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  1. How Shallow and Deep Defects Drive Carrier Dynamics in Tin‐Iodide Perovskites

    Article • Advanced Energy Materials, January 2025, Wiley

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  2. Membrane-targeted push-pull azobenzenes for the optical modulation of membrane potential

    Article • Light Science & Applications, January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  3. Materials-driven strategies in bacterial engineering

    Article • MRS Communications, July 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  4. Nanoactuator for Neuronal Optoporation

    Article • ACS Nano, April 2024, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  5. Acid-induced fluorescence enhancement of piperazinylphenyl-substituted nanographene

    Article • Chemical Communications, January 2024, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  6. Degenerately doped metal oxide nanocrystals for infrared light harvesting: insight into their plasmonic properties and future perspectives

    Article • Materials Advances, January 2024, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  7. Water-based solar cells over 10% efficiency: designing soft nanoparticles for improved processability

    Article • Energy & Environmental Science, January 2024, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  8. Modulation of Mechanosensitive Potassium Channels by a Membrane-targeted Nongenetic Photoswitch

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, October 2023, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  9. Insight on the Intracellular Supramolecular Assembly of DTTO: A Peculiar Example of Cell‐Driven Polymorphism

    Article • Advanced Materials, August 2023, Wiley

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  10. Nanographene‐Based Decoration as a Panchromatic Antenna for Metalloporphyrin Conjugates

    Article • Small, June 2023, Wiley

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  11. Tamm Plasmon Resonance as Optical Fingerprint of Silver/Bacteria Interaction

    Article • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, June 2023, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  12. Membrane Order Effect on the Photoresponse of an Organic Transducer

    Article • Membranes, May 2023, MDPI AG

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  13. Zigzag‐Edged Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons from Benzo[m]tetraphene Precursors

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, March 2023, Wiley

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  14. Synthesis of Bioctacene‐Incorporated Nanographene with Near‐Infrared Chiroptical Properties

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, February 2023, Wiley

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  15. Membrane Targeted Azobenzene Drives Optical Modulation of Bacterial Membrane Potential

    Article • Advanced Science, January 2023, Wiley

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  16. A membrane intercalating metal-free conjugated organic photosensitizer for bacterial photodynamic inactivation

    Article • Chemical Science, January 2023, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  17. Resonant Enhancement of Polymer–Cell Optostimulation by a Plasmonic Metasurface

    Article • ACS Omega, November 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  18. The impact of Tamm plasmons on photonic crystals technology

    Article • Physica B Condensed Matter, November 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  19. Materials for Organic Bioelectronics

    Article • October 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  20. Membrane Targeted Azobenzene Drives Optical Modulation of Bacterial Membrane Potential

    Article • September 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  21. Role of Thermally Occupied Hole States in Room‐Temperature Broadband Gain in CdSe/CdS Giant‐Shell Nanocrystals

    Article • Advanced Optical Materials, August 2022, Wiley

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  22. Nanoscale Photoluminescence Manipulation in Monolithic Porous Silicon Oxide Microcavity Coated with Fluorescent Polyelectrolytes Via Electrostatic Nanoassembling

    Article • ECS Meeting Abstracts, July 2022, The Electrochemical Society

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  23. Azobenzene photoisomerization probes cell membrane viscosity

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, January 2022, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  24. Excited states engineering enables efficient near-infrared lasing in nanographenes

    Article • Materials Horizons, January 2022, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  25. Synthesis of zigzag- and fjord-edged nanographene with dual amplified spontaneous emission

    Article • Chemical Science, January 2022, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  26. Calculated optical properties of donor molecules based on benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b′]dithiophene and its derivatives

    Article • AIP Advances, December 2021, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  27. (INVITED) Fluorescent probes for optical investigation of the plasma membrane

    Article • Optical Materials X, December 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  28. Shedding Light on Thermally Induced Optocapacitance at the Organic Biointerface

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, September 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  29. Nanoscale Photoluminescence Manipulation in Monolithic Porous Silicon Oxide Microcavity Coated with Rhodamine‐Labeled Polyelectrolyte via Electrostatic Nanoassembling

    Article • Advanced Optical Materials, August 2021, Wiley

    Professor of Physics Franco Cacialli, Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  30. Near‐Infrared Lasing in Four‐Zigzag Edged Nanographenes by 1D versus 2D Electronic π‐Conjugation

    Article • Advanced Functional Materials, July 2021, Wiley

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  31. Large Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons as Graphene Quantum Dots: from Synthesis to Spectroscopy and Photonics

    Article • Advanced Optical Materials, July 2021, Wiley

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  32. Bringing Microbiology to Light: Toward All-Optical Electrophysiology in Bacteria

    Article • Bioelectricity, June 2021, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  33. Bringing the interaction of silver nanoparticles with bacteria to light

    Article • Biophysics Reviews, June 2021, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  34. The impact of bacteria exposure on the plasmonic response of silver nanostructured surfaces

    Article • Chemical Physics Reviews, May 2021, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  35. The physics of plasma membrane photostimulation

    Article • APL Materials, March 2021, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  36. Stimuli-Responsive Photonic Crystals

    Article • Applied Sciences, February 2021, MDPI AG

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  37. Molecular Design of Amphiphilic Plasma Membrane-Targeted Azobenzenes for Nongenetic Optical Stimulation

    Article • Frontiers in Materials, January 2021, Frontiers

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  38. A Polymer Blend Substrate for Skeletal Muscle Cells Alignment and Photostimulation

    Article • Advanced Photonics Research, December 2020, Wiley

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  39. Anisotropic Complex Refractive Indices of Atomically Thin Materials: Determination of the Optical Constants of Few-Layer Black Phosphorus

    Article • Materials, December 2020, MDPI AG

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  40. Design of 1D photonic crystals for colorimetric and ratiometric refractive index sensing

    Article • Optical Materials X, December 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  41. Optical properties of recent non-fullerene molecular acceptors for bulk heterojunction solar cells

    Article • Results in Physics, December 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  42. The Effect of an Intramembrane Light-Actuator on the Dynamics of Phospholipids in Model Membranes and Intact Cells

    Article • Langmuir, September 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  43. Dual Amplified Spontaneous Emission and Lasing from Nanographene Films

    Article • Nanomaterials, August 2020, MDPI AG

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  44. Distributed Bragg reflectors for the colorimetric detection of bacterial contaminants and pollutants for food quality control

    Article • APL Photonics, August 2020, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  45. Ultrafast photochromism and bacteriochromism in one dimensional hybrid plasmonic photonic structures

    Article • April 2020, SPIE

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  46. Membrane Environment Enables Ultrafast Isomerization of Amphiphilic Azobenzene

    Article • Advanced Science, March 2020, Wiley

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  47. Neuronal firing modulation by a membrane-targeted photoswitch

    Article • Nature Nanotechnology, February 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  48. Bio-inspired optics: general discussion

    Article • Faraday Discussions, January 2020, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  49. Electro-responsivity in electrolyte-free and solution processed Bragg stacks

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry C, January 2020, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  50. Hexa-peri-benzocoronene with two extra K-regions in anortho-configuration

    Article • Chemical Science, January 2020, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  51. Integration of bio-responsive silver in 1D photonic crystals: towards the colorimetric detection of bacteria

    Article • Faraday Discussions, January 2020, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  52. Reshaping Hybrid Perovskites Emission with Flexible Polymer Microcavities

    Article • EPJ Web of Conferences, January 2020, EDP Sciences

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  53. Polarization analysis on the LET cold neutron spectrometer using a 3He spin-filter: first results

    Article • Journal of Physics Conference Series, October 2019, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  54. Hybrid One-Dimensional Plasmonic–Photonic Crystals for Optical Detection of Bacterial Contaminants

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, August 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  55. π-Extended Pyrene-Fused Double [7]Carbohelicene as a Chiral Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, July 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  56. A Membrane-Targeted Photoswitch Potently Modulates Neuronal Firing

    Article • July 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  57. MariX, an advanced MHz-class repetition rate X-ray source for linear regime time-resolved spectroscopy and photon scattering

    Article • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment, June 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò, Angelo Bosotti

  58. Low-threshold blue lasing from fully-transparent porous silicon monolithic microcavities infiltrated with a polyfluorene derivative

    Article • March 2019, SPIE

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  59. Semiconducting carbon nanotubes in photovoltaic blends: The case of pTB7:PC60BM:(6,5) SWNT

    Article • Journal of Applied Physics, February 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  60. Regioselective Hydrogenation of a 60-Carbon Nanographene Molecule toward a Circumbiphenyl Core

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, February 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  61. Perovskite solar cell resilience to fast neutrons

    Article • Sustainable Energy & Fuels, January 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor of Physics Franco Cacialli, Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  62. All-polymer methylammonium lead iodide perovskite microcavities

    Article • Nanoscale, January 2019, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Davide Comoretto, Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  63. Pump-Push-Probe for Ultrafast All-Optical Switching: The Case of a Nanographene Molecule

    Article • Advanced Functional Materials, December 2018, Wiley

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  64. Emission of non-toxic Cs3Bi2I9 for solid state lighting and optoelectronics application

    Article • Advanced Functional Materials, November 2018, Wiley

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  65. Modulation of the Nonlinear Optical Properties of Dibenzo[hi,st]ovalene by Peripheral Substituents

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, October 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  66. New strategy for low-cost and stable laser sources

    Article • ACS Nano, May 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  67. Electro-optic and magneto-optic photonic devices based on multilayer photonic structures

    Article • Journal of Photonics for Energy, March 2018, SPIE

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  68. Solution processable and optically switchable 1D photonic structures

    Article • Scientific Reports, February 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  69. Excited state photophysics of squaraine dyes for photovoltaic applications: an alternative deactivation scenario

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry C, January 2018, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  70. Polystyrene nanoparticle-templated hollow titania nanosphere monolayers as ordered scaffolds

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry C, January 2018, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò, Professor of Physics Franco Cacialli

  71. Synthesis of Dibenzo[hi,st ]ovalene and Its Amplified Spontaneous Emission in a Polystyrene Matrix

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, May 2017, Wiley

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  72. Spectroscopic investigation of squaraine dyes

    Article • February 2017, SPIE

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  73. Neutron Radiation Tolerance of Two Benchmark Thiophene-Based Conjugated Polymers: the Importance of Crystallinity for Organic Avionics

    Article • Scientific Reports, January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò, Professor of Physics Franco Cacialli

  74. Near-infrared emitting single squaraine dye aggregates with large Stokes shifts

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry C, January 2017, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  75. Neutron polarisation analysis of Polymer:Fullerene blends for organic photovoltaics

    Article • Polymer, November 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò, Professor of Physics Franco Cacialli

  76. Tuning Fullerene Intercalation in a Poly (thiophene) derivative by Controlling the Polymer Degree of Self-Organisation

    Article • Scientific Reports, October 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò, Professor of Physics Franco Cacialli

  77. Traceable atomic force microscopy of high-quality solvent-free crystals of [6,6]-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, February 2016, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò, Professor of Physics Franco Cacialli

  78. Low-Temperature Photoluminescence Spectroscopy of Solvent-Free PCBM Single-Crystals

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, May 2015, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò, Professor of Physics Franco Cacialli

  79. Inorganic caesium lead iodide perovskite solar cells

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry A, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò, Professor of Physics Franco Cacialli

  80. Structural and dynamical characterization of P3HT/PCBM blends

    Article • Chemical Physics, December 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò, Professor of Physics Franco Cacialli

  81. Micro-focused X-ray diffraction characterization of high-quality [6,6]-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester single crystals without solvent impurities

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry C, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor of Physics Franco Cacialli, Dr Gwyndaf Evans, Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò

  82. Tamm Plasmon Resonance as Optical Fingerprint of Silver/Bacteria Interaction

    Article • American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Giuseppe Maria Paternò