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  1. Evaluation of the antibacterial power and biocompatibility of zinc oxide nanorods decorated graphene nanoplatelets: new perspectives for antibiodeteriorative approaches

    Article • Journal of Nanobiotechnology, August 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maurizio Leone

  2. Simultaneous Determination of Caffeine and Chlorogenic Acids in Green Coffee by UV/Vis Spectroscopy

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

    Maurizio Leone

  3. Donor–Acceptor Interfaces by Engineered Nanoparticles Assemblies for Enhanced Efficiency in Plastic Planar Heterojunction Solar Cells

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, November 2016, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Maurizio Leone

  4. Uptake of silica covered Quantum Dots into living cells: Long term vitality and morphology study on hyaluronic acid biomaterials

    Article • Materials Science and Engineering C, October 2016, Elsevier

    Maurizio Leone

  5. Trifluoroethanol modulates α-synuclein amyloid-like aggregate formation, stability and dissolution

    Article • Biophysical Chemistry, September 2016, Elsevier

    Maurizio Leone

  6. Monitoring few molecular binding events in scalable confined aqueous compartments by raster image correlation spectroscopy (CADRICS)

    Article • Lab on a Chip, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Maurizio Leone

  7. Thioflavin T templates amyloid β(1–40) conformation and aggregation pathway

    Article • Biophysical Chemistry, November 2015, Elsevier

    Maurizio Leone

  8. Maltose-conjugated chitosans induce macroscopic gelation of pectin solutions at neutral pH

    Article • Carbohydrate Polymers, December 2014, Elsevier

    Maurizio Leone

  9. Metal ions modulate thermal aggregation of beta-lactoglobulin: A joint chemical and physical characterization

    Article • Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, August 2014, Elsevier

    Maurizio Leone

  10. Deciphering metal-induced oxidative damages on glycated albumin structure and function

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects, June 2014, Elsevier

    Maurizio Leone

  11. The Boson Peak of Amyloid Fibrils: Probing the Softness of Protein Aggregates by Inelastic Neutron Scattering

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, March 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Maurizio Leone

  12. Oxidation Enhances Human Serum Albumin Thermal Stability and Changes the Routes of Amyloid Fibril Formation

    Article • PLoS ONE, January 2014, PLOS

    Maurizio Leone

  13. High Fluorescence of Thioflavin T Confined in Mesoporous Silica Xerogels

    Article • Langmuir, July 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Maurizio Leone

  14. Unlocked Concanavalin A Forms Amyloid-like Fibrils from Coagulation of Long-lived “Crinkled” Intermediates

    Article • PLoS ONE, July 2013, PLOS

    Maurizio Leone

  15. Characterization of the nucleation process of lysozyme at physiological pH: Primary but not sole process

    Article • Biophysical Chemistry, July 2013, Elsevier

    Maurizio Leone

  16. Oxidation Processes in Sicilian Olive Oils Investigated by a Combination of Optical and EPR Spectroscopy

    Article • Journal of Food Science, September 2012, Wiley

    Maurizio Leone

  17. Thioflavin T Promotes Aβ(1–40) Amyloid Fibrils Formation

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, May 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Maurizio Leone

  18. Neutron Scattering Reveals Enhanced Protein Dynamics in Concanavalin A Amyloid Fibrils

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, March 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Maurizio Leone

  19. Near-Infrared Emission of O2 Embedded in Amorphous SiO2 Nanoparticles

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, June 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Maurizio Leone

  20. Thermal oxidative process in extra-virgin olive oils studied by FTIR, rheology and time-resolved luminescence

    Article • Food Chemistry, June 2011, Elsevier

    Maurizio Leone

  21. Bovine Serum Albumin protofibril-like aggregates formation: Solo but not simple mechanism

    Article • Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, April 2011, Elsevier

    Maurizio Leone

  22. Amyloid Fibrils Formation of Concanavalin A at Basic pH

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, March 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Maurizio Leone

  23. Fluctuation Methods To Study Protein Aggregation in Live Cells: Concanavalin A Oligomers Formation

    Article • Biophysical Journal, February 2011, Elsevier

    Maurizio Leone

  24. Probing the internal environment of PVP networks generated by irradiation with different sources

    Article • Colloid & Polymer Science, April 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maurizio Leone

  25. Thermal aggregation of glycated bovine serum albumin

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics, April 2010, Elsevier

    Maurizio Leone

  26. Influence of metal ions on thermal aggregation of bovine serum albumin: Aggregation kinetics and structural changes

    Article • Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, December 2009, Elsevier

    Maurizio Leone

  27. Self-Organization Pathways and Spatial Heterogeneity in Insulin Amyloid Fibril Formation

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry, August 2009, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Leone Spiccia, Maurizio Leone

  28. Temperature effects on the IR absorption bands of hydroxyl and deuteroxyl groups in silica glass

    Article • Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, July 2009, Elsevier

    Maurizio Leone

  29. Photoluminescence spectral dispersion as a probe of structural inhomogeneity in silica

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, February 2009, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Maurizio Leone

  30. Inhomogeneous width of oxygen-deficient centers induced by electron irradiation of silica

    Article • Physical Review B, February 2009, American Physical Society (APS)

    Maurizio Leone

  31. Thermal aggregation and ion-induced cold-gelation of bovine serum albumin

    Article • European Biophysics Journal, January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maurizio Leone

  32. Isoelectronic Series of Oxygen Deficient Centers in Silica: Experimental Estimation of Homogeneous and Inhomogeneous Spectral Widths

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, November 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Maurizio Leone

  33. Thioflavin T Hydroxylation at Basic pH and Its Effect on Amyloid Fibril Detection

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, November 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Maurizio Leone

  34. Relaxation processes of point defects in vitreous silica from femtosecond to nanoseconds

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, September 2008, American Institute of Physics

    Maurizio Leone

  35. Homogeneous and inhomogeneous contributions to the luminescence linewidth of point defects in amorphous solids: Quantitative assessment based on time-resolved emission spectroscopy

    Article • Physical Review B, July 2008, American Physical Society (APS)

    Maurizio Leone

  36. Secondary Nucleation and Accessible Surface in Insulin Amyloid Fibril Formation

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, March 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Maurizio Leone

  37. Conformational heterogeneity of the point defects in silica: The lifetime of the phosphorescence band at 2.7eV

    Article • Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, January 2008, Elsevier

    Maurizio Leone

  38. Thermal aggregation of β-lactoglobulin in presence of metal ions

    Article • Biophysical Chemistry, December 2007, Elsevier

    Maurizio Leone

  39. Thermal aggregation of bovine serum albumin at different pH: comparison with human serum albumin

    Article • European Biophysics Journal, July 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maurizio Leone

  40. Effects of succinylation on thermal induced amyloid formation in Concanavalin A

    Article • European Biophysics Journal, June 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maurizio Leone

  41. Irradiation effects on the OH-related infrared absorption band in synthetic wet silica

    Article • Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, April 2007, Elsevier

    Maurizio Leone

  42. Effects of confinement on insulin amyloid fibrils formation

    Article • European Biophysics Journal, March 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maurizio Leone

  43. Smart hydrogels for Novel Optical Functions

    Article • Macromolecular Symposia, February 2007, Wiley

    Maurizio Leone

  44. Amyloid fibrils formation and amorphous aggregation in concanavalin A

    Article • Biophysical Chemistry, January 2007, Elsevier

    Maurizio Leone

  45. Microwave-assisted synthesis of anhydrous CdS nanoparticles in a water–oil microemulsion

    Article • Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, December 2006, Elsevier

    Maurizio Leone, Delia Chillura Martino

  46. Optical properties of biocompatible polyaniline nano-composites

    Article • Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, October 2006, Elsevier

    Maurizio Leone

  47. Luminescence and absorption spectroscopy of Sn-related impurity centers in silica

    Article • Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, July 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Piercarlo Mustarelli, Maurizio Leone

  48. Luminescence activity of surface and interior Ge–oxygen deficient centers in silica

    Article • Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, July 2005, Elsevier

    Maurizio Leone

  49. OH-related infrared absorption bands in oxide glasses

    Article • Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, July 2005, Elsevier

    Maurizio Leone

  50. Temperature dependence of luminescence decay in Sn-doped silica

    Article • Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, July 2005, Elsevier

    Maurizio Leone

  51. Synthesis and characterization of CdS nanoparticles embedded in a polymethylmethacrylate matrix

    Article • Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, April 2005, Elsevier

    Maurizio Leone

  52. Spectral broadening of the Soret band in myoglobin: an interpretation by the full spectrum of low-frequency modes from a normal modes analysis

    Article • European Biophysics Journal, March 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maurizio Leone

  53. Spectral heterogeneity of oxygen-deficient centers in Ge-doped silica

    Article • Radiation Measurements, August 2004, Elsevier

    Maurizio Leone

  54. Aggregation kinetics of bovine serum albumin studied by FTIR spectroscopy and light scattering

    Article • Biophysical Chemistry, February 2004, Elsevier

    Maurizio Leone

  55. Role of vitreous matrix on the optical activity of Ge-doped silica

    Article • Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, December 2003, Elsevier

    Maurizio Leone

  56. Conformational changes involved in thermal aggregation processes of bovine serum albumin

    Article • Biophysical Chemistry, August 2003, Elsevier

    Maurizio Leone

  57. Conformational substates and dynamic properties of carbonmonoxy hemoglobin

    Article • Biophysical Chemistry, May 2003, Elsevier

    Maurizio Leone

  58. Local dynamic properties of the heme pocket in native and solvent-induced molten-globule-like states of cytochrome c

    Article • Biophysical Chemistry, June 2002, Elsevier

    Maurizio Leone

  59. Optical properties of oxygen-deficiency related centers in amorphous SiO 2 investigated by synchrotron radiation

    Article • Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids, January 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Maurizio Leone

  60. UV and vacuum-UV properties of ge related centers in gamma irradiated silica

    Article • Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids, January 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Maurizio Leone

  61. Heme Pocket Disorder in Myoglobin:  Reversal by Acid-Induced Soft Refolding †

    Article • Biochemistry, October 2001, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Maurizio Leone

  62. Photoluminescence at 1.9 eV in synthetic wet silica

    Article • Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, February 2001, Elsevier

    Maurizio Leone

  63. Vibrational analysis of Ni(II)- and Cu(II)-octamethylchlorin by polarized resonance Raman and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy

    Article • Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, January 2001, Wiley

    Maurizio Leone

  64. Bleaching and thermal recovery of PL emissions in natural silica

    Article • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, May 2000, Elsevier

    Maurizio Leone

  65. Generation of a 7.4 mT ESR doublet induced by γ rays in amorphous-SiO2

    Article • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, May 2000, Elsevier

    Maurizio Leone

  66. Heme symmetry, vibronic structure, and dynamics in heme proteins: Ferrous nicotinate horse myoglobin and soybean leghemoglobin

    Article • Biopolymers, January 2000, Wiley

    Maurizio Leone

  67. The landscape of the excitation profiles of the αE and β emission bands in silica

    Article • Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, April 1999, Elsevier

    Maurizio Leone

  68. Experimental evidence of different contributions to the photoluminescence at 4.4 eV in synthetic silica

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, January 1999, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Maurizio Leone

  69. Properties of Human Hemoglobins with Increased Polarity in the α- or β-Heme Pocket

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, September 1998, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    Maurizio Leone

  70. Fourier Transform Infrared Analysis of the Interaction of Azide with the Active Site of Oxidized and Reduced Bovine Cu,Zn Superoxide Dismutase†

    Article • Biochemistry, March 1998, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Maurizio Leone

  71. Modification of α-Chain or β-Chain Heme Pocket Polarity by Val(E11) → Thr Substitution Has Different Effects on the Steric, Dynamic, and Functional Properties of Human Recombinant Hemoglobin

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, October 1997, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    Maurizio Leone

  72. Photoluminescence band at 4.4 eV in oxygen-deficient silica: temperature effects

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, September 1996, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Maurizio Leone

  73. Low temperature optical spectroscopy of low-spin ferric hemeproteins

    Article • European Biophysics Journal, February 1996, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maurizio Leone

  74. Low-temperature optical spectroscopy of cobalt in Cu,Co superoxide dismutase: a structural dynamics study of the solvent-unaccessible metal site

    Article • Biochemistry, December 1995, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Full Professor of Biochemistry Fabio Polticelli, Maurizio Leone

  75. Dynamic properties of some β-chain mutant hemoglobins

    Article • Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics, May 1995, Wiley

    Maurizio Leone

  76. Low temperature optical absorption spectroscopy: an approach to the study of stereodynamic properties of hemeproteins

    Article • European Biophysics Journal, February 1995, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maurizio Leone

  77. Thermal broadening of the Soret band in heme complexes and in heme-proteins: role of iron dynamics

    Article • European Biophysics Journal, December 1994, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maurizio Leone

  78. Low temperature optical spectroscopy of cobalt-substituted hemocyanin from Carcinus maenas

    Article • European Biophysics Journal, August 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maurizio Leone

  79. Protein dynamics: conformational disorder, vibrational coupling and anharmonicity in deoxy-hemoglobin and myoglobin

    Article • European Biophysics Journal, January 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maurizio Leone

  80. Strong vibronic coupling in heme proteins

    Article • Biophysical Chemistry, February 1992, Elsevier

    Maurizio Leone

  81. Optical absorption spectra of azurin and stellacyanin in glycerol/water and ethylene glycol/water solutions in the temperature range 290-20 K

    Article • Biophysical Chemistry, November 1990, Elsevier

    Maurizio Leone

  82. Oxygen binding to partially oxidized hemoglobin

    Article • Biophysical Chemistry, August 1990, Elsevier

    Maurizio Leone

  83. Dynamic properties of the active site of azurin studied by the temperature dependence of the optical spectrum

    Article • Biology of Metals, January 1990, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maurizio Leone

  84. Optical absorption spectra of deoxy- and oxyhemoglobin in the temperature range 300—20 K

    Article • Biophysical Chemistry, August 1986, Elsevier

    Maurizio Leone

  85. Structural properties of aqueous electrolyte solutions from i.r. absorption spectra

    Article • Il Nuovo Cimento D, February 1985, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maurizio Leone

  86. Biomolecular-Solvent Stereodynamic Coupling Probed by Deuteration

    Article • Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, October 1983, Taylor & Francis

    Maurizio Leone

  87. Near-i.r. Absorption of H2O and D2O in the liquid and supercooled range

    Article • Il Nuovo Cimento D, September 1983, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maurizio Leone