Manuela Scarselli

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Present position Associate Professor of Experimental Physics of Matter at the Physics department of the university of “Tor Vergata” (Rome, Italy).

MS graduated in Physics at Sapienza university of Rome in 1991 with a thesis based on the research activity carried out with one of the first scanning tunneling microscopes working in air developed in Italy by the research group of prof. Gianfranco Chiarotti. She spent many years at the National Research Center (CNR) of Frascati (Rome, Italy), winning many research grants. In this period, she designed and developed scanning microscopes equipment (tunneling STM and atomic force microscopy, AFM both working in air or under a controlled atmosphere) applied to studying biological samples, molecules and oxides.

In 1996 she moved to the university of “Tor Vergata” (Rome, Italy) at the Physics department, where she earned many grants to continue her research with STM and AFM. In 2000 she got a position of researcher (solid state matter) at the same university. Since 2021 is associate professor.

Experimental skills: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM), Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM), Auger electron and reflection energy loss (EELS) spectroscopy, X-ray spectroscopy. Photocurrent measurements performed in solution and the solid state, growth of carbon nanostructures by chemical vapour deposition (CVD). She has designed and built two CVD systems operating at Tor Vegata. She is charge of the 2D-lab equipped with a ultra high vacuum (UHV) operating chamber equipped with STM-AFM, XPS, LEED, EELS and e-beam evaporators and two two CVD systems for the growth of nanostructures.

The main fields of investigation in the last 15 years are:

1) Synthesis, characterization and applications of Carbon Nanostructures. Multi-wall carbon nanotubes (MWCNT). Research objectives: gas sensors, photovoltaic devices detection of single ions. Films of MWCNTs on stainless steel. Research objectives: corrosion and hydrophobicity.

The research group of “Tor Vergata” proved for the first time that MWCNT films show a photocurrent response in the visible and near ultraviolet spectral range. (doi: 10.1063/1.2408648).

Carbon nanospheres (CSs). Research objectives: photovoltaic devices.

2) Synthesis, characterisation and applications of Carbon Nanotubes sponges: realisation of 3D assemblies of MWCNTs. Research objectives: water purification, mechanical transducers, active element for the repair of spinal cord injuries and phase change materials composites.

3) Self-organization of molecules deposited onto metallic surfaces: Studies on different peptides, and single molecules on metal surfaces. Research objectives: self-assembly investigation, sensors.

5) Growth of 2D materials on substrates: silicene on inert substrates and borophene. Research objectives: sensors.

  • Teaching: General Physics, Nanoscience, Laboratory III, Microscopy and Nanoscopy
  • Member of the PhD in Physics commission.
  • Member of the organizing committee of NAnoSeA (2006-2008-2010-2012-2014-2016-2018-2024).
  • Referee of 15 international ISI referenced journals.
  • Member or PI or more than 15 between international and national projects.
  • She has published 155 papers in ISI-peer reviewed journals, H-index: 31 (Google Scholar), 29 (Scopus), 3203 citations. She has participated in more than 100 international conferences (20 invited) .

Ultimi 10 anni:

  1. Edoardo Longo, Karen Wright, Mario Caruso, Emanuela Gatto, Antonio Palleschi, Manuela Scarselli, Maurizio De Crescenzi, Marco Crisma, Fernando Formaggio, Claudio Toniolo and Mariano Venanzi, Peptide flatlandia: a new-concept peptide for positioning of electroactive probes in proximity to a metal surface, Nanoscale, 7 (2015) 15495-15506. ISSN: 2040-3364. DOI: 10.1039/c5nr03549j.
  2. Manuela Scarselli, Paola Castrucci, Francesco De Nicola, Ilaria Cacciotti, Francesca Nanni, Emanuela Gatto, Mariano Venanzi and Maurizio De Crescenzi, Applications of three-dimensional carbon nanotube networks, Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 6 (2015) 792–798. ISSN: 2190-4286. DOI: 10.3762/bjnano.6.82.
  3. Francesco De Nicola, Paola Castrucci, Manuela Scarselli, Francesca Nanni, Ilaria Cacciotti, Maurizio De Crescenzi, Multi-Fractal Hierarchy of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Hydrophobic Coatings, Sci. Reports 5 (2015) 8583-9. ISSN: 2045-2322.DOI: 10.1038/srep08583. 
  4. Francesco De Nicola, Paola Castrucci, Manuela Scarselli, Francesca Nanni, Ilaria Cacciotti and Maurizio De Crescenzi, Exploiting the hierarchical morphology of single-walled and multi-walled carbon nanotube films for highly hydrophobic coatings, Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 6 (2015) 353–360. ISSN: 2190-4286 - DOI: 10.3762/bjnano.6.34. 
  5. Francesco De Nicola, Paola Castrucci, Manuela Scarselli, Francesca Nanni, Ilaria Cacciotti and Maurizio De Crescenzi, Super-hydrophobic multi-walled carbon nanotube coatings for stainless steel, Nanotechnology, 26 (2015) 145701-6. ISSN: 0957-4484 - DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/26/14/145701. 
  6. Carla Aramo, et al., Observation of a photoinduced, resonant tunneling effect in a carbon nanotube–silicon heterojunction, Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 6 (2015) 704–710. ISSN: 2190-4286 - DOI: 10.3762/bjnano.6.71.
  7. Francesco De Nicola, Chiara Pintossi, Francesca Nanni, Ilaria Cacciotti, Manuela Scarselli, Giovanni Drera, Stefania Pagliara, Luigi Sangaletti, Maurizio De Crescenzi, Paola Castrucci, Controlling the thickness of carbon nanotube random network films by the estimation of the absorption coefficient, Carbon 95 (2015) 28-33. ISSN: 0008-6223 - DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2015.07.096.
  8. Salvato M., Cirillo C., Fittipaldi R., Prischepa S.L., Vecchione A., De Nicola F., Castrucci P., De Crescenzi M., Scarselli M., Attanasio C. Transport properties in aggregates of Nb nanowires templated by carbon nanotube films, Carbon 105 (2016) 544-550. ISSN: 0008-6223. DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2016.04.068. 
  9. Manzoni, S. Ponzoni, G. Galimberti, M. Scarselli, O. Pulci, L. Camilli, L. Matthes, P. Castrucci and S. Pagliara, Ultrafast dynamics in unaligned MWCNTs decorated with metal nanoparticles, Nanotechnology 27 (2016) 235704-5. ISSN: 0957-4484. DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/27/23/235704. 
  10. De Nicola F., Salvato M., Cirillo C., Crivellari M., Boscardin M., Scarselli M., Nanni F., Cacciotti I., De Crescenzi M., Castrucci P., Record efficiency of air-stable multi-walled carbon nanotube/silicon solar cells, Carbon 101 (2016) 226-234. ISSN: 0008-6223. DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2016.01.099.
  11. Sadaf Usmani, et al. 3D meshes of carbon nanotubes guide functional reconnection of segregated spinal explants, Adv. (2016) 2, e1600087. ISSN: 2375-2548. DOI: 101126/sciadv.1600087. 
  12. Janardan Dagar, Manuela Scarselli, Maurizio De Crescenzi, and Thomas M. Brown, Solar Cells Incorporating Water/Alcohol-Soluble Electron-Extracting DNA Nanolayers, ACS Energy Lett. 1 (2016) 510–515. ISSN: 2380-8195. DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.6b00192. 
  13. Caruso, M., Gatto, E., Palleschi, A., Scarselli, M., De Crescenzi, M., Formaggio, F., Longo, E., Toniolo C., Wright, K., Venanzi M., Are two better than one? A new approach for multidentate grafting of peptides to a gold substrate, Zeitschrift fur Physikalische Chemie, 230 (2016) 1351-1371. ISSN: 0942-9352. DOI. 10.1515/zpch-2015-0729. 
  14. Aramo, C., et al., Light induced tunnel effect in CNT-Si photodiode Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 824 (2016) 76-78. ISSN: 0168-9002. DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2015.11.048. 
  15. Maurizio De Crescenzi, Isabelle Berbezier, Manuela Scarselli, Paola Castrucci, Marco Abbarchi, Antoine Ronda, Fatme Jardali, Jejune Park, and Holger Vach, Formation of Silicene Nanosheets on Graphite, ACS Nano 10 (2016) 11163−11171. ISSN: 1936-0851. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b06198. 
  16. R. Lamastra, S. Mori, V. Cherubini, M. Scarselli, F. Nanni. A new green methodology for surface modification of diatomite filler in elastomers, Materials Chemistry and Physics 194 (2017) 253-260. ISSN: 0254-0584. DOI:10.1016/j.matchemphys.2017.03.050. 
  17. V. Shuba, D. Yuko, P. P. Kuzhir, S. A. Maksimenko, M. Scarselli, Tunable electromagnetic response of free-standing 3D carbon nanotube network in the Ka-band, published in Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Symposium – Firenze - Italy (ACES), 2017 International. ISBN: 978-0-9960078-3-2. DOI: 10.23919/ROPACES.2017.7916336. 
  18. Caruso, E. Gatto, A. Palleschi, P. Morales, M. Scarselli, S. Casaluci, A. Quatela, A. Di Carlo, M. Venanzi. A bioinspired dye sensitized solar cell based on a rhodamine-functionalized peptide immobilized on nanocrystalline TiO2, Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry 347 (2017) 227–234. ISSN: 1010-6030. DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2017.07.027. 
  19. Janardan Dagar, Guido Scavia, Manuela Scarselli, Silvia Destri, Maurizio De Crescenzi and Thomas M. Brown, Coating ZnO nanoparticle films with DNA nanolayers for enhancing the electron extracting properties and performance of polymer solar cells, Nanoscale 9 (2017) 19031-19038. ISSN: 2040-3364. DOI: 10.1039/C7NR06982K. 
  20. Manuela Scarselli, Francesca Limosani, Maurizio Passacantando, Franco D’Orazio, Michele Nardone, Ilaria Cacciotti, Fabiana Arduini, Eric Gautron, Maurizio De Crescenzi, Influence of Iron catalyst in the Carbon Spheres Synthesis for Energy and Electrochemical Applications, Advanced Materials Interfaces (2018) 1800070 10 pp. ISSN: 2196-7350 - DOI: 10.1002/admi.201800070. Selezionato per immagine di copertina della sezione Chemical Vapor Deposition agosto 2018. 
  21. Manuela Scarselli, 3D multifunctional carbon nanotube networks, ECS Transactions, 86 (1) (2018) 85-96. ISSN: 19386737. DOI:10.1149/08601.0085ecst. 
  22. Paola Castrucci, Filippo Fabbri, Tiziano Delise, Manuela Scarselli, Matteo Salvato, Sara Pascale, Roberto Francini, Isabelle Berbezier, Christoph Lechner, Fatme Jardali, Holger Vach, and Maurizio De Crescenzi, Raman investigation of air-stable silicene nanosheets on an inert graphite surface, Nano Research 11 (2018) 5879-5889. ISSN: 1998-0124 -DOI: 10.1007/s12274-018-2097-6. 
  23. Stefano Cinti, Francesca Limosani, Manuela Scarselli, Fabiana Arduini, Magnetic carbon spheres and their derivatives combined with printed electrochemical sensors, Electrochimica Acta 282 (2018) 247-254. ISSN: 0013-4686 - DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2018.06.042. 
  24. Fabio Possanza, Francesca Limosani, Pietro Tagliatesta, Robertino Zanoni, Manuela Scarselli, Erica Ciotta, and Roberto Pizzoferrato, Functionalization of Carbon Spheres with a Porphyrine-Ferrocene Dyad, Chem. Phys. Chem. 19 (17) (2018) 2243-2249. ISSN: 1439-4235 - DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201800277. 
  25. M V Shuba, D I Yuko, P P Kuzhir, S A Maksimenko, M De Crescenzi and M Scarselli, Carbon nanotube sponges as tunable materials for electromagnetic applications, Nanotechnology 29 (2018) 375202 (7pp). ISSN: 0957-4484. DOI: 1088/1361-6528/aacf3c. 
  26. Macis, C. Aramo, C. Bonavolontà, G. Cibin, A. D’Elia, I. Davoli, M. De Lucia, M. Lucci, S. Lupi, M. Miliucci, A. Notargiacomo, C. Ottaviani, C. Quaresima, Manuela Scarselli, J. Scifo, M. Valentino, P. De Padova, & A. Marcelli, MoO3 films grown on polycrystalline Cu: morphological, structural and electronic properties, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 37(2) (2019) 021513-8. ISSN: 07342101-DOI: 10.1116/1.5078794. 
  27. Kupchak, F. Fabbri, M. De Crescenzi, M. Scarselli, M. Salvato, T. Delise, I. Berbezier, O. Pulci and P. Castrucci, Scanning tunneling microscopy and Raman evidence of silicene nanosheets intercalated into graphite surfaces at room temperature, Nanoscale 11 (2019) 6145–6152. ISSN: 2040-3364 - DOI: 10.1039/c9nr00343f. 
  28. Berbezier, A. Michon, P. Castrucci, M. Scarselli, M. Salvato, M. Scagliotti, M. De Crescenzi, Silicene Nanostructures Grown on Graphene Covered Sic (0001) Substrate, International Journal of Nanoscience 18 (3-4) (2019). ISSN: 0219-581X - DOI: 101142/SO219581X19400398. 
  29. Ronci, S. Colonna, R. Flammini, M. De Crescenzi, M. Scarselli, M. Salvato, I. Berbezier, F. Jardali, C. Lechner, P. Pochet, H. Vach, P. Castrucci, High graphene permeability for room temperature silicon deposition: The role of defects, Carbon 158 (2020) 631-641. DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2019.11.035. 
  30. Usmani S., et al, Functional rewiring across spinal injuries via biomimetic nanofiber scaffolds, PNAS 117 (41) (2020) 25212-218.DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2005708117.
  31. Jardali, C. Lechner, M. De Crescenzi, M. Scarselli, I. Berbezier, P. Castrucci, and H. Vach, The potentially crucial role of quasi-particle interferences for the growth of silicene on graphite, Nano Research 13 (2020 2378–2383. DOI: 10.1007/s12274-020-2858-x.
  32. M Galbiati, M Scarselli, F Arciprete, M De Crescenzi, L Camilli, Scanning tunneling microscopy study of CaF2 on Si (111): observation of metastable reconstructions, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 55 (9) (2022) 095304. DOI: 10.1088/1361-6463/ac378d. 
  33. F. Gravina, C. Longo, P. Puthod, M. Rosati, N. Colozza, M. Scarselli, Heavy metal accumulation capacity of Axinella damicornis (Esper, 1794) (Porifera, Demospongiae): a tool for bioremediation of polluted seawaters, Mediterranean Marine Science, 23(1) (2022) 125-133. DOI: 10.12681/mms.27792. 
  34. Filippo Fabbri, Manuela Scarselli, Naveen Shetty, Sergey Kubatkin, Samuel Lara-Avila, Mathieu Abel, Isabelle Berbezier , Holger Vach , Matteo Salvato, Maurizio De Crescenzi, Paola Castrucci Silicene nanosheets intercalated in slightly defective epitaxial graphene on a 4H-SiC(0001) substrate, Surfaces and Interfaces, 33 (2022) 102262. DOI:10.1016/j.surfin.2022.102262. 
  35. Fabio Ronci, Stefano Colonna, Roberto Flammini, Maurizio De Crescenzi, Manuela Scarselli, Matteo Salvato, Isabelle Berbezier, Holger Vach, Paola Castrucci, Effects of an epitaxial graphene layer for the growth of nickel silicides on a Ni(111) substrate, Applied Surfcae Science 611 (2023) 155763. DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2022.155763.
  36. Francesca Romana Lamastra, Mario Bragaglia, Lorenzo Paleari, Francesca Nanni, Francesco Fabborcino, Manuela Scarselli, Form-Stable Phase-ChangeMaterials Using Chemical Vapor Deposition-Derived Porous Supports: Carbon Nanotube/Diatomite Hybrid Powder and Carbon Nanotube Sponges, Materials 17 (2024) 5721 (19pp). DOI:10.3390/ma17235721.
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