Publications

Year 2023

• Tognato, Riccardo, David Bronte-Ciriza, Onofrio M. Marago, and Philip H. Jones. "Modelling red blood cell optical trapping by machine learning improved geometrical optics calculations." bioRxiv (2023). (link) 

• Magazzù, Alessandro, and Carlos Marcuello. "Investigation of Soft Matter Nanomechanics by Atomic Force Microscopy and Optical Tweezers: A Comprehensive Review." Nanomaterials 13.6 (2023). (link)

• Volpe, G., Maragò, O. M., Rubinsztein-Dunlop, H., et al. "Roadmap for optical tweezers", J. Phys. Photonics (2023). (link)

• Kiasat, Y., Donato, M. G., Hinczewski, M., et al. "Epsilon-Near-Zero (ENZ)-based Optomechanics", Communications Physics (2023). (link) 

Year 2022

• Magazzù, A., Bronte Ciriza, D., Musolino, A., Saidi, A., Polimeno, P., Donato, M. G., Foti, A., Gucciardi, P. G., Saija, R., Perchiazzi, N., Rotundi, A., Folco, L., Maragò, O. M. "Investigation of dust grains by optical tweezers for space applications" to be published in The Astrophysical Journal (2022).

• Bronte Ciriza, D., Magazzù, A., Callegari, A., Barbosa, G., Neves, A. A. R., Iatì, M. A., Volpe, G., Maragò, O. M. "Faster and More Accurate Geometrical-Optics Optical Force Calculation Using Neural Networks", ACS Photonics (2022). (link)

• Gillibert, G., Magazzù, A., Callegari, A., Bronte-Ciriza, D., Foti, A., Donato, M. G., Maragò, O. M., Volpe, G., Lamy de La Chapelle, M., Lagarde, F., Gucciardi, P. G. "Raman tweezers for tire and road wear micro-and nanoparticles analysis", Environmental Science: Nano 9 (2022) 145-161. (link) 

Year 2021

• Iatì, M. A., Saija, R., Monsù Scolaro, L., Cecchi-Pestellini, C. "Life Chooses Homochirality: The Role of Cosmic Dust in Chiral Selection", in "Prebiotic Photochemistry", Editors F. Saija & G. Cassone, Royal Society of Chemistry, (2021). (link)

• Cecchi-Pestellini, C.,, Ciaravella, A., Jiménez-Escobar, A., Muñoz-Caro, G. M., Huang, C.-H., Chen, Y.-J. "The Buried Chemical Wealth of Ices in Protoplanetary Discs", in "Prebiotic Photochemistry", Editors F. Saija & G. Cassone, Royal Society of Chemistry, (2021). (link)

• Rotundi, A., Balucani, N., Bertini, I., Brucato, J. R., Della Corte, V., Fulle, M., Inno, L., Palumbo, P.  "Comets, Do They Have a Role in Prebiotic Photochemistry?", in "Prebiotic Photochemistry", Editors F. Saija & G. Cassone, Royal Society of Chemistry, (2021). (link)

• Macchi, A. and Maragò, O. M. "Light pressure across all scales: editorial" EPJ Plus 136 (2021), art. 582. (link)

• Polimeno, P., Magazzù, A., Iatì, M. A., Saija, R., Folco, L., Bronte Ciriza, D., Donato, M. G., Foti, A., Gucciardi, P. G., Saidi, A., Cecchi-Pestellini, C., Jimenez Escobar, A., Ammannito, E., Sindoni, G., Bertini, I., Della Corte, V., Inno, L., Ciaravella, A., Rotundi, A., Maragò, O. M. "Optical tweezers in a dusty universe" EPJ Plus 136 (2021), art. 339. (link)

• Polimeno, P., Iatì, M. A., Degli Esposti Boschi, C., Simpson, S. H., Svak, V., Brzobohatý, O., Zemánek, P., Maragò, O. M. and Saija, R. "T-matrix calculations of spin-dependent optical forces in optically trapped nanowires." EPJ Plus 136 (2021), art. 86. (link)

• Donato, M.G., Patti, F., Saija, R., Iatì, M.A., Gucciardi, P.G., Pedaci, F., Strangi, G. and Maragò, O.M., 2020. "Improved backscattering detection in photonic force microscopy near dielectric surfaces with cylindrical vector beams." Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer 258 (2021), 107381. (link) 

• Foti, A., Donato, M. G., Maragò, O. M. and Gucciardi, P. G. "Optically induced aggregation by radiation pressure of gold nanorods on graphene for SERS detection of biomolecules" EPJ Plus 136 (2021), art. 30. (link) 

Year 2020

• Ciaravella, A., Munoz Caro, G. M., Jiménez-Escobar, A., Cecchi-Pestellini, C., Hsiao, L.C., Huang, C.H. and Chen, Y.J. "X-ray processing of a realistic ice mantle can explain the gas abundances in protoplanetary disks." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (2020), 16149-16153. (link)

• Pesce, G., Jones, P. H., Maragò, O. M., and Volpe, G. "Optical tweezers: theory and practice." EPJ Plus 135 (2020), art. 949. (link) 

• Polimeno, P., Patti, F., Infusino, M., Sánchez, J., Iatì, M.A., Saija, R., Volpe, G., Maragò, O.M. and Veltri, A. "Gain-Assisted Optomechanical Position Locking of Metal/Dielectric Nanoshells in Optical Potentials." ACS Photonics 7 (2020), 1262-1270. (link)