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Scientific interest and expertise are in the field of materials science focussing on the fabrication and characterization of nanostructured semiconductors and polymer nanocomposites for optoelectronics, photonics and sensing. In particular the main topics are
- Silicon nanowire for plasmonic, Raman, electrochemical biosensensing/diagnostic and as live cell interface (2010-present);
- Si, III-V and II-VI compound semiconductors based nano-structures fabricated by bottom-up approaches for opto-electronics, photocatalytic, photovoltaics (1994-2010);
- Composite polymers for chemical sensing (1999-2008);
- Design and fabrication of dielectric multi-layered structures for optical coatings and photonic crystals (1994-2000).
Ph.D. in Physics in 1999 and Laurea in Physics in 1994 at the University of Bari (Italy). Since 2001 permanent researcher at the National Research Council (CNR) and in 2008 she joined the Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems of CNR, Unit of Rome. In 2019 visiting researcher at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore (USA) within the Short Term Mobility program of the CNR. From 1999 to 2001 tenure track at the Institute of Material Chemistry of the CNR. In 1998 visiting Research Fellow at Laboratoire Central de Recherches-Thomson CSF, Orsay, France. Co-Principal investigator of Collaborative Linkage Grant in the NATO Programme Security trough Science "Creation of the PTFE NanoComposite Optical Sensor for Aggressive Matter" (2007-2009). Responsible for IMM Rome Unit of the project "Advanced nano-structured material interface and devices for in vivo-like-in vitro monitoring of astrocytes physiology and brain toxicology (Astromat)" funded within the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (2017-2018). Principal Investigator of the joint project "Scalable nano-plasmonic platform for differentiation and drug response monitoring of organ-tropic metastatic cancer cells" within the Scientific and Collaboration Program Italy-USA (2019-2021) of the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Collaboration (MAECI). In the member team of several national and european project. She has co-authored more than 65 papers on international journals. Vice Chair for H2020 FETOPEN 2015/2, Expert Evaluator for H2020 Fast Track to Innovation (FTI) Pilot-2016, H2020-FETOPEN-2014-2015-RIA_H2020 FETOPEN 2015/1, Expert Reviewer for EU-FP7 specific programme: Research projects for the benefit of SMEs, Rapporteur for the Italian Ministries of Economic Development (MISE) and Education University Research (MIUR), and Expert-Reviewer for the Romanian Minister of Education and Science CNCS.
Scientific Productions
Biomedical Spectroscopy, Microscopy, and Imaging III [SPIE], Volume: 13006 Pages: 258-261
Nanostructured materials and Nano-probes to modulate the functional activity of astrocytes.
GLIA [WILEY], Volume: 71 Pages: E117-E117
GLIA [WILEY], Volume: 71 Pages: E543-E543
2020 IEEE 7th International Workshop on Metrology for AeroSpace (MetroAeroSpace) [IEEE], Pages: 505-509
2019 IEEE SENSORS [IEEE], Pages: 1-4
GLIA [WILEY], Volume: 67 Pages: E155-E156
2015 1st Workshop on Nanotechnology in Instrumentation and Measurement (NANOFIM) [IEEE], Pages: 43-46
Optical Sensors 2015 [International Society for Optics and Photonics], Volume: 9506 Pages: 95060J
Investigation on nanostructured biosensor for Biotin detection
SENSORS, 2014 IEEE [IEEE], Pages: 1627-1630
2014 Fotonica AEIT Italian Conference on Photonics Technologies [IEEE], Pages: 1-4
Polymer-metal nanocomposite thin film prepared by co-evaporation in a vacuum
Polymer surface modification and polymer coating by dry process technologies (2005) [], Pages: 85-109
bioRxiv [Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory], Pages: 2024.08. 16.608356
Advanced Science [], Pages: 2301925
Bioengineering [MDPI], Volume: 10 Issue: 5 Pages: 567
Learning models for classifying Raman spectra of genomic DNA from tumor subtypes
arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.08918 [],
Applied Sciences [MDPI], Volume: 12 Issue: 24 Pages: 12538
Statistical classification for Raman spectra of tumoral genomic DNA
Micromachines [], Volume: 13 Issue: 9 Pages: 1388
Nanomaterials [MDPI], Volume: 12 Issue: 12 Pages: 1994
Biological Response to Bioinspired Microporous 3D-Printed Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering
International Journal of Molecular Sciences [MDPI], Volume: 23 Issue: 10 Pages: 5383
SEM characterization and ageing analysis on two generation of invisible aligners
BMC Oral Health [BioMed Central], Volume: 21 Issue: 1 Pages: 1-11
BMC Oral Health [BioMed Central], Volume: 21 Issue: 1 Pages: 1-12
Efficient Photothermal Generation by Nanoscale Light Trapping in a Forest of Silicon Nanowires
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C [American Chemical Society],
Nanowire Assisted Mechanotyping of Cellular Metastatic Potential
Advanced Functional Materials [], Pages: 2101638
Materials Science and Engineering: C [Elsevier], Volume: 122 Pages: 111951
Micromachines [Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute], Volume: 12 Issue: 3 Pages: 264
Advanced Healthcare Materials [], Volume: 10 Issue: 3 Pages: 2001110
Advanced biosystems [], Volume: 4 Issue: 4 Pages: 1900264
Advanced Biosystems [], Volume: 4 Issue: 4 Pages: 2070044
Nanotechnology [IOP Publishing], Volume: 29 Issue: 41 Pages: 415102
Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical [Elsevier], Volume: 259 Pages: 809-815
Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical [Elsevier],
Decoration of silica nanowires with gold nanoparticles through ultra-short pulsed laser deposition
Applied Surface Science [North-Holland], Volume: 418 Pages: 430-436
A Deep Morphological Characterization and Comparison of Different Dental Restorative Materials
BioMed research international [Hindawi], Volume: 2017
Whole-Cell Electrochemical Biosensor Integrating Microbes with Si Nanowire-Forest
J. Electrochem. Soc. [], Volume: 164 Issue: 6 Pages: B253-B257
Whole-Cell Electrochemical Biosensor Integrating Microbes with Si Nanowire-Forest
J. Electrochem. Soc. [], Volume: 164 Issue: 6 Pages: B253-B257
ECS Transactions [IOP Publishing], Volume: 75 Issue: 16 Pages: 157
3D plasmonic transducer based on gold nanoparticles produced by laser ablation on silica nanowires
Applied Physics A [Springer Berlin Heidelberg], Volume: 122 Issue: 5 Pages: 539
Scientific reports [Nature Publishing Group], Volume: 6 Issue: 1 Pages: 1-10
Au nanoparticles decoration of silica nanowires for improved optical bio-sensing
Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical [Elsevier], Volume: 226 Pages: 589-597
Investigation of functionalized silicon nanowires by self-assembled monolayer
Applied Surface Science [North-Holland], Volume: 367 Pages: 231-236
Advanced healthcare materials [], Volume: 5 Issue: 5 Pages: 575-583
Advanced healthcare materials [],
Layered double hydroxides intercalated with chlorine used as low temperature gas sensors
Procedia engineering [Elsevier], Volume: 120 Pages: 1175-1178
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C [American Chemical Society], Volume: 118 Issue: 1 Pages: 685-690
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C [American Chemical Society], Volume: 118 Issue: 1 Pages: 685-690
Silicon spectral response extension through single wall carbon nanotubes in hybrid solar cells
Journal of Materials Chemistry C [Royal Society of Chemistry], Volume: 1 Issue: 41 Pages: 6752-6758
On-chip fabrication of ultrasensitive NO2 sensors based on silicon nanowires
Applied Physics Letters [American Institute of Physics], Volume: 101 Issue: 10 Pages: 103101
Nanotechnology [IOP Publishing], Volume: 23 Issue: 30 Pages: 305602
Optical reflectivity of GaAs nanowire arrays: experiment and model
Journal of Applied Physics [American Institute of Physics], Volume: 111 Issue: 11 Pages: 114302
Journal of nanoscience and nanotechnology [American Scientific Publishers], Volume: 11 Issue: 10 Pages: 9202-9207
Thin Solid Films [Elsevier], Volume: 519 Issue: 11 Pages: 3931-3938
Atomic structure of metal-free and catalyzed Si nanowires
MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) [Cambridge University Press], Volume: 1305
Peer-reviewed journal articles
CrystEngComm (Camb., Online) [], Volume: 13 Pages: 3988-3997
Optical reflectivity from highly disordered Si nanowire films
Nanotechnology [IOP Publishing], Volume: 21 Issue: 35 Pages: 355701
Single-Layer InAs Quantum Dots for High-Performance Planar Photodetectors Near 1.3$\ mu\ hbox {m} $
IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices [IEEE], Volume: 57 Issue: 6 Pages: 1237-1242
Semiconductor science and technology [IOP Publishing], Volume: 24 Issue: 8 Pages: 085001
Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures [North-Holland], Volume: 41 Issue: 4 Pages: 734-738
Polymer [Elsevier], Volume: 49 Issue: 25 Pages: 5526-5532
Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures [North-Holland], Volume: 40 Issue: 6 Pages: 2119-2121
Electronic structure of double stacked InAs/GaAs quantum dots: Experiment and theory
Journal of Applied Physics [American Institute of Physics], Volume: 102 Issue: 9 Pages: 094314
Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical [Elsevier], Volume: 126 Issue: 1 Pages: 138-143
PECVD of h-BN and c-BN films from boranedimethylamine as a single source precursor
Electrochimica acta [Pergamon], Volume: 50 Issue: 23 Pages: 4600-4604
High-speed InAs quantum dot photodetectors for data/telecom
Photodetectors [Woodhead Publishing], Pages: 199-231
Three-dimensional Plasmonic Materials for Chemical Sensor Application
Sensors [Springer, Cham], Pages: 171-175
Colloidal nanocrystal based nanocomposites as novel functional materials
III International Congress Nanoscience with Nanocrystals (NaNaX 3), Lecce 21-23 Maggio, 2008 [National Nanotechnology Laboratory of CNR-INFM],
Chemical sensing properties of poly (methyl metacrylate)-TiO2 nanocomposites
Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings [Material Research Society], Volume: 1010 Pages: 65-78
Atti del XXXVI Congresso Nazionale di Chimica Fisica, Gallipoli, 17-22 Giugno 2007 [],