Andressa Vidal Muller

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Chemistry Division
Bldg. 555
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 520-3388
avidalmul@bnl.gov

Pronouns: she, her, hers

Research | Education | Appointments | Publications | Awards

Research Activities

Artificial Photosynthesis Group

Education

• Ph.D., Nanoscience and Advanced Materials, Prof. André S. Polo group,  Universidade Federal do ABC, Santo André - SP, Brazil, 2021
• M.Sc., Nanoscience and Advanced Materials, Prof. André S. Polo group, Universidade Federal do ABC, Santo André - SP, Brazil, 2017
• B.Sc., Chemistry, Universidade Federal do ABC, Santo André - SP, Brazil, 2015
• B.Sc., Science and Technology, Universidade Federal do ABC, Santo André - SP, Brazil, 2015

Professional Appointments

Research Associate, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 2021 - present

Visiting Ph.D. Student, Prof. Gerald J. Meyer Group, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill - NC, United States, 2019

Selected Publications

• Müller A, Wierzba W, Pastorelli M, Polo A (2021) Interfacial Electron Transfer in Dye-Sensitized TiO2 Devices for Solar Energy Conversion. Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society. doi: 10.21577/0103-5053.20210083
• Müller AV, de Oliveira KT, Meyer GJ, Polo AS (2019) Inhibiting Charge Recombination in cis-Ru(NCS)2 Diimine Sensitizers with Aromatic Substituents. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 11:43223–43234. doi: 10.1021/acsami.9b15448
• Müller AV, Polo AS (2018) Mechanistic Insights into the Stepwise Assembly of Ruthenium(II) Tris-heteroleptic Compounds. Inorganic Chemistry 57:13829–13839. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b02337
• De Souza AAN, Silva NS, Müller AV, Polo AS, Brocksom TJ, de Oliveira KT (2018) Porphyrins as Photoredox Catalysts in Csp2–H Arylations: Batch and Continuous Flow Approaches. The Journal of Organic Chemistry 83:15077–15086. doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.8b02355
• Sampaio RN, Müller AV, Polo AS, Meyer GJ (2017) Correlation Between Charge Recombination and Lateral Hole-Hopping Kinetics in a Series of cis-Ru(phen′)(dcb)(NCS)2 Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 9:33446–33454. doi: 10.1021/acsami.7b01542
• Müller AV, Ramos LD, Frin KPM, de Oliveira KT, Polo AS (2016) A high efficiency ruthenium(ii) tris-heteroleptic dye containing 4,7-dicarbazole-1,10-phenanthroline for nanocrystalline solar cells. RSC Advances 6:46487–46494. doi: 10.1039/c6ra08666g
• Müller AV, Mendonça PS, Parant S, Duchanois T, Gros PC, Beley M, Polo AS (2015) Effects of Methyl-Substituted Phenanthrolines on the Performance of Ruthenium(II) Dye-Sensitizers. Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society. doi: 10.5935/0103-5053.20150208

Awards & Recognition

Best oral presentation (1^st place), Women in Optics and Photonics 2020 – The Optical Society, 2020

Best poster – Inorganic Photochemistry, 29^th International Conference on Photochemistry, 2019

Graduate Academic Excellence Award, Universidade Federal do ABC, 2018

Lavoisier Prize (Awarded to the best Chemistry graduating student), Regional Council of Chemistry CRQ-IV, 2016