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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…
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…
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…
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…
A hybrid P3HT-Graphene interface for efficient photostimulation of neurons
Mattia L. DiFrancesco, Elisabetta Colombo, Ermanno D. Papaleo +4
Graphene conductive properties have been long exploited in the field of organic photovoltaics and optoelectronics by the scientific community worldwide. We engineered and character…
Drastic Improvement of Air Stability in an n-type Doped Naphtalene-diimide Polymer by Thionation
Diego Nava, Younghun Shin, Matteo Massetti +9
Organic thermoelectrics are attractive for the fabrication of flexible and cost-effective thermoelectric generators (TEGs) for waste heat recovery, in particular by exploiting larg…
Large Polaron Generation and Dynamics in 3D Metal-Halide Perovskites
Walter P. D. Wong, Jun Yin, Bhumika Chaudhary +6
In recent years, metal halide perovskites have generated tremendous interest for optoelectronic applications and their underlying fundamental properties. Due to the large electron-…
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…
Tattoo-Paper Transfer as a Versatile Platform for All-Printed Organic Edible Electronics
Giorgio E. Bonacchini, Caterina Bossio, Francesco Greco +4
The use of natural or bioinspired materials to develop edible electronic devices is a potentially disruptive technology that can boost point-of-care testing. The technology exploit…
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…
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…
Electroabsorption in MoS
Daniele Vella, Dmitry Ovchinnikov, Nicola Martino +8
To translate electrical into optical signals one uses the modulation of either the refractive index or the absorbance of a material by an electric field. Contemporary electroabsorp…
Photoinduced Absorption within Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Systems
Livia Noëmi Glanzmann, Duncan John Mowbray, Diana Gisell Figueroa del Valle +3
We study the photoabsorption properties of photoactive bulk polymer/ fullerene/nanotube heterojunctions in the near-infrared region. By combining pump-probe spectroscopy and linear…
Charge photogeneration in few-layer MoS2
Tetiana Borzda, Christoph Gadermaier, Natasa Vujicic +12
The two-dimensional semiconductor MoS2 in its mono- and few-layer form is expected to have a significant exciton binding energy of several 100 meV, leading to the consensus that ex…
Control of the chemiluminescence spectrum with porous Bragg mirrors
Simone Varo, Luigino Criante, Luca Passoni +5
Tunable, battery free light emission is demonstrated in a solid state device that is compatible with lab on a chip technology and easily fabricated via solution processing techniqu…
High energetic excitons in carbon nanotubes directly probe charge-carriers
Giancarlo Soavi, Francesco Scotognella, Daniele Viola +4
Theory predicts peculiar features for excited-state dynamics in one dimension (1D) that are difficult to be observed experimentally. Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) are an e…
Fast Ultrahigh-Density Writing of Low Conductivity Patterns on Semiconducting Polymers
Marco Farina, Tengling Ye, Guglielmo Lanzani +6
The exceptional interest in improving the limitations of data storage, molecular electronics, and optoelectronics has promoted the development of an ever increasing number of techn…
Molecular-Level Switching of Polymer/Nanocrystal Non-Covalent Interactions and Application in Hybrid Solar Cells
Carlo Giansante, Rosanna Mastria, Giovanni Lerario +9
Hy brid composites obtained upon blending conjugated polymers and colloidal inorganic semiconductor nanocrystals are regarded as attractive photo-active materials for optoelectroni…