2024

• Tumor Growth-Arrest Effect of Tetrahydroquinazoline-derivative Human Topoisomerase II-alpha Inhibitor in HPV-Negative Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma; Patrizia Sarogni, Nicoletta Brindani, Agata Zamborlin, Alessandra Gonnelli,Michele Menicagli, Ana Katrina Mapanao, Federico Munafò, Marco de Vivo, and Valerio Voliani; Scientific Reports, 2024, 14:9150, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-59592-5.

• A bioconvergence study on platinum-free concurrent chemoradiotherapy for the treatment of HPV-negative head and neck carcinoma; Alessandra Gonnelli, Patrizia Sarogni, Noemi Giannini, Stefania Linsalata, Fabio Di Martino, Agata Zamborlin, Valentina Frusca, Maria Laura Ermini, Paola Puccini, Valerio Voliani, Fabiola Paiar; Artificial Cells, Nanomedicine and Biotechnology, 2024, 52 (1), 122-129, DOI: 10.1080/21691401.2024.2309233.

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2023​

• Drug-Free Hybrid Nano-Architectures Modulation of the Metastatic Behavior of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma in Alternative In Vivo Models; Agata Zamborlin, Patrizia Sarogni, Valentina Frusca, Alessandra Gonnelli, Noemi Giannini, Maria Laura Ermini, Andrea Marranci, Francesca Pagliari, Chiara Maria Mazzanti, Joao Seco, Valerio Voliani; ACS Applied Nanomaterials, 2023, 6, 24, 22532–22544, DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.3c05299.

• Organic Selenium induces ferroptosis in pancreatic cancer cells; Roberta Noè, Noemi Inglese, Patrizia Romani, Thauan Serafini, Marco Fantuz, Agata Zamborlin, Beatrice Calciolari, Nicoletta C. Surdo, Carlotta Paoli, Vittoria Spada, Sara Volta, Martina Spacci, Maria Laura Ermini, Giulietta Di Benedetto, Valentina Frusca, Claudio Santi, Konstantinos Lefkimmiatis, Sirio Dupont, Valerio Voliani, Luca Sancineto, Alessandro Carrer; Redox Biology, 2023, DOI: 10.1016/j.redox.2023.102962.

• Evolving Approaches in Glioma Treatment: Harnessing the Potential of Copper Metabolism Modulation; Riccardo Cazzoli, Agata Zamborlin, Maria Laura Ermini, Antonietta Salerno, Manuela Curcio, Nicoletta Fiore Pasquale, Francesca Iemma, Orazio Vittorio, Valerio Voliani, Giuseppe Cirillo; RSC Advances, 2023, 13, 34045-34056, DOI: 10.1039/D3RA06434D.

• Copper nano-architectures topical cream for the accelerated recovery of burnt skin; Maria Laura Ermini, Maria Summa, Agata Zamborlin, Valentina Frusca, Ana Katrina Mapanao, Rosalia Bertorelli, and Valerio Voliani; Nanoscale Advances, 2023, 5, 1212 - 1219, DOI: 10.1039/D2NA00786J.

• Hybrid nano-architectures loaded with metal complexes for the co-chemotherapy of head and neck carcinoma; Melissa Santi, Valentina Frusca, Maria Laura Ermini, Ana Katrina Mapanao, Patrizia Sarogni, Alessandra Gonnelli, Noemi Giannini, Agata Zamborlin, Lorenzo Biancalana, Fabio Marchetti, and Valerio Voliani; Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2023, 11, 325-334,  DOI: 10.1039/D2TB01930B.

• Gold nanoparticles as antiangiogenic and antimetastatic agents; Agata Zamborlin, and Valerio Voliani; Drug Discovery Today, 2023, 28(2), 103438, DOI: 10.1016/j.drudis.2022.103438.

• Hyperthermia reduces irradiation-induced tumor repopulation in an in-vivo pancreatic carcinoma model; Patrizia Sarogni, Agata Zamborlin, Ana Katrina Mapanao, Tine Logghe, Luigi Brancato, Eke van Zwol, Michele Menicagli, Noemi Giannini, Alessandra Gonnelli, Stefania Linsalata, Robin Colenbier, Johan Van den Bossche, Fabiola Paiar, Johannes Bogers, and Valerio Voliani; Advanced Biology, 2023, DOI: 10.1002/adbi.202200229.

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​2022

• The fate of intranasally instilled silver nano-architectures; Agata Zamborlin, Maria Laura Ermini, Maria Summa, Giulia Giannone, Valentina Frusca, Ana Katrina Mapanao, Doriana Debellis, Rosalia Bertorelli, and Valerio Voliani; Nano Letters, 2022, 22, 5269–5276, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c01180.

• Pro-apoptotic and size-reducing effects of protein corona-modulating nano-architectures enclosing platinum prodrug in in vivo oral carcinoma; Ana Katrina Mapanao, Patrizia Sarogni, Melissa Santi, Michele Menicagli, Alessandra Gonnelli, Agata Zamborlin, Maria Laura Ermini, and Valerio Voliani; Biomaterials Science, 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D2BM00994C.

• Chorioallantoic membrane tumor models highlight the effects of cisplatin compounds in the treatment of HPV-negative head and neck carcinoma; Patrizia Sarogni, Ana Katrina Mapanao, Alessandra Gonnelli, Sabrina Marchetti, Claudia Kusmic, Fabiola Paiar, and Valerio Voliani; iScience, 2022, 25(3), 103980, DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.103980. 

• Biodegradable Ultrasmall-In-Nano Architectures Loaded with Cisplatin Prodrug in Combination with Ionizing Radiation Induces DNA Damage and Apoptosis in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma; Pei Pei Che, Ana Katrina Mapanao, Alessandro Gregori, Maria Laura Ermini, Agata Zamborlin, Mjriam Capula, Danitsja Ngadimin, Ben J. Slotman, Valerio Voliani, Peter Sminia, and Elisa Giovannetti; Cancers, 2022, 14(12), 3034, DOI: 10.3390/cancers14123034.

• Curcumin and Graphene Oxide Incorporated into Alginate Hydrogels as Versatile Devices for the Local Treatment of Squamous Cell Carcinoma; Lorenzo Francesco Madeo, Patrizia Sarogni, Giuseppe Cirillo, Orazio Vittorio, Valerio Voliani, Manuela Curcio, Tyler Shai-Hee, Bernd Büchner, Michael Mertig, and Silke Hampel; Materials, 2022, DOI: 10.3390/ma15051648.

• Experimental Evaluation of Radiation Response and Thermal Properties of NPs-Loaded Tissues-Mimicking Phantoms; Somayeh Asadi, Sanzhar Korganbayev, Wujun Xu, Ana Katrina Mapanao, Valerio Voliani, Vesa-Pekka Lehto, and Paola Saccomandi; Nanomaterials, 2022, DOI: 10.3390/ nano12060945. 

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2021

• Antimicrobial Nano-Agents: The Copper Age; Maria Laura Ermini, and Valerio Voliani; ACS nano, 2021, 15(4), 6008–6029, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c10756. 

• A standard protocol for the production and bio-evaluation of ethical in vivo models of HPV-negative head and neck squamous cell carcinoma; Patrizia Sarogni, Ana Katrina Mapanao, Sabrina Marchetti, Claudia Kusmic, and Valerio Voliani; ACS Pharmacology & Translational Science, 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acsptsci.1c00083. 

• Doxorubicin-loaded gold nanoarchitectures as a therapeutic strategy against Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma; Caitlin Ung, Maria Tsoli, Jie Liu, Domenico Cassano, Salvador Pocoví-Martínez, Dannielle H. Upton, Anahid Ehteda, Friederike M. Mansfeld, Timothy W. Failes, Annafranca Farfalla, Christopher Katsinas, Maria Kavallaris, Greg M. Arndt, Orazio Vittorio, Giuseppe Cirillo, Valerio Voliani, and David S. Ziegler; Cancers, 2021, 13(6), 1278, DOI: 10.3390/cancers13061278. 

• Tumor Grafted – Chick Chorioallantoic Membrane as an Alternative Model for Biological Cancer Research and Conventional/Nanomaterial-Based Theranostics Evaluation; Ana Katrina Mapanao, Pei Pei Che, Patrizia Sarogni, Peter Sminia, Elisa Giovannetti, and Valerio Voliani; Expert Opinion on Drug Metabolism & Toxicology, 2021, DOI: 10.1080/17425255.2021.1879047. 

• Ruthenium arene complexes in the treatment of 3D models of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinomas; Melissa Santi, Ana Katrina Mapanao, Lorenzo Biancalana, Fabio Marchetti, and Valerio Voliani; European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2021, 212, 113143, DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2020.113143. 

• A flexible, transparent chemosensor integrating an inkjet-printed organic field-effect transistor and a non-covalently functionalized graphene electrode; Stefano Lai, Ylea Vlamidis, Neeraj Mishra, Piero Cosseddu, Vaidotas Miseikis, Pier Carlo Ricci, Valerio Voliani, Camilla Coletti, and Annalisa Bonfiglio; Advanced Materials Technologies, 2021, DOI: 10.1002/admt.202100481. 

• Total- and semi-bare noble metal nanoparticles@silica core@shell catalysts for hydrogen generation by formic acid decomposition; Marco Santucci, Maria Laura Ermini, Giulio Bresciani, Andrea Griesi, Mauro Gemmi, Guido Pampaloni, Fabio Marchetti, and Valerio Voliani; Emergent Materials, 2021, DOI: 10.1007/s42247-020-00160-8. 

• Complementary effect of non-persistent silver nano-architectures and chlorhexidine on infected wound healing; Mykola Pernakov, Maria Laura Ermini, Oksana Sulaieva, Domenico Cassano, Marco Santucci, Yevhenia Husak, Viktoriia Korniienko, Giulia Giannone, Aziza Yusupova, Iryna Liubchak, Maria Teodora Hristova, Anton Savchenko, Viktoriia Holubnycha, Valerio Voliani, Maksym Pogorielov; Biomedicines, 2021, DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines9091215. 

• Titania-decorated hybrid nano-architectures and their preliminary assessment in catalytic applications; Marco Santucci, Maria Laura Ermini, Giulio Bresciani, Enrico Mugnaioli, Mauro Gemmi, Fabio Marchetti, Guido Pampaloni, and Valerio Voliani; Nano Structures & Nano Objects, 2021, DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoso.2021.100788. 

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2020

• Biokinetics and clearance of inhaled gold ultrasmall-in-nano architectures; Domenico Cassano, Ana Katrina Mapanao, Giulia Giannone, Maria Summa, Maria Laura Ermini, Agata Zamborlin, Melissa Santi, Domenico Cassano, Rosalia Bertorelli and Valerio Voliani; Nanoscale Advances, 2020, 2, 3815-20, DOI: 10.1039/D0NA00521E. 

• Combined chemo-photothermal treatment of 3D head and neck squamous cell carcinomas by ultrasmall-in-nano gold architectures; Ana Katrina Mapanao, Melissa Santi, and Valerio Voliani; Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2020, 582, 1003-1011, DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2020.08.059. 

• Production of 3D tumor models of head and neck squamous cell carcinomas for nanotheranostics assessment; Melissa Santi, Ana Katrina Mapanao, and Valerio Voliani; ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering, 2020, 6(9), 4862-4869, DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.0c00617. 

• A cost-effective approach for ultrasmall-in-nano architectures production; Giulia Giannone, Melissa Santi, Maria Laura Ermini, Domenico Cassano, and Valerio Voliani; Nanomaterials, 2020, 10(8), 1600, DOI: 10.3390/nano10081600. 

• Endogenously-activated ultrasmall-in-nano therapeutics: assessment on 3D head and neck squamous cell carcinomas; Melissa Santi, Ana Katrina Mapanao, Domenico Cassano, Ylea Vlamidis, Valentina Cappello, and Valerio Voliani; Cancers, 2020, 12, 1063, DOI: 10.3390/cancers12051063. 

• Three-Dimensional Tumor Models: Promoting Breakthroughs in Nanotheranostics Translational Research; Ana Katrina Mapanao, and Valerio Voliani; Applied Materials Today, 2020, 19, 100552, DOI: 10.1016/j.apmt.2019.100552. 

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2019

• Biosafety and biokinetics of noble metals: the impact of their chemical nature; Domenico Cassano, Ana Katrina Mapanao, Maria Summa, Ylea Vlamidis, Giulia Giannone, Melissa Santi, Elena Guzzolino, Letizia Pitto, Laura Poliseno, Rosalia Bertorelli and Valerio Voliani; ACS Applied BioMaterials, 2019, 2 (10), 4464-4470, DOI: 10.1021/acsabm.9b00630. 

• Photothermal effect by NIR-responsive excretable ultrasmall-in-nano architectures; Domenico Cassano, Melissa Santi, Francesca D’Autilia, Ana Katrina Mapanao, Stefano Luin, and Valerio Voliani; Materials Horizons, 2019, 6, 531-537, DOI: 10.1039/c9mh00096h. 

• Biodegradable ultrasmall-in-nano gold architectures: mid-period in vivo biodistribution and excretion assessment; Domenico Cassano Maria Summa, Salvador Pocoví-Martínez, Ana Katrina Mapanao, Rosalia Bertorelli, and Valerio Voliani; Particle and Particle Systems Characterization, 2019, 36 (2), 1800464, DOI: 10.1002/ppsc.201800464. 

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2018​

• Silica-based nanoparticles for protein encapsulation and delivery; Filippo Begarani, Domenico Cassano, Eleonora Margheritis, Roberto Marotta, Francesco Cardarelli, and Valerio Voliani; Nanomaterials, 2018, 8 (11), 886, DOI: 10.3390/nano8110886. 

• Endogenously-Triggerable Ultrasmall-in-Nano Architectures: Targeting Assessment on 3D Pancreatic Carcinoma Spheroids; Ana Katrina Mapanao, Melissa Santi, Paolo Faraci, Valentina Cappello, Domenico Cassano, and Valerio Voliani; ACS Omega, 2018, 3 (9), 11796-11801, DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.8b01719. 

• Bringing again noble metal nanoparticles to the forefront of cancer therapy; Ylea Vlamidis, and Valerio Voliani; Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2018, 143 (6), DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2018.00143. 

• Biodistribution and biocompatibility of passion fruit-like nano-architectures in zebrafish; Marta d’Amora, Domenico Cassano, Salvador Pocoví-Martínez, Silvia Giordani, and Valerio Voliani; Nanotoxicology, 2018, 12(8), 914.922, DOI: 10.1080/17435390.2018.1498551. 

• Naked nanoparticles comprised in silica nanocapsules: a versatile family of nanorattle catalysts; Salvador Pocoví-Martínez, Domenico Cassano, and Valerio Voliani; ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2018, 1 (4), 1836-1840, DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.8b00247. 

• Dual Photoacoustic/Ultrasound Multi-Parametric Imaging from Passion Fruit-like Nano-Architectures; Paolo Armanetti, Salvador Pocoví-Martínez, Alessandra Flori, Cinzia Avigo, Domenico Cassano, Luca Menichetti, and Valerio Voliani; Nanomedicine: NBM, 2018, 14, 1787-1795, DOI: 10.1016/j.nano.2018.05.007. 

• Ultrasmall-in-nano approach: enabling the translation of metal nanomaterials to clinics; Domenico Cassano, Salvador Pocoví-Martínez, and Valerio Voliani; Bioconjugate Chemistry, 2018, 29 (1), 4-16, DOI: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.7b00664. 

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2017

• Passion fruit-like nano-architectures: a generalized synthesis route; Domenico Cassano, Jeremy David, Stefano Luin, and Valerio Voliani; Scientific Reports, 2017, 7, 43795, DOI: 10.1038/srep43795. 

• Enhanced photoacoustic signal of passion fruit-like nano-architectures in biological environment; Cinzia Avigo, Domenico Cassano, Claudia Kusmic, Valerio Voliani, and Luca Menichetti; J. Phys. Chem. C, 2017, 121 (12), 6955–6961, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b11799. 

• Peptide-based stealth nanoparticles for targeted and pH-triggered delivery; Alessandro Ranalli, Melissa Santi, Luigi Capriotti, Valerio Voliani, David Porciani, Fabio Beltram, and Giovanni Signore; Bioconjugate Chemistry, 2017, 28 (2), 627–635, DOI: 10.1021/ acs.bioconjchem.6b00701. 

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2016

• Biodegradable passion fruit-like nano-architectures as carriers for cisplatin prodrug; Domenico Cassano, Melissa Santi, Valentina Cappello, Stefano Luin, Giovanni Signore, and Valerio Voliani; Particle and Particle Systems Characterization, 2016, 33 (11), 818-824, DOI: 10.1002/ppsc.201600175. 

• Scalable synthesis of WS2 on graphene and h-BN: an all-2D platform for light-matter transduction; Antonio Rossi, Holger Büch, Carmine Di Rienzo, Vaidotas Miseikis, Domenica Convertino, Ameer Al-Temimy, Valerio Voliani, Mauro Gemmi, Vincenzo Piazza and Camilla Coletti; 2D Materials, 2016, 3, 031013, doi: 10.1088/2053-1583/3/3/031013. 

• Rational Design of a Transferrin-Binding Peptide Sequence Tailored to Targeted Nanoparticle Internalization; Melissa Santi, Giuseppe Maccari, Paolo Mereghetti, Valerio Voliani, Silvia Rocchiccioli, Nadia Ucciferri, Stefano Luin, and Giovanni Signore; Bioconjugate Chemistry, 2016, 28 (2), 471–480, DOI:10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.6b00611. 

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2015

• Biodegradable hollow silica nanospheres containing gold nanoparticle arrays; Domenico Cassano, Diego Rota Martir, Giovanni Signore, Vincenzo Piazza, and Valerio Voliani; Chemical Communications, 2015, 51, 9939-9941, DOI: 10.1039/C5CC02771C.