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Surname: 
Convertino
Firstname: 
Annalisa
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Staff
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Researcher
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+39 06 4993 4581
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Scientific interest and expertise are in the field of materials science focussing on the fabrication and characterization of nanostructured semiconductors and polymer nanocomposites for optoelectronics, photonics and sensing. In particular the main topics are - Silicon nanowire for plasmonic, Raman, electrochemical biosensensing/diagnostic and as live cell interface (2010-present); - Si, III-V and II-VI compound semiconductors based nano-structures fabricated by bottom-up approaches for opto-electronics, photocatalytic, photovoltaics (1994-2010); - Composite polymers for chemical sensing (1999-2008); - Design and fabrication of dielectric multi-layered structures for optical coatings and photonic crystals (1994-2000).
Curriculum: 

Ph.D. in Physics in 1999 and Laurea in Physics in 1994 at the University of Bari (Italy). Since 2001 permanent researcher at the National Research Council (CNR) and in 2008 she joined the Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems of CNR, Unit of Rome. In 2019 visiting researcher at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore (USA) within the Short Term Mobility program of the CNR. From 1999 to 2001 tenure track at the Institute of Material Chemistry of the CNR. In 1998 visiting Research Fellow at Laboratoire Central de Recherches-Thomson CSF, Orsay, France. Co-Principal investigator of Collaborative Linkage Grant in the NATO Programme Security trough Science "Creation of the PTFE NanoComposite Optical Sensor for Aggressive Matter" (2007-2009). Responsible for IMM Rome Unit of the project "Advanced nano-structured material interface and devices for in vivo-like-in vitro monitoring of astrocytes physiology and brain toxicology (Astromat)" funded within the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (2017-2018). Principal Investigator of the joint project "Scalable nano-plasmonic platform for differentiation and drug response monitoring of organ-tropic metastatic cancer cells" within the Scientific and Collaboration Program Italy-USA (2019-2021) of the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Collaboration (MAECI). In the member team of several national and european project. She has co-authored more than 65 papers on international journals. Vice Chair for H2020 FETOPEN 2015/2, Expert Evaluator for H2020 Fast Track to Innovation (FTI) Pilot-2016, H2020-FETOPEN-2014-2015-RIA_H2020 FETOPEN 2015/1, Expert Reviewer for EU-FP7 specific programme: Research projects for the benefit of SMEs, Rapporteur for the Italian Ministries of Economic Development (MISE) and Education University Research (MIUR), and Expert-Reviewer for the Romanian Minister of Education and Science CNCS.

Scientific Productions

Roberta Condò, Gianluca Mampieri, Aldo Giancotti, Loredana Cerroni, Guido Pasquantonio, Andrea Divizia, Annalisa Convertino, Barbara Mecheri, Luca Maiolo

SEM characterization and ageing analysis on two generation of invisible aligners

BMC Oral Health [BioMed Central], Volume: 21 Issue: 1 Pages: 1-11

Roberta Condò, Gianluca Mampieri, Alessandro Cioffi, Maria Elena Cataldi, Ilaria Frustaci, Aldo Giancotti, Vincenzo Campanella, Valentina Mussi, Annalisa Convertino, Luca Maiolo, Guido Pasquantonio

Physical and chemical mechanisms involved in adhesion of orthodontic bonding composites: in vitro evaluations

BMC Oral Health [BioMed Central], Volume: 21 Issue: 1 Pages: 1-12

Antonio Ferraro, Pino Cerza, Valentina Mussi, Luca Maiolo, Annalisa Convertino, Roberto Caputo

Efficient Photothermal Generation by Nanoscale Light Trapping in a Forest of Silicon Nanowires

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C [American Chemical Society],

Debadrita Paria, Annalisa Convertino, Piyush Raj, Kristine Glunde, Yun Chen, Ishan Barman

Nanowire Assisted Mechanotyping of Cellular Metastatic Potential

Advanced Functional Materials [], Pages: 2101638

Valentina Mussi, Mario Ledda, Davide Polese, Luca Maiolo, Debadrita Paria, Ishan Barman, Maria Grazia Lolli, Antonella Lisi, Annalisa Convertino

Silver-coated silicon nanowire platform discriminates genomic DNA from normal and malignant human epithelial cells using label-free Raman spectroscopy

Materials Science and Engineering: C [Elsevier], Volume: 122 Pages: 111951

Valentina Mussi, Mario Ledda, Annalisa Convertino, Antonella Lisi

Raman Mapping of Biological Systems Interacting with a Disordered Nanostructured Surface: A Simple and Powerful Approach to the Label-Free Analysis of Single DNA Bases

Micromachines [Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute], Volume: 12 Issue: 3 Pages: 264

Debadrita Paria, Annalisa Convertino, Valentina Mussi, Luca Maiolo, Ishan Barman

Silver‐Coated Disordered Silicon Nanowires Provide Highly Sensitive Label‐Free Glycated Albumin Detection through Molecular Trapping and Plasmonic Hotspot Formation

Advanced Healthcare Materials [], Volume: 10 Issue: 3 Pages: 2001110

Emanuela Saracino, Luca Maiolo, Davide Polese, M Semprini, Ana Isabel Borrachero‐Conejo, Jacopo Gasparetto, Stefano Murtagh, Margherita Sola, Lorenzo Tomasi, Francesco Valle, Luca Pazzini, Francesco Formaggio, Michela Chiappalone, Saber Hussain, Marco Caprini, Michele Muccini, Luigi Ambrosio, Guglielmo Fortunato, Roberto Zamboni, Annalisa Convertino, Valentina Benfenati

Extracellular Recording Systems: A Glial‐Silicon Nanowire Electrode Junction Enabling Differentiation and Noninvasive Recording of Slow Oscillations from Primary Astrocytes …

Advanced Biosystems [], Volume: 4 Issue: 4 Pages: 2070044

Emanuela Saracino, Luca Maiolo, Davide Polese, M Semprini, Ana Isabel Borrachero‐Conejo, Jacopo Gasparetto, Stefano Murtagh, Margherita Sola, Lorenzo Tomasi, Francesco Valle, Luca Pazzini, Francesco Formaggio, Michela Chiappalone, Saber Hussain, Marco Caprini, Michele Muccini, Luigi Ambrosio, Guglielmo Fortunato, Roberto Zamboni, Annalisa Convertino, Valentina Benfenati

A Glial‐Silicon Nanowire Electrode Junction Enabling Differentiation and Noninvasive Recording of Slow Oscillations from Primary Astrocytes

Advanced biosystems [], Volume: 4 Issue: 4 Pages: 1900264

Annalisa Convertino, Valentina Mussi, Luca Maiolo, Mario Ledda, Maria Grazia Lolli, Fabio Antonio Bovino, Guglielmo Fortunato, Massimiliano Rocchia, Antonella Lisi

Array of disordered silicon nanowires coated by a gold film for combined NIR photothermal treatment of cancer cells and Raman monitoring of the process evolution

Nanotechnology [IOP Publishing], Volume: 29 Issue: 41 Pages: 415102

Nofar Mintz Hemed, Annalisa Convertino, Yosi Shacham-Diamand

Alkaline phosphatase detection using electrochemical impedance of anti-alkaline phosphatase antibody (Ab354) functionalized silicon-nanowire-forest in phosphat...

Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical [Elsevier], Volume: 259 Pages: 809-815

Nofar Mintz Hemed, Annalisa Convertino, Yosi Shacham-Diamand

Alkaline Phosphatase Detection using Electrochemical Impedance of Anti-Alkaline Phosphatase Antibody (Ab354) Functionalized Silicon-Nanowire-Forest in Phosp...

Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical [Elsevier],

F Gontad, Anna Paola Caricato, Maura Cesaria, Vincenzo Resta, Antonietta Taurino, Antonio Colombelli, Chiara Leo, A Klini, A Manousaki, A Convertino, Roberto Rella, Maurizio Martino, Alessio Perrone

Decoration of silica nanowires with gold nanoparticles through ultra-short pulsed laser deposition

Applied Surface Science [North-Holland], Volume: 418 Pages: 430-436

R Condò, L Cerroni, G Pasquantonio, M Mancini, A Pecora, A Convertino, V Mussi, A Rinaldi, L Maiolo

A Deep Morphological Characterization and Comparison of Different Dental Restorative Materials

BioMed research international [Hindawi], Volume: 2017

Nofar Mintz-Hemed, Tal Yoetz-Kopelman, Annalisa Convertino, Yosi . Freeman, Amihay and Shacham-Diamand

Whole-Cell Electrochemical Biosensor Integrating Microbes with Si Nanowire-Forest

J. Electrochem. Soc. [], Volume: 164 Issue: 6 Pages: B253-B257

Nofar Mintz-Hemed, Tal Yoetz-Kopelman, Annalisa Convertino, Yosi . Freeman, Amihay and Shacham-Diamand

Whole-Cell Electrochemical Biosensor Integrating Microbes with Si Nanowire-Forest

J. Electrochem. Soc. [], Volume: 164 Issue: 6 Pages: B253-B257

Nofar Mintz Hemed, Tal Yoetz-Kopelman, Annalisa Convertino, Yosi Shacham-Diamand

Performance of Whole-Cell Electrochemical Biosensor Using Integrated Microbes/Si Nano-Forest Structure

ECS Transactions [IOP Publishing], Volume: 75 Issue: 16 Pages: 157

F Gontad, Anna Paola Caricato, MG Manera, A Colombelli, Vincenzo Resta, Antonietta Taurino, Maura Cesaria, Chiara Leo, A Convertino, A Klini, Alessio Perrone, Roberto Rella, Maurizio Martino

3D plasmonic transducer based on gold nanoparticles produced by laser ablation on silica nanowires

Applied Physics A [Springer Berlin Heidelberg], Volume: 122 Issue: 5 Pages: 539

Annalisa Convertino, Valentina Mussi, Luca Maiolo

Disordered array of Au covered Silicon nanowires for SERS biosensing combined with electrochemical detection

Scientific reports [Nature Publishing Group], Volume: 6 Issue: 1 Pages: 1-10

A Colombelli, MG Manera, A Taurino, M Catalano, A Convertino, R Rella

Au nanoparticles decoration of silica nanowires for improved optical bio-sensing

Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical [Elsevier], Volume: 226 Pages: 589-597

Nofar Mintz Hemed, Annalisa Convertino, Yosi Shacham-Diamand

Investigation of functionalized silicon nanowires by self-assembled monolayer

Applied Surface Science [North-Holland], Volume: 367 Pages: 231-236

Luca Maiolo, Davide Polese, Alessandro Pecora, Guglielmo Fortunato, Yosi Shacham‐Diamand, Annalisa Convertino

Highly disordered array of silicon nanowires: an effective and scalable approach for performing and flexible electrochemical biosensors

Advanced healthcare materials [], Volume: 5 Issue: 5 Pages: 575-583

A Convertino, L Maiolo, V Scuderi, A Di Mauro, M Scuderi, G Nicotra, G Impellizzeri, G Fortunato, V Privitera

A forest of SiO 2 nanowires covered by a TiO 2 thin film for an efficient photocatalytic water treatment

RSC advances [Royal Society of Chemistry], Volume: 6 Issue: 94 Pages: 91121-91126

Luca Maiolo, Davide Polese, Alessandro Pecora, Guglielmo Fortunato, Yosi Shacham‐Diamand, Annalisa Convertino

Highly disordered array of silicon nanowires: an effective and scalable approach for performing and flexible electrochemical biosensors

Advanced healthcare materials [],

D Polese, A Mattoccia, F Giorgi, L Pazzini, A Ferrone, L Di Giamberardino, L Maiolo, A Pecora, A Convertino, G Fortunato, PG Medaglia

Layered double hydroxides intercalated with chlorine used as low temperature gas sensors

Procedia engineering [Elsevier], Volume: 120 Pages: 1175-1178

Annalisa Convertino, Massimo Cuscunà, Faustino Martelli, Maria Grazia Manera, Roberto Rella

Silica nanowires decorated with metal nanoparticles for refractive index sensors: three-dimensional metal arrays and light trapping at plasmonic resonances

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C [American Chemical Society], Volume: 118 Issue: 1 Pages: 685-690

Annalisa Convertino, Massimo Cuscunà, Faustino Martelli, Maria Grazia Manera, Roberto Rella

Silica Nanowires Decorated with Metal Nanoparticles for Refractive Index Sensors: Three-Dimensional Metal Arrays and Light Trapping at Plasmonic Resonances

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C [American Chemical Society], Volume: 118 Issue: 1 Pages: 685-690

Silvano Del Gobbo, P Castrucci, S Fedele, L Riele, A Convertino, M Morbidoni, F De Nicola, Ma Scarselli, L Camilli, M De Crescenzi

Silicon spectral response extension through single wall carbon nanotubes in hybrid solar cells

Journal of Materials Chemistry C [Royal Society of Chemistry], Volume: 1 Issue: 41 Pages: 6752-6758

Massimo Cuscunà, Annalisa Convertino, Emiliano Zampetti, Antonella Macagnano, Alessandro Pecora, Guglielmo Fortunato, Laura Felisari, Giuseppe Nicotra, Corrado Spinella, Faustino Martelli

On-chip fabrication of ultrasensitive NO2 sensors based on silicon nanowires

Applied Physics Letters [American Institute of Physics], Volume: 101 Issue: 10 Pages: 103101

Annalisa Convertino, Massimo Cuscunà, Faustino Martelli

Silicon nanotubes from sacrificial silicon nanowires: fabrication and manipulation via embedding in flexible polymers

Nanotechnology [IOP Publishing], Volume: 23 Issue: 30 Pages: 305602

Annalisa Convertino, Massimo Cuscunà, Silvia Rubini, Faustino Martelli

Optical reflectivity of GaAs nanowire arrays: experiment and model

Journal of Applied Physics [American Institute of Physics], Volume: 111 Issue: 11 Pages: 114302

Annalisa Convertino, Emiliano Zampetti, Antonella Macagnano, Alessandro Pecora, Guglielmo Fortunato, Laura Felisari, Giuseppe Nicotra, Corrado Spinella, Faustino Martelli

On-chip fabrication of ultrasensitive NO 2 sensors based on silicon nanowires

Applied Physics Letters [American Institute of Physics, American Institute of Physics 1 Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, United States United States], Volume: 101 Issue: 10

Annalisa Convertino, Massimo Cuscunà, Giuseppe Nicotra, Corrado Spinella, Laura Felisari, Guglielmo Fortunato, Faustino Martelli

Low-temperature growth of In-assisted silicon nanowires

Journal of Crystal Growth [North-Holland], Volume: 335 Issue: 1 Pages: 10-16

Paola Castrucci, Silvano Del Gobbo, Luca Camilli, Manuela Scarselli, S Casciardi, F Tombolini, A Convertino, G Fortunato, Maurizio De Crescenzi

Photovoltaic response of carbon nanotube-silicon heterojunctions: Effect of nanotube film thickness and number of walls

Journal of nanoscience and nanotechnology [American Scientific Publishers], Volume: 11 Issue: 10 Pages: 9202-9207

A Convertino, M Tamborra, M Striccoli, G Leo, A Agostiano, ML Curri

Poly (methyl methacrylate) nanocomposites based on TiO 2 nanocrystals: tailoring material properties towards sensing

Thin Solid Films [Elsevier], Volume: 519 Issue: 11 Pages: 3931-3938

Giuseppe Nicotra, Corrado Bongiorno, Annalisa Convertino, Massimo Cuscunà, Faustino Martelli, Corrado Spinella

Atomic structure of metal-free and catalyzed Si nanowires

MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) [Cambridge University Press], Volume: 1305

Michela Corricelli, Davide Altamura, Liberato De Caro, Antonella Guagliardi, Andrea Falqui, Alessandro Genovese, Angela Agostiano, Cinzia Giannini, Marinella Striccoli, M LuciaSUBJECTNanocrystals Curri, Livia Giotta, Disma Mastrogiacomo, Francesca Italiano, Francesco Milano, Angela Agostiano, A Convertino, M Tamborra, M Striccoli, G Leo, A Agostiano, M LSUBJECTpolymer Curri, N Alayo, A Panniello, M Striccoli, ML Curri, F Pérez-Murano, A De Luca, MP Grzelczak, I Pastoriza-Santos, LM Liz-Marzàn, M La Deda, G Strangi

Peer-reviewed journal articles

CrystEngComm (Camb., Online) [], Volume: 13 Pages: 3988-3997

Annalisa Convertino, Massimo Cuscuna, Faustino Martelli

Optical reflectivity from highly disordered Si nanowire films

Nanotechnology [IOP Publishing], Volume: 21 Issue: 35 Pages: 355701

Massimo Cuscunà, Annalisa Convertino, Luigi Mariucci, Guglielmo Fortunato, Laura Felisari, Giuseppe Nicotra, Corrado Spinella, Alessandro Pecora, Faustino Martelli

Low-temperature, self-catalyzed growth of Si nanowires

Nanotechnology [IOP Publishing], Volume: 21 Issue: 25 Pages: 255601

Anna Persano, Bahram Nabet, Marc Currie, Annalisa Convertino, Gabriella Leo, Adriano Cola

Single-Layer InAs Quantum Dots for High-Performance Planar Photodetectors Near 1.3$\ mu\ hbox {m} $

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices [IEEE], Volume: 57 Issue: 6 Pages: 1237-1242

A Taurino, M Catalano, M Lomascolo, A Persano, A Convertino, L Cerri

Scanning transmission electron microscopy determination of critical InAs QD parameters from high-quality focused ion beam lamellas

Semiconductor science and technology [IOP Publishing], Volume: 24 Issue: 8 Pages: 085001

A Taurino, M Catalano, M Lomascolo, A Persano, A Convertino, L Cerri

Morphological and compositional effects of FIB nanopatterning of multilayer metal/semiconducting devices

Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures [North-Holland], Volume: 41 Issue: 4 Pages: 734-738

Annalisa Convertino, Gabriella Leo, Marinella Striccoli, Gaetano Di Marco, M Lucia Curri

Effect of shape and surface chemistry of TiO 2 colloidal nanocrystals on the organic vapor absorption capacity of TiO 2/PMMA composite

Polymer [Elsevier], Volume: 49 Issue: 25 Pages: 5526-5532

A Cola, A Persano, M Currie, A Convertino, M Lomascolo, B Nabet

Carrier dynamics in InAs quantum dots investigated by current transient response to quasi-resonant interband excitation

Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures [North-Holland], Volume: 40 Issue: 6 Pages: 2119-2121

A Persano, A Cola, A Taurino, M Catalano, M Lomascolo, A Convertino, G Leo, L Cerri, A Vasanelli, L Vasanelli

Electronic structure of double stacked In As∕ Ga As quantum dots: Experiment and theory

Journal of Applied Physics [American Institute of Physics], Volume: 102 Issue: 9 Pages: 094314

A Convertino, G Leo, M Tamborra, C Sciancalepore, M Striccoli, ML Curri, A Agostiano

TiO 2 colloidal nanocrystals functionalization of PMMA: a tailoring of optical properties and chemical adsorption

Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical [Elsevier], Volume: 126 Issue: 1 Pages: 138-143

Giovanni A Battiston, Davide Berto, Annalisa Convertino, Dario Emiliani, Albert Figueras, Rosalba Gerbasi, Sesto Viticoli

PECVD of h-BN and c-BN films from boranedimethylamine as a single source precursor

Electrochimica acta [Pergamon], Volume: 50 Issue: 23 Pages: 4600-4604

Luca Maiolo, Francesco Maita, Ivano Lucarini, Annalisa Convertino, Davide Polese

Post-annealing effects on stability of lasered nanostructured ZnO sensors for their usage in monitoring smart greenhouse

2020 IEEE 7th International Workshop on Metrology for AeroSpace (MetroAeroSpace) [IEEE], Pages: 505-509

Davide Polese, Ivano Lucarini, Annalisa Convertino, Francesco Maita, Guglielmo Fortunato, Luca Maiolo

Room temperature gas sensors based on laser-annealed ZnO nanostructures for gaseous pollutants detection

2019 IEEE SENSORS [IEEE], Pages: 1-4

E Saracino, AI Borrachero-Conejo, L Maiolo, V Guarino, K O'Neill, D Polese, F Formaggio, M Caprini, M Muccini, G Fortunato, L Ambrosio, R Zamboni, W Losert, A Convertino, V Benfenati

Nanostructured interfaces enable in vivo-like differentiation of primary astrocytes and allow multiscale study of their functionality in vitro

GLIA [WILEY], Volume: 67 Pages: E155-E156

Roberto Rella, Maria Grazia Manera, Adriano Colombelli, Giovanni Montagna, C de Julian Fernandez, Franca Albertini, A Convertino

Propagating and Localised Plasmonic and Magneto-Plasmonic Transductors for Gas and Biosensing Applications

2015 1st Workshop on Nanotechnology in Instrumentation and Measurement (NANOFIM) [IEEE], Pages: 43-46

MG Manera, A Colombelli, A Convertino, S Rella, E De Lorenzis, A Taurino, C Malitesta, R Rella

Advanced materials for improving biosensing performances of propagating and localized plasmonic transducers

Optical Sensors 2015 [International Society for Optics and Photonics], Volume: 9506 Pages: 95060J

D Polese, A Convertino, L Maiolo, A Ferrone, L Pazzini, M Marrani, F Maita, A Pecora, G Fortunato, G Fiaschi

Investigation on nanostructured biosensor for Biotin detection

SENSORS, 2014 IEEE [IEEE], Pages: 1627-1630

Adriano Colombelli, Maria Grazia Manera, Roberto Rella, Annalisa Convertino

Light trapping systems for biosensor application Forest of silica nanowires decorated with plasmonic nanoparticles

2014 Fotonica AEIT Italian Conference on Photonics Technologies [IEEE], Pages: 1-4

KP Grytsenko, A Capobianchi, A Convertino, J Friedrich, Rolf-Dieter Schulze

Polymer-metal nanocomposite thin film prepared by co-evaporation in a vacuum

Polymer surface modification and polymer coating by dry process technologies (2005) [], Pages: 85-109

Adriano Colombelli, Maria Grazia Manera, Giovanni Montagna, Roberto Rella, Annalisa Convertino

Three-dimensional Plasmonic Materials for Chemical Sensor Application

Sensors [Springer, Cham], Pages: 171-175

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