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Roberta Sessoli

Roberta Sessoli

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2025
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Chemistry
Italy
2025

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Best Female Scientists

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Chemistry

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Citations
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World Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Italy Leader Award
  • 2019 - Centenary Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
  • 2018 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Roberta Sessoli is affiliated with the University of Florence in Italy and specializes in Materials Science, with a research focus spanning multiple related subfields. Their work covers Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Spectroscopy.

The scientist's research topics include Crystallization and Solubility Studies, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, Magnetism in coordination complexes, Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures, Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications, Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes, and Electron Spin Resonance Studies.

Recent publications by Roberta Sessoli illustrate a strong presence in high-impact journals. Notable papers include:

  • A Complete Ab Initio View of Orbach and Raman Spin-Lattice Relaxation in a Dysprosium Coordination Compound, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Quantum-coherent nanoscience, 2021, Nature Nanotechnology
  • Magnetic Anisotropy Trends along a Full 4f-Series: The fn+7 Effect, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Chirality-Induced Spin Selectivity: An Enabling Technology for Quantum Applications, 2023, Advanced Materials
  • Quantum dynamics of a single molecule magnet on superconducting Pb(111), 2020, Nature Materials

Frequent collaborators in their research include Lorenzo Sorace, Federico Totti, Matteo Mannini, Matteo Briganti, and Fabio Santanni. This network of coauthors reflects sustained collaborative efforts across several projects.

The scientist has published extensively in venues most relevant to their research, including The Cambridge Structural Database, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Chemical Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society, and Nature Communications.

Roberta Sessoli has received recognition through various awards, notably the Centenary Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) in 2019 and membership in the Academia Europaea since 2018.

Best Publications

  • Magnetic bistability in a metal-ion cluster

    R. Sessoli;D. Gatteschi;D. Gatteschi;A. Caneschi;M. A. Novak

  • Quantum Tunneling of Magnetization and Related Phenomena in Molecular Materials

    Dante Gatteschi;Roberta Sessoli

  • High-spin molecules: [Mn12O12(O2CR)16(H2O)4]

    Roberta Sessoli;Hui Lien Tsai;Ann R. Schake;Sheyi Wang

  • Macroscopic quantum tunnelling of magnetization in a single crystal of nanomagnets

    L. Thomas;F. Lionti;R. Ballou;D. Gatteschi

  • Quantum Phase Interference and Parity Effects in Magnetic Molecular Clusters

    W. Wernsdorfer;Roberta Sessoli

  • Single-Molecule Magnets

    George Christou;Dante Gatteschi;David N. Hendrickson;Roberta Sessoli

  • Strategies towards single molecule magnets based on lanthanide ions

    Roberta Sessoli;Annie K. Powell

  • Cobalt(II)‐Nitronyl Nitroxide Chains as Molecular Magnetic Nanowires

    Andrea Caneschi;Dante Gatteschi;Nikolia Lalioti;Claudio Sangregorio

  • Magnetic memory of a single-molecule quantum magnet wired to a gold surface.

    Matteo Mannini;Francesco Pineider;Philippe Sainctavit;Chiara Danieli

  • Alternating current susceptibility, high field magnetization, and millimeter band EPR evidence for a ground S = 10 state in [Mn12O12(Ch3COO)16(H2O)4].2CH3COOH.4H2O

    Andrea Caneschi;Dante Gatteschi;Roberta Sessoli;Anne Laure Barra

  • Toward molecular magnets: The metal-radical approach

    Andrea Caneschi;Dante Gatteschi;Roberta Sessoli;Paul Rey

  • Large clusters of metal ions: The transition from molecular to bulk magnets

    Dante Gatteschi;Andrea Caneschi;Luca Pardi;Roberta Sessoli

  • QUANTUM TUNNELING OF THE MAGNETIZATION IN AN IRON CLUSTER NANOMAGNET

    C. Sangregorio;C. Sangregorio;T. Ohm;C. Paulsen;R. Sessoli

  • Dysprosium triangles showing single-molecule magnet behavior of thermally excited spin states

    Jinkui Tang;Ian Hewitt;N. T. Madhu;Guillaume Chastanet

  • Cobalt(II)-Nitronyl Nitroxide Chains as Molecular Magnetic Nanowires The financial support of Italian MURST and CNR and of Brazilian CNPq and FUJB is acknowledged. The support from the European Community through the TMR program 3MD (contract no ERB4061PL97-0197) is also acknowledged.

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  • Quantum tunnelling of the magnetization in a monolayer of oriented single-molecule magnets

    Matteo Mannini;Francesco Pineider;Chiara Danieli;Federico Totti

  • Magnetic Anisotropy in a Dysprosium/DOTA Single‐Molecule Magnet: Beyond Simple Magneto‐Structural Correlations

    Giuseppe Cucinotta;Mauro Perfetti;Javier Luzon;Mael Etienne

  • A Family of Rare-Earth-Based Single Chain Magnets: Playing with Anisotropy

    Kevin Bernot;Lapo Bogani;Andrea Caneschi;Dante Gatteschi

  • Superparamagnetic-like behavior in an octanuclear iron cluster

    A.-L. Barra;P. Debrunner;D. Gatteschi;Ch. E. Schulz

  • Single-Molecule Magnet Behavior of a Tetranuclear Iron(III) Complex. The Origin of Slow Magnetic Relaxation in Iron(III) Clusters

    A. L. Barra;A. Caneschi;Andrea Cornia;F. Fabrizi De Biani

  • Single-Molecule Magnets

    Daniel Ruiz-molina;George Christou;David N. Hendrickson

Frequent Co-Authors

Dante Gatteschi
Dante Gatteschi University of Florence
Andrea Caneschi
Andrea Caneschi University of Florence
Andrea Cornia
Andrea Cornia University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Lorenzo Sorace
Lorenzo Sorace University of Florence
Wolfgang Wernsdorfer
Wolfgang Wernsdorfer Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Kevin Bernot
Kevin Bernot University of Rennes
Paul Rey
Paul Rey CEA Grenoble
Anne-Laure Barra
Anne-Laure Barra Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Claudio Sangregorio
Claudio Sangregorio National Research Council (CNR)
Alessandro Vindigni
Alessandro Vindigni Washington University in St. Louis

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