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Cove-edged Chiral Graphene Nanoribbons with Chirality-Dependent Bandgap and Carrier Mobility
K. Liu, W. Zheng, S. Osella +13
Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) have garnered significant interest due to their highly customizable physicochemical properties and potential utility in nanoelectronics. Besides control…
Mixed Fe-Mo carbide prepared by a sonochemical synthesis as highly efficient nitrate reduction electrocatalyst
Jiajun Hu, Silvio Osella, Eduardo Arizono dos Reis +5
Ammonia, a versatile compound that can be used as a fertilizer, chemical or fuel, has since long been produced through the energy-intensive Haber-Bosch process. Recently, the elect…
Unravelling the influence of shell thickness in organic functionalized Cu2O nanoparticles on C2+ products distribution in electrocatalytic CO2 reduction
Jiajun Hu, Silvio Osella, Josep Albero +1
Cu-based electrocatalysts exhibits enormous potential for electrochemical CO2 conversion to added-value products. However, high selectivity, specially towards C2+ products, remains…
Generalized Polarization and time-resolved fluorescence provide evidence for different populations of Laurdan in lipid vesicles
M. Bacalum, M. Radu, S. Osella +2
The solvatochromic dye Laurdan is widely used in sensing the lipid packing of both model and biological membranes. The fluorescence emission maximum shifts from about 440 nm (blue…
2D Layered Heterojunctions for Photoelectrocatalysis
Mengjiao Wang, Michal Langer, Roberto Altieri +3
Two-dimensional (2D) layered nanomaterials heterostructures, arising from the combination of 2D materials with other low-dimensional species, feature large surface area to volume r…
Curved graphene nanoribbons derived from tetrahydropyrene-based polyphenylenes via one-pot K-region oxidation and Scholl cyclization
Sebastian Obermann, Wenhao Zheng, Jason Melidonie +11
Precise synthesis of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) is of great interest to chemists and materials scientists because of their unique opto-electronic properties and potential applicat…
Functional Groups Accessibility and the Origin of Photoluminescence in N/O-containing Bottom-up Carbon Nanodots
P. P. Debes, M. Langer, M. Pagel +5
Chemical functionalization of carbon nanodots (CNDs) offers a valuable opportunity to tailor multifunctionality in these nanocarbons, by engineering the composition of their molecu…
Dual photoisomerization mechanism of azobenzene embedded in a lipid membrane
Silvio Osella, Giovanni Granucci, Maurizio Persico +1
The photoisomerization of chromophores embedded in biological environments is of high importance for biomedical applications, but it is still challenging to define the photoisomeri…
Inverse design for Casimir-Lifshitz force near heterogeneous gapped metal surface
M. Boström, S. Pal, H. R. Gopidi +4
The Casimir-Lifshitz force is calculated between a heterogeneous gapped metal surface and a silica sphere attached to an AFM cantilever tip. We demonstrate that heterogeneous surfa…
Carbon Based Hybrid Nanomaterials: Overview and Challenges Ahead
O. Y. Semchuk, T. Gatti, S. Osella
In recent years, many new materials have been developed and prepared to improve the performance of light-harvesting technologies and to develop new and attractive applications. The…
Experimental Observation of Strong Exciton Effects in Graphene Nanoribbons
Alexander Tries, Silvio Osella, Pengfei Zhang +5
Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with atomically precise width and edge structures are a promising class of nanomaterials for optoelectronics, thanks to their semiconducting nature and…
Role of Metal Centers in Tuning the Electronic Properties of Graphene-Based Conductive Interfaces
Silvio Osella, Małgorzata Kiliszek, Ersan Harputlu +4
A major bottleneck in the fabrication of efficient bio-organic nanoelectronic devices resides in the strong charge recombination that is present at the different interfaces forming…
Environmental Effects on the Charge Transfer Properties of Graphene Quantum Dot Based Interfaces
Silvio Osella, Stefan Knippenberg
Graphene quantum dots (GQD) are interesting materials due to the confined sizes which allow to exploit their optoelectronic properties, especially when they interface with organic…
Combining (Non-) Linear Optical and Fluorescence Analysis of DiD to Enhance Lipid Phase Recognition
Silvio Osella, Florent Di Meo, N. Arul Murugan +4
The widespread interest in phase recognition of lipid membranes has led to the use of different optical techniques to enable differentiation of healthy and not fully functional cel…
Atomistic picture of fluorescent probes with hydrocarbon tails in lipid bilayer membranes: an investigation of selective affinities and fluorescent anisotropies in different environmental phases
S. Knippenberg, G. Fabre, S. Osella +4
By reverting to spectroscopy, changes in the biological environment of a fluorescent probe can be monitored and the presence of various phases of the surrounding lipid bilayer memb…