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View article: Electro-Mechanical Properties of Metallized Sodium Alginate Foils at the Limit of the Electrical Conduction
Electro-Mechanical Properties of Metallized Sodium Alginate Foils at the Limit of the Electrical Conduction Open
In recent years, much attention has been given to biopolymers and renewable raw materials obtained from nature to find alternatives to petroleum-based materials. In this context, we developed a free-standing and flexible conductive substra…
View article: Influence of a Solid Surface on PNIPAM Microgel Films
Influence of a Solid Surface on PNIPAM Microgel Films Open
Stimuli-responsive microgels have attracted great interest in recent years as building blocks for fabricating smart surfaces with many technological applications. In particular, PNIPAM microgels are promising candidates for creating thermo…
View article: Magnetic Behaviour of Iron Oxide/Dextran Nanoparticles in a Keratin Matrix
Magnetic Behaviour of Iron Oxide/Dextran Nanoparticles in a Keratin Matrix Open
Magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) are interesting for their potential employment in biomedical and environmental technologies. Although they have been characterized by many techniques, there are some issues that need to be solved. For instance…
View article: Magnetic Analysis of MgFe Hydrotalcites as Powder and Dispersed in Thin Films within a Keratin Matrix
Magnetic Analysis of MgFe Hydrotalcites as Powder and Dispersed in Thin Films within a Keratin Matrix Open
Hydrotalcites (HTlcs) are a class of nanostructured layered materials that may be employed in a variety of applications, from green to bio technologies. In this paper, we report an investigation on HTlcs made of Mg and Fe, recently employe…
View article: Spin-coating deposition of thermoresponsive microgel thin films
Spin-coating deposition of thermoresponsive microgel thin films Open
Smart surfaces and surface coatings have been attracting increasing interest in the last decades. In particular, thin films assembled from microgels offer good control of morphology, elasticity and hydrophobicity thanks to the high tunabil…
View article: Effect of Grafted Spiropyran on the Solubility and Film Properties of Photochromic Amylose
Effect of Grafted Spiropyran on the Solubility and Film Properties of Photochromic Amylose Open
Four photochromic spiropyran‐amylose (ASP) biobased polymers with different spiropyran (SP) grafting density, DS, ASP 10 (DS = 0.12), ASP 40 and ASP 40 PA 60 (DS = 0.40), and ASP 100 (DS = 0.97), are synthesized through azide‐alkyne cycloa…
View article: Magnetic Analysis of MgFe Hydrotalcites as Powder and Dispersed in Thin Films within a Keratin Matrix
Magnetic Analysis of MgFe Hydrotalcites as Powder and Dispersed in Thin Films within a Keratin Matrix Open
Hydrotalcites (HTlc) represents a class of nanostructured layered materials that may be employed in a variety of applications, from green to bio technologies. In this paper, we report an investigation on HTlc made of Mg and Fe, recently em…
View article: Probing Italy: A Scanning Probe Microscopy Storyline
Probing Italy: A Scanning Probe Microscopy Storyline Open
Starting from the late 1980’s, scanning probe microscopy has progressively diffused in Italy until today. In this paper, we provide a brief account of the main historical events and a current picture of the distribution of the active group…
View article: Sodium Alginate as a Natural Substrate for Efficient and Sustainable Organic Solar Cells
Sodium Alginate as a Natural Substrate for Efficient and Sustainable Organic Solar Cells Open
Organic electronics, in particular organic photovoltaics, have gained widespread attention due to their unique properties such as lightness, flexibility, and low cost. Thanks to some recent breakthroughs in organic solar cells (OSCs) that …
View article: Electrical conduction and noise spectroscopy of sodium-alginate gold-covered ultrathin films for flexible green electronics
Electrical conduction and noise spectroscopy of sodium-alginate gold-covered ultrathin films for flexible green electronics Open
Green electronics is an emerging topic that requires the exploration of new methodologies for the integration of green components into electronic devices. Therefore, the development of alternative and eco-friendly raw materials, biocompati…
View article: Electrical conduction and noise spectroscopy of sodium-alginate gold-covered ultrathin films for flexible green electronics
Electrical conduction and noise spectroscopy of sodium-alginate gold-covered ultrathin films for flexible green electronics Open
Green electronics is an emerging topic that requires the exploration of new methodologies for the integration of green components into electronic devices. Therefore, the development of alternative and eco-friendly raw materials, biocompati…
View article: Fully Recyclable OLEDs Built on a Flexible Biopolymer Substrate
Fully Recyclable OLEDs Built on a Flexible Biopolymer Substrate Open
This is the “mobile” era, characterized by a growing demand of flexible substrates for novel products such as curved screens, folding smartphones, and wearable devices. In this framework, plastic electronics represents a suitable technolog…
View article: Dispersion of Few-Layer Black Phosphorus in Binary Polymer Blend and Block Copolymer Matrices
Dispersion of Few-Layer Black Phosphorus in Binary Polymer Blend and Block Copolymer Matrices Open
Exfoliated black phosphorus (bP) embedded into a polymer is preserved from oxidation, is stable to air, light, and humidity, and can be further processed into devices without degrading its properties. Most of the examples of exfoliated bP/…
View article: Emergence and Evolution of Crystallization in TiO2 Thin Films: A Structural and Morphological Study
Emergence and Evolution of Crystallization in TiO2 Thin Films: A Structural and Morphological Study Open
Among all transition metal oxides, titanium dioxide (TiO2) is one of the most intensively investigated materials due to its large range of applications, both in the amorphous and crystalline forms. We have produced amorphous TiO2 thin film…
View article: Electric Transport in Gold-Covered Sodium–Alginate Free-Standing Foils
Electric Transport in Gold-Covered Sodium–Alginate Free-Standing Foils Open
The electric transport properties of flexible and transparent conducting bilayers, realized by sputtering ultrathin gold nanometric layers on sodium–alginate free-standing films, were studied. The reported results cover a range of temperat…
View article: Scanning Probe Spectroscopy of WS2/Graphene Van Der Waals Heterostructures
Scanning Probe Spectroscopy of WS2/Graphene Van Der Waals Heterostructures Open
In this paper, we present a study of tungsten disulfide (WS2) two-dimensional (2D) crystals, grown on epitaxial Graphene. In particular, we have employed scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and µRaman spectroscopy combined with multifunctio…
View article: Formation and Stability of Smooth Thin Films with Soft Microgels Made of Poly(N-Isopropylacrylamide) and Poly(Acrylic Acid)
Formation and Stability of Smooth Thin Films with Soft Microgels Made of Poly(N-Isopropylacrylamide) and Poly(Acrylic Acid) Open
In this work, soft microgels of Poly(N-Isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAm) at two different sizes and of interpenetrated polymer network (IPN) composed of PNIPAm and Poly(Acrylic Acid) (PAAc) were synthesized. Then, solutions of these different …
View article: 3D versus 2D Electrolyte–Semiconductor Interfaces in Rylenediimide‐Based Electron‐Transporting Water‐Gated Organic Field‐Effect Transistors
3D versus 2D Electrolyte–Semiconductor Interfaces in Rylenediimide‐Based Electron‐Transporting Water‐Gated Organic Field‐Effect Transistors Open
Water‐gated organic field‐effect transistors (WGOFETs) are relevant devices for use in the fields of biosensors and biosystems. However, real applications require very stringent performance in terms of electrochemical stability and charge …
View article: Morphological and Elastic Transition of Polystyrene Adsorbed Layers on Silicon Oxide
Morphological and Elastic Transition of Polystyrene Adsorbed Layers on Silicon Oxide Open
Summary Herein we present a study on the formation of irreversibly adsorbed layer of polystyrene molecules on silicon oxide surfaces. Various scanning probe microscopy techniques have been employed to study both the morphology and the mech…
View article: Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) based thin microgel films for use in cell culture applications
Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) based thin microgel films for use in cell culture applications Open
Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAm) is widely used to fabricate cell sheet surfaces for cell culturing, however copolymer and interpenetrated polymer networks based on PNIPAm have been rarely explored in the context of tissue engineering.…
View article: Flexible Conductors from Brown Algae for Green Electronics
Flexible Conductors from Brown Algae for Green Electronics Open
In this paper a novel approach is presented to prepare flexible and transparent conducting films, whose components can be separated and recovered via a recycling process. The fabrication method is based on low power sputtering of ultrathin…
View article: Highly Ordered Organic Ferroelectric DIPAB-Patterned Thin Films
Highly Ordered Organic Ferroelectric DIPAB-Patterned Thin Films Open
Ferroelectric molecular compounds present great advantages for application in electronics because they combine high polarization values, comparable to those of inorganic materials, with the flexibility and low-cost properties of organic on…
View article: Mapping nanosecond time scale nanoelectromechanical phenomena in 2D Materials on nanometre length scale via ultrasonic and heterodyne force microscopies
Mapping nanosecond time scale nanoelectromechanical phenomena in 2D Materials on nanometre length scale via ultrasonic and heterodyne force microscopies Open
Atomically thin layers of graphene (GR) and other two-dimensional materials (2DM) such as hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN) possess unique mechanical, electronic and thermal properties making them ideal materials for variety of nanoelectromech…
View article: Controlling In-Plane Isotropic and Anisotropic Orientation of Organic Semiconductor Molecules on Ionic Fluoride Dielectrics
Controlling In-Plane Isotropic and Anisotropic Orientation of Organic Semiconductor Molecules on Ionic Fluoride Dielectrics Open
α-Sexithiophene (6T) ultrathin films have been grown on CaF2(111)/Si(111) planar surfaces and on CaF2(110)/Si(001) ridged surfaces by molecular beam epitaxy. The growth mode has been studied by means of atomic force microscopy (AFM), photo…
View article: Subsurface imaging of two-dimensional materials at the nanoscale
Subsurface imaging of two-dimensional materials at the nanoscale Open
Scanning probe microscopy (SPM) represents a powerful tool that, in the past 30 years, has allowed for the investigation of material surfaces in unprecedented ways at the nanoscale level. However, SPM has shown very little capability for d…
View article: Nano-mapping of Surface and Subsurface Physical Properties of 2D materials
Nano-mapping of Surface and Subsurface Physical Properties of 2D materials Open
A massive interest in two-dimensional materials (2DM) triggered by graphene (GR) discovery1 is fueled by the unique electronic, mechanical and thermal properties of these few-atomic-layers-thick materials. While electronic properties of gr…