Researcher – Head of Division

Flavio Leandro de Souza

Head of the Synthesis Division at LNNano / CNPEM. He graduated with a Physics BSC from the Federal University of São Carlos (2001) and a PhD in Material Sciences and Engineering from the Federal University of São Carlos in 2006. In February 2010, he joined the Center for Natural and Human Sciences at the Federal University of ABC. Between 2016 and 2018, he was a Visiting Professor in the Materials Department at the University of California, Davis. Currently, his interest in research includes synthesis and characterization of materials for application in photoelectrochemical devices and lithium-ion batteries, and electrical characterization by impedance spectroscopy of ceramic materials for different applications in the energy area. He serves as a reviewer for several development agencies (national and international) and indexed international journals. He is a senior associate editor of the journal Materials Letters (Elsevier), and was guest editor on special topics in energy for Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells and Frontiers in Chemistry . He was also the editor of two books on Renewable Energy published by Springer-Nature. Since 2013 he is a CNPq research productivity fellow.

  • Muche, D.N.F.; Carminati, S. A.; Nogueira, A. F.; Souza, Flavio L. “Engineering interfacial modification on nanocrystalline hematite photoanode: A closer look into the efficiency parameters”, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 208: 110377, 2020.
  • Ferrari, V. C.; Alvim, R. S.; de Queiroz, T. B.; Dalpian, G. M.; Souza, Flavio L. “Controlling the Activation Energy for single-ion diffusion through a hybrid polyelectrolyte matrix by manipulating the central coordinate semimetal atom”, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 10(24): 7684-7689, 2020.
  • Nogueira, A. E.; Soares, M. R. S.; Junior, J. B. S.; Ramirez, C. A.; Souza, Flavio L.; Leite, E. R. “Discovering a selective semimetal element to increase hematite photoanode charge separation efficiency”. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 7(28): 16992-16998, 2019