Personal Information
Name | Paolo Prosposito |
Nationality | Italian |
Contact Details
Address | Departmemnt of Industrial Engineering Rome Tor Vergata University – Via del Politecnico 1, 00133 Rome, Italy |
Office Location | Sogene Building (Science Faculty) – Room D007 |
Phone | 39 06 72594115 / 4779 |
Mobile | 39 328 7852311 |
Fax | |
paolo.prosposito@uniroma2.it |
Languages
Native Language | Italian |
Others | English Reading skills: excellent Writing skills: excellent Verbal skills: excellent |
Curriculum
Current Position | Associate professor |
Education | Master Degree in Physics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata PhD in Physics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata |
Teaching | Nanostructures and nanomaterials – 6 CFU Complements of optics – 6 CFU Characterization of nanoengineering systems – 2 CFU |
Web Pages | Research gate Research Activity |
Research Activities
Main skills and expertise are on experimental Physics with special regard on Material Science and Optical Spectroscopy.
Research activities are:
- Organic vapour sensors based on luminescent quantum dots
- Synthesis and characterization of metallic nanoparticles for sensing applications
- Synthesis and characterization of photonic crystals
- Synthesis and optical characterization of hybrid sol-gel based waveguides
- Nanoimprinting and soft-lithographic techniques
- Surface nanostructuring of solar cells by soft lithography
- Synthesis of inorganic and hybrid materials (bulk and film) with sol-gel procedures
- Optical characterization of quantum structures, semiconductors and insulators by absorption, luminescence, reflectance and quantum yield.
- Fabrication of 3D scaffolds for tissue engineering with photolithographic techniques
Publications
- Prosposito P., Burratti L., Bellingeri A., Protano G., Faleri C., Corsi I., Battocchio C., Iucci G., Tortora L., Secchi V., Franchi S., Venditti I. (2019). Bifunctionalized silver nanoparticles as Hg2+ plasmonic sensor in water: Synthesis, characterizations, and ecosafety. Nanomaterials, vol. 9, ISSN: 2079-4991, doi: 10.3390/nano9101353
- Salvato, M., Scagliotti, M., De Crescenzi, M., Boscardin, M., Attanasio, C., Avallone, G., Cirillo, C., Prosposito, P., De Matteis, F., Messi, R., Castrucci, P. Time response in carbon nanotube/Si based photodetectors
(2019) Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical, 292, pp. 71-76. - Kaciulis, S., Mezzi, A., Soltani, P., Pizzoferrato, R., Ciotta, E., Prosposito, P. Graphene quantum dots obtained by unfolding fullerene (2019) Thin Solid Films, 673, pp. 19-25.
- Corsi, P., Venditti, I., Battocchio, C., Meneghini, C., Bruni, F., Prosposito, P., Mochi, F., Capone, B.
Designing an Optimal Ion Adsorber at the Nanoscale: The Unusual Nucleation of AgNP/Co 2+ -Ni 2+ Binary Mixtures
(2019) Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 123 (6), pp. 3855-3860. - Alimonti, G., Ammendola, R., Andreazza, A., Badoni, D., Bonaiuto, V., Casalboni, M., De Matteis, F., Mai, A., Paoluzzi, G., Prosposito, P., Salamon, A., Salina, G., Santovetti, E., Sargeni, F., Satta, A., Schrader, S., Steglich, P. (2019). Use of silicon photonics wavelength multiplexing techniques for fast parallel readout in high energy physics. Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers,detector and associated equipment, vol. 936, p. 601-603, ISSN: 0168-9002, doi: 10.1016/j.nima.2018.09.088
- Ciotta, E., Prosposito, P., Pizzoferrato, R. Positive curvature in Stern-Volmer plot described by a generalized model for static quenching (2019) Journal of Luminescence, 206, pp. 518-522.
- Burratti, L., Casalboni, M., De Matteis, F., Pizzoferrato, R., Prosposito, P. Polystyrene opals responsive to methanol vapors (2018) Materials, 11 (9), art. no. 1547.
- Mochi, F., Burratti, L., Fratoddi, I., Venditti, I., Battocchio, C., Carlini, L., Iucci, G., Casalboni, M., De Matteis, F., Casciardi, S., Nappini, S., Pis, I., Prosposito, P. Plasmonic sensor based on interaction between silver nanoparticles and Ni 2+ or Co 2+ in water (2018) Nanomaterials, 8 (7), art. no. 488.
- Burratti, L., De Matteis, F., Casalboni, M., Francini, R., Pizzoferrato, R., Prosposito, P. Polystyrene photonic crystals as optical sensors for volatile organic compounds (2018) Materials Chemistry and Physics, 212, pp. 274-281.
- Ciotta, E., Prosposito, P., Tagliatesta, P., Lorecchio, C., Stella, L., Kaciulis, S., Soltani, P., Placidi, E., Pizzoferrato, R.
Discriminating between different heavy metal ions with fullerene-derived nanoparticles (2018) Sensors (Switzerland), 18 (5), art. no. 1496. - Zesch, C., Schrader, S., Prosposito, P., Lux, O., Eichler, H.J. Raman lasers for trace gas detection (2018) Proceedings of SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering, 11042, art. no. 110420M.
- Burratti, L., Casalboni, M., De Matteis, F., Mochi, F., Francini, R., Casciardi, S., Bolli, E., Prosposito, P. Synthesis of fluorescent silver nanoclusters for environmental sensing applications (2018) IET Conference Publications, 2018 (CP748).
- Mochi, F., De Matteis, F., Prosposito, P., Burratti, L., Francini, R., Casalboni, M. One photon 3D polymerization via direct laser writing (2018) Materials Science Forum, 941, pp. 2142-2147.
- Burratti, L., Bolli, E., Casalboni, M., De Matteis, F., Mochi, F., Francini, R., Casciardi, S., Prosposito, P.
Synthesis of fluorescent ag nanoclusters for sensing and imaging applications (2018) Materials Science Forum, 941, pp. 2243-2248. - Ciotta, E., Paoloni, S., Richetta, M., Prosposito, P., Tagliatesta, P., Lorecchio, C., Venditti, I., Fratoddi, I., Casciardi, S., Pizzoferrato, R. Sensitivity to heavy-metal ions of unfolded fullerene quantum dots (2017) Sensors (Switzerland), 17 (11), art. no. 2614.
- Rogge, C., Zinn, S., Prosposito, P., Francini, R., Foitzik, A.H. Transmitted light pH optode for small sample volumes
(2017) Journal of Sensors and Sensor Systems, 6 (2), pp. 351-359. - Ciocci, M., Mochi, F., Carotenuto, F., Di Giovanni, E., Prosposito, P., Francini, R., De Matteis, F., Reshetov, I., Casalboni, M., Melino, S., Di Nardo, P. Scaffold-in-scaffold potential to induce growth and differentiation of cardiac progenitor cells (2017) Stem Cells and Development, 26 (19), pp. 1438-1447.
- Salvato, M., Scagliotti, M., De Crescenzi, M., Crivellari, M., Prosposito, P., Cacciotti, I., Castrucci, P. Single walled carbon nanotube/Si heterojunctions for high responsivity photodetectors (2017) Nanotechnology, 28 (43), art. no. 435201.
- Rogge, C., Zinn, S., Schneider, S., Francini, R., Prosposito, P., Foitzik, A. A new approach for the spectroscopic detection of different pH-values (2017) Materials Science Forum, 879, pp. 1606-1611.
- de Matteis, F., Prosposito, P., Francini, R., de Angelis, R., Mochi, F., Melino, S., Congestri, R., Bruno, L., Casalboni, M.
Photonic application of diatom frustules (2017) Materials Science Forum, 879, pp. 419-423. - Prosposito, P., Melino, S., Ciocci, M., Francini, R., Mochi, F., De Matteis, F., Di Nardo, P., Ksenzov, S., Schrader, S., Casalboni, M. Photolithography of 3D scaffolds for artificial tissue (2017) Materials Science Forum, 879, pp. 1519-1523.
- De Angelis, R., Melino, S., Prosposito, P., Casalboni, M., Lamastra, F.R., Nanni, F., Bruno, L., Congestri, R.
The diatom Staurosirella pinnata for photoactive material production (2016) PLoS ONE, 11 (11), art. no. e0165571. - Prosposito, P., De Angelis, R., De Matteis, F., Hatami, F., Masselink, W.T., Zhang, H., Casalboni, M.
Physico-chemical mechanism for the vapors sensitivity of photoluminescent InP quantum dots
(2016) IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 108 (1), art. no. 012034. - Prosposito, P., Mochi, F., Ciotta, E., Casalboni, M., De Matteis, F., Venditti, I., Fontana, L., Testa, G., Fratoddi, I.
Hydrophilic silver nanoparticles with tunable optical properties: Application for the detection of heavy metals in water
(2016) Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, 7 (1), pp. 1654-1661. - Mochi, F., Prosposito, P., Francini, R., De Matteis, F., Melino, S., Ciocci, M., Di Nardo, P., Ksianzou, V., Schrader, S., Casalboni, M. Advanced biocompatible photolithographic scaffolds for tissue engineering (2016) IET Conference Publications, 2016 (CP704).
- De Angelis, R., Casalboni, M., De Matteis, F., Hatami, F., Masselink, W.T., Zhang, H., Prosposito, P.
Chemical sensitivity of InP/In<inf>0.48</inf>Ga<inf>0.52</inf>P surface quantum dots studied by time-resolved photoluminescence spectroscopy (2015) Journal of Luminescence, 168, art. no. 13479, pp. 54-58. - Barettin, D., Auf Der Maur, M., De Angelis, R., Prosposito, P., Casalboni, M., Pecchia, A. Inter-dot strain field effect on the optoelectronic properties of realistic InP lateral quantum-dot molecules (2015) Journal of Applied Physics, 117 (9), art. no. 094306.
- Prosposito, P., D’Amico, L., Casalboni, M., Motta, N. Periodic arrangement of mono-dispersed gold nanoparticles for high performance polymeric solar cells (2015) IEEE-NANO 2015 – 15th International Conference on Nanotechnology, art. no. 7389005, pp. 378-380.
- Lux, H., Siemroth, P., Sgarlata, A., Prosposito, P., Schubert, M.A., Casalboni, M., Schrader, S. Synthesis of graphene-like transparent conductive films on dielectric substrates using a modified filtered vacuum arc system
(2015) Journal of Applied Physics, 117 (19), art. no. 195304.