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Tamm Plasmon Resonance Responsiveness to SARS-CoV-2 Virus-Like Particles
Andrea Rossini, Fabio Marangi, Pietro Bertolotti +3
Bioresponsive optical materials that transduce nanoscale biointerface events into measurable spectral signals are of growing interest for sensing and antiviral technologies Here we…
Tamm Plasmon Resonance as Optical Fingerprint of Silver/Bacteria Interaction
Simone Normani, Pietro Bertolotti, Francesco Bisio +8
Incorporation of responsive elements into photonic crystals is an effective strategy for building up active optical components to be used as sensors, actuators and modulators. In t…
The Impact of Tamm Plasmons on Photonic Crystals Technology
Simone Normani, Francesco Federico Carboni, Guglielmo Lanzani +2
This review describes hybrid photonic-plasmonic structures based on periodic structures that have metallic coatings or inserts which make use of the Tamm plasmon for sensing applic…
Azobenzene photoisomerization probes cell membrane nanoviscosity
Arianna Magni, Gaia Bondelli, Giuseppe Maria Paterno +5
The viscosity of cell membranes is a crucial parameter that affects the diffusion of small molecules both across and within the lipidic membrane and that is related to several dise…
Bringing the Interaction of Silver Nanoparticles with Bacteria to Light
Simone Normani, Nicholas Dalla Vedova, Guglielmo Lanzani +2
In the last decades the exploitation of silver nanoparticles in novel antibacterial and detection devices have risen to prominence for their well-known specific interaction with ba…
Bringing Microbiology to Light: Towards all-Optical Electrophysiology in Bacteria
Giuseppe Maria Paternò, Gaia Bondelli, Guglielmo Lanzani
The observation of neuron-like behaviour in bacteria, such as the occurrence of electric spiking and extended bioelectric signalling, points to the role of membrane dynamics in pro…
Calculated optical properties of BTTzR donor molecule and its derivatives
Giuseppe Maria Paternò, Andrea Farina, Francesco Scotognella
In this work, we study the light absorption properties of a novel molecule (BTTzR) and its more extended derivatives, which hold promise as electron-donor material in organic solar…
The Impact of Bacteria Exposure on the Plasmonic Response of Silver Nanostructured Surfaces
Giuseppe M. Paternò, Aaron M. Ross, Silvia M. Pietralunga +8
Silver, especially in the form of nanostructures, is widely employed as an antimicrobial agent in a large range of commercial products. The origin of the biocidal mechanism has bee…
Anisotropic complex refractive indices of atomically thin materials: determination of the optical constants of few-layer black phosphorus
Aaron M. Ross, Giuseppe M. Paternò, Stefano Dal Conte +2
In this work we briefly review the studies of the optical constants of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides and few layer black phosphorus, with particular emphasis to the co…
A Polymer Blend Substrate for Skeletal Muscle Cells Alignment and Photostimulation
V. Vurro, A. D. Scaccabarozzi, F. Lodola +8
Substrate engineering for steering cell growth is a wide and well-established area of research in the field of modern biotechnology. Here we introduce a micromachining technique to…
Optical properties of recent non-fullerene molecular acceptors for bulk heterojunction solar cells
Andrea Farina, Giuseppe M. Paternò, Francesco Scotognella
For many years the faith of organic photovoltaics has been linked to the one of fullerene, since fullerene has been considered the electron-acceptor of choice in bulk heterojunctio…
Electrochromism in Electrolyte-Free and Solution Processed Bragg Stacks
Liliana Moscardi, Giuseppe M. Paternò, Alessandro Chiasera +5
Achieving an active manipulation of colours has huge implications in optoelectronics, as colours engineering can be exploited in a number of applications, ranging from display to l…
Ultrafast photochromism and bacteriochromism in one dimensional hybrid plasmonic photonic structures
Francesco Scotognella, Giuseppe M. Paternò, Ilka Kriegel +8
Hybrid plasmonic photonic structures combine the plasmonic response with the photonic band gap, holding promise for utilization as optical switches and sensors. Here, we demonstrat…
Hybrid 1D Plasmonic/Photonic Crystals are Responsive to Escherichia Coli
Giuseppe Maria Paterno, Liliana Moscardi, Stefano Donini +6
Photonic crystal-based biosensors hold great promise as valid and low-cost devices for real-time monitoring of a variety of biotargets. Given the high processability and easiness o…
Pump-Push-Probe for Ultrafast All-Optical Switching: The Case of a Nanographene Molecule
Giuseppe M. Paterno, Luca Moretti, Alex J. Barker +6
In the last two decades, the three-beams pump-push-probe (PPP) technique has become a well-established tool for investigating the multidimensional configurational space of a molecu…
Broadband Defects Emission and Enhanced Ligand Raman Scattering in 0D Cs3Bi2I9 Colloidal Nanocrystals
Giuseppe M. Paterno', Nimai Mishra, Alex J. Barker +4
Excitonic 0D and 2D lead-halide perovskites have been recently developed and investigated as new materials for light generation. Here we report broadband (> 1 eV) emission from new…
Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes in Photovoltaic Blends: the case of PTB7:PC60BM:(6,5) SWNT
Diana Gisell Figueroa del Valle, Giuseppe M. Paternò, Francesco Scotognella
Blends of carbon nanotubes with conjugated polymer and fullerene derivatives are complex nanocomposite systems, which have recently attracted a great research interest for their ph…
Electro-optic and magneto-optic photonic devices based on multilayers photonic structures
Giuseppe M. Paternò, Liliana Moscardi, Ilka Kriegel +2
In this work we describe different types of photonic structures that allow tunability of the photonic band gap upon the application of external stimuli, as the electric or magnetic…
Solution processable and optically switchable 1D photonic structures
G. M. Paternò, C. Iseppon, A. D'Altri +9
In this work, we report the first demonstration of a solution processable, optically switchable 1D photonic crystal by implementing phototunable doped metal oxide nanocrystals. The…
Excited State Photophysics of Squaraine Dyes for Photovoltaic Applications: an Alternative Deactivation Scenario
G. M. Paternò, N. Barbero, S. Galliano +4
Squaraine dyes (SQs) represent a versatile class of functional molecules with strong absorption and emission features, widely used as near-infrared sensitizers in organic and hybri…
Near-Infrared Emitting Single Squaraine Dye Aggregate with large Stokes shift
Giuseppe M. Paternò, Luca Moretti, Alex Barker +5
The study of supramolecular interactions and aggregation behaviour of functional materials is of great importance to tune and extend their spectral sensitivity and, hence, improve…