A5031966006- Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
- Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications
- Advancements in Battery Materials
- Photonic and Optical Devices
- Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
- Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
- Photonic Crystals and Applications
- Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
- Mechanical and Optical Resonators
- Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics
- Nanofabrication and Lithography Techniques
- Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies
- Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
- Nanotechnology research and applications
- Nanowire Synthesis and Applications
- Advanced Battery Technologies Research
- Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design
- Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications
- Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures
- Nonlinear Optical Materials Studies
- Optical Coatings and Gratings
- Anodic Oxide Films and Nanostructures
- Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication
- Extraction and Separation Processes
- Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications
Italian Institute of Technology
2016-2025
Ningbo Institute of Industrial Technology
2016-2023
Chinese Academy of Sciences
2016-2023
Shaoxing University
2022-2023
University of Ferrara
2023
Soochow University
2022
Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems
2022
Beijing Institute of Technology
2018
Universidade Federal do ABC
2018
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Genova
2016-2017
This review highlights the recent research advances in active nanostructured anode materials for next generation of Li-ion batteries (LIBs). In fact, order to address both energy and power demands secondary LIBs future storage applications, it is required development innovative kinds electrodes. Nanostructured based on carbon, metal/semiconductor, metal oxides phosphides/nitrides/sulfides show a variety admirable properties applications such as high surface area, low diffusion distance,...
Abstract Lithium–sulfur batteries (LSBs) are regarded as a new kind of energy storage device due to their remarkable theoretical density. However, some issues, such the low conductivity and large volume variation sulfur, well formation polysulfides during cycling, yet be addressed before LSBs can become an actual reality. Here, presented is comprehensive overview illustrating techniques capable mitigating these undesirable problems together with electrochemical performances associated...
Plasmonic nanostar-dimers, decoupled from the substrate, have been fabricated by combining electron-beam lithography and reactive-ion etching techniques. The 3D architecture, sharp tips of nanostars sub-10 nm gap size promote formation giant electric-field in highly localized hot-spots. single/few molecule detection capability nanostar-dimers has demonstrated Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering. As a service to our authors readers, this journal provides supporting information supplied authors....
The field of plasmonics is capable enabling interesting applications in different wavelength ranges, spanning from the ultraviolet up to infrared. choice plasmonic material and how nanostructured has significant implications for ultimate performance any device. Artificially designed nanoporous metals (NPMs) have properties including large specific surface area, distinctive optical properties, high electrical conductivity, reduced stiffness, implying their potentials many applications. This...
Abstract Biocompatible hydrogel inks with shear‐thinning, appropriate yield strength, and fast self‐healing are desired for 3D bioprinting. However, the lack of ideal bioprinting outstanding printability high structural fidelity, as well cell‐compatibility, has hindered progress extrusion‐based tissue engineering. In this study, novel self‐healable pre‐cross‐linked microparticles ( pc HμPs) chitosan methacrylate (CHMA) polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) hybrid hydrogels developed used bioinks printing...
In the past 20 years, we have reached a broad understanding of many light-driven phenomena in nanoscale systems. The temporal dynamics excited states are instead quite challenging to explore, and, at same time, crucial study for origin fundamental physical and chemical processes. this review, examine current state prospects ultrafast driven by plasmons both from applied point view. This research area is referred as plasmonics represents an outstanding playground tailor control fast optical...
Although water is considered detrimental for Li-ion battery technology, a 1% w/w amount of in melt LiCl ionic liquid 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride promotes the reduction lithium into LiAl intermetallic along with oxidation to O2 gas. The electrodeposition an layer several micrometers thickness demonstrated by combining complementary techniques, such as galvanostatics, X-ray diffraction, electron energy-loss spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, and 1H nuclear magnetic resonance....
Small aluminum nanoparticles have the potential to exhibit localized surface plasmon resonances in deep ultraviolet region of electromagnetic spectrum, however technical and scientific challenges make it difficult attain this limit. We report fabrication arrays Al/Al2O3 core/shell with a metallic-core diameter between 12 25 nm that display sharp plasmonic at very high energies, up 5.8 eV (down λ = 215 nm). The were fabricated by means straightforward self-organization approach. experimental...
We present an advanced and robust technology to realize 3D hollow plasmonic nanostructures which are tunable in size, shape, layout. The presented architectures offer new unconventional properties such as the realization of nanocavities with high electric field confinement enhancement, finely structured extinction profiles, broad band optical absorption. nature devices can overcome intrinsic difficulties related conventional a wide range multidisciplinary applications.
In utero electroporation is a powerful tool to transfect and manipulate neural-precursor cells of the rodent parietal cortex their progeny in vivo. Although this technique can potentially target numerous brain areas, reliability transfection some regions low or physical access limited. Here we present new configuration based on use three electrodes, relative position polarities which be adjusted. The allows easy exceedingly reliable monolateral bilateral at locations that could only...
In this work we have reviewed the state of art energy storage devices for textile applications.
Top-down fabrication of electron-beam lithography (EBL)-defined metallic nanostructures is a successful route to obtain extremely high electromagnetic field enhancement via plasmonic effects in well-defined regions. To this aim, various geometries have been introduced such as disks, triangles, dimers, rings, self-similar lenses, and more. In particular, dimers are highly efficient for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), their decoupling from the substrate three-dimensional design has...
Nanoparticles (NPs) are increasingly used in biomedical applications, but the factors that influence their interactions with living cells need to be elucidated. Here, we reveal role of NP surface charge determining neuronal and electrical responses. We discovered negatively charged NPs administered at low concentration (10 nM) interact membrane synaptic cleft, whereas positively neutrally never localize on neurons. This effect is shape material independent. The presence cell membranes...
Terahertz spectroscopy has vast potentialities in sensing a broad range of elementary excitations (e.g., collective vibrations molecules, phonons, excitons, etc.). However, the large wavelength associated with terahertz radiation (about 300 μm at 1 THz) severely hinders its interaction nano-objects, such as nanoparticles, nanorods, nanotubes, and molecules biological relevance, practically limiting studies to macroscopic ensembles these compounds, form thick pellets crystallized or highly...
A Universal plasmonic/microfluidic platform for spatial and temporal controlled intracellular delivery is described. The system can inject/transfect the desired amount of molecules with an efficacy close to 100%. Moreover, it highly scalable from single cells large ensembles without administering extracellular bath. latter enables quantitative control over injected molecules. We present in vitro delivering a broad range into compartment cell selective high parallelization potential. achieved...
Abstract Plasmonic nanocavities have proved to confine electromagnetic fields into deep subwavelength volumes, implying their potentials for enhanced optical trapping and sensing of nanoparticles. In this review, the fundamentals performances various plasmonic nanocavity geometries are explored with specific emphasis on detection small molecules single These applications capitalize local field intensity, which in turn depends size nanocavities. Indeed, properly designed structures provide...
Direct imaging becomes important when the knowledge at few/single molecule level is requested and where diffraction does not allow to get structural functional information. Here we report on direct of double stranded (ds) λ-DNA in A conformation, obtained by combining a novel sample preparation method based super hydrophobic DNA molecules self-aggregation process with transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The experimental breakthrough production robust highly ordered paired nanofibers that...
The possibility to develop nanosystems with appreciable magnetic response at optical frequencies has been a matter of intense study in the past few years. This aim was strongly hindered by saturation "natural" materials beyond THz regime. Recently, order overcome such limitation, it considered enhance fields through induction displacement currents triggered plasmonic resonances. Here we investigate nanoassembly supporting hybridization an electric and mode Fano resonance conditions. Taking...
We propose a large-area SERS device with efficient fluorescence quenching capability. The substrate is based on anodic porous alumina templates various pore size and wall thickness as small 15 36 nm, respectively. nano-patterned substrate, excellent control reproducibility of plasmon-polaritons generation, shows very enhanced Raman signal in the presence intrinsically fluorescent molecules such cresyl violet, rhodamine, green protein. This work demonstrates that, when nanostructures are...
Periodic and reproducible gold nanocuboids with various matrix dimensions different inter-particle gaps were fabricated by means of top-down technique. Rhodamine 6G was used as a probe molecule to optimize the design fabrication cuboid nanostructures. The electric field distribution for varying dimensions/inter-particle gap also investigated. These SERS devices employed biosensors through investigation both myoglobin wild/mutated peptides. results demonstrate probing screening BRCA1...
Novel nanoarray for single molecule detection from peptide mixture.