All Stories

  1. Bonding Mechanisms Underpinning Structural and Electronic Properties of Halide Perovskites

    Article • Coordination Chemistry Reviews, April 2026, Elsevier

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  2. Powder diffraction patterns from cylindrically oriented nanocrystals

    Article • Materials Today Communications, April 2026, Elsevier

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  3. Ligand-Engineered Methylammonium Lead Bromide Nanoplatelets: Single-Photon Emission and Strong Light-Matter Coupling

    Article • ACS Nano, March 2026, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  4. Ligand-induced symmetry breaking, size andmorphology in colloidal lead sulfide QDs: fromclassic to thiourea precursors

    Article • November 2025, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  5. Simultaneous Dynamic Light Scattering, Absorbance and Photoluminescence Measurements of Colloidal Nanoparticles. Application to Colloidal Stability and Aggregation Kinetics of CsPbBr 3 Nanocrystals

    Article • Small Methods, October 2025, Wiley

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  6. Cu-Doped Cs 3 Sb 2 Cl 9 Nanocrystals: Revisiting the Low Bandgap of Cs 2...

    Article • ACS Materials Letters, October 2025, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  7. Tightly yet Dynamically Bound Aliphatic Guanidinium Ligands for Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, September 2025, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  8. Tightly yet Dynamically Bound Aliphatic Guanidinium Ligands for Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals

    Article • August 2025, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  9. Atomistic Insights into Halide Double Perovskite Nanocrystals obtained by Multistep Synthesis and Efficient Compositional Engineering

    Article • ACS Nano, August 2025, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  10. Capturing atomic snapshots in fractions of a second with X-ray lasers

    Article • IUCrJ, July 2025, International Union of Crystallography

    Adam Sapnik, Dr Federica Bertolotti

  11. Pt NPs Supported on CeO 2 /C as Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction: Novel Physicochemical Insights on the Synthesis and on the Improved Activity and Stability

    Article • Small, May 2025, Wiley

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  12. Transient OCP-apatite epitaxy controls bone mineralization. An X-ray total scattering study

    Article • TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, November 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  13. The interplay between surface area and sulfur doping of carbon support on Pt NPs nucleation and growth: A synergistic enhancement of catalytic activity for oxygen reduction

    Article • Applied Catalysis B Environment and Energy, May 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  14. A deep learning approach for quantum dots sizing from wide-angle X-ray scattering data

    Article • npj Computational Materials, March 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  15. All-Perovskite Multicomponent Nanocrystal Superlattices

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

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  16. Colloidal Aziridinium Lead Bromide Quantum Dots

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

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  17. Slow magnetic relaxation in a heteroleptic anilate-based DyIII metal–organic framework

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2024, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  18. Size‐ and Temperature‐Dependent Lattice Anisotropy and Structural Distortion in CsPbBr3 Quantum Dots by Reciprocal Space X‐ray Total Scattering Analysis

    Article • Small Structures, November 2023, Wiley

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  19. Coupling to octahedral tilts in halide perovskite nanocrystals induces phonon-mediated attractive interactions between excitons

    Article • Nature Nanotechnology, November 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  20. A deep learning approach for quantum dots sizing from wide-angle X-ray scattering data

    Article • November 2023, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  21. Site-occupancy factors in the Debye scattering equation. A theoretical discussion on significance and correctness

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, November 2023, International Union of Crystallography

    Fabio Ferri, Dr Federica Bertolotti

  22. Terbium and Europium Chlorocyananilate-Based 2D Coordination Polymers

    Article • Molecules, September 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  23. Terbium and Europium Chlorocyananilate-Based 2D Coordination Polymers

    Article • August 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  24. Intrinsic Formamidinium Tin Iodide Nanocrystals by Suppressing the Sn(IV) Impurities

    Article • Nano Letters, February 2023, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  25. Strongly Confined CsPbBr3 Quantum Dots as Quantum Emitters and Building Blocks for Rhombic Superlattices

    Article • ACS Nano, January 2023, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  26. Structure and Surface Relaxation of CeO2 Nanoparticles Unveiled by Combining Real and Reciprocal Space Total Scattering Analysis

    Article • Nanomaterials, September 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  27. Effects of Structural and Microstructural Features on the Total Scattering Pattern of Nanocrystalline Materials

    Article • Nanomaterials, April 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  28. An Atomistic Model Describing the Structure and Morphology of Cu-Doped C-S-H Hardening Accelerator Nanoparticles

    Article • Nanomaterials, January 2022, MDPI AG

    Prof. Gilberto Artioli, Dr Federica Bertolotti

  29. Size Segregation and Atomic Structural Coherence in Spontaneous Assemblies of Colloidal Cesium Lead Halide Nanocrystals

    Article • Chemistry of Materials, January 2022, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  30. Band Gap Narrowing in Silane-Grafted ZnO Nanocrystals. A Comprehensive Study by Wide-Angle X-ray Total Scattering Methods

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, February 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  31. Development of a Scanning Chemical Vapour Deposition Reactor for the realization of patterned and non-patterned depositions: a preliminary overview

    Article • Thin Solid Films, January 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  32. On the amorphous layer in bone mineral and biomimetic apatite: A combined small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering analysis

    Article • Acta Biomaterialia, January 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  33. Proton sponge lead halides containing 1D polyoctahedral chains

    Article • CrystEngComm, January 2021, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  34. In situhigh-temperature X-ray diffraction study of Sc-doped titanium oxide nanocrystallites

    Article • Journal of Applied Crystallography, October 2020, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  35. Nanoparticle size distribution from inversion of wide angle X-ray total scattering data

    Article • Scientific Reports, July 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  36. The role of nanoparticle structure and morphology in the dissolution kinetics and nutrient release of nitrate-doped calcium phosphate nanofertilizers

    Article • Scientific Reports, July 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  37. Structure, Morphology, and Faceting of TiO2 Photocatalysts by the Debye Scattering Equation Method. The P25 and P90 Cases of Study

    Article • Nanomaterials, April 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  38. Crystal Structure, Morphology, and Surface Termination of Cyan-Emissive, Six-Monolayers-Thick CsPbBr3 Nanoplatelets from X-ray Total Scattering

    Article • ACS Nano, November 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  39. Report on the To.Sca.Lake 3.0 summer school, total scattering analysis for nanoscience on the Como Lake

    Article • Powder Diffraction, September 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  40. Molecular Bases for Anesthetic Agents: Halothane as a Halogen‐ and Hydrogen‐Bond Donor

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, July 2019, Wiley

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  41. Report on the To.Sca.Lat.-1.0 Summer School, total scattering analysis for nanoscience in Latin America

    Article • Powder Diffraction, June 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  42. Size-Dependent Fault-Driven Relaxation and Faceting in Zincblende CdSe Colloidal Quantum Dots

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

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  43. Front Cover: When Crystals Go Nano - The Role of Advanced X-ray Total Scattering Methods in Nanotechnology (Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 34/2018)

    Article • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, September 2018, Wiley

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  44. When Crystals Go Nano - The Role of Advanced X-ray Total Scattering Methods in Nanotechnology

    Article • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, September 2018, Wiley

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  45. When Crystals Go Nano - The Role of Advanced X-ray Total Scattering Methods in Nanotechnology

    Article • August 2018, Wiley

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  46. Exploration of Near-Infrared-Emissive Colloidal Multinary Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals Using an Automated Microfluidic Platform

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

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  47. A comprehensive structural and microstructural investigation of a new iron–telluride nano phase

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

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  48. Ligand-induced symmetry breaking, size and morphology in colloidal lead sulfide QDs: from classic to thiourea precursors

    Article • Chemistry Squared, January 2018, Association Science2 (Science Squared)

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  49. Report on the To.Sca.Lake 2.0 Workshop, Total Scattering for Nanotechnology on the Como Lake

    Article • Powder Diffraction, August 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  50. Thermal properties of iopamidol

    Article • Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, May 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  51. Coherent Nanotwins and Dynamic Disorder in Cesium Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals

    Article • ACS Nano, April 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Federica Bertolotti, Dr Sergii Yakunin

  52. Dismantling the “Red Wall” of Colloidal Perovskites: Highly Luminescent Formamidinium and Formamidinium–Cesium Lead Iodide Nanocrystals

    Article • ACS Nano, March 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Federica Bertolotti, Dr Sergii Yakunin

  53. Myelography iodinated contrast media. II. Conformational versatility of iopamidol in the solid state

    Article • Molecular Pharmaceutics, January 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  54. Monodisperse Formamidinium Lead Bromide Nanocrystals with Bright and Stable Green Photoluminescence

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, November 2016, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Federica Bertolotti, Dr Sergii Yakunin

  55. The synergic role of collagen and citrate in stabilizing amorphous calcium phosphate precursors with platy morphology

    Article • Acta Biomaterialia, November 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  56. A total scattering Debye function analysis study of faulted Pt nanocrystals embedded in a porous matrix

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, October 2016, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  57. Crystal symmetry breaking and vacancies in colloidal lead chalcogenide quantum dots

    Article • Nature Materials, June 2016, Nature

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  58. DEBUSSY 2.0: the new release of a Debye user system for nanocrystalline and/or disordered materials

    Article • Journal of Applied Crystallography, November 2015, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  59. Three new bismuth(III) pyridine-2,6-dicarboxylate compounds: Synthesis, characterization and crystal structures

    Article • Journal of Molecular Structure, November 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  60. Report on the To.Sca.Lake Workshop, Total Scattering for Nanotechnology, held at Como Lake

    Article • Powder Diffraction, September 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  61. Intermolecular Bonding Features in Solid Iodine

    Article • Crystal Growth & Design, June 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Vladimir G Tsirelson, Dr Federica Bertolotti

  62. Bending by Faulting: A Multiple Scale Study of Copper and Silver Nitropyrazolates

    Article • Crystal Growth & Design, June 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  63. X-ray crystal structures of Al-doped (Y,Ca)Ba2Cu3O7−ywhiskers

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science Crystal Engineering and Materials, March 2014, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  64. C–halogen…O supramolecular synthons: in situ cryocrystallisation of 1,2-dihalotetrafluoroethane/HMPA adducts

    Article • Supramolecular Chemistry, August 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  65. The effects of P–T changes on intermolecular interactions in crystal structure of iodoform

    Article • Journal of Molecular Structure, June 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  66. Crystal structure of iodoform at 106K and of the adduct CHI3⋅3(C9H7N). Iodoform as a building block of co-crystals

    Article • Journal of Molecular Structure, March 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  67. Insight into non-linearly shaped superconducting whiskers via a synchrotron nanoprobe

    Article • Superconductor Science and Technology, October 2012, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Carlo Lamberti, Dr Federica Bertolotti

  68. Experimental and theoretical charge density of hydrated cupric acetate

    Article • Polyhedron, July 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  69. 4-({4-[Bis(2-cyanoethyl)amino]phenyl}diazenyl)benzenesulfonamide

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section E Structure Reports Online, December 2010, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  70. 2,3,4,6-Tetra-O-acetyl-2-phthalimido-β-D-glucopyranoside

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section E Structure Reports Online, November 2010, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  71. 3-Phenylsulfanyl-4-phenylsulfonyl-1,2,5-oxadiazole 2-oxide

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section E Structure Reports Online, November 2010, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  72. o-Benzoquinone dioxime

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section E Structure Reports Online, October 2010, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  73. Hydrogen Atoms Location in Os3(μ-H)(CO)9(μ3, η2-C2H) from Accurate X-Ray Data at 100 K

    Article • Journal of Chemical Crystallography, September 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Federica Bertolotti

  74. Reactions of Fe3(CO)12 with 2-methyl-3-butyn-1-ol and 3-pentyn-1-ol under basic methanolic conditions: The crystal structures of Fe2(CO)6(μ-CO)(μ-η2-[HCC{C(CH3)2}C(O)(OCH3)]) and of (μ-H)Fe3(CO)9(μ3-η3-[H3CCC(CH2)(CH2)CO])

    Article • Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, August 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Federica Bertolotti