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Development of synthesis techniques of oxide (ZnO, SnO2 ecc) colloids: the syntheses are carried out through pyrolysis of non toxic and cheap precursors or complexes already containing the final elements. The precursor and synthesis mechanisms are meant as innovative toward the existing works.
Embedding of the colloids in glassy matrix: development of different surface functionalizations of the colloids, embedding of semiconductor colloids in glassy or hybrid organic-inorganic protective hosts, study of the luminescence properties of the resulting materials for optical or sensing applications.
Development of innovative techniques for the low temperature synthesis of nanostructures oxide powders: using sol-gel systems as cheap precursors for the nanopowder synthesis through self-limiting nanoreactors; characterization of the purity of the final products, heat-treatments and chemical and structural characterization of the final products. Implementation of the obtained powders for the preparation of thick films sensors by drop-coating.
Chemical synthesis of thin films from metalorganic precursors: deposition of oxide thin films (SnO2, TiO2, In2O3, MoO3, WO3 etc) through sol-gel techniques starting from chloro-alkoxides or other solution techniques; deposition of thin films onto alumina or silicon.
Development of innovative precursors for the synthesis of oxide powders through self-propagating high temperature combustion reactions: precursor synthesis through sol-gel processing of transition metal complexes , implementation of the combustion reactions, characterization of the final material.
Investigation of the technological problematic related to the development of thin films gas sensors: optimization of the deposition of thin films and of the following chemical etching, investigation of the uniformity and adhesion of the films to the substrate.
Materials characterization through X-Ray diffraction, Uv-Vis, FTIR and Raman spectroscopy, thermal analyses, SEM, XPS and Auger spectroscopy.
Structural and morphological characterization of nanocrystals (X-ray Diffraction, Transmission Electron Microscopy, Scanning Electron Microscopy).
Scientific Productions
Efficient Solar Light Photocatalyst Made of Ag3PO4 Coated TiO2-SiO2 Microspheres
Nanomaterials [MDPI], Volume: 13 Issue: 3 Pages: 588
Light-Tunable Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Nanostructured Layers for Virtual Sensor Arrays
Engineering Proceedings [Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute], Volume: 27 Issue: 1 Pages: 52
Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical [Elsevier], Volume: 319 Pages: 128338
WO3 Based Gas Sensors: Identifying Inherent Qualities and Understanding the Sensing Mechanism
ACS sensors [American Chemical Society], Volume: 5 Issue: 6 Pages: 1624-1633
Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures [North-Holland], Volume: 118 Pages: 113788
ACS Applied Nano Materials [American Chemical Society], Volume: 3 Issue: 4 Pages: 3337-3346
Journal of Sensors [Hindawi], Volume: 2019
Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures [North-Holland], Pages: 113788
Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures [North-Holland], Volume: 106 Pages: 326-333
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science [Academic Press],
Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures [North-Holland],
Proceedings IMCS 2018 [], Pages: 126-127
A Dual Band Electrochromic Device Switchable across Four Distinct Optical Modes
Journal of Materials Chemistry A [Royal Society of Chemistry], Volume: 6 Issue: 22 Pages: 10201-10205
ChemNanoMat [], Volume: 3 Issue: 11 Pages: 798-807
Scientific reports [Nature Publishing Group], Volume: 7 Issue: 1 Pages: 1-13
Scientific reports [Nature Publishing Group], Volume: 7
European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry [], Volume: 2016 Issue: 24 Pages: 3963-3968
Acetone sensors based on TiO 2 nanocrystals modified with tungsten oxide species
Journal of Alloys and Compounds [Elsevier], Volume: 665 Pages: 345-351
Tagungsband [], Pages: 307-310
Tagungsband [], Pages: 307-310
Applied Surface Science [North-Holland], Volume: 351 Pages: 1169-1173
Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical [Elsevier], Volume: 217 Pages: 193-197
Applied Surface Science [North-Holland], Volume: 351 Pages: 1169-1173
ZnO@ SnO2 engineered composite photoanodes for dye sensitized solar cells
Scientific reports [Nature Publishing Group], Volume: 5 Issue: 1 Pages: 1-12
ACS applied materials & interfaces [American Chemical Society], Volume: 7 Issue: 12 Pages: 6898-6908
ACS applied materials & interfaces [American Chemical Society], Volume: 6 Issue: 19 Pages: 16808-16816
Analysis of the Different Mechanisms of Electrochemical Energy Storage in Magnetite Nanoparticles
Int. J. Electrochem. Sci [], Volume: 9 Issue: 7 Pages: 3837-3845
Thin Solid Films [Elsevier], Volume: 555 Pages: 39-41
Thin Solid Films [Elsevier], Volume: 555 Pages: 39-41
Procedia Engineering [Elsevier], Volume: 87 Pages: 803-806
Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical [Elsevier], Volume: 187 Pages: 308-312
Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical [Elsevier], Volume: 187 Pages: 308-312
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C [American Chemical Society], Volume: 117 Issue: 40 Pages: 20697-20705
Advanced Functional Materials [WILEY‐VCH Verlag], Volume: 22 Issue: 13 Pages: 2867-2875
Proceedings IMCS 2012 [], Pages: 96-99
Pt doping triggers growth of TiO 2 nanorods: nanocomposite synthesis and gas-sensing properties
CrystEngComm [Royal Society of Chemistry], Volume: 14 Issue: 11 Pages: 3882-3887
Surface modification of metal oxide nanocrystals for improved supercapacitors
Energy & Environmental Science [Royal Society of Chemistry], Volume: 5 Issue: 6 Pages: 7555-7558
Journal of sol-gel science and technology [Springer US], Volume: 60 Issue: 3 Pages: 254-259
Improvement of oxygen storage capacity using mesoporous ceria–zirconia solid solutions
Applied Catalysis B: Environmental [Elsevier], Volume: 108 Pages: 32-38
Crystal growth & design [American Chemical Society], Volume: 10 Issue: 12 Pages: 5176-5181
Materials Chemistry and Physics [], Volume: 124
Materials Chemistry and Physics [Elsevier], Volume: 124 Issue: 1 Pages: 809-815
Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical [Elsevier], Volume: 148 Issue: 1 Pages: 200-206
Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical [Elsevier], Volume: 148 Issue: 1 Pages: 200-206
Thin solid films [Elsevier], Volume: 518 Issue: 16 Pages: 4512-4514
Thin Solid Films [Elsevier], Volume: 518 Issue: 16 Pages: 4512-4514
Chemistry of Materials [American Chemical Society], Volume: 21 Issue: 21 Pages: 5215-5221
Chemistry of materials [American Chemical Society], Volume: 21 Issue: 8 Pages: 1618-1626
MAPLE deposition and characterization of SnO2 colloidal nanoparticle thin films
Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics [IOP Publishing], Volume: 42 Issue: 9 Pages: 095105
Chemistry of Materials [American Chemical Society], Volume: 21 Issue: 5 Pages: 862-870
Chemoresistive sensing of light alkanes with SnO 2 nanocrystals: a DFT-based insight
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics [Royal Society of Chemistry], Volume: 11 Issue: 19 Pages: 3634-3639
The role of surface oxygen vacancies in the NO2 sensing properties of SnO2 nanocrystals
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C [American Chemical Society], Volume: 112 Issue: 49 Pages: 19540-19546
Capping ligand effects on the amorphous-to-crystalline transition of CdSe nanoparticles
Langmuir [American Chemical Society], Volume: 24 Issue: 19 Pages: 11182-11188
GRAIN SAMPLES BY ANELECTRONIC NOSE'
Proceedings of the 10th Italian Conference, Sensors and Microsystems, Firenze, Italy, 15-17 February 2005 [World Scientific], Pages: 385
Crystal Growth and Design [American Chemical Society], Volume: 8 Issue: 5 Pages: 1774-1778
Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical [Elsevier], Volume: 130 Issue: 2 Pages: 599-608
Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical [Elsevier], Volume: 130 Issue: 1 Pages: 483-487
Sensors and actuators B: chemical [Elsevier], Volume: 130 Issue: 1 Pages: 483-487
European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry [WILEY‐VCH Verlag], Volume: 2008 Issue: 6 Pages: 859-862
Inorganica Chimica Acta [Elsevier], Volume: 361 Issue: 1 Pages: 79-85
Nanoparticle thin films deposited by MAPLE for sensor applications [6985-16]
PROCEEDINGS-SPIE THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR OPTICAL ENGINEERING [International Society for Optical Engineering; 1999], Volume: 6985 Pages: 6985
Chemistry of Materials [American Chemical Society], Volume: 19 Issue: 20 Pages: 4919-4924
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C [American Chemical Society], Volume: 111 Issue: 37 Pages: 13967-13971
Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical [Elsevier], Volume: 126 Issue: 1 Pages: 163-167
Interactions of nanocrystalline tin oxide powder with NO 2: a Raman spectroscopic study
Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical [Elsevier], Volume: 126 Issue: 1 Pages: 1-5
Organic and nanoparticle thin films deposited by maple for sensor applications
“Fundamentals of Laser Assisted Micro–and Nanotechnologies”(FLAMN-07) [], Pages: 70
Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical [Elsevier], Volume: 124 Issue: 1 Pages: 217-226
Synthesis of nanocrystalline ZnO at low temperatures using inorganic sols as precursors
Materials Letters [North-Holland], Volume: 61 Issue: 14-15 Pages: 3100-3102
Journal of the European Ceramic Society [Elsevier], Volume: 27 Issue: 1 Pages: 115-123
Detection of unburned fuel as contaminant in engine oil by a gas microsensor array [6589-32]
PROCEEDINGS-SPIE THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR OPTICAL ENGINEERING [International Society for Optical Engineering; 1999], Volume: 6589 Pages: 6589
J. phys. chem., C (Print) [], Volume: 111 Pages: 13967-13971
Microelectronics journal [Elsevier], Volume: 37 Issue: 12 Pages: 1620-1628
In situ Raman spectroscopy study of NO2 adsorption onto nanocrystalline tin (IV) oxide
Journal of Raman Spectroscopy: An International Journal for Original Work in all Aspects of Raman Spectroscopy, Including Higher Order Processes, and also Brillouin and Rayleigh Scattering [John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.], Volume: 37 Issue: 11 Pages: 1272-1277
Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical [Elsevier], Volume: 118 Issue: 1-2 Pages: 105-109
Design of an electronic nose for selective phosphine detection in cereals
Sensor Letters [American Scientific Publishers], Volume: 4 Issue: 3 Pages: 229-234
Advanced Functional Materials [WILEY‐VCH Verlag], Volume: 16 Issue: 11 Pages: 1488-1498
Influence of electrodes ageing on the properties of the gas sensors based on SnO 2
Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical [Elsevier], Volume: 115 Issue: 1 Pages: 396-402
Nanostructured In2O3–SnO2 sol–gel thin film as material for NO2 detection
Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical [Elsevier], Volume: 114 Issue: 2 Pages: 646-655
Nanostructured In 2 O 3–SnO 2 sol–gel thin film as material for NO 2 detection
Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical [Elsevier], Volume: 114 Issue: 2 Pages: 646-655
Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical [Elsevier], Volume: 114 Issue: 2 Pages: 674-680
Chemistry of materials [American Chemical Society], Volume: 18 Issue: 3 Pages: 840-846
POSTER PRESENTATIONS-Characterization and preparation of metalloporphyrin-tin oxide chemical sensors
Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines [Chichester, West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, c1997-], Volume: 10 Issue: 4-6 Pages: 631-631
Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines [Chichester, West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, c1997-], Volume: 10 Issue: 4-6 Pages: 836-836
Chemistry of materials [American Chemical Society], Volume: 17 Issue: 25 Pages: 6468-6472
Temperature and doping effects on performance of titania thin film lambda probe
Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical [Elsevier], Volume: 111 Pages: 52-57
NO {sub 2}-gas-sensing properties of mixed In {sub 2} O {sub 3}-SnO {sub 2} thin films
Thin Solid Films [], Volume: 490
NO 2-gas-sensing properties of mixed In 2 O 3–SnO 2 thin films
Thin Solid Films [Elsevier], Volume: 490 Issue: 1 Pages: 68-73
NO2-gas-sensing properties of mixed In2O3–SnO2 thin films
Thin Solid Films [Elsevier], Volume: 490 Issue: 1 Pages: 68-73
Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical [Elsevier], Volume: 107 Issue: 2 Pages: 563-571
Synthesis of gold nanocrystals in concurrently polymerizing organic–inorganic hybrid films
Journal of materials research [Springer International Publishing], Volume: 20 Issue: 5 Pages: 1287-1294
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute Proceedings [], Volume: 2 Issue: 13 Pages: 826
Oxide-based Materials and Devices VI [International Society for Optics and Photonics], Volume: 9364 Pages: 936415
Tailor-made ZnO@ SnO2 networks for high efficiency photovoltaic devices
Oxide-based Materials and Devices V [International Society for Optics and Photonics], Volume: 8987 Pages: 898728
Advanced Materials Research [Trans Tech Publications Ltd], Volume: 773 Pages: 80-86
Gas microsensor array for breath analysis: An explorative study of smoking status risk
2011 4th IEEE International Workshop on Advances in Sensors and Interfaces (IWASI) [IEEE], Pages: 121-124
ZnO nanocrystals by chemical route for optical gas sensing
SENSORS, 2008 IEEE [IEEE], Pages: 1293-1296
The role of oxygen vacancies in the sensing properties of SnO 2 nanocrystals
SENSORS, 2008 IEEE [IEEE], Pages: 110-113
Nanoparticle thin films deposited by MAPLE for sensor applications
Fundamentals of Laser Assisted Micro-and Nanotechnologies [International Society for Optics and Photonics], Volume: 6985 Pages: 69850H
Detection of unburned fuel as contaminant in engine oil by a gas microsensor array
Smart Sensors, Actuators, and MEMS III [International Society for Optics and Photonics], Volume: 6589 Pages: 658911
MRS Spring Meeting [-], Pages: ---
SENSORS, 2006 IEEE [IEEE], Pages: 1377-1379
Gas Sensing Response Improvement of Well-Aligned TiO2 Nanowires Array
SENSORS, 2006 IEEE [IEEE], Pages: 464-465
Cheap silicon technology integrated sol-gel combustion sensor
Smart Sensors, Actuators, and MEMS II [International Society for Optics and Photonics], Volume: 5836 Pages: 255-262
Technology Advances in Batch Production of Pt-Doped TiO2 Sol-Gel Oxygen Sensor
SENSORS, 2005 IEEE [IEEE], Pages: 1192-1195
In 2 O 3-SnO 2 AND SnO 2-PdO SOL-GEL THIN FILMS AS NEW GAS-SENSING MATERIALS FOR NO 2 DETECTION
Sensors And Microsystems [], Pages: 210-215
In2O3-SnO2 AND SnO2-PdC). SOL-GEL THIN FILMS AS NEW GAS-SENSING MATERIALS FOR NO2 DETECTION
Sensors And Microsystems [], Pages: 210-215
SOL-GEL TiO 2 COMBUSTION SENSOR: ON-BOARD EXPERIMENTALS AND COMPARISON WITH COMMERCIAL LAMBDA PROBE
Sensors And Microsystems [], Pages: 263-270
PREPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF HYBRID PHORPHYRIN-TIN DIOXIDE CHEMICAL SENSORS
Sensors And Microsystems [], Pages: 86-91
OPTIMIZATION OF COMBUSTION CONTROL BY SENSORS BASED ON TiO2 THIN FILM
Sensors And Microsystems [], Pages: 134-138