2025

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1. Valerio C.A. Ficca, Marco Sbroscia, Elena Stellino, Ilaria Rago, Francesco Goto, Isheta Majumdar, Gianluca Cavoto, Francesco Pandolfi, Alberto Calloni, Andrea Lucotti, Gianlorenzo Bussetti and Ernesto Placidi, Non-Chemical Route to PGM-Free via N+ Ion Implantation in Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes, Adv. Funct. Mater. 35, 2413308 (2025) Doi: 10.1002/adfm.202413308

2. A. Amato, M. Bazzan, G. Cagnoli, M. Canepa, M. Coulon, J. Degallaix, N. Demos, M. Evans, F. Fabrizi, G. Favaro, D. Forest, S. Gras, D. Hofman, A. Lemaitre, G. Maggioni, M. Magnozzi, V. Martinez, L. Mereni, C. Michel, V. Milotti, M. Montani, A. Paolone, A. Pereira, F. Piergiovanni, V. Pierro, L. Pinard, I.M. Pinto, E. Placidi, S. Samandari, B. Sassolas, N. Shcheblanov, J. Teillon, I. Vickridge, M. Granata, Development of ion-beam sputtered silicon nitride thin films for low-noise mirror coatings of gravitational-wave detectors, Phys. Rev. D  111, 042003 (2025)
   Doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.111.042003 

3. M. Montalto, W. da Silva Freitas, E. Mastronardo, V.C.A. Ficca, E. Placidi, V. Baglio, E. Mosca, C. Lo Vecchio, I. Gatto, B. Mecheri, A. D’Epifanio. Spinel-type high-entropy oxides for enhanced oxygen evolution reaction activity in anion exchange membrane water electrolyzers. Chemical Engineering Journal, volume 507, 160641, (2025) Doi: 10.1016/j.cej.2025.160641 

4. L. Sallaku, L. Mirizzi, M. Muhyuddin, V. C.A. Ficca, E. Placidi, N. Lamanna, L. Zoia, I. Vassalini, S. Federici, E. Berretti, J. Filippi, A. Lavacchi, S. Binetti, P. Mustarelli, C. Santoro, Upgrading the waste Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene into crude oil and highly efficient electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction. Chemical Engineering Journal, Volume 412, 162236 (2025) Doi: 10.1016/j.cej.2025.162236

5. L. Mirizzi, E. Carena, C. Santoro, V.C.A. Ficca, E. Placidi, E. Berretti, A. Lavacchi, C. Ferrara, M. Muhyuddin, Many lives of cobalt within electrochemical systems: from waste batteries to efficient hydrogen evolution reaction electrocatalyst, Materials for Renewable and Sustainable Energy, Volume 37 (2025) Doi: 10.1007/s40243-025-00312

6. G. Araújo, V.C.A. Ficca, V. Lopes, E. Placidi, A. Capasso, Interface engineering of chemical vapor-deposited 2D MoSe2, physica status solidi (RRL) Rapid Research Letters, Doi: 10.1002/pssr.202500124

7. F. Righi Riva, S. Cecchi, S. Prili, O. A. El Kheir, E. Placidi, M. Sbroscia, A. Diaz Fattorini, S. Calvi, M. Longo, M. Bernasconi, R. Calarco, F. Arciprete, ACS Applied Electronic Materials Doi 10.1021/acsaelm.5c01185 

 2024

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1. B. Ricciardi, W. da Silva Freitas, B. Mecheri, K. Un Nisa, J. Montero  V.C.A. Ficca, E. Placidi, C. Alegre, A. D’Epifanio, Hierarchical porous Fe/Ni-based bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysts for rechargeable zinc-air batteries, Carbon 219, 118781 (2024) Doi: 10.1016/j.carbon.2023.118781

2. G. Zuccante, M. Muhyuddin, V.C.A. Ficca, E. Placidi, M. Acciarri, N. Lamanna, A. Franzetti, L. Zoia, M. Bellini, E. Berretti, A. Lavacchi, C. Santoro, Transforming Cigarette Wastes into Oxygen Reduction Reaction Electrocatalyst: Does Each Component Behave Differently? An Experimental Evaluation. ChemElectroChem (2024) Doi: 10.1002/celc.202300725

3. D. D’Ubaldo, M. Sbroscia, V.C.A. Ficca, E. Stellino, A. Pasqualetti, D. Sentenac, J. Gargiulo, L. Francescon, L. Pinard, and E. Placidi, Study of defects population and contaminations in silica/tantala coated mirrors, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 42, (2024); Doi: 10.1116/6.0003510

4. Tayyab S, Apponi A, Betti MG, Blundo E, Cavoto G, Frisenda R, Jiménez-Arévalo N, Mariani C, Pandolfi F, Polimeni A, Rago I, Ruocco A, Sbroscia M  and Yadav RP.  Spectromicroscopy Study of Induced Defects in Ion-Bombarded Highly Aligned Carbon Nanotubes. Nanomaterials. 2024; 14(1):77. DOI: 10.3390/nano14010077 

5. Nuria Jiménez-Arévalo, Francesco Filoscia, Dario Marchiani, Riccardo Frisenda, Maria Grazia Betti, Ilaria Rago, Francesco Pandolfi, Gianluca Cavoto, Carlo Mariani, "Potassium doping of vertically aligned multi-walled carbon nanotubes", The Journal of Chemical Physics 160, 214707 (2024); Doi: 10.1063/5.0206952

6. M. Rahimihaghighi, M. Gigli, V.C.A. Ficca, E. Placidi, M.Sgarzi, C. Crestini, Lignin-derived Sustainable Nano-platforms: A Multifunctional Solution for an Efficient Dye Removal, ChemSusChem (2024) Jun 20:e202400841. doi: 10.1002/cssc.202400841.

7. S.M. Sankar, G. Araujo, J. Fernandez, F. Cerqueira, P. Alpuim, A.R. Ribeira, F. Lebre, E. Alfaro-Moreno, E. Placidi, S. Marras, A. Capasso, Eco‐Friendly Production of 2D Ti C T MXene and Cytotoxicity Mitigation Toward Biomedical Applications, Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2400203 (2024) Doi : 10.1002/admi.202400203

8. Dario Marchiani, Riccardo Frisenda, Carlo Mariani, José Avila, Pavel Dudin, Hayato Sueyoshi, Samuel Jeong, Yoshikazu Ito, Oreste De Luca, Sara Macchi, Marco Papagno, Raffaele G. Agostino, Daniela Pacilé, and Maria Grazia Betti, Alkali Metals Adsorbed on Nanoporous Graphene: Charge Transfer and Metallic Phase, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 128, 11255-11262 (2024)

9. Dario Marchiani, Riccardo Frisenda, Carlo Mariani, Marco Sbroscia, Tommaso Caruso, Oreste De Luca, Marco Papagno, Daniela Pacilé, Samuel Jeong, Yoshikazu Ito, and Maria Grazia Betti, Charge Effects and Electron Phonon Coupling in Potassium-Doped Graphene, ACS Omega 9, 39546-39553 (2024)

 2023

1. B. Ricciardi, B. Mecheri, W. da Silva Freitas, V.C.A. Ficca, E. Placidi, I. Gatto, A. Carbone, A. Capasso and A. D’Epifanio, Porous Iron-Nitrogen-Carbon electrocatalysts for Anion Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (AEMFC), ChemElectroChem Doi: 10.1002/celc.202201115

2. W. da Silva Freitas, A. D'Epifanio, C. Lo Vecchio, I. Gatto, V. Baglio, V.C.A. Ficca, E. Placidi, B. Mecheri, Tailoring MOF Structure via Iron Decoration to Enhance ORR in Alkaline Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells, Chemical Engineering Journal 465, 142987 Doi: 10.1016/j.cej.2023.142987

3. 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", Applied Materials and Interfaces 15, 33514 (2023); doi:10.1021/acsami.3c02192

4. 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); doi: 10.1016/j.cartre.2023.100274

 2022

1. D. Hong, A. Sharma, D. Jiang, E. Stellino, T. Ishiyama,  P. Postorino, E. Placidi, Y. Kon and K. Koga, Light-Driven Formic Acid Dehydrogenation for Switchable Hydrogen Production Catalyzed by Au−Cu Nanoalloys on TiO2 Nanoparticle Film, ACS Omega 7, 31260-31270 (2022) Doi: 10.1021/acsomega.2c03509 

2. A. Paolone, E. Placidi, E. Stellino, M. G. Betti, E. Majorana, C. Mariani, A. Nucara, O. Palumbo, P. Postorino, M. Sbroscia, F. Trequattrini, M. Granata, D. Hofman, C. Michel, L. Pinard, A. Lemaitre, N. Shcheblanov, G. Cagnoli, F. Ricci, Argon and other defects in amorphous SiO2 coatings for gravitational wave detectors, Coatings 12, 1001 (2022) Doi: 10.3390/coatings12071001 

3. W. da Silva Freitas, B. Mecheri, C. Lo Vecchio, I. Gatto, V. Baglio, V.C.A. Ficca, A. Patra, E. Placidi, A. D'Epifanio,  Metal-Organic-Framework-derived Electrocatalysts for Alkaline Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells, J. Power Sources 550, 232135 (2022) Doi 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2022.232135

4. M. G. Betti, E. Blundo, M. De Luca, M. Felici, R. Frisenda, Y. Ito, S. Jeong, D. Marchiani, C. Mariani, A. Polimeni, M. Sbroscia, F. Trequattrini, R. Trotta,  Homogeneous Spatial Distribution of Deuterium Chemisorbed on Free-Standing Graphene, Nanomaterials 12, 2613 (2022); https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/12/15/2613