Publications
Selected publications related to the PMCS technology are given below.
An Advanced Application of Protein Microarrays: Cell-Based Assay for Functional Genomics.
Roberta Carbone. Peptide Microarrays – Methods in Molecular Biology 570, Chapter 19. Humana Press. Pirin delocalization in melanoma progression identified by high content immuno-detection based approaches.
Silvia Licciulli, Chiara Luise, Andrea Zanardi, Luca Giorgetti, Giuseppe Viale, Luisa Lanfrancone, Roberta Carbone and Myriam Alcalay. BMC Cell Biology 2010, 11.5 Optical properties of cluster-assembled nanoporous gold films.
F. Bisio, M. Palombo, M. Prato, O. Cavalleri, E. Barborini, S. Vinati, M. Franchi, L. Mattera, and M. Canepa Phys. Rev. B 80, 205428 _2009 Integration of a technique for the deposition of nanostructured films with MEMS-based microfabrication technologies: Application to micro gas sensors.
Massimiliano Decarli, L. Lorenzelli, V. Guarnieri, E. Barborini, S. Vinati, C. Ducati, P. Milani Microelectronic Engineering 86 (2009) 1247-1249. Characterization of cluster-assembled nanostructured titanium oxide coating as substrate for protein arrays.
Roberta Carbone, Marzia De Marni, Andrea Zanardi, Simone Vinati, Emanuele Barborini, Lorenzo Fornasari, Paolo Milani Anal Biochem. 2009 Jul 6. Adsorption and Stability of Streptavidin on Cluster-Assembled Nanostructured TiOx Films.
Luca Giorgetti, Gero Bongiorno, Alesssandro Podestà, Giuseppe Berlanda, Pasquale Emanuele Scopelliti, Roberta Carbone and Paolo Milani. Biophysical Journal, Volume 96, Issue 3, Pages 50a-50. Batch Fabrication of Metal Oxide Sensors on Micro-hotplates.
E. Barborini, S. Vinati, M. Leccardi, P. Repetto, G. Bertolini, O. Rorato, L. Lorenzelli, M. Decarli, V. Guarnieri, C. Ducati, P. Milani Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering 18 (2008) 055015. Retroviral microarray-based platform on nanostructured TiO2 for functional genomics and drug discovery.
Carbone R, Giorgetti L, Zanardi A, Marangi I, Chierici E, Bongiorno G, Fiorentini F, Faretta M, Piseri P, Pelicci PG, Milani P. Biomaterials. 2007 Apr;28(13):2244-53. Epub 2007 Jan 5. ImmunoCell-Array: a novel technology for pathway discovery and cell profiling.
Giorgetti L, Zanardi A, Venturini S, Carbone R. Expert Rev Proteomics. 2007 Oct;4(5):609-16. Review. Immunocell-array for molecular dissection of multiple signaling pathways in mammalian cells.
Zanardi A, Giorgetti L, Botrugno OA, Minucci S, Milani P, Pelicci PG, Carbone R. Mol Cell Proteomics. 2007 May;6(5):939-47. Epub 2007 Feb 10. Supersonic cluster beam deposition of nanostructured thin films with uniform thickness via continuously graded exposure control.
C. Chiappini, P. Piseri, S. Vinati and P. Milani. Review Of Scientific Instruments 78, 066105 (2007). Biocompatibility of cluster-assembled nanostructured TiO2 with primary and cancer cells.
Carbone R, Marangi I, Zanardi A, Giorgetti L, Chierici E, Berlanda G, Podesta A, Fiorentini F, Bongiorno G, Piseri P, Pelicci PG, Milani P. Biomaterials. 2006 Jun; 27(17): 3221-9 Cluster beam deposition: a tool for nanoscale science and technology.
K.Wegner, P.Piseri, H.Vahedi Tafreshi, and P.Milani: J. Phys. D 39, R439-R459, 2006. Gas-Phase Synthesis of Nanostructured Particulate Films.
K.Wegner, E.Barborini, P.Piseri, and P. Milani. KONA 24,54-69, 2006. Libraries of cluster-assembled titania films for chemical sensing.
T. Mazza, E. Barborini, I. N. Kholmanov, P. Piseri, G. Bongiorno, S. Vinati, P. Milani, C. Ducati, D. Cattaneo, A. Li Bassi, C. E. Bottani, A. M. Taurino and P. Siciliano. Applied Physics Letter 87, 103108 (2005) Nanostructured TiO2 films with 2eV optical gaps.
E. Barborini, A.M. Conti, I.N. Kholmanov, P. Piseri, A. Podestà, P. Milani, C. Cepek, O. Sakho, R. Macovez, and M. Sancrotti, Advanced Materials, 17, 1842 (2005). Nanocrystalline metal/carbon composites produced by supersonic cluster beam deposition.
G. Bongiorno, C. Lenardi, C. Ducati, R.G. Agostino, T. Caruso, M. Amati, M. Blomqvist, E. Barborini, P. Piseri, S. La Rosa, E. Colavita and P. Milani, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, X, 1-9 (2005). Spatially resolved valence band study of nanostructured carbon films containing transition metal nanocrystals.
R.G. Agostino, T. Caruso, G. Chiarello, R. Filosa, V. Formoso, E. Colavita, E. Barborini, C. Lenardi, P. Piseri, P. Milani, S. La Rosa, and M. Bertolo, Carbon, 42, 923 (2004). Hugoniot data for carbon at megabar pressures.
D. Batani, F. Strati, H. Stabile, M. Tomasini, G. Lucchini, A. Ravasio, M. Koenig, A. Benuzzi-Mounaix, H. Nishimura, Y. Ochi, J. Ullschmied, J. Skala, B. Kralikova, M. Pfeifer, Ch. Kadlec, T. Mocek, A. Präg, T. Hall, P. Milani, E. Barborini, and P. Piseri, Physical Review Letters, 92, 65503 (2004). Writing submicrometric metallic patterns by ultraviolet synchrotron irradiation of nanostructured carbon and TiOx-carbon films.
T. Caruso, R. G. Agostino, G. Bongiorno, E. Barborini, P. Piseri, P. Milani, C. Lenardi, S. La Rosa and M. Bertolo, Applied Physics Letters, 84, 3412 (2004). Hydrogen Uptake in Cluster-Assembled Carbon Thin Films: Experiment and Computer Simulation.
P. Piseri, E. Barborini, M. Marino, P. Milani, C. Lenardi, L. Zoppi and L. Colombo, J. Phys. Chem. B, 108, 5157 (2004). Electrical conduction in nanostructured carbon and carbon-metal films grown by supersonic cluster beam deposition.
M. Bruzzi, P. Piseri, S. Miglio, G. Bongiorno, E. Barborini, C. Ducati, J. Robertson, and P. Milani, European Physical Journal B, 36, 3 (2003). The influence of the precursor clusters on the structural and morphological evolution of nanostructured TiO2 under thermal annealing.
I. N. Kholmanov, E. Barborini, S. Vinati, P. Piseri, A. Podestà, C. Ducati, C. Lenardi, and P. Milani, Nanotechnology, 14, 1168 (2003). Supersonic Cluster Beam Deposition of Nanostructured Titania. E. Barborini, I. N. Kholmanov, A. M. Conti, P. Piseri, S. Vinati, P. Milani, and C. Ducati, European Physical Journal D, 24, 277 (2003). Morphology and electronic structure of nanostructured carbon films embedding transition metal nanoparticles.
E. Barborini, C. Lenardi, P. Piseri, P. Milani, R. G. Agostino, T. Caruso, E. Colavita, S. La Rosa, M. Bertolo, and C. Ducati, European Physical Journal D, 24, 273 (2003). Thermal annealing and hydrogen exposure effects on cluster-assembled nanostructured carbon films embedded with transition metal nanoparticles.
R. G. Agostino, T. Caruso, G. Chiarello, A. Cupolillo, D. Pacilè, R. Filosa, V. Formoso, E. Colavita, L. Papagno, C. Ducati, E. Barborini, C. Lenardi, G. Bongiorno, P. Piseri, and P. Milani, Physical Review B, 68, 35413 (2003). Cluster Beam Deposition and in-situ Characterization of Carbyne-rich Carbon Films.
L. Ravagnan, F. Siviero, C. Lenardi, P. Piseri, E. Barborini, P. Milani, C. Casari, A. Li Bassi, and C. E. Bottani, Physical Review Letters, 89, 285506 (2002). Negatively Curved Spongy Carbon.
E. Barborini, P. Piseri, P. Milani, G. Benedek, C. Ducati, and J. Robertson, Applied Physics Letters, 81, 18, 3359 (2002). Engineering the nanocrystalline structure of TiO2 films by aerodynamically filtered cluster deposition.
E. Barborini, I. N. Kholmanov, P. Piseri, C. Ducati, C. E. Bottani, and P. Milani, Applied Physics Letters, 81, 16, 3052 (2002). A portable Ultra High Vacuum apparatus for the production and in-situ characterization of clusters and cluster assembled materials.
E. Barborini, F. Siviero, S. Vinati, C. Lenardi, P. Piseri, and P. Milani, Review of Scientific Instruments, 73, 5, 2060 (2002).> Production and characterization of highly intense and collimated cluster beams by Inertial focusing in supersonic expansions.
P. Piseri, A. Podestà, E. Barborini, and P. Milani, Review of Scientific Instruments, 72, 2261 (2001). Cluster beam microfabrication of patterns of three-dimensional nanostructured objects.
E. Barborini, P. Piseri, A. Podestà, P. Milani, Applied Physics Letters, 77, 1059 (2000). Supercapacitors based on nanostructured carbon electrodes grown by cluster beam deposition.
L. Diederich, E. Barborini, P. Piseri, A. Podestà, P. Milani, A. Schneuwly, and R. Gallay, Applied Physics Letters, 75, 2662 (1999). A pulsed microplasma source of high intensity supersonic carbon cluster beams.
E. Barborini, P. Piseri, and P Milani, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 32, L105 (1999). Nanostructured carbon films from supersonic cluster beam deposition: structure and morphology.
P. Milani, E. Barborini, P. Piseri, C.E. Bottani, and A. Li Bassi, European Physical Journal D, 9, 63 (1999).
Roberta Carbone. Peptide Microarrays – Methods in Molecular Biology 570, Chapter 19. Humana Press. Pirin delocalization in melanoma progression identified by high content immuno-detection based approaches.
Silvia Licciulli, Chiara Luise, Andrea Zanardi, Luca Giorgetti, Giuseppe Viale, Luisa Lanfrancone, Roberta Carbone and Myriam Alcalay. BMC Cell Biology 2010, 11.5 Optical properties of cluster-assembled nanoporous gold films.
F. Bisio, M. Palombo, M. Prato, O. Cavalleri, E. Barborini, S. Vinati, M. Franchi, L. Mattera, and M. Canepa Phys. Rev. B 80, 205428 _2009 Integration of a technique for the deposition of nanostructured films with MEMS-based microfabrication technologies: Application to micro gas sensors.
Massimiliano Decarli, L. Lorenzelli, V. Guarnieri, E. Barborini, S. Vinati, C. Ducati, P. Milani Microelectronic Engineering 86 (2009) 1247-1249. Characterization of cluster-assembled nanostructured titanium oxide coating as substrate for protein arrays.
Roberta Carbone, Marzia De Marni, Andrea Zanardi, Simone Vinati, Emanuele Barborini, Lorenzo Fornasari, Paolo Milani Anal Biochem. 2009 Jul 6. Adsorption and Stability of Streptavidin on Cluster-Assembled Nanostructured TiOx Films.
Luca Giorgetti, Gero Bongiorno, Alesssandro Podestà, Giuseppe Berlanda, Pasquale Emanuele Scopelliti, Roberta Carbone and Paolo Milani. Biophysical Journal, Volume 96, Issue 3, Pages 50a-50. Batch Fabrication of Metal Oxide Sensors on Micro-hotplates.
E. Barborini, S. Vinati, M. Leccardi, P. Repetto, G. Bertolini, O. Rorato, L. Lorenzelli, M. Decarli, V. Guarnieri, C. Ducati, P. Milani Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering 18 (2008) 055015. Retroviral microarray-based platform on nanostructured TiO2 for functional genomics and drug discovery.
Carbone R, Giorgetti L, Zanardi A, Marangi I, Chierici E, Bongiorno G, Fiorentini F, Faretta M, Piseri P, Pelicci PG, Milani P. Biomaterials. 2007 Apr;28(13):2244-53. Epub 2007 Jan 5. ImmunoCell-Array: a novel technology for pathway discovery and cell profiling.
Giorgetti L, Zanardi A, Venturini S, Carbone R. Expert Rev Proteomics. 2007 Oct;4(5):609-16. Review. Immunocell-array for molecular dissection of multiple signaling pathways in mammalian cells.
Zanardi A, Giorgetti L, Botrugno OA, Minucci S, Milani P, Pelicci PG, Carbone R. Mol Cell Proteomics. 2007 May;6(5):939-47. Epub 2007 Feb 10. Supersonic cluster beam deposition of nanostructured thin films with uniform thickness via continuously graded exposure control.
C. Chiappini, P. Piseri, S. Vinati and P. Milani. Review Of Scientific Instruments 78, 066105 (2007). Biocompatibility of cluster-assembled nanostructured TiO2 with primary and cancer cells.
Carbone R, Marangi I, Zanardi A, Giorgetti L, Chierici E, Berlanda G, Podesta A, Fiorentini F, Bongiorno G, Piseri P, Pelicci PG, Milani P. Biomaterials. 2006 Jun; 27(17): 3221-9 Cluster beam deposition: a tool for nanoscale science and technology.
K.Wegner, P.Piseri, H.Vahedi Tafreshi, and P.Milani: J. Phys. D 39, R439-R459, 2006. Gas-Phase Synthesis of Nanostructured Particulate Films.
K.Wegner, E.Barborini, P.Piseri, and P. Milani. KONA 24,54-69, 2006. Libraries of cluster-assembled titania films for chemical sensing.
T. Mazza, E. Barborini, I. N. Kholmanov, P. Piseri, G. Bongiorno, S. Vinati, P. Milani, C. Ducati, D. Cattaneo, A. Li Bassi, C. E. Bottani, A. M. Taurino and P. Siciliano. Applied Physics Letter 87, 103108 (2005) Nanostructured TiO2 films with 2eV optical gaps.
E. Barborini, A.M. Conti, I.N. Kholmanov, P. Piseri, A. Podestà, P. Milani, C. Cepek, O. Sakho, R. Macovez, and M. Sancrotti, Advanced Materials, 17, 1842 (2005). Nanocrystalline metal/carbon composites produced by supersonic cluster beam deposition.
G. Bongiorno, C. Lenardi, C. Ducati, R.G. Agostino, T. Caruso, M. Amati, M. Blomqvist, E. Barborini, P. Piseri, S. La Rosa, E. Colavita and P. Milani, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, X, 1-9 (2005). Spatially resolved valence band study of nanostructured carbon films containing transition metal nanocrystals.
R.G. Agostino, T. Caruso, G. Chiarello, R. Filosa, V. Formoso, E. Colavita, E. Barborini, C. Lenardi, P. Piseri, P. Milani, S. La Rosa, and M. Bertolo, Carbon, 42, 923 (2004). Hugoniot data for carbon at megabar pressures.
D. Batani, F. Strati, H. Stabile, M. Tomasini, G. Lucchini, A. Ravasio, M. Koenig, A. Benuzzi-Mounaix, H. Nishimura, Y. Ochi, J. Ullschmied, J. Skala, B. Kralikova, M. Pfeifer, Ch. Kadlec, T. Mocek, A. Präg, T. Hall, P. Milani, E. Barborini, and P. Piseri, Physical Review Letters, 92, 65503 (2004). Writing submicrometric metallic patterns by ultraviolet synchrotron irradiation of nanostructured carbon and TiOx-carbon films.
T. Caruso, R. G. Agostino, G. Bongiorno, E. Barborini, P. Piseri, P. Milani, C. Lenardi, S. La Rosa and M. Bertolo, Applied Physics Letters, 84, 3412 (2004). Hydrogen Uptake in Cluster-Assembled Carbon Thin Films: Experiment and Computer Simulation.
P. Piseri, E. Barborini, M. Marino, P. Milani, C. Lenardi, L. Zoppi and L. Colombo, J. Phys. Chem. B, 108, 5157 (2004). Electrical conduction in nanostructured carbon and carbon-metal films grown by supersonic cluster beam deposition.
M. Bruzzi, P. Piseri, S. Miglio, G. Bongiorno, E. Barborini, C. Ducati, J. Robertson, and P. Milani, European Physical Journal B, 36, 3 (2003). The influence of the precursor clusters on the structural and morphological evolution of nanostructured TiO2 under thermal annealing.
I. N. Kholmanov, E. Barborini, S. Vinati, P. Piseri, A. Podestà, C. Ducati, C. Lenardi, and P. Milani, Nanotechnology, 14, 1168 (2003). Supersonic Cluster Beam Deposition of Nanostructured Titania. E. Barborini, I. N. Kholmanov, A. M. Conti, P. Piseri, S. Vinati, P. Milani, and C. Ducati, European Physical Journal D, 24, 277 (2003). Morphology and electronic structure of nanostructured carbon films embedding transition metal nanoparticles.
E. Barborini, C. Lenardi, P. Piseri, P. Milani, R. G. Agostino, T. Caruso, E. Colavita, S. La Rosa, M. Bertolo, and C. Ducati, European Physical Journal D, 24, 273 (2003). Thermal annealing and hydrogen exposure effects on cluster-assembled nanostructured carbon films embedded with transition metal nanoparticles.
R. G. Agostino, T. Caruso, G. Chiarello, A. Cupolillo, D. Pacilè, R. Filosa, V. Formoso, E. Colavita, L. Papagno, C. Ducati, E. Barborini, C. Lenardi, G. Bongiorno, P. Piseri, and P. Milani, Physical Review B, 68, 35413 (2003). Cluster Beam Deposition and in-situ Characterization of Carbyne-rich Carbon Films.
L. Ravagnan, F. Siviero, C. Lenardi, P. Piseri, E. Barborini, P. Milani, C. Casari, A. Li Bassi, and C. E. Bottani, Physical Review Letters, 89, 285506 (2002). Negatively Curved Spongy Carbon.
E. Barborini, P. Piseri, P. Milani, G. Benedek, C. Ducati, and J. Robertson, Applied Physics Letters, 81, 18, 3359 (2002). Engineering the nanocrystalline structure of TiO2 films by aerodynamically filtered cluster deposition.
E. Barborini, I. N. Kholmanov, P. Piseri, C. Ducati, C. E. Bottani, and P. Milani, Applied Physics Letters, 81, 16, 3052 (2002). A portable Ultra High Vacuum apparatus for the production and in-situ characterization of clusters and cluster assembled materials.
E. Barborini, F. Siviero, S. Vinati, C. Lenardi, P. Piseri, and P. Milani, Review of Scientific Instruments, 73, 5, 2060 (2002).> Production and characterization of highly intense and collimated cluster beams by Inertial focusing in supersonic expansions.
P. Piseri, A. Podestà, E. Barborini, and P. Milani, Review of Scientific Instruments, 72, 2261 (2001). Cluster beam microfabrication of patterns of three-dimensional nanostructured objects.
E. Barborini, P. Piseri, A. Podestà, P. Milani, Applied Physics Letters, 77, 1059 (2000). Supercapacitors based on nanostructured carbon electrodes grown by cluster beam deposition.
L. Diederich, E. Barborini, P. Piseri, A. Podestà, P. Milani, A. Schneuwly, and R. Gallay, Applied Physics Letters, 75, 2662 (1999). A pulsed microplasma source of high intensity supersonic carbon cluster beams.
E. Barborini, P. Piseri, and P Milani, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 32, L105 (1999). Nanostructured carbon films from supersonic cluster beam deposition: structure and morphology.
P. Milani, E. Barborini, P. Piseri, C.E. Bottani, and A. Li Bassi, European Physical Journal D, 9, 63 (1999).