Luca Prodi
University of Bologna
Faculty Member, Chemistry
Italy
My co-authors include
Alexander John Blake
Professor Dario Braga
Professor Alessandro Casnati
My Publications
Specific, Surface-Driven, and High-Affinity Interactions of Fluorescent Hyaluronan with...
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
January 2020
Bright Phosphorescence of All-Organic Chromophores Confined within Water-Soluble Silica...
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
December 2019
5,10,15-Tris(4-sulfonatophenyl)corrole Synthesis
European Journal of Organic Chemistry
October 2019
PluS Nanoparticles Loaded with Sorafenib: Synthetic Approach and Their Effects on Endot...
ACS Omega
August 2019
New Lanthanide Metalloligands and Their Use for the Assembly of Ln–Ag Bimetallic Coordi...
Crystal Growth & Design
August 2019
Effect of Surface Chemistry on Incorporation of Nanoparticles within Calcite Single Cry...
Crystal Growth & Design
July 2019
Neutral Dye-Doped Silica Nanoparticles for Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence Signal Am...
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
February 2019
Optimized synthesis of luminescent silica nanoparticles by a direct micelle-assisted me...
Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences
January 2019
Mapping heterogeneous polarity in multicompartment nanoparticles
Scientific Reports
November 2018
Dual-Mode, Anisotropy-Encoded, Ratiometric Fluorescent Nanosensors: Towards Multiplexed...
Chemistry - A European Journal
October 2018
Electrogenerated chemiluminescence from metal complexes-based nanoparticles for highly ...
Coordination Chemistry Reviews
July 2018
NIR-fluorescent dye doped silica nanoparticles for in vivo imaging, sensing and therano...
Methods and Applications in Fluorescence
March 2018
Moving corrole towards a red-record: synthesis of β-acrolein Ga and Cu corroles using t...
New Journal of Chemistry
January 2018
Non-enzymatic portable optical sensors for microcystin-LR
Chemical Communications
January 2018
Collective Properties Extend Resistance to Photobleaching of Highly Doped PluS NPs
European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
September 2017
Iridium (III)-Doped Core-Shell Silica Nanoparticles: Near-IR Electrogenerated Chemilumi...
ChemElectroChem
June 2017
Cubosomes forin vivofluorescence lifetime imaging
Nanotechnology
December 2016
A Highly Emissive Water-Soluble Phosphorus Corrole
Chemistry - A European Journal
December 2016
Variable Doping Induces Mechanism Swapping in Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence of Ru(...
Journal of the American Chemical Society
December 2016
Multimodal nanoparticles for bioapplications
International Journal of Nanomedicine
September 2016
Dye-doped silica nanoparticle probes for fluorescence lifetime imaging of reductive env...
RSC Advances
January 2016
The influence of fluorescent silica nanoparticle surface chemistry on the energy transf...
RSC Advances
January 2016
Luminescent Silica Nanoparticles Featuring Collective Processes for Optical Imaging
January 2016
Numerical Simulation of Doped Silica Nanoparticle Electrochemiluminescence
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
November 2015
Reversal of the glycolytic phenotype of primary effusion lymphoma cells by combined tar...
Oncotarget
November 2015
Applications of nanoparticles in cancer medicine and beyond: optical and multimodalin v...
Expert Opinion on Drug Delivery
August 2015
Exploiting Fast Exciton Diffusion in Dye-Doped Polymer Nanoparticles to Engineer Effici...
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
June 2015
PluS Nanoparticles as a tool to control the metal complex stoichiometry of a new thio-a...
Sensors and Actuators B Chemical
February 2015
Imaging agents based on lanthanide doped nanoparticles
Chemical Society Reviews
January 2015
A fluorescent probe for ecstasy
Chemical Communications
January 2015
An electrochemiluminescence-supramolecular approach to sarcosine detection for early di...
Faraday Discussions
January 2015
Luminescence sensing and imaging: general discussion
Faraday Discussions
January 2015
Inner filter effects and other traps in quantitative spectrofluorimetric measurements: ...
Journal of Molecular Structure
December 2014
Gold nanoparticles stabilized using a fluorescent propargylic ester terminal alkyne at ...
Journal of Nanoparticle Research
October 2014
Cancer-Cell-Targeted Theranostic Cubosomes
Langmuir
June 2014
Diazine bridged dinuclear rhenium complex: New molecular material for the CO2 conversion
Inorganica Chimica Acta
June 2014
Pluronic-Silica (PluS) Nanoparticles Doped with Multiple Dyes Featuring Complete Energy...
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
May 2014
C60@Lysozyme: Direct Observation by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of a 1:1 Fullerene Prote...
ACS Nano
February 2014
A novel fluorescent chemosensor allows the assessment of intracellular total magnesium ...
The Analyst
January 2014
Multiple dye-doped NIR-emitting silica nanoparticles for both flow cytometry and in viv...
RSC Advances
January 2014
Dye-doped silica nanoparticles as luminescent organized systems for nanomedicine
Chemical Society Reviews
January 2014
Energy transfer processes in dye-doped nanostructures yield cooperative and versatile f...
Nanoscale
January 2014
Sensing of Pd(II) in water
Chemical Communications
January 2014
Surface Chemistry Architecture of Silica Nanoparticles Determine the Efficiency ofin Vi...
ACS Nano
October 2013
β-Pyrazino-fused tetrarylporphyrins
Dyes and Pigments
October 2013
Multimodal Use of New Coumarin-Based Fluorescent Chemosensors: Towards Highly Selective...
Chemistry - A European Journal
September 2013
Drug-Loaded Fluorescent Cubosomes: Versatile Nanoparticles for Potential Theranostic Ap...
Langmuir
June 2013
Prevention of Self-Quenching in Fluorescent Silica Nanoparticles by Efficient Energy Tr...
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
April 2013
Luminescent Silica Nanoparticles for Cancer Diagnosis
Current Medicinal Chemistry
April 2013
Aluminum, Gallium, Germanium, Copper, and Phosphorus Complexes ofmeso-Triaryltetrabenzo...
Inorganic Chemistry
April 2013
Expanding the targets of the diaza-18-crown-6 hydroxyquinoline derivatives family to Zn...
Supramolecular Chemistry
January 2013
Understanding the photophysical properties of coumarin-based Pluronic–silica (PluS) nan...
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
January 2013
A quest for supramolecular gelators: silver(i) complexes with quinoline-urea derivatives
Dalton Transactions
January 2013
Proper design of silica nanoparticles combines high brightness, lack of cytotoxicity an...
Nanoscale
January 2013
Ratiometric fluorescence sensing and cellular imaging of Cu2+ by a new water soluble tr...
RSC Advances
January 2013
Electrostatically driven interaction of silica-supported lipid bilayer nanoplatforms an...
Soft Matter
January 2013
Luminescent chemosensors based on silicananoparticles for the detection of ionic species
New Journal of Chemistry
January 2013
Aminoacidic units wired on poly(aryleneethynylene) platforms as highly selective mercur...
Tetrahedron Letters
January 2013
Structural Changes in a Protein Fragment from Abalone Shell during the Precipitation of...
Chemistry - A European Journal
September 2012
Targeted dual-color silica nanoparticles provide univocal identification of micrometast...
International Journal of Nanomedicine
September 2012
Tailored SiO2-based coatings for dye doped superparamagnetic nanocomposites
Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects
September 2012
Temperature-Dependent Fluorescence of Cu5 Metal Clusters: A Molecular Thermometer
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
August 2012
Nanoparticles in metal complexes-based electrogenerated chemiluminescence for highly se...
Coordination Chemistry Reviews
August 2012
Molecular Devices: Energy Transfer
March 2012
A versatile strategy for tuning the color of electrochemiluminescence using silica nano...
Chemical Communications
January 2012
Diaza-18-crown-6 hydroxyquinoline derivatives as flexible tools for the assessment and ...
Chemical Science
January 2012
Multicolor core/shell silicananoparticles for in vivo and ex vivo imaging
Nanoscale
January 2012
Synthesis and Characterization of Photoswitchable Fluorescent SiO2 Nanoparticles
Chemistry - A European Journal
December 2011
Spectrofluorimetry
November 2011
Solid state deposition of chiral amphiphilic porphyrin derivatives on glass surface
Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines
November 2011
A Versatile Strategy for Signal Amplification Based on Core/Shell Silica Nanoparticles
Chemistry - A European Journal
October 2011
Facile functionalization by π-stacking of macroscopic substrates made of vertically ali...
Electrochimica Acta
October 2011
Bioinspired Systems for Metal-Ion Sensing: New Emissive Peptide Probes Based on Benzo[d...
Inorganic Chemistry
September 2011
Highly Selective Chemical Vapor Sensing by Molecular Recognition: Specific Detection of...
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
April 2011
Luminescent Silica Nanoparticles: Extending the Frontiers of Brightness
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
March 2011
Green and Blue Electrochemically Generated Chemiluminescence from Click Chemistry—Custo...
Chemistry - A European Journal
March 2011
57 Applications of Nanoparticles Containing Porphyrins and Related Systems
February 2011
Reversible photoswitching of dye-doped core–shell nanoparticles
Chemical Communications
January 2011
Fullerenol entrapment in calcite microspheres
Chemical Communications
January 2011
Guest-controlled aggregation of cavitand gold nanoparticles and N-methyl pyridinium-ter...
Chemical Communications
January 2011
Luminescence Applied in Sensor Science
January 2011
Energy Transfer from Silica Core−Surfactant Shell Nanoparticles to Hosted Molecular Flu...
The Journal of Physical Chemistry
November 2010
Microwave Assisted Synthesis of a Small Library of SubstitutedN,N′-Bis((8-hydroxy-7-qui...
The Journal of Organic Chemistry
September 2010
Hierarchical Self-Assembly on Silicon
Journal of the American Chemical Society
April 2010
A highly pH-sensitive Zn(ii) chemosensor
Dalton Transactions
January 2010
Luminescent Chemosensors Based on Silica Nanoparticles
January 2010
Energy Transfer in Silica Nanoparticles: An Essential Tool for the Amplification of the...
November 2009
6-Azahemiporphycene: A New Member of the Porphyrinoid Family
Inorganic Chemistry
November 2009
Iridium Doped Silica−PEG Nanoparticles: Enabling Electrochemiluminescence of Neutral Co...
Journal of the American Chemical Society
October 2009
Molecular Recognition on a Cavitand-Functionalized Silicon Surface
Journal of the American Chemical Society
June 2009
Modulation of Photochemical Properties in Ion-Controlled Multicomponent Dynamic Devices
European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
June 2009
Ru(bpy)3Covalently Doped Silica Nanoparticles as Multicenter Tunable Structures for Ele...
Journal of the American Chemical Society
February 2009
Two polyaminophenolic fluorescent chemosensors for H+and Zn(ii). Spectroscopic behaviou...
New Journal of Chemistry
January 2009
Photothermal sensitisation and therapeutic properties of a novel far-red absorbing cyanine
Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences
January 2009
Electrochemistry and Electrochemiluminescence of [Ru(II)-tris(bathophenanthroline-disu...
The Journal of Physical Chemistry
August 2008
Metal ion binding of photoactive poly-(arylene ethynylene) co-polymers
Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry
August 2008
A Simple Spectrofluorometric Assay to Measure Total Intracellular Magnesium by a Hydrox...
Journal of Fluorescence
June 2008
Supramolecular Metal-Polypyridyl and Ru(II) Porphyrin Complexes: Photophysical, Electro...
Inorganic Chemistry
June 2008
Chemiluminescent detection systems of horseradish peroxidase employing nucleophilic acy...
Analytical Biochemistry
June 2008
Induced Fit Interanion Discrimination by Binding-Induced Excimer Formation
Journal of the American Chemical Society
March 2008
Synthesis and Electrochemiluminescence of a Ru(bpy)3-Labeled Coupling Adduct Produced o...
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
February 2008
The Erratic Emission of Pyrene on Gold Nanoparticles
ACS Nano
January 2008
Fully reversible guest exchange in tetraphosphonate cavitand complexes probed by fluore...
Chemical Communications
January 2008
Self-Organizing Core−Shell Nanostructures: Spontaneous Accumulation of Dye in the Core...
Journal of the American Chemical Society
November 2007
Self-Assembly of Nanosize Coordination Cages on Si(100) Surfaces
Chemistry - A European Journal
August 2007
Synthesis and Functionalization of Germanium Triphenylcorrolate: The First Example of a...
European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry
June 2007
Enhanced Sensitized NIR Luminescence from Gold Nanoparticles via Energy Transfer from S...
Journal of the American Chemical Society
March 2007
8-Hydroxyquinoline Derivatives as Fluorescent Sensors for Magnesium in Living Cells [ ...
Journal of the American Chemical Society
February 2007
Characterization of titanium dioxide nanoparticles imprinted for tyrosine by flow field...
Inorganica Chimica Acta
February 2007
Stabilization of terpyridine covered gold nanoparticles by metal ions complexation
New Journal of Chemistry
January 2007
Amphiphilic porphyrin film on glass as a simple and selective solid-state chemosensor f...
Biosensors and Bioelectronics
September 2006
Size Effect on the Fluorescence Properties of Dansyl-Doped Silica Nanoparticles
Langmuir
June 2006
Handbook of Photochemistry
February 2006
Fluorescent silica nanoparticles
February 2006
New fluorescent chemosensors for magnesium ions in living cells
February 2006
Energy Transfer from a Fluorescent Hydrogel to a Hosted Fluorophore
Langmuir
February 2006
8-Hydroxyquinoline Derivatives as Fluorescent Sensors for Magnesium in Living Cells
Journal of the American Chemical Society
January 2006
Coordination chemistry of N-aminopropyl pendant arm derivatives of mixed N/S-, and N/S/...
Dalton Transactions
January 2005
Development of new calcium receptors based on oxazolidin-2-ones containing pseudopeptides
Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
January 2005
Luminescent chemosensors: from molecules to nanoparticles
New Journal of Chemistry
January 2005
Fluorescence quenching amplification in silica nanosensors for metal ions
Journal of Materials Chemistry
January 2005
Synthesis, photophysical characterisation and metal ion binding properties of new ligan...
Inorganica Chimica Acta
November 2004
Origins of ‘on–off’ fluorescent behavior of 8-hydroxyquinoline containing chemosensors
Tetrahedron
November 2004
Modulation of the Photophysical Properties of Gold Nanoparticles by Accurate Control of...
Langmuir
August 2004
Dynamic Chemical Devices: Modulation of Photophysical Properties by Reversible, Ion-Tri...
Chemistry - A European Journal
June 2004
Enantioselective Fluorescence Sensing of Amino Acids by Modified Cyclodextrins: Role of...
Chemistry - A European Journal
June 2004
Energy Transfer in Fluorescent Silica Nanoparticles
Langmuir
March 2004
A new pyridine-based 12-membered macrocycle functionalised with different fluorescent s...
Dalton Transactions
January 2004
Spontaneous deposition of amphiphilic porphyrin films on glassElectronic supplementary ...
New Journal of Chemistry
January 2004
Synthesis and characterization of β-fused porphyrin-BODIPY® dyads
Tetrahedron
January 2004
Photophysical Characterisation, Metal Ion Binding and Enantiomeric Recognition of Chira...
Collection of Czechoslovak Chemical Communications
January 2004
pH-dependent absorption and emission properties of a ReI complex working as a carboxyla...
Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry
July 2003
Kinetics of Place-Exchange Reactions of Thiols on Gold Nanoparticles
Langmuir
June 2003
Photophysical poperties of Schiff-base metal complexes
New Journal of Chemistry
March 2003
Self-Assembly of Monolayer-Coated Silver Nanoparticles on Gold Electrodes. An Electroch...
Collection of Czechoslovak Chemical Communications
January 2003
New europium(iii) complexes containing hybrid ligands with hard and soft complexation c...
New Journal of Chemistry
November 2002
Solvent-Induced Modulation of Collective Photophysical Processes in Fluorescent Silica ...
Journal of the American Chemical Society
November 2002
Phosphine and Phosphonite Complexes of a Ru(II) Porphyrin. 2. Photophysical and Electro...
Inorganic Chemistry
October 2002
Luminescent Lanthanide Complexes of a Bis-bipyridine-phosphine-oxide Ligand as Tools fo...
Journal of the American Chemical Society
July 2002
pH controlled emission of ruthenium(II)–tris–bipyridine complexes
Inorganica Chimica Acta
July 2002
The synthesis of azacrown ethers with quinoline-based sidearms as potential zinc(II) fl...
Tetrahedron
June 2002
A Luminescent Anion Sensor Based on a Europium Hybrid Complex
Journal of the American Chemical Society
December 2001
Convenient syntheses and preliminary photophysical properties of novel 8-aminoquinoline...
Tetrahedron
September 2001
A Strategy for the Assembly of Multiple Porphyrin Arrays Based on the Coordination Chem...
The Journal of Organic Chemistry
June 2001
Characterization of 5-chloro-8-methoxyquinoline appended diaza-18-crown-6 as a chemosen...
Tetrahedron Letters
April 2001
Dansylated Polyamines as Fluorescent Sensors for Metal Ions: Photophysical Properties a...
Helvetica Chimica Acta
March 2001
Synthesis, complexation properties and spectroscopic studies of the cation-induced conf...
New Journal of Chemistry
January 2001
Photophysical properties of supramolecular assemblies containing polypyridine complexes...
New Journal of Chemistry
January 2001
A convenient synthesis and preliminary photophysical study of novel fluoroionophores: m...
Tetrahedron
January 2001
Journal of Inclusion Phenomena and Macrocyclic Chemistry
January 2001
β-Fused Oligoporphyrins: A Novel Approach to a New Type of Extended Aromatic System
Journal of the American Chemical Society
November 2000
Mono- and Dinuclear Ruthenium(II) and Osmium(II) Polypyridine Complexes Built around Sp...
Inorganic Chemistry
August 2000
An Effective Fluorescent Chemosensor for Mercury Ions
Journal of the American Chemical Society
July 2000
Photophysics of 1,3-alternate calix[4]arene-crowns and of their metal ion complexes: ev...
New Journal of Chemistry
January 2000
Luminescence signalled enantiomeric recognition of chiral organic ammonium ions by an e...
New Journal of Chemistry
January 2000
Journal of Fluorescence
January 2000
The synthesis and complexation studies of thia-anthracene receptors
Tetrahedron
September 1999
RuII-Polypyridine Complexes Covalently Linked to Electron Acceptors as Wires for Light-...
Chemistry - A European Journal
December 1998
A Light-Fueled “Piston Cylinder” Molecular-Level Machine
Journal of the American Chemical Society
November 1998
A fluorescent sensor for magnesium ions
Tetrahedron Letters
July 1998
A New Family of Luminescent Sensors for Alkaline Earth Metal Ions
Chemistry - A European Journal
June 1998
Cyclophanes and [2]Catenanes as Ligands for Transition Metal Complexes: Synthesis, Stru...
Chemistry - A European Journal
April 1998
Synthesis, Structure and Photophysics of Neutral π-Associated [2]Catenanes
Chemistry - A European Journal
April 1998
Tandem Hetero-Catenation: Templating and Self-Assembly in the Mutual Closure of Two Di...
Journal of the American Chemical Society
February 1998
Hydrogen-Bonded Complexes of Aromatic Crown Ethers with (9-Anthracenyl)methylammonium D...
Journal of the American Chemical Society
November 1997
The Slipping Approach to Self-Assembling [ n ]Rotaxanes †
Journal of the American Chemical Society
January 1997
Self-Assembly, Spectroscopic, and Electrochemical Properties of [n]Rotaxanes1
Journal of the American Chemical Society
January 1996
Oscillating luminescence in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction catalyzed by Ru(bpy)32+
Inorganica Chimica Acta
May 1995
Oscillating photoluminescence in the cerium ion catalyzed Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction
Chemical Physics Letters
May 1995
Catenated Cyclodextrins
Chemistry - A European Journal
April 1995
Supramolecular photochemistry and photophysics. Adducts of Pt(bpy)(NH3)22+with basket-s...
Supramolecular Chemistry
April 1995
The self assembly of controllable [2]catenanes
Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications
January 1994
SOLVENT EFFECTS ON THE RATE vs FREE ENERGY DEPENDENCE OF PHOTOINDUCED CHARGE SEPARATION...
January 1992
Supramolecular Photochemistry and Photophysics. Adducts of Metal Complexes with the Nat...
Israel Journal of Chemistry
January 1992
Luminescence properties of cryptate europium (III) complexes incorporating heterocyclic...
Chemical Physics Letters
May 1991
Photochemistry of supramolecular and species
Pure and Applied Chemistry
January 1990
Luminescence of Gold Nanoparticles
Probes and Sensors for Cations
