• M. Reale, P. Castronovo, M. Cannas, E. Marino, A. Sciortino, F. Messina, “Excitation-Wavelength-Tunable Lasing in Individual Quantum Dot Superparticles”, Advanced Optical Materials (in press, 2025)
• P. Castronovo, M. Reale, S. A. Rigter, C. R. Kagan, C. B. Murray, S. Lorenzo, E. C. Garnett, P. Schall, E. Marino, A. Sciortino, F. Messina, “Ultrafast Switching of Whispering Gallery Modes in Quantum Dot Superparticles”, Nano Letters 25, 14, 5828 (2025)
• M. Reale, Z. Moussadji, G. Buscarino, U. De Giovannini, A. Emanuele, M. Cannas, R. Cillari, N. Mauro, A. Sciortino, F. Messina, “Engineering the surface of carbon dots for enhanced photoluminescence and controlled plasmonic interactions”, Nanoscale 17, 9380 (2025)
• A. Pramanik, M. Reale, L. Roffi, S. Agnello, M. Cannas, P. Kumbakhar, P. Kumbakhar, A. Sciortino, F. Messina, “Optically coupled bilayered disordered system for spatially controllable dual band random lasing and random number generation ”, APL Photonics 10, 036121 (2025)
• L. G. Barbata, M. Mazaj, R. Ettlinger, G. Ficarra, P. Castronovo, A. Sciortino, F. Messina, R. E. Morris, G. Buscarino, “Luminescent Sensing of Hg²⁺ Ions Using MOF-808 combined with Au25@ BSA Nanoclusters”, Mater. Research. Bullet. 188, 113397 (2025)
• A. Dey, A. Pramanik, S. Karmakar, S. Biswas, J. Karthikeyan, F. Messina, U. Chatterjee, P. Kumbakhar, “Black TiO2 Nanoparticles as Plasmonically Active Scatterers for Random Lasing”, ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 8, 3595 (2025)
• G. Gomide, T. Fiuza, A. F. C. Campos, M. Cannas, A. Sciortino, F. Messina, J. Depeyrot, “Magnetic fluorescent nanofluids obtained by a colloidal approach”, Mater. Today Communications 41, 110320 (2024)
• A. Pramanik, M. Reale, M. Cannas, R. Popescu, A. Sciortino, F. Messina, “Statistically-identified Dual Type Random Lasing from Carbon Dots”, ACS Photonics 11, 3055 (2024)
• G. Ficarra, A. Sciortino, L. G. Barbata, R. Ettlinger, V. De Michele, E. Marin, M. Cannas, R. E. Morris, G. Buscarino, “Unveiling MOF-808 Photocycle and its interaction with luminescent guest”, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 26, 22269 (2024)
• M. Reale, E. Marino, E. Macoas, F. Ciccarello, M. Cannas, C. M. Cruz, A. G. Campana, A. Sciortino, F. Messina, “Carbon‐Based Photonic Microlabels Based on Fluorescent Nanographene‐Polystyrene Composites”, Advanced Functional Materials 2402079 (2024)
• E. Marino, T. Vo. C. Gonzales, D. J. Rosem, S. J. Neuhaus, A. Sciortino, H. Bharti, A. W. Keller, C. R. Kagan, M. Cannas, F. Messina, S. C. Glotzer, C. B. Murray, “Porous Magneto-Fluorescent Super-particles by Rapid Emulsion Densification”, Chem. Mater. 36, 3683 (2024)
• A. Pramanik, M. M. Calvino, L. Sciortino, P. Pasbakhsh, G. Cavallaro, G. Lazzara, F. Messina, A. Sciortino, “Charge-Selective Photocatalytic Degradation of Organic Dyes Driven by Naturally Occurring Halloysite Nanotubes”, Photochem 4, 151 (2024)
• N. Mauro, G. Calabrese, A. Sciortino, M. G. Rizzo, F. Messina, G. Giammona, G. Cavallaro, “Microporous Fluorescent Poly (D, L-lactide) Acid–Carbon Nanodot Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering Applications”, Materials 17, 449 (2024)
• L. Stagi, D. Carboni, R. Anedda, R. Popescu, Y. Eggeler, L. Calvillo, A. Pramanik, A. Sciortino, M. Cannas, F. Messina, L. Malfatti, “One‐Step Fabrication of Carbon Dot‐Based Nanocomposites Powering Solid‐State Random Lasing”, Small Structures 2400498, (2024)
• A. Madonia, G. Minervini, A. Terracina, A. Pramanik. V. Martorana, A. Sciortino, C. M. Carbonaro, C. Olla, T. Sibillano, C. Giannini, E. Fanizza, M. L. Curri, A. Panniello, F. Messina, M. Striccoli, “Dye-Derived Red-Emitting Carbon Dots for Lasing and Solid-State Lighting”, ACS Nano 17, 21274 (2023)
• F. C. Herrera, V. Sireus, P.Rassu, L. Stagi, M. Reale, A. Sciortino, F. Messina, G. JAA Soler-Illia, L. Malfatti, P. Innocenzi, “Chemical Design of Efficient Photoelectrodes by Heterogeneous Nucleation of Carbon Dots in Mesopo-rous Ordered Titania Films”, Chem. Mater. 35, 8009 (2023)
• L. Affatigato, A. Sciortino, G. Sancataldo, A. Incocciati, R. Piacentini, A. Bonamore, M. Cannas, F. Messina, M. Licciardi, V. Militello, “Engineered Ferritin with Eu3+ as a Bright Nanovector: A Photoluminescence Study”, Photochem. Photobiol. 99, 1218 (2023)
• A. Pramanik, A. Sciortino, M. Reale, P. Pasbakhsh, G. Cavallaro, M. Cannas, G. Lazzara, F. Messina, “Naturally occurring halloysite nanotubes as light scatterers for stable random lasing applications”, ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 6, 15896 (2023)
• A. Dey, A. Pramanik, K. Mondal, S. Biswas, U. Chatterjee, F. Messina, P. Kumbhakar, “Replica symmetry breaking in a colloidal plasmonic random laser with gold-coated triangular silver nanostructures”, Optics Letters 48, 4141 (2023).
• J. P. Mora-Fuentes, M. D. Codesal, M. Reale, C. M. Cruz, V. G. Jiménez, A. Sciortino, M. Cannas, F. Messina, V. Blanco, A. Campana, “Heptagon‐Containing Nanographene Embedded into [10] Cyclopara-phenylene”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 62, e202301356 (2023)
• A. Terracina, N. Mauro, J. Le Balle, R. Popescu, M. Scopelliti, G. Buscarino, M. A. Utzeri, M. Cannas, G. Cavallaro, F. Messina, A. Sciortino, “Fluorescent Boron Oxide Nanodisks as Biocompatible Multi-messenger Sensors for Ultrasensitive Ni2+ Detection” ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 6, 6036 (2023)
• S. Chandra, A. Sciortino, S. Das, F. Ahmed, A. Jana, J. Roy, D. Li, V. Liljestrom, H. Jiang, L.-S. Johansson, X. Chen, Nonappa, M. Cannas, T. Pradeep, B. Peng, R. H. A. Ras, Z. Sun, O. Ikkala, F. Messina, “Gold Au(I)6 Clusters with Ligand‐Derived Atomic Steric Locking: Multifunctional Optoelectrical Properties and Quantum Coherence”, Adv. Opt. Materials 11, 2202649 (2023).
• M. Reale, A. Sciortino, C. M. Cruz, M. Cannas, E. Macoas, A. G. Campana, F. Messina, “The photophysics of distorted nanographenes: Ultra-slow relaxation dynamics, memory effects, and delayed fluorescence”, Carbon 206, 45 (2023).
• M. Reale, A. Sciortino, M. Cannas, E. Macoas, A. H. G. David, C. M. Cruz, A. G. Campana, F. Messina, “Atomically Precise Distorted Nanographenes: The Effect of Different Edge Functionalization on the Pho-tophysical Properties down to the Femtosecond Scale”, Materials 16, 835 (2023).
• S. Chandra, A. Sciortino, S. Shandilya, L. Fang, X. Chen, Nonappa, H. Jiang, L.-S. Johansson, M. Cannas, J. Ruokolainen, R. H. A. Ras, F. Messina, B. Peng, O. Ikkala, “Core‐Selective Silver‐Doping of Gold Nanoclusters by Surface‐Bound Sulphates on Colloidal Templates: From Synthetic Mechanism to Relaxation Dynamics”, Advanced Opt. Materials 11, 2201901 (2023)
• A. Terracina, A. Armano, M. Meloni, A. Panniello, G. Minervini, A. Madonia, M. Cannas, M. Striccoli, L. Malfatti, F. Messina, “Photobleaching and recovery kinetics of a palette of carbon nanodots probed by in situ optical spectroscopy” ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 14, 36038 (2022)
• N. Mauro, M. A. Utzeri, A. Sciortino, M. Cannas, F. Messina, G. Cavallaro, G. Giammona, “Printable Thermo- and Photo-stable Poly(D,L-lactide)/Carbon Nanodots Nanocomposites via Heterophase Melt-Extrusion Transesterification” Chem. Engineering Journal 443, 136525 (2022)
• M. Meloni, L. Stagi, D. Sanna, S. Garroni, L. Calvillo, A. Terracina, M. Cannas, F. Messina, C. M. Carbonaro, P. Innocenzi, L. Malfatti, “Harnessing Molecular Fluorophores in the Carbon Dots Matrix: The Case of Safranin O” Nanomaterials 12, 2351 (2022)
• N. Mauro, M. A. Utzeri, A. Sciortino, F. Messina, M. Cannas, R. Popescu, D. Gerthsen, G. Buscarino, G. Cavallaro, G. Giammona, “Decagram-Scale Synthesis of Multicolor Carbon Nanodots: Self-Tracking Nanoheaters with Inherent and Selective Anticancer Properties” ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 14, 2551 (2022)
• V. De Michele, A. Sciortino, M. Bouet, G. Bouwmans, S. Agnello, F. Messina, M. Cannas, A. Boukenter, E. Marin, S. Girard, Y. Ouerdane, “Photocycle of point defects in highly-and weakly-germanium doped silica revealed by transient absorption measurements with femtosecond tunable pump”, Scientific Reports 12, 1, (2022)
• A. Sciortino, A. Panniello, G. Minervini, N. Mauro, G. Giammona, G. Buscarino, M. Cannas, M. Striccoli, F. Messina, “Enhancing carbon dots fluorescence via plasmonic resonance energy transfer”, Mater. Res. Bullet. 149, 111746 (2022)
• A. Madonia, A. Sciortino, M. Martin-Sabi, M. Cannas, S. Ammar, F. Messina, D. Schaming, “Electron transfer between carbon dots and tetranuclear Dawson-derived sandwich polyanions”, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 24, 17654 (2022)
• M. Reale, S. Chandra, G. Buscarino, A. Emanuele, M. Cannas, O. Ikkala, A. Sciortino, F. Messina “Photoinduced charge separation in functional carbon–silver nanohybrids”, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 24, 12974 (2022)
• A. V. Longo, B. Notebaert, M. Gaceur, G. Patriarche, A. Sciortino, M. Cannas, F. Messina, H. J. Von Bardeleben, N. Battaglini, S. Ammar, “Photo-activated Phosphorescence of Ultrafine ZnS:Mn Quantum Dots: On the Lattice Strain contributions”, J. Phys. Chem. C. 126, 3, 1531 (2022)
• F. Bruno, A. Sciortino, G. Buscarino, M. Cannas, F. M. Gelardi, F. Messina, S. Agnello, “Sensing of Transition Metals by Top-Down Carbon Dots", Appl. Sciences 11, 10360 (2021)
• A. Sciortino, F. Ferrante, G. Goncalves, G. Tobias, R. Popescu, D. Gerthsen, N. Mauro, G. Giammona, G. Buscarino, F. M. Gelardi, S. Agnello, M. Cannas, D. Duca, F. Messina, “Ultrafast Interface Charge Separation in Carbon Nanodot–Nanotube Hybrids”, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 13, 49232 (2021)
• F. Bruno, A. Sciortino, G. Buscarino, M. L. Soriano, A. Rios, M. Cannas, F. Gelardi, F. Messina, S. Agnello, “A comparative study of top-down and bottom-up carbon nanodots and their interaction with mercury ions”, Nanomaterials 11, 1265 (2021)
• V. De Michele, A. Sciortino, F. Messina, M. Cannas, A. Boukenter, E. Marin, S. Girard, Y. Ouerdane, “Transient absorption with a femtosecond tunable excitation pump reveals the emission kinetics of color centers in amorphous silica”,Optics Letters 46, 1736 (2021)
• A. Sciortino, F. Ferrante, N. Mauro, G. Buscarino, L. Sciortino, G. Giammona, M. Cannas, D. Duca, F. Messina, “Disclosing the emissive surface traps in green-emitting carbon nanodots”, Carbon 173, 454 (2021)
• G. Faggio, R. Grillo, A. Foti, S. Agnello, F. Messina, G. Messina, “Micro-photoluminescence of Carbon Dots Deposited on Twisted Double-Layer Graphene Grown by Chemical Vapor Deposition”, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 13, 7324 (2021)
• N. Mauro, M. A. Utzeri, G. Buscarino, A. Sciortino, F. Messina, G. Cavallaro, G. Giammona, “Pressure-dependent tuning of photoluminescence and size distribution of carbon nanodots for theranostic anticancer appli-cations”, Materials 13, 4899 (2020)
• E. Marino, A. Sciortino, A. Berkhout, K. E. MacArthur, M. Heggen, T. Gregorkiewicz, T. E. Kodger, A. Capretti, C. B. Murray, A. F. Koenderink, F. Messina, P. Schall, “Simultaneous photonic and excitonic coupling in spheri-cal quantum dot supercrystals”, ACS Nano 14, 13806 (2020)
• M. Gazzetto, A. Sciortino, M. Nazari, E. Rohwer, G. Giammona, N. Mauro, T. Feurer, F. Messina, A. Cannizzo. “Photocycle of excitons in Nitrogen-Rich Carbon Nanodots: Implications for Photocatalysis and Photovoltaics”, ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 3, 6925, 2020
• A. Armano, G. Buscarino, F. Messina, A. Sciortino, M. Cannas, F. M. Gelardi, F. Giannazzo, E. Schilirò, S. Agnello, “Dynamic modification of Fermi Energy in Single-Layer Graphene by Photoinduced Electron Transfer from Carbon Dots”, Nanomaterials 3, 528, 2020
• A. Madonia, M. Martin-Sabi, A. Sciortino, S. Agnello, M. Cannas, S. Ammar, F. Messina, D. Schaming, “High-ly efficient electron transfer in a Carbon-dot Polyoxometalate Nanohybrid”, J. Phys. Chem. Letters 11, 4379, 2020
• A. Longo, A. Sciortino, M. Cannas, F. Messina, “UV Photobleaching of carbon nanodots investigated by in situ optical methods”, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 22, 13398, 2020
• P. Camarda, L. Vaccaro, A. Sciortino, F. Messina, G. Buscarino, S. Agnello, F. M. Gelardi, R. Popescu, R. Schneider, D. Gerthsen, M. Cannas, “Synthesis of multi-color luminescent ZnO nanoparticles by ultra short pulsed laser ablation”, Appl. Surf. Science 506, 144954, 2020