226 citations
Counting papers with at most 25 authors, so collaboration author lists do not stand in for the people here.
- Bologna Research AreaIT10 papers
- Sapienza University of RomeIT5 papers
- University of BolognaIT5 papers
- University of Modena and Reggio EmiliaIT5 papers
- National Research CouncilLK4 papers
- Institute for Complex SystemsIT3 papers
- Institute for Microelectronics and MicrosystemsIT3 papers
- Istituto NanoscienzeIT3 papers
- Italian Institute of TechnologyIT3 papers
- University of FerraraIT3 papers
- University of Rome Tor VergataIT3 papers
- Center for Advancing Electronics DresdenDE2 papers
27 papers
Visible-Light Assisted Covalent Surface Functionalization of Reduced Graphene Oxide Nanosheets with Arylazo Sulfones
Lorenzo Lombardi, Alessandro Kovtun, Sebastiano Mantovani +6
We present an environmentally benign methodology for the covalent functionalization (arylation) of reduced graphene oxide (rGO) nanosheets with arylazo sulfones. A variety of tagge…
Bose-Einstein condensation of a two-magnon bound state in a spin-one triangular lattice
Jieming Sheng, Jia-Wei Mei, Le Wang +31
In ordered magnets, the elementary excitations are spin waves (magnons), which obey Bose-Einstein statistics. Similarly to Cooper pairs in superconductors, magnons can be paired in…
Circumneutral concentrated ammonium acetate solution as water-in-salt electrolyte
Mohammad Said El Halimi, Federico Poli, Nicola Mancuso +6
The exponentially growing market of electrochemical energy storage devices requires substitution of flammable, volatile, and toxic electrolytes. The use of Water in salt solutions…
Multiscale charge transport in van der Waals thin films: reduced graphene oxide as case study
Alessandro Kovtun, Andrea Candini, Anna Vianelli +9
Large area van der Waals (vdW) thin films are assembled materials consisting of a network of randomly stacked nanosheets. The multi-scale structure and the two-dimensional nature o…
Atomic scale investigation of the volume phase transition in concentrated PNIPAM microgels
M. Zanatta, L. Tavagnacco, E. Buratti +5
Combining elastic incoherent neutron scattering and differential scanning calorimetry, we investigate the occurrence of the volume phase transition (VPT) in very concentrated PNIPA…
Monitoring morphological and chemical properties during silver solid-state dewetting
M. Berni, I. Carrano, A. Kovtun +6
Solid-state dewetting phenomenon in silver thin films offers a straightforward method to obtain structures having controlled shape or size -this latter in principle spanning severa…
Protein-like dynamical transition of hydrated polymer chains
L. Tavagnacco, M. Zanatta, E. Buratti +8
Combining elastic incoherent neutron scattering experiments at different resolutions with molecular dynamics simulations, we report the observation of a protein-like dynamical tran…
Mathematical modelling of drug delivery from pH-responsive nanocontainers
G. Pontrelli, G. Toniolo, S. McGinty +3
Drug delivery systems represent a promising strategy to treat cancer and to overcome the side effects of chemotherapy. In particular, polymeric nanocontainers have attracted major…
Controlling the Functional Properties of Oligothiophene Crystalline Nano/Micro-Fibers via Tailoring of the Self-Assembling Molecular Precursors
Francesca Di Maria, Mattia Zangoli, Massimo Gazzano +13
Oligothiophenes are pi-conjugated semiconducting and fluorescent molecules whose self-assembly properties are widely investigated for application in organic electronics, optoelectr…
Structure-dependent electrical properties of graphene nanoribbon devices with graphene electrodes
Leonardo Martini, Zongping Chen, Neeraj Mishra +9
Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) are a novel and intriguing class of materials in the field of nanoelectronics, since their properties, solely defined by their width and edge type, are…
Linear conduction in N-type organic field effect transistors with nanometric channel lengths and graphene as electrodes
F. Chianese, A. Candini, M. Affronte +3
In this work we test graphene electrodes in nano-metric channel n-type Organic Field EffectTransistors (OFETs) based on thermally evaporated thin films of perylene-3,4,9,10-tetraca…
Molecular mechanisms driving the microgels behaviour: a Raman spectroscopy and Dynamic Light Scattering study
Valentina Nigro, Francesca Ripanti, Roberta Angelini +5
Responsive microgels based on poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) exhibit peculiar behaviours due to the competition between the hydrophilic and hydrophobic interactions of the co…
11,11,12,12-tetracyanonaphtho-2,6-quinodimethane in Contact with Ferromagnetic Electrodes for Organic Spintronics
Shengwei Shi, Zhengyi Sun, Xianjie Liu +8
Spinterface engineering has shown quite important roles in organic spintronics as it can improve spin injection or extraction. In this study, 11,11,12,12-tetracyanonaptho-2,6-quino…
The X-Gamma Imaging Spectrometer (XGIS) onboard THESEUS
R. Campana, F. Fuschino, C. Labanti +20
A compact and modular X and gamma-ray imaging spectrometer (XGIS) has been designed as one of the instruments foreseen on-board the THESEUS mission proposed in response to the ESA…
Experimental evidence of replica symmetry breaking in random lasers
N. Ghofraniha, I. Viola, F. Di Maria +4
Spin-glass theory is one of the leading paradigms of complex physics and describes condensed matter, neural networks and biological systems, ultracold atoms, random photonics, and…
Kelvin probe force microscopy of metallic surfaces used in Casimir force measurements
R. O. Behunin, D. A. R. Dalvit, R. S. Decca +9
Kelvin probe force microscopy at normal pressure was performed by two different groups on the same Au-coated planar sample used to measure the Casimir interaction in a sphere-plane…
CITIUS: an IR-XUV light source for fundamental and applied ultrafast science
C. Grazioli, C. Callegari, A. Ciavardini +15
We present the main features of CITIUS, a new light source for ultrafast science, generating tunable, intense, femtosecond pulses in the spectral range from IR to XUV. The XUV puls…
Turbostratic graphitic microstructures: electronically decoupled multilayer graphene devices with robust high charge carrier mobility
Yenny R. Hernandez, Sebastian Schweitzer, June-Seo Kim +9
Carbon nanomaterials continue to amaze scientists due to their exceptional physical properties. Recently there have been theoretical predictions and first reports on graphene multi…
Planck-LFI: Design and Performance of the 4 Kelvin Reference Load Unit
Luca Valenziano, Francesco Cuttaia, Adriano De Rosa +35
The LFI radiometers use a pseudo-correlation design where the signal from the sky is continuously compared with a stable reference signal, provided by a cryogenic reference load sy…
G-quartet biomolecular nanowires
A. Calzolari, R. Di Felice, E. Molinari +1
We present a first-principle investigation of quadruple helix nanowires, consisting of stacked planar hydrogen-bonded guanine tetramers. Our results show that long wires form and a…
Ab-initio study of model guanine assemblies: The role of pi-pi coupling and band transport
R. Di Felice, A. Calzolari, E. Molinari +1
Several assemblies of guanine molecules are investigated by means of first-principle calculations. Such structures include stacked and hydrogen-bonded dimers, as well as vertical c…
Self-assembled guanine ribbons as wide-bandgap semiconductors
A. Calzolari, R. Di Felice, E. Molinari +1
We present a first principle study about the stability and the electronic properties of a new biomolecular solid-state material, obtained by the self-assembling of guanine (G) mole…
All-sky astrophysical component separation with Fast Independent Component Analysis (FastICA)
D. Maino, A. Farusi, C. Baccigalupi +7
We present a new, fast, algorithm for the separation of astrophysical components superposed in maps of the sky, based on the fast Independent Component Analysis technique (FastICA)…
In-flight main beam reconstruction for Planck-LFI
C. Burigana, P. Natoli, N. Vittorio +2
In-flight measurement of the antenna main beams of the Planck instruments is a crucial input to the data analysis pipeline. We study the main beam reconstruction achievable through…