2019

●  Conducting polymer-TiO2 hybrid materials: application in the removal of nitrates from water
JJ Villora-Picó, V Belda-Alcázar, MJ García-Fernández… - Langmuir, 2019 a platinum catalyst supported on the hybrid materials is considerably lower than those of the metal-free nanocomposites. Page 3 of 57 … oxidant, as a very low yield was obtained with iron chloride of a Tucano plasma system

●  Integrated ternary bionanocomposites with superior mechanical performance via the synergistic role of graphene and plasma treated carbon nanotubes R Scaffaro, A Maio - Composites Part B: Engineering, 2019 1,2]. The plasma reactor used for the surface treatment is a Tucano Gambetti apparatus, equipped
Fig. 4. SEM analysis of nanocomposites at low resolution to detect aggregates (scale bar = 100 μm) … it should be noted that B-series

●  Polypropylene surface modification by low pressure plasma to increase adhesive bonding: Effect of process parameters
C Mandolfino - Surface and Coatings Technology, 2019 evaluations. As regards the PP samples treated with Low Pressure Plasma (LPP), a
Tucano (Gambetti Kenologia, Italy) plasma device, powered by an RF generator operating at a frequency of 13.56 MHz, was used. Such preparation

●  Low-pressure plasma treatment of CFRP substrates for epoxy-adhesive bonding: an investigation of the effect of various process gases
M. Pizzorni. E. Lertora C. Gambaro C. Mandolfino M. Salerno M. Prato

●  Light-Responsive Nanocapsule-Coated Polymer Films for Antimicrobial Active Packaging
V Marturano, V Bizzarro, V Ambrogi, A Cutignano… - Polymers, 2019 - mdpi.com
… nanocapsules coating. Plasma treatment was performed on square polymer films (surface area of 2 cm 2 ) employing a Tucano medium plasma reactor 600 (Gambetti Kenologia, Milano, Italy) for 12 min. Alternatively, corona …

2018

●  Effect of plasma treatment on mechanical and thermal properties of marble powder/epoxy composites
V Fiore, G Di Bella, T Scalici, A Valenza - Polymer Composites, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
… The atmospheric plasma treatment was performed by using a plasma reactor (Tucano, Gambetti, Italy), which has a chamber volume of about 5.5 L. The process was carried out in four steps: (i) reaction chamber from ambient pressure to 0.2 mbar; (ii) stabilization of the inner …

●  Effect of cold Ar plasma treatment on the catalytic performance of Pt/CeO2 in water-gas shift reaction (WGS)
L Pastor-Pérez, V Belda-Alcázar, C Marini… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2018 - Elsevier
… include glow discharge, dielectric barrier discharge (DBD), gliding arc discharge, radio frequency (RF) and microwave (MW) plasmas … boat, which was placed in the glow discharge stainless steel cylindrical chamber of a Tucano plasma system (Gambetti Kenologia, Italy

●   Engineered kidney tubules for modeling patient-specific diseases and drug discovery
V Benedetti, V Brizi, P Guida, S Tomasoni, O Ciampi… - EBioMedicine, 2018 - Elsevier
… To facilitate the de-molding of the polymeric replicas, masters were functionalized with an oxygen plasma treatment (Tucano plasma reactor Gambetti Kenologia) and with the deposition, from vapor phase, of an anti-sticking layer of Trichloro (1H,1H,2H,2H-perfluorooctyl) silane …

●  Proposed mechanisms for the removal of nitrate from water by platinum catalysts supported on polyaniline and polypyrrole
MJ García-Fernández, MM Pastor-Blas, F Epron… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2018 - Elsevier
… as follows [14]: The precursors of the polymer-supported catalysts were loaded on an aluminum boat, which was placed in the glow discharge stainless steel cylindrical chamber of a Tucano plasma system (Gambetti Kenologia, Italy), provided with an anodized aluminum door

●  Biomineral Amorphous Lasers through Light‐Scattering Surfaces Assembled by Electrospun Fiber Templates
M Moffa, A Camposeo, V Fasano… - Laser & Photonics …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Fiber functionalization is performed according to the processes schematized in Figure 1. For methods based on physisorption (PA) and chemical grafting (CG), fibers are firstly treated with plasma oxygen by a tabletop system (Tucano, Gambetti Kenologia) at 30 W for 3 min

●  Standardized microgel beads as elastic cell mechanical probes
S Girardo, N Traeber, K Wagner, G Cojoc… - Journal of Materials …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org

●  Deciphering the relative contribution of vascular inflammation and blood rheology in metastatic spreading
H Mollica, A Coclite, ME Miali, RC Pereira… - …, 2018 - aip.scitation.org Vascular adhesion of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) is a key step in cancer spreading. If inflammation is recognized to favor the formation of vascular “metastatic niches,” little is known
about the contribution of blood rheology to CTC deposition. Herein, a microfluidic chip, covered …

2017

●  Laura Pastor-Pérez, Victor Belda-Alcázar, Carlo Marini, M. Mercedes Pastor-Blas, Antonio Sepúlveda-Escribano, Enrique V. Ramos-Fernandez, Effect of cold Ar plasma treatment on the catalytic performance of Pt/CeO2 in water-gas shift reaction (WGS) Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, Volume 225, 5 June 2017, Pages 121-127

●  Giada Graziana Genchi, Edoardo Sinibaldi, Luca Ceseracciu, Massimiliano Labardi, Attilio Marino, Sergio Marras, Giorgio De Simoni, Virgilio Mattoli, Gianni Ciofani, Ultrasound-activated piezoelectric P(VDF-TrFE)/boron nitride nanotube composite films promote differentiation of human SaOS-2 osteoblast-like cells Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine, May 2017

●   A. Cafarelli, , A. Verbeni, A. Poliziani, P. Dario, A. Menciassi, L. Ricotti Tuning acoustic and mechanical properties of materials for ultrasound phantoms and smart substrates for cell cultures  Science Direct Volume 49, February 2017, Pages 368–378

      ●  Patrizia Guida, Roberto Lo Savio, Cristina Potrich, Valentina Vaghi, Elena Angeli, Lia Vanzetti, Denise Pezzuoli, Laura Pasquardini, Giuseppe Firpo, Luca Repetto, Diego Repetto, Cecilia Pederzolli and Ugo Valbusa Enhancing miRNAs Capture on Polydimethylsiloxane Surface with Nanostructuration  Journal of Nanomedicine & Nanotechnology Volume 8, Issue 2 Journal of Nanomedicine & Nanotechnology · April 2017

●  Roberto Scaffaro, Francesco Lopresti, Alberto Suterab, Luigi Botta, Rosa Maria Fontanab, Giuseppe Gallo Plasma modified PLA electrospun membranes for actinorhodin production intensification in Streptomyces coelicolor immobilized-cell cultivations University of Palermo Italy, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Ambientale, Aerospaziale, dei Materiali & Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche, Chimiche e Farmaceutiche,

●    Ilaria Tonazzini1,2,4, Maria Moffa1,4, Dario Pisignano1,3 and Marco Cecchini1 Neuregulin 1 functionalization of organic fibers for Schwann cell guidance Published 17 March 2017 • © 2017 IOP Publishing Ltd Nanotechnology, Volume 28, Number 15

●  Mandolfino, C., Lertora, E., Gambaro, Influence of cold plasma treatment parameters on the mechanical properties of polyamide homogeneous bonded joints, Surface and Coatings Technology, Volume 313, 15 March 2017, Pages 222-229, ISSN 0257-8972

●   Edwin S. Gnanakumar, Wesley Ng, Bilge Cos ̧ kuner Filiz, Gadi Rothenberg, Sheng Wang, Hualong Xu, Laura Pastor-PØrez,
M. Mercedes Pastor-Blas, Antonio Sepffllveda-Escribano, Ning Yan, and N. Raveendran Shiju Plasma-Assisted Synthesis of Monodispersed and Robust Ruthenium Ultrafine Nanocatalysts for Organosilane Oxidation and Oxygen Evolution Reactions

2016

●  Baratto, C., M. Ferroni, E. Comini, G. Faglia, S. Kaciulis, S. K. Balijepalli, and G. Sberveglieri. "Vapour Phase Nucleation of Zno Nanowires on Gan: Growth Habit, Interface Study and Optical Properties." RSC Advances 6, no. 18 (2016): 15087-93.
●  De Caro, Liberato, Davide Altamura, Milena Arciniegas, Dritan Siliqi, Mee R. Kim, Teresa Sibillano, Liberato Manna, and Cinzia Giannini. "Ptychographic Imaging of Branched Colloidal Nanocrystals Embedded in Free-Standing Thick Polystyrene Films." Scientific Reports 6 (01/18/online 2016): 19397.
●  Fiore, V., G. Di Bella, T. Scalici, and A. Valenza. "Effect of Plasma Treatment on Mechanical and Thermal Properties of Marble Powder/Epoxy Composites." Polymer Composites (2016): n/a-n/a.
●  Sciancalepore, Anna G., Maria Moffa, Simonetta Carluccio, Luigi Romano, Giuseppe S. Netti, Clelia Prattichizzo, and Dario Pisignano. "Bioactive Nanofiber Matrices Functionalized with Fibronectin-Mimetic Peptides Driving the Alignment and Tubular Commitment of Adult Renal Stem Cells." Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics 217, no. 2 (2016): 199-212.

2015

●  Limongi T, Miele E, Shalabaeva V, Rocca RL, Schipani R, et al. (2015) "Development, Characterization and Cell Cultural Response of 3D Biocompatible Micro-Patterned Poly-ε-Caprolactone Scaffolds Designed and Fabricated Integrating Lithography and Micromolding Fabrication Techniques." J Tissue Sci Eng 6:145. doi: 10.4172/2157-7552.1000145
●  Baratto, C., R. Kumar, E. Comini, G. Faglia, and G. Sberveglieri. "Visible Electroluminescence from a Zno Nanowires/P-Gan Heterojunction Light Emitting Diode." Optics Express 23, no. 15 (2015/07/27 2015): 18937-42.
●  Firpo, G., E. Angeli, L. Repetto, and U. Valbusa. "Permeability Thickness Dependence of Polydimethylsiloxane (Pdms) Membranes." Journal of Membrane Science 481 (5/1/ 2015): 1-8.
●  Garcia-Fernandez, M. Jesus, Robison Buitrago-Sierra, M. Mercedes Pastor-Blas, O. S. G. P. Soares, M. F. R. Pereira, and Antonio Sepulveda-Escribano. "Green Synthesis of Polypyrrole-Supported Metal Catalysts: Application to Nitrate Removal in Water." RSC Advances 5, no. 41 (2015): 32706-13.
●  Zucca, Alessandra, Christian Cipriani, Sudha, Sergio Tarantino, Davide Ricci, Virgilio Mattoli, and Francesco Greco. "Tattoo Conductive Polymer Nanosheets for Skin-Contact Applications." Advanced Healthcare Materials 4, no. 7 (2015): 983-90.

2014

●  Angeli E, Mussi V, Fanzio P, Manneschi C, Repetto L, Firpo G, Guida P, Ierardi V, Volpe A, Valbusa U. "Micro and Nanofluidic Platforms for Advanced Diagnostics." Edorium J Nanotechnol 1 (2014): 1-7.
●  Jacchetti, Emanuela, Ilaria Tonazzini, Sandro Meucci, Fabio Beltram, and Marco Cecchini. "Microstructured Polydimethylsiloxane Membranes for Peripheral Nerve Regeneration." Microelectronic Engineering 124 (7/25/ 2014): 26-29.
●  Lantano, Claudia, Ilaria Alfieri, Antonella Cavazza, Claudio Corradini, Andrea Lorenzi, Nicola Zucchetto, and Angelo Montenero. "Natamycin Based Sol–Gel Antimicrobial Coatings on Polylactic Acid Films for Food Packaging." Food Chemistry 165 (12/15/ 2014): 342-47.
●  Maio, Andrea, Luigi Botta, Alina Carmen Tito, Lorenzo Pellegrino, Matteo Daghetta, and Roberto Scaffaro. "Statistical Study of the Influence of Cnts Purification and Plasma Functionalization on the Properties of Polycarbonate-Cnts Nanocomposites." Plasma Processes and Polymers 11, no. 7 (2014): 664-77.
●  Mandolfino, Chiara, Enrico Lertora, and Carla Gambaro. "Cold plasma improves bonding", plastix (2014)
●  Mandolfino, Chiara, Enrico Lertora, and Carla Gambaro. "Il plasma freddo migliora l’incollaggio dei CFRC", plastix (2014)
●  Mandolfino, Chiara, Enrico Lertora, and Carla Gambaro. "Cold Plasma Pretreatment of Carbon Fibre Composite Substrates to Improve Adhesive Bonding Performance." Advances in Aerospace Engineering 2014 (2014): 7.
●  Villa, Chiara, Federico Martello, Silvia Erratico, Alessandro Tocchio, Marzia Belicchi, Cristina Lenardi, and Yvan Torrente. "P(Nipaam–Co-Hema) Thermoresponsive Hydrogels: An Alternative Approach for Muscle Cell Sheet Engineering." Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (2014): n/a-n/a.
●  Fatyeyeva, K., Dahi, A., Chappey, C., Langevin, D., Valleton, J.-M., Poncin-Epaillard, F., and Marais, S.: ‘Effect of cold plasma treatment on surface properties and gas permeability of polyimide films’, RSC Advances, 2014, 4, (59), pp. 31036-31046
●  C. Mandolfino, E. Lertora, C. Gambaro, "Effect of Cold Plasma Treatment on Surface Roughness and Bonding Strength of Polymeric Substrates", Key Engineering Materials, Vols. 611-612, pp. 1484-1493, 2014
●  Mandolfino, C., Lertora, E., Gambaro, C., and Bruno, M.: ‘Improving adhesion performance of polyethylene surfaces by cold plasma treatment’, Meccanica, 2014, 49, (10), pp. 2299-2306

2013

●  Baratto, Camilla, Elisabetta Comini, Matteo Ferroni, Guido Faglia, and Giorgio Sberveglieri. "Plasma-Induced Enhancement of Uv Photoluminescence in Zno Nanowires." CrystEngComm 15, no. 39 (2013): 7981-86.
●  Buitrago-Sierra, Robison, M. Jesus Garcia-Fernandez, M. Mercedes Pastor-Blas, and Antonio Sepulveda-Escribano. "Environmentally Friendly Reduction of a Platinum Catalyst Precursor Supported on Polypyrrole." Green Chemistry 15, no. 7 (2013): 1981-90.
●  Corradini, Claudio, Ilaria Alfieri, Antonella Cavazza, Claudia Lantano, Andrea Lorenzi, Nicola Zucchetto, and Angelo Montenero. "Antimicrobial Films Containing Lysozyme for Active Packaging Obtained by Sol–Gel Technique." Journal of Food Engineering 119, no. 3 (12// 2013): 580-87.
●  Di Benedetto, Francesca, Vito Fasano, Luana Persano, Claudio Maruccio, Elisa Mele, Giovanni Potente, David A. Weitz, Laura De Lorenzis, and Dario Pisignano. "Rolling Particle Lithography by Soft Polymer Microparticles." Soft Matter 9, no. 7 (2013): 2206-11.
●  Genchi, Giada Graziana, Gianni Ciofani, Ioannis Liakos, Leonardo Ricotti, Luca Ceseracciu, Athanassia Athanassiou, Barbara Mazzolai, Arianna Menciassi, and Virgilio Mattoli. "Bio/Non-Bio Interfaces: A Straightforward Method for Obtaining Long Term Pdms/Muscle Cell Biohybrid Constructs." Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces 105 (5/1/ 2013): 144-51.
●  Greco, Francesco, Alessandra Zucca, Silvia Taccola, Barbara Mazzolai, and Virgilio Mattoli. "Patterned Free-Standing Conductive Nanofilms for Ultraconformable Circuits and Smart Interfaces." ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 5, no. 19 (2013/10/09 2013): 9461-69.
●  Moffa, Maria, Alessandro Polini, Anna Giovanna Sciancalepore, Luana Persano, Elisa Mele, Laura Gioia Passione, Giovanni Potente, and Dario Pisignano. "Microvascular Endothelial Cell Spreading and Proliferation on Nanofibrous Scaffolds by Polymer Blends with Enhanced Wettability." Soft Matter 9, no. 23 (2013): 5529-39.
●  Travagliati, Marco, Richie Shilton, Fabio Beltram, and Marco Cecchini. "Fabrication, Operation and Flow Visualization in Surface-Acoustic-Wave-Driven Acoustic-Counterflow Microfluidics." Journal of Visualized Experiments, no. 78 (2013/08/27/ 2013): e50524.
●  Zucca, Alessandra, Francesco Greco, Barbara Mazzolai, and Virgilio Mattoli. "Free-Standing Pedot:Pss/Pla Bilayer Nanosheets with Ink-Jet Patterned Microelectrodes: Towards the Development of Ultra-Thin, Conformable, Floating Circuits and Smart Biointerfaces." MRS Online Proceedings Library Archive 1530 (2013): null-null.
●  Canullo, L., Cassinelli, C., Gotz, W., and Tarnow, D.: ‘Plasma of argon accelerates murine fibroblast adhesion in early stages of titanium disk colonization’, The International journal of oral & maxillofacial implants, 2013, 28, (4), pp. 957-962

2012

●  Canullo, Luigi, and Werner Götz. "Peri-Implant Hard Tissue Response to Glow-Discharged Abutments: Prospective Study. Preliminary Radiological Results." Annals of Anatomy - Anatomischer Anzeiger 194, no. 6 (11// 2012): 529-32.
●  De Marni, Marzia L., Ana Monegal, Samuele Venturini, Simone Vinati, Roberta Carbone, and Ario de Marco. "Antibody Purification-Independent Microarrays (Pim) by Direct Bacteria Spotting on Tio2-Treated Slides." Methods 56, no. 2 (2// 2012): 317-25.
●  Ruben Bartali, Leandro Lorenzelli, Marina Scarpa, Elisa Morganti, Cristian Collini, Victor Micheli, Gloria Gottardi, Aman Gambetti, Glauco Gambetti, G. Coser, Rajesh Pandiyan, Ioana Luciu, Nadhira Laidani "Super-Hydrophilic Pdms and Pet Surfaces for Microfluidic Devices ". Advances in Science and Technology 81 (2012): 5.
●  Scaffaro, Roberto, and Andrea Maio. "Enhancing the Mechanical Performance of Polymer Based Nanocomposites by Plasma-Modification of Nanoparticles." Polymer Testing 31, no. 7 (10// 2012): 889-94.
●  Scaffaro, Roberto, Andrea Maio, Simonpietro Agnello, and Antonella Glisenti. "Plasma Functionalization of Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes and Their Use in the Preparation of Nylon 6-Based Nanohybrids." Plasma Processes and Polymers 9, no. 5 (2012): 503-12.

2011

●  Angeli, Elena, Chiara Manneschi, Luca Repetto, Giuseppe Firpo, and Ugo Valbusa. "DNA Manipulation with Elastomeric Nanostructures Fabricated by Soft-Moulding of a Fib-Patterned Stamp." Lab on a Chip 11, no. 15 (2011): 2625-29.
●  Polini, Alessandro, Stefano Pagliara, Andrea Camposeo, Adriana Biasco, Heinz C. Schröder, Werner E. G. Müller, and Dario Pisignano. "Biosilica Electrically-Insulating Layers by Soft Lithography-Assisted Biomineralisation with Recombinant Silicatein." Advanced Materials 23, no. 40 (2011): 4674-78.
●  Tu, Deyu, Stefano Pagliara, Andrea Camposeo, Giovanni Potente, Elisa Mele, Roberto Cingolani, and Dario Pisignano. "Soft Nanolithography by Polymer Fibers." Advanced Functional Materials 21, no. 6 (2011): 1140-45.
●  Fanzio, P., Mussi, V., Manneschi, C., Angeli, E., Firpo, G., Repetto, L., and Valbusa, U.: ‘DNA detection with a polymeric nanochannel device’, Lab on a Chip, 2011, 11, (17), pp. 2961-2966
●  Mussi, V., Fanzio, P., Repetto, L., Firpo, G., Stigliani, S., Tonini, G.P., and Valbusa, U.: ‘"DNA-Dressed NAnopore" for complementary sequence detection’, Biosensors & bioelectronics, 2011, 29, (1), pp. 125-131

2010

●  Polini, Alessandro, Stefano Pagliara, Ripalta Stabile, Giuseppe Stefano Netti, Leonarda Roca, Clelia Prattichizzo, Loreto Gesualdo, Roberto Cingolani, and Dario Pisignano. "Collagen-Functionalised Electrospun Polymer Fibers for Bioengineering Applications." Soft Matter 6, no. 8 (2010): 1668-74.
●  Zanardi, A., D. Bandiera, F. Bertolini, C. A. Corsini, G. Gregato, P. Milani, E. Barborini, and R. Carbone. "Miniaturized Fish for Screening of Onco-Hematological Malignancies." [In eng]. Biotechniques 49, no. 1 (Jul 2010): 497-504.

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Thesys

2018

●  G Ciofani, V Sgarminato, E Mele, GG Genchi. "Composite scaffolds with porosity over multiple length scale for skin regeneration. - 2018 - webthesis.biblio.polito.it

2017

●  V Brizi "Engineering Complex Kidney Structures for Disease Modelling, Drug Testing, and Studying Kidney Development. - 2017 - The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

2013

●  Fornieri, Antonio. "Josephson Effect in Ballistic Semiconductor Nanostructures." Università di Pisa Facoltà di Scienze Matematiche, Fisiche e Naturali, 2013.

2009

●  Minelli, Matteo. "Characterization and Modeling of the Barrier Properties in Nanostructured Systems." Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, 2009.
●  Bartali, Ruben. "Microfluidica: studio della modifica superficiale del polidimetilsilossano e del polietilene tereftalato tramite tecniche al plasma ed effetti sui micro-canali” Physics, Trento University – FBK, 2009

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Report

2010

●  Minelli, Matteo; Angelis, Maria Grazia De; Doghieri, Ferruccio; Rocchetti, Marco; Montenero, Angelo. "Barrier Properties of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Coatings Based on Polyvinyl Alcohol with Improved Water Resistance." Polymer Engineering and Science, 2010.

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Conference Proceedings

2009

●  Angeli, E., C. Manneschi, L. Repetto, G. Firpo, C. Boragno, and U. Valbusa. "Tunable Elastomeric Nanochannels for Separation and Manipulation of Long DNA Molecules." Paper presented at the Nanotechnology, 2009. IEEE-NANO 2009. 9th IEEE Conference on, 26-30 July 2009 2009.

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Patents

2018

●  Riccardo Po, Gabriele Bianchi. "Indacen-4-one derivatives, process for their preparation and polymers containing them" - US Patent App. 15/573, 865, 2018 - Google Patents US20180244691A1

2013

●  Manaresi, N., G. Medoro, and A. Calanca. "Micro-Fluidic System." Google Patents, 2013.
●  Simone, G., G. Perozziello, and G. Medoro. "Method for Bonding a Layer of Silicone to a Substrate of Methacrylate Polymer." Google Patents, 2013