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  1. Photoemissive properties and stability of undecylenic acid-modified porous silicon nanoparticles in physiological medium

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, March 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Luca De Stefano, Raffaele Velotta

  2. Peptide Functionalization of Silicon for Detection and Classification of Prostatic Cells

    Article • Journal of Sensors, January 2017, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  3. Arsenate reductase fromThermus thermophilusconjugated to polyethylene glycol-stabilized gold nanospheres allow trace sensing and speciation of arsenic ions

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, October 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  4. Diatom Valve Three-Dimensional Representation: A New Imaging Method Based on Combined Microscopies

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, September 2016, MDPI AG

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  5. Chemical and Structural Characterization of Several Mid-Term Explanted Breast Prostheses

    Article • Materials, August 2016, MDPI AG

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  6. Bioengineered Surfaces for Real-Time Label-Free Detection of Cancer Cells

    Article • June 2016, IntechOpen

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  7. Silica-Based Nanovectors: From Mother Nature to Biomedical Applications

    Article • June 2016, IntechOpen

    Dr Luca De Stefano, Prof. Hélder Santos

  8. Electroless Gold-Modified Diatoms as Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Supports

    Article • Nanoscale Research Letters, June 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Luca De Stefano, Professor Nico H Voelcker

  9. One-pot synthesis of a gold nanoparticle–Vmh2 hydrophobin nanobiocomplex for glucose monitoring

    Article • Nanotechnology, March 2016, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  10. A Photolithographic Approach to Polymeric Microneedles Array Fabrication

    Article • Materials, December 2015, MDPI AG

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  11. Porous Silicon-Based Optical Chemical Sensors

    Article • December 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  12. Versatile synthesis of ZnO nanowires for quantitative optical sensing of molecular biorecognition

    Article • Sensors and Actuators B Chemical, December 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  13. Interaction of Thermus thermophilus ArsC enzyme and gold nanoparticles naked-eye assays speciation between As(III) and As(V)

    Article • Nanotechnology, October 2015, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  14. Hybrid organic–inorganic porous semiconductor transducer for multi-parameters sensing

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, June 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  15. Photoluminescence characterization of ZnO nanowires functionalization

    Article • May 2015, SPIE

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  16. Oligopeptide–heavy metal interaction monitoring by hybrid gold nanoparticle based assay

    Article • The Analyst, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  17. Optical Characterization of Heavy Metal-Binding Proteins Bioconjugation on Porous Silicon Devices

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  18. Biologically enabled sub-diffractive focusing

    Article • Optics Express, October 2014, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  19. Optical Properties of Diatom Nanostructured Biosilica in Arachnoidiscus sp: Micro-Optics from Mother Nature

    Article • PLoS ONE, July 2014, PLOS

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  20. Sub-diffractive light confinement: A biological-based approach

    Article • May 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  21. Nanostructured photonic biosensor for heavy metal detection design and development of porous silicon optical biosensors

    Article • May 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  22. Aminosilane-modified mesoporous oxidized silicon for in situ oligonucleotides synthesis and detection

    Article • May 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  23. Hydrophobin-coated plates as matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization sample support for peptide/protein analysis

    Article • Analytical Biochemistry, March 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  24. Combining focusing properties of a single diatom valve with optical eigenmodes in ultra-shrinking of light

    Article • February 2014, SPIE

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  25. Diffuse Reflectance Infrared Fourier Transform Spectroscopy for the Determination of Asbestos Species in Bulk Building Materials

    Article • Materials, January 2014, MDPI AG

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  26. Porous Silicon for Microdevices and Microsystems

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  27. Porous Silicon for Microdevices and Microsystems

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  28. Silicon based optical biochips for biomedical applications

    Article • January 2014, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  29. Hybrid bio/non-bio interfaces for protein-glucose interaction monitoring

    Article • Journal of Applied Physics, October 2013, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  30. Plasmon-like surface states in negative refractive index photonic crystals

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, February 2013, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  31. Shedding light on diatom photonics by means of digital holography

    Article • Journal of Biophotonics, December 2012, Wiley

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  32. Lab-on-Chip Nanostructured Sensors for Chemical and Biological Applications

    Article • November 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  33. Environmental Conditions Modulate the Switch among Different States of the Hydrophobin Vmh2 from Pleurotus ostreatus

    Article • Biomacromolecules, March 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  34. Comparison between Two FT-IR Spectroscopy Analytical Procedures for Micrograms Determination of Asbestos Species in Bulk Materials

    Article • American Journal of Analytical Chemistry, January 2012, Scientific Research Publishing, Inc,

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  35. Optical trapping of porous silicon nanoparticles

    Article • Nanotechnology, November 2011, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  36. Numerical Optimization of a Microfluidic Assisted Microarray for the Detection of Biochemical Interactions

    Article • Sensors, October 2011, MDPI AG

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  37. A microfluidics assisted porous silicon array for optical label-free biochemical sensing

    Article • Biomicrofluidics, September 2011, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  38. A Mechanochemical Approach to Porous Silicon Nanoparticles Fabrication

    Article • Materials, June 2011, MDPI AG

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  39. Modelling biochemical interactions in a microfluidic assisted porous silicon microarray for optical sensing

    Article • June 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  40. Mapping electric fields generated by microelectrodes using optically trapped charged microspheres

    Article • Lab on a Chip, January 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  41. A natural source of porous biosilica for nanotech applications: the diatoms microalgae

    Article • physica status solidi c, November 2010, Wiley

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  42. A porous silicon based microarray for label-free optical detection of DNA hybridization

    Article • February 2010, SPIE

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  43. New perspectives and applications of silicon nanophotonics

    Article • February 2010, SPIE

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  44. Biological passivation of porous silicon by a self-assembled nanometric biofilm of proteins

    Article • Journal of Nanophotonics, October 2009, SPIE

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  45. Label-free biosensing by means of optical micro-ring resonator

    Article • May 2009, SPIE

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  46. OPTOCHEMICAL GAS DETECTION BY LUMINESCENT MARINE DIATOMS: PHENOMENOLOGY AND PHYSICAL INTERPRETATION

    Article • December 2008, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  47. Porous Silicon Based Resonant Mirrors for Biochemical Sensing

    Article • Sensors, October 2008, MDPI AG

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  48. Active NIR filter with a free-standing porous silicon microcavity containing liquid crystal

    Article • June 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  49. Protein-Modified Porous Silicon Nanostructures

    Article • Advanced Materials, April 2008, Wiley

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  50. The Gas-Detection Properties of Light-Emitting Diatoms

    Article • Advanced Functional Materials, April 2008, Wiley

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  51. Integrated optical biosensors and biochips based on porous silicon technology

    Article • February 2008, SPIE

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  52. TG, FT-IR and NMR characterization of n-C16H34 contaminated alumina and silica after mechanochemical treatment

    Article • Chemosphere, January 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Luca De Stefano, Armando Zarrelli

  53. Confocal imaging of protein distributions in porous silicon optical structures

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, August 2007, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  54. Self-Assembled Biofilm of Hydrophobins Protects the Silicon Surface in the KOH Wet Etch Process

    Article • Langmuir, July 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  55. Electrical Reorientation of Liquid Crystal within Silicon Macropore for Photonic Devices

    Article • July 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  56. Playing with light in diatoms: small water organisms with a natural photonic crystal structure

    Article • May 2007, SPIE

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  57. Aperiodic photonic bandgap devices based on nanostructured porous silicon

    Article • May 2007, SPIE

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  58. Periodic versus aperiodic: Enhancing the sensitivity of porous silicon based optical sensors

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, May 2007, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  59. Optical properties of porous silicon Thue-Morse structures

    Article • physica status solidi c, May 2007, Wiley

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  60. Quantitative measurements of hydro-alcoholic binary mixtures by porous silicon optical microsensors

    Article • physica status solidi c, May 2007, Wiley

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  61. Porous silicon-based optical biosensors and biochips

    Article • Physica E Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures, April 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  62. DNA Optical Detection Based on Porous Silicon Technology: from Biosensors to Biochips

    Article • Sensors, February 2007, MDPI AG

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  63. Quantitative analysis of capillary condensation in fractal-like porous silicon nanostructures

    Article • Journal of Applied Physics, January 2007, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  64. Lensless light focusing with the centric marine diatom Coscinodiscus walesii

    Article • Optics Express, January 2007, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  65. Nanostructured silicon-based biosensors for the selective identification of analytes of social interest

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, August 2006, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  66. Resonant cavity enhanced optical microsensor for molecular interactions based on porous silicon

    Article • physica status solidi (a), April 2006, Wiley

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  67. Porous silicon-based optical microsensor for the detection of l-glutamine

    Article • Biosensors and Bioelectronics, February 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  68. Marine diatoms as optical chemical sensors

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, December 2005, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  69. Pesticides detection in water and humic solutions using porous silicon technology

    Article • Sensors and Actuators B Chemical, November 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  70. Dynamical diffraction and band structure analysis application to the design of vapor sensors based on porous silicon microcavities

    Article • April 2005, SPIE

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  71. Optical microsensors for pesticides identification based on porous silicon technology

    Article • Biosensors and Bioelectronics, April 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  72. Dispersion of thermo-optic coefficient in porous silicon layers of different porosities

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, February 2005, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  73. Anodically bonded silicon-glass optical chip for biochemical sensing applications

    Article • January 2005, SPIE

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  74. Nanostructures in Diatom Frustules: Functional Morphology of Valvocopulae in Cocconeidacean Monoraphid Taxa

    Article • Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, January 2005, American Scientific Publishers

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  75. Photonic bandgap approach in designing microcavity-based optical sensors

    Article • September 2004, SPIE

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  76. Optical sensing of flammable substances using porous silicon microcavities

    Article • Materials Science and Engineering B, July 2003, Elsevier

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  77. Porous silicon optical sensors for vapors, liquids, and biological molecules

    Article • April 2003, SPIE

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  78. Porous silicon microcavities for sensing purposes: modeling and experimental results

    Article • March 2003, SPIE

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  79. Milling effects upon quantitative determinations of chrysotile asbestos by the reference intensity ratio method

    Article • Powder Diffraction, March 2000, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  80. Analysis of modal coupling between glassy and liquid crystal planar waveguides

    Article • December 1996, SPIE

    Dr Luca De Stefano, dr. Giancarlo C. Righini

  81. Nonlinear scattering in a polymeric blend

    Article • Optics Communications, November 1994, Elsevier

    Dr Luca De Stefano

  82. Optical bistability due to the nonlinear light propagation in a synthesis blend of PMMA and vinyl rubber

    Article • August 1994, SPIE

    Dr Luca De Stefano