B.S., University of Milan (Italy), 1995; M.S., University of Milan (Italy), 1998; Ph.D., École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland), 2003

Energy and Sustainability/Materials Chemistry/Multiscale Theory and Simulation/Physical Chemistry Surface and Interfacial Chemistry/Theoretical Chemistry/Theory and Modeling

My research at Georgia Tech aims at investigating the physics and chemistry of complex materials systems with applications in the energy and microelectronics industries. This research relies on the extensive use of computer simulations, and it involves collaborations with national and international experimental labs. Current research projects focus on graphene derivatives, materials for the solide oxide fuel cell technology, and DNA.

Room-temperature metastability of multilayer graphene oxide films. Kim, S.; Zhou, S.; Hu, Y.; Acik, M.; Chabal, Y. J.; Berger, C.; de Heer, W.; Bongiorno, A.; Riedo, E. Nature Mater.. 2012, 11, 544-549.

Anomalous pseudocapacitive behavior of a aanostructured, mixed-valent manganese oxide film for electrical energy storage. Song, M.-K.; Cheng, S.; Chen, H.; Qin, W.; Nam, K.-W.; Xu, S.; Yang, X.-Q.; Bongiorno, A.; Lee, J.; Bai, J.; Tyson, T. A.; Cho, J.; Liu, M. Nano Lett.. 2012, 12, 3483-3490.

Thermo-chemical metastability of multilayer epitaxial graphene oxide: Experiments and density functional theory calculations. Zhou, S.; Kim, S.; Hu, Y.; Berger, C.; de Heer, W.; Riedo, E.; Bongiorno, A. MRS Proceedings.. 2012, 1451, 39.

Boundary conditions in periodic density functional calculations of insulating materials. Chen, S.; Bongiorno, A. Phys. Rev. B.. 2011, 83, 165125.

First-principles study of hydrogen permeation in palladium-gold alloys. Xu, S.; Sood, P.; Liu, M. L.; Bongiorno, A. Appl. Phys. Lett.. 2011, 99, 181901.

Thermodynamic stability limits of simple monoatomic materials. Gallington, L. C.; Bongiorno, A. J. Chem. Phys.. 2010, 132, 174707.

Energy Landscape of an Electron Hole in Hydrated DNA. Bongiorno, A. J. Phys. Chem. B.. 2008, 112, 13945-13950.

Oligonucleotide-stabilized Ag nanocluster fluorophores. Richards, C. I.; Choi, S.; Hsiang, J.-C.; Antoku, Y.; Vosch, T.; Bongiorno, A.; Tzeng, Y.-L.; Dickson, R. M. J. Am. Chem. Soc.. 2008, 130, 5038-5039.

Steric effects on water accessability control sequence-selectivity of radical cation reactions in DNA. Cleveland, C. L.; Barnett, R. N.; Bongiorno, A.; Joseph, J.; Liu, C.; Schuster, G. B.; Landman, U. J. Am. Chem. Soc.. 2007, 129, 8408-8409.