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  1. A multilayer fluorogenic material for the ultrasensitive detection of TATP in air, suitable for implementation on a mechanized semi-autonomous robotic platform

    Article • Sensors & Diagnostics, January 2026, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Tomas Torroba

  2. Self-assembling Depsipeptides on Aggregation-Induced Emission Luminogens: A New Way to Create Programmable Nanovesicles and Soft Nanocarriers

    Article • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, January 2025, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Tomas Torroba

  3. Sustainable Functional Nanomaterials Based on Self-Aggregation: A Radically New Approach to Active Cell Transport and Nanoencapsulation

    Article • November 2024, Wiley

    Professor Tomas Torroba

  4. Photosensitizers Based on Bichromophoric Dyads Combining Ru(II)-Polypyridyl Complexes and Dissymmetric Perylene Monoimide Derivatives: The Nontrivial Role of Ligand Substitution

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry, March 2024, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Tomas Torroba

  5. Plastic degradation by insect hexamerins: Near-atomic resolution structures of the polyethylene-degrading proteins from the wax worm saliva

    Article • Science Advances, September 2023, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Mercedes Spínola Amilibia, Professor Tomas Torroba

  6. Pharmacological activation of insulin‐degrading enzyme improves insulin secretion and glucose tolerance in diet‐induced obese mice

    Article • Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism, July 2023, Wiley

    Professor Tomas Torroba

  7. Silica Nanoparticle/Fluorescent Dye Assembly Capable of Ultrasensitively Detecting Airborne Triacetone Triperoxide: Proof-of-Concept Detection of Improvised Explosive Devices in the Workroom

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

    Professor Tomas Torroba

  8. Synthesis of water-soluble hemicoronenediimides by photocyclization of perylenediimides: Turn-on fluorescent probes in water by complexation with Cucurbit[7]uril or binding to G-quadruplex Motifs

    Article • Dyes and Pigments, September 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Tomas Torroba

  9. Self-Assembly Hydrosoluble Coronenes: A Rich Source of Supramolecular Turn-On Fluorogenic Sensing Materials in Aqueous Media

    Article • Organic Letters, November 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Tomas Torroba

  10. Luminescent cis-Bis(bipyridyl)ruthenium(II) Complexes with 1,2-Azolylamidino Ligands: Photophysical, Electrochemical Studies, and Photocatalytic Oxidation of Thioethers

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry, April 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Tomas Torroba

  11. Dye-modified silica–anatase nanoparticles for the ultrasensitive fluorogenic detection of the improvised explosive TATP in an air microfluidic device

    Article • Materials Chemistry Frontiers, January 2021, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Tomas Torroba

  12. (1,2-Azole)bis(bipyridyl)ruthenium(II) Complexes: Electrochemistry, Luminescent Properties, And Electro- And Photocatalysts for CO2 Reduction

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry, December 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Tomas Torroba, Professor Alfredo M Angeles-Boza

  13. Cover Feature: Microwave Detection of Wet Triacetone Triperoxide (TATP): Non‐Covalent Forces and Water Dynamics (Chem. Eur. J. 5/2021)

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, November 2020, Wiley

    Professor Tomas Torroba

  14. Microwave Detection of Wet Triacetone Triperoxide (TATP): Non‐Covalent Forces and Water Dynamics

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, November 2020, Wiley

    Professor Tomas Torroba

  15. Luminescent Rhenium(I)tricarbonyl Complexes Containing Different Pyrazoles and Their Successive Deprotonation Products: CO2 Reduction Electrocatalysts

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry, July 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Tomas Torroba

  16. Synthesis and Application of Ruthenium(II) Alkenyl Complexes with Perylene Fluorophores for the Detection of Toxic Vapours and Gases

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, October 2019, Wiley

    Professor Tomas Torroba

  17. Synthesis of a Tetracorannulene-perylenediimide That Acts as a Selective Receptor for C60 over C70

    Article • Organic Letters, June 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Tomas Torroba

  18. Surface functionalized silica nanoparticles for the off–on fluorogenic detection of an improvised explosive, TATP, in a vapour flow

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

    Professor Tomas Torroba

  19. Palladium nanodendrites uniformly deposited on the surface of polymers as an efficient and recyclable catalyst for direct drug modification via Z-selective semihydrogenation of alkynes

    Article • Green Chemistry, January 2018, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Tomas Torroba

  20. Solvent-Free Off-On Detection of the Improvised Explosive Triacetone Triperoxide (TATP) with Fluorogenic Materials

    Article • Chemistry - A European Journal, September 2017, Wiley

    Professor Tomas Torroba

  21. Potassium-Ion-Selective Fluorescent Sensors To Detect Cereulide, the Emetic Toxin of B. cereus , in Food Samples and HeLa Cells

    Article • ChemistryOpen, June 2017, Wiley

    Professor Tomas Torroba

  22. Chemical speciation of MeHg+ and Hg2+ in aqueous solution and HEK cells nuclei by means of DNA interacting fluorogenic probes

    Article • Chemical Science, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Tomas Torroba