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  • 2013 - Gregori Aminoff Prize, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for developing experimental and theoretical methods to study electron density in crystals, and using them to determine molecular and crystalline properties

Overview

Carlo Gatti is affiliated with the National Research Council (CNR) in Italy. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Materials Science, Chemistry, and Engineering, with significant emphasis on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Inorganic Chemistry. Their work involves both fundamental and applied aspects of these disciplines.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics related to chalcogenide semiconductor thin films, phase-change materials and chalcogenides, advanced chemical physics studies, crystallography and molecular interactions, inorganic chemistry and materials, solid-state spectroscopy and crystallography, and radioactive element chemistry and processing.

Frequent coauthors in Carlo Gatti's publications include:

  • Yann Danten
  • Christine Frayret
  • Jean-Yves Raty
  • Matthias Wuttig
  • Carl-Friedrich Schön

Publication venues where Carlo Gatti's work regularly appears are:

  • Molecules
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
  • ACS Nano
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Their recent papers include:

  • Revisiting the Nature of Chemical Bonding in Chalcogenides to Explain and Design their Properties, 2022, Advanced Materials
  • Halide Perovskites: Advanced Photovoltaic Materials Empowered by a Unique Bonding Mechanism, 2021, Advanced Functional Materials
  • How to Identify Lone Pairs, Van der Waals Gaps, and Metavalent Bonding Using Charge and Pair Density Methods: From Elemental Chalcogens to Lead Chalcogenides and Phase-Change Materials, 2021, physica status solidi (RRL) - Rapid Research Letters
  • Metavalent or Hypervalent Bonding: Is There a Chance for Reconciliation?, 2023, Advanced Science
  • Expression and interactions of stereochemically active lone pairs and their relation to structural distortions and thermal conductivity, 2020, IUCrJ

Carlo Gatti has been recognized for their contributions with the Gregori Aminoff Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 2013. The award citation noted their development of experimental and theoretical methods to study electron density in crystals and the use of these methods to determine molecular and crystalline properties.

Best Publications

  • Ionic high-pressure form of elemental boron

    Artem R. Oganov;Artem R. Oganov;Artem R. Oganov;Jiuhua Chen;Jiuhua Chen;Carlo Gatti;Yanzhang Ma

  • Crystal field effects on the topological properties of the electron density in molecular crystals: The case of urea

    C. Gatti;V. R. Saunders;C. Roetti

  • Chemical bonding in crystals: new directions

    Carlo Gatti

  • The Impact of Nanostructuring on the Thermal Conductivity of Thermoelectric CoSb3

    Muhammet S. Toprak;Christian Stiewe;Dieter Platzek;Simon Williams

  • A stable compound of helium and sodium at high pressure

    Xiao Dong;Artem R. Oganov;Alexander F. Goncharov;Elissaios Stavrou;Elissaios Stavrou

  • Bond paths as privileged exchange channels.

    A. Martín Pendás;Evelio Francisco;Miguel A. Blanco;Carlo Gatti

  • A Quantum‐Mechanical Map for Bonding and Properties in Solids

    Jean‐Yves Raty;Mathias Schumacher;Pavlo Golub;Volker L. Deringer

  • Non-covalent interaction via the reduced density gradient: Independent atom model vs experimental multipolar electron densities

    Gabriele Saleh;Gabriele Saleh;Carlo Gatti;Leonardo Lo Presti;Leonardo Lo Presti

  • Properties of atoms in molecules: Dipole moments and transferability of properties

    R. F. W. Bader;A. Larouche;C. Gatti;M. T. Carroll

  • A Green's function for the density

    Richard F.W. Bader;Carlo Gatti

  • Revealing Non-covalent Interactions in Molecular Crystals through Their Experimental Electron Densities

    Gabriele Saleh;Gabriele Saleh;Carlo Gatti;Leonardo Lo Presti;Leonardo Lo Presti;Julia Contreras‐García

  • Evolutionary Crystal Structure Prediction as a Method for the Discovery of Minerals and Materials

    Artem R. Oganov;Yanming Ma;Andriy O. Lyakhov;Mario Valle

  • Direct Space Representation of the Metallic Bond

    Bernard Silvi;Carlo Gatti

  • Evaluation of net atomic charges and atomic and molecular electrostatic moments through topological analysis of the experimental charge density

    Anatoliy Volkov;Carlo Gatti;Yuriy Abramov;Philip Coppens

  • On the presence of non-nuclear attractors in the charge distributions of Li and Na clusters

    W.L. Cao;C. Gatti;P.J. MacDougall;R.F.W. Bader

  • On the origin of topological differences between experimental and theoretical crystal charge densities

    Anatoliy Volkov;Yuriy Abramov;Philip Coppens;Carlo Gatti

  • Charge density topological study of bonding in lithium clusters

    Carlo Gatti;Piercarlo Fantucci;Gianfranco Pacchioni

  • Interstitial Zn Atoms Do the Trick in Thermoelectric Zinc Antimonide, Zn4Sb3: A Combined Maximum Entropy Method X-ray Electron Density and Ab Initio Electronic Structure Study

    Fausto Cargnoni;Eiji Nishibori;Philippe Rabiller;Luca Bertini

  • Chemical information from the source function.

    Carlo Gatti;Fausto Cargnoni;Luca Bertini

  • Fundamental properties and nature of CH..O interactions in crystals on the basis of experimental and theoretical charge densities. The case of 3,4-bis(dimethylamino)-3-cyclobutene-1,2-dione (DMACB) crystal

    Carlo Gatti;Emanuela May;Riccardo Destro;Fausto Cargnoni

Frequent Co-Authors

Bo B. Iversen
Bo B. Iversen Aarhus University
Artem R. Oganov
Artem R. Oganov Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
Muhammet S. Toprak
Muhammet S. Toprak Royal Institute of Technology
Mamoun Muhammed
Mamoun Muhammed Royal Institute of Technology
Yanming Ma
Yanming Ma Jilin University
Matthias Wuttig
Matthias Wuttig RWTH Aachen University
Anders Palmqvist
Anders Palmqvist Chalmers University of Technology
Elena Levi
Elena Levi Bar-Ilan University
Doron Aurbach
Doron Aurbach Bar-Ilan University
Vladimir L. Solozhenko
Vladimir L. Solozhenko Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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