhanced Electron Mobilities in W/HfO2 Gate Stacks' (US7115959)











‘Optimized Dielectric Materials for CMOS devices' (US7057244)
‘Materials for use in light emitting devices' (GB 2351974B)

Teaching & PhD

Past EPFL PhD Students

Grégoire Gallet, Jaap Kroes