Publications

2024

• Sammar Tayyab, Alice Apponi, Maria Grazia Betti, Elena Blundo, Gianluca Cavoto, Riccardo Frisenda, Nuria Jiménez-Arévalo, Carlo Mariani, Francesco Pandolfi, Antonio Polimeni, Ilaria Rago, Alessandro Ruocco, Marco Sbroscia, Ravi Prakash Yadav, Spectromicroscopy Study of Induced Defects in Ion-Bombarded Highly Aligned Carbon Nanotubes, Nanomaterials 14, 77 (2024)

• Francesca M. Pofi, Alice Apponi, Gianluca Cavoto, Carlo Mariani, Francesco Pandolfi, Ilaria Rago, Alessandro Ruocco, Searching for Dark Matter with vertically-aligned carbon nanotubes: The ANDROMeDa project, Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A 1060, 169072 (2024)

• Ravi Prakash Yadav, Ilaria Rago, Francesco Pandolfi, Carlo Mariani, Alessandro Ruocco, Sammar Tayyab, Alice Apponi, Gianluca Cavoto, Evaluation of vertical alignment in carbon nanotubes: A quantitative approach, Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A 1060, 169081 (2024)

• Abhishek Kumar, Maria Grazia Betti, Carlo Mariani, Manvendra Kumar, Pierluigi Gargiani, Cristian Soncini, Maddalena Pedio, Intermixing of Unoccupied States of Metal Phthalocyanine Chains Assembled on Au(110), Nanomaterials 14, 158 (2024)

• Roberto Costantini, Alessio Giampietri, Dario Marchiani, Maria Grazia Betti, Samuel Jeong, Yoshikazu Ito, Alberto Morgante, Martina Dell'Angela, Carlo Mariani, Controlled laser-induced dehydrogenation of free-standing graphane probed by pump-probe X-ray photoemission, Applied Surface Science 144, 158784 (2024)

2023

• Maria Grazia Betti, Dario Marchiani, Andrea Tonelli, Marco Sbroscia, Elena Blundo, Marta De Luca, Antonio Polimeni, Riccardo Frisenda, Carlo Mariani, Samuel Jeong, Yoshikazu Ito, Nicola Cavani, Roberto Biagi, Peter N.O. Gillespie, Michael A. Hernandez Bertran, Miki Bonacci, Elisa Molinari, Valentina De Renzi, Deborah Prezzi, Dielectric response and excitations of hydrogenated free-standing graphene, Carbon Trends 12, 100274 (2023)

• Dario Marchiani, Andrea Tonelli, Carlo Mariani, Riccardo Frisenda, José Avila, Pavel Dudin, Samuel Jeong, Yoshikazu Ito, Francesco Saverio Magnani, Roberto Biagi, Valentina De Renzi, and Maria Grazia Betti, Tuning the Electronic Response of Metallic Graphene by Potassium Doping, Nano Letters 23, 170-176 (2023)

• Nuria Jiménez-Arévalo, Jinan H. Al Shuhaib, Rodrigo Bautista Pacheco, Dario Marchiani, Mahmoud M. Saad Abdelnabi, Riccardo Frisenda, Marco Sbroscia, Maria Grazia Betti, Carlo Mariani, Yolanda Manzanares-Negro, Cristina Gómez Navarro, Antonio J. Martínez-Galera, José Ramón Ares, Isabel J. Ferrer, and Fabrice Leardini, MoS2 Photoelectrodes for Hydrogen Production: Tuning the S‑Vacancy Content in Highly Homogeneous Ultrathin Nanocrystals, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 15, 33514-33524 (2023)

• Roberto Costantini, Dario Marchiani, Maria Grazia Betti, Carlo Mariani, Samuel Jeong, Yoshikazu Ito, Alberto Morgante and Martina Dell’Angela,  Pump-Probe X-ray Photoemission Spectroscopy of Free-Standing Graphane, Condensed Matter 8, 31 (2023)

• Qinghua Zhao, Peng Chen, Dan Zheng, Tao Wang, Andres Castellanos-Gomez, and Riccardo Frisenda, Multifunctional indium selenide devices based on van der Waals contacts: High-quality Schottky diodes and optoelectronic memories, Nano Energy 108, 108238 (2023)

• Francesco Pandolfi, Ilaria Rago, Gianluca Cavoto, Carlo Mariani, Alice Apponi, Alessandro Ruocco, The dark-PMT: A novel directional light dark matter detector based on vertically-aligned carbon nanotubes, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A 1050, 168116 (2023)

• Sunaina Rafiq, Alessandra Gentili, Maria Assunta Navarra, Corrado Zamparelli, Maria Grazia Betti, Riccardo Frisenda, and Carlo Mariani, Room-temperature synthesis of 2D-Ti3C2Tx nano-sheets by organic base treatment, The Journal of Chemical Physics 158, 214706 (2023)

• Onur Çakıroğlu, Joshua Island, Yong Xie, Riccardo Frisenda, and Andres Castellanos‐Gomez, An automated system for strain engineering and straintronics of 2D materials, Advanced Materials Technologies 8, 2201091 (2023)

2022

• Maria Grazia Betti , Elena Blundo , Marta De Luca , Marco Felici , Riccardo Frisenda , Yoshikazu Ito , Samuel Jeong , Dario Marchiani , Carlo Mariani , Antonio Polimeni , Marco Sbroscia , Francesco Trequattrini, Rinaldo Trotta,  Homogeneous Spatial Distribution of Deuterium Chemisorbed on Free-Standing Graphene, Nanomaterials 12, 2613 (2022)

• Maria Grazia Betti, Ernesto Placidi, Chiara Izzo, Elena Blundo, Antonio Polimeni, Marco Sbroscia, José Avila, Pavel Dudin, Kailong Hu, Yoshikazu Ito, Deborah Prezzi, Miki Bonacci, Elisa Molinari, and Carlo Mariani, Gap Opening in Double-Sided Highly Hydrogenated Free-Standing Graphene, Nano Letters 22, 2971-2977 (2022)

• Annalisa Paolone, Ernesto Placidi , Elena Stellino , Maria Grazia Betti , Ettore Majorana , Carlo Mariani, Alessandro Nucara, Oriele Palumbo, Paolo Postorino, Marco Sbroscia, Francesco Trequattrini, Massimo Granata , David Hofman, Christophe Michel, Laurent Pinard, Anaël Lemaitre, Nikita Shcheblanov, Gianpietro Cagnoli and Fulvio Ricci, Argon and Other Defects in Amorphous SiO2 Coatings for Gravitational-Wave Detectors, Coatings 12, 12071001 (2022) 

• A. Apponi, M.G. Betti, et al., Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle in the PTOLEMY project: A theory update, Phys. Rev. D 106, 053002 (2022)

• A. Apponi, M.G. Betti, et al., Implementation and optimization of the PTOLEMY transverse drift electromagnetic filter, Journal of Instrumentation 17, P05021 (2022) 

• A. Apponi, F. Pandolfi, I. Rago, G. Cavoto, C Mariani and A. Ruocco, Absolute efficiency of a two-stage microchannel plate for electrons in the 30–900 eV energy range, Measurement Science and Technology 33, 025102 (2022)

• Negar Zebardastan, Jonathan Bradford, Bharati Gupta, Josh Lipton-Duffin, Jennifer MacLeod, Hong Duc Pham, Deepak Dubal, Kostya Ostrikov, Annalena Wolff, Kailong Hu, Yoshikazu Ito, Carlo Mariani, Maria Grazia Betti, Nunzio Motta, 2D MoS2 Heterostructures on Epitaxial and Self-Standing Graphene for Energy Storage: From Growth Mechanism to Application, Advanced Materials Technology 7, 2100963 (2022)

2021

• Nuria Jiménez-Arévalo, Eduaro Flores, Alessio Giampietri, Marco Sbroscia, Maria Grazia Betti, Carlo Mariani, José R. Ares, Isabel J. Ferrer, and Fabrice Leardini, Borocarbonitride Layers on Titanium Dioxide Nanoribbons for Efficient Photoelectrocatalytic Water Splitting, Materials 14, 5490 (2021)

• Giulia Avvisati, Pierluigi Gargiani, Carlo Mariani, and Maria Grazia Betti, High thermal stability of anti-ferromagnetic coupled molecules with FeCo layers, AIP Advances 11, 075302 (2021)

• Daniela Pacilè, Claudia Cardoso, Giulia Avvisati, Ivana Vobornik, Carlo Mariani, Dario A. Leon, Pietro Bonfà, Daniele Varsano, Andrea Ferretti, and Maria Grazia Betti, Narrowing of d bands of FeCo layers intercalated under graphene, Applied Physics Letters 118, 121602 (2021)

• Mahmoud Mohamed Saad Abdelnabi, Chiara Izzo, Elena Blundo, Maria Grazia Betti, Marco Sbroscia, Giulia Di Bella, Gianluca Cavoto, Antonio Polimeni, Isabel García-Cortés, Isabel Rucandio, Alejandro Moroño, Kailong Hu, Yoshikazu Ito, and Carlo Mariani, Deuterium Adsorption on Free-Standing Graphene, Nanomaterials 11, 130 (2021)

• Giulia Avvisati, Pierluigi Gargiani, Carlo Mariani, and Maria Grazia Betti, Tuning the Magnetic Coupling of a Molecular Spin Interface via Electron Doping, Nano Letters 21, 666-672 (2021)

• A. Paolone, E. Placidi, E.Stellino, M.G. Betti, E. Majorana, C. Mariani, A. Nucara, O. Palumbo, P. Postorino, I. Rago, F. Trequattrini, M. Granata, J. Teillone, D. Hofman, C. Michele, A. Lemaitre, N. Shcheblanov, G. Cagnoli, F. Ricci, Effects of the annealing of amorphous Ta2O5 coatings produced by ion beam sputtering concerning the effusion of argon and the chemical composition, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids 557, 120651 (2021)

• Claudia Cardoso, Giulia Avvisati, Pierluigi Gargiani, Marco Sbroscia, Madan S. Jagadeesh, Carlo Mariani, Dario A. Leon , Daniele Varsano, Andrea Ferretti, and Maria Grazia Betti, Magnetic response and electronic states of well defined Graphene/Fe/Ir(111) heterostructure, Physical Review Materials 5, 014405 (2021)

• F. Pandolfi, A. Apponi, G. Cavoto, C. Mariani, I. Rago and A. Ruocco, The dark-PMT: a novel directional light Dark Matter detector based on vertically-aligned carbon nanotubes, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 2156, 012051 (2021)

• Mahmoud Mohamed Saad Abdelnabi, Elena Blundo, Maria Grazia Betti, Gianluca Cavoto, Ernesto Placidi, Antonio Polimeni, Alessandro Ruocco, Kailong Hu, Yoshikazu Ito, Carlo Mariani, Towards Free-Standing Graphane: Atomic Hydrogen and Deuterium Bonding to Nano-Porous Graphene, Nanotechnology 32, 035707 (2021)

2020 

• Alberto Calloni, Gianlorenzo Bussetti, Giulia Avvisati, Madan S. Jagadeesh, Daniela Pacilè, Andrea Ferretti, Daniele Varsano, Claudia Cardoso, Lamberto Duò, Franco Ciccacci, and Maria Grazia Betti, Empty electronic states in cobalt-intercalated graphene,  Journal of Chemical Physics 153, 214703 (2020)

• Alice Apponi, Gianluca Cavoto, Marco Iannone, Carlo Mariani, Francesco Pandolfi, Daniele Paoloni, Ilaria Rago, and Alessandro Ruocco, Response of Windowless Silicon Avalanche Photo-Diodes to Electrons in the 90-900 eV Range,  Journal of Instrumentation 15, 11015 (2020) 

• S. V. Eremeev, M. Papagno, I. Grimaldi, O. De Luca, L. Ferrari, Asish K. Kundu, P. M. Sheverdyaeva, P. Moras, G. Avvisati, A. Crepaldi, H. Berger, I. Vobornik, M.G. Betti, M. Grioni, C. Carbone, E. V. Chulkov, and D. Pacilé, Insight into the electronic structure of semiconducting ε−GaSe and ε−InSe, Physical Review Materials 4, 084603 (2020)

• G. Avvisati, P. Gargiani, D. Lizzit, M. Valvidares, F. Sacchetti, C. Petrillo, P. Lacovig, M.G. Betti, Strong ferromagnetic coupling and tunable easy magnetization directions of FeCo layer(s) intercalated under graphene, Applied Surface Science 527, 146599 (2020) 

• G. Cavoto, M.G. Betti, C. Mariani, F. Pandolfi, A.D. Polosa, I. Rago and A. Ruocco, Carbon nanotubes as anisotropic targets for dark matter, Journal of Physics; Conf. Series 1468, 012232 (2020)

• Nuria Jiménez-Arévalo, Fabrice Leardini, Isabel Jiménez Ferrer, José Ramón Ares, Carlos Sánchez, Mahmoud M. Saad Abdelnabi, Maria Grazia Betti, Carlo Mariani, Ultrathin transparent B-C-N layers grown on titanium substrates with outstanding electro-catalytic activity for the oxygen evolution reaction, ACS Applied Energy Materials 3, 1922-1932 (2020)

2019                                                                              

• D. A. Duncan, N. Atodiresei, S. Lisi, P. J. Blowey, V. Caciuc, J. Lawrence, T. -L. Lee, M. G. Betti, P. Thakur Kumar, A. Della Pia, S. Blügel, G. Costantini and D. P. Woodruff Corrugated graphene exposes the limits of a widely used ab initio van der Waals DFT functional, Physical Review Materials 3, 124001 (2019)

• Silvia Carlotto, Elaheh Mohebbi,  Francesco Sedona, Matteo Lo Cicero,   Luciano Colazzo, Carlo Mariani,  Maria Grazia Betti,  Mauro Sambi and  Maurizio Casarin, An experimental and theoretical study of metallorganic coordination networks of tetrahydroxyquinone on Cu(111),  New Journal of Chemistry 43,19186 (2019)

• F. Ripanti, G. D’Acunto, M. G. Betti, C. Bittencourt, C. Mariani, P. Postorino, Polarization Effects of Transversal and Longitudinal Optical Phonons in Bundles of Multi-wall Carbon Nanotubes,  Journal of Physical Chemistry C  123 (32), 20013-20019 (2019)                                

• F. Leardini, N. Jiménez-Arévalo, I. J. Ferrer, J. R. Ares, P. Molina, C. Gómez Navarro, Y. Manzanares, D. Granados, F. J. Urbanos, F. J. García-García, A. del Campo, G. Avvisati, M. G. Betti, C. Mariani,   A fast synthesis route of boron–carbon–nitrogen ultrathin layers towards highly mixed ternary B–C–N phases, 2D Materials 6, 035015 (2019)

• Maria Grazia Betti et al., Neutrino physics with the PTOLEMY project: active neutrino properties and the light sterile case, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2019 (7), 047 (2019)

• Maria Grazia Betti et al., A design for an electromagnetic filter for precision energy measurements at the tritium endpoint, Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics 106, 120-131 (2019)

• G. Avvisati, P. Gargiani, P. Mondelli, F. Presel, L. Bignardi, A. Baraldi, M. G. Betti Metal phthalocyanines interaction with Co mediated by a moiré graphene superlattice The Journal of Chemical Physics 150, 054704 (2019)

• S. Tognolini, S. Achilli, S. Ponzoni, L. Longetti, C. Mariani, M. I. Trioni, S. Pagliara, On- and off-resonance measurement of the Image State lifetime at the graphene/Ir(111) interface, Surface Science 679, 11-16 (2018)

2018

• G. D'Acunto, F. Ripanti, P. Postorino, M. G. Betti, M. Scardamaglia, C. Bittencourt, C. Mariani, Channelling and induced defects at ion-bombarded aligned multiwall carbon nanotubes,  Carbon 139, 768-775 (2018)

• G. Avvisati, P. Gargiani, P. Mondelli, F. Presel, A. Baraldi, M. G. Betti, Superexchange pathways stabilize the magnetic coupling of MnPc with Co in a spin interface mediated by graphene,  Physical Review B 98, 115412 (2018)

• M. Iacobucci, I. Di Bernardo, M. Christian, V. Morandi, F. Ripanti, P. Postorino, C. Mariani and M. G. Betti, Three-dimensional microporous graphene decorated with lithium,  Nanotechnology 29, 405707 (2018)

• I. Di Bernardo, G. Avvisati, C. Chen, J. Avila, M. C. Asensio, K. Hu, Y. Ito, P. Hines, J. Lipton-Duffin, L. Rintoul, N. Motta, C. Mariani, M. G. Betti, Topology and doping effects in three-dimensional nanoporous graphene,  Carbon 131, 258-265 (2018)

• G. Avvisati, C. Cardoso, D. Varsano, A. Ferretti, P. Gargiani, M. G. Betti, Ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic coupling of spin molecular interfaces with high thermal stability,  Nano Letters 18, 2268-2273 (2018)

• G. Avvisati, P. Mondelli, P. Gargiani, M G. Betti, Graphene-mediated interaction between FePc and intercalated cobalt layers, Applied Surface Science 432, 2-6 (2018)

• F Leardini, E. Flores, A. R. Galvis E., I. J. Ferrer, J. R. Ares, C. Sánchez, P. Molina, H. P. van der Meulen, C. G. Navarro, G. López Polin, F. J. Urbanos, D. Granados, F. J. García-García, U. B. Demirci, P. G. Yot, F. Mastrangelo, M. G. Betti, C. Mariani, Chemical vapor deposition growth of boron–carbon–nitrogen layers from methylamine borane thermolysis products, Nanotechnology 29, 025603 (2018) 

2017

• M. Lo Cicero, Ada Della Pia, M. Riello, L. Colazzo, F. Sedona, M. G. Betti, M. Sambi, A. De Vita, C. Mariani, A long-range ordered array of copper tetrameric units embedded in an on-surface metal organic framework,  The Journal of Chemical Physics 147, 214706 (2017)

• Pierluigi Gargiani, Simone Lisi, Giulia Avvisati, Pierluigi Mondelli, Sara Fatale, Maria Grazia Betti, Mixing of MnPc electronic states at the MnPc/Au(110) interface,  The Journal of Chemical Physics 147, 134702 (2017)

• Iolanda Di Bernardo, Giulia Avvisati, Carlo Mariani, Nunzio Motta, Chaoyu Chen, José Avila, Maria Carmen Asensio, Stefano Lupi, Yoshikazu Ito, Mingwei Chen, Takeshi Fujita, Maria Grazia Betti, Two-dimensional hallmark of highly interconnected three-dimensional nanoporous graphene, ACS Omega 2, 3691-3697 (2017)

• Pierluigi Mondelli, Bharati Gupta, Maria Grazia Betti, Carlo Mariani, Josh Lipton Duffin, Nunzio Motta, High quality epitaxial graphene by hydrogen-etching of 3C-SiC(111) thin-film on Si(111), Nanotechnology 28, 115601 (2017)

• Giulia Avvisati, Simone Lisi, Pierluigi Gargiani, Ada Della Pia, Oreste De Luca, Daniela Pacilé, Claudia Cardoso, Daniele Varsano, Deborah Prezzi, Andrea Ferretti, Maria Grazia Betti, FePc adsorption on the moiré superstructure of graphene intercalated with a cobalt layer, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 121, 1639-1647 (2017)