Education Profile

• ​Ph.D., Physics, Universita di Cagliari, Italy, 2001
  
• M.S., Physics, Universita di Cagliari, Italy, 1993

Research Interests

Professor Falqui's research interests lie in the frontier between material science and bioscience. His main expertise is in electron microscopy both in scanning and transmission mode and related spectroscopies applied to nano-shaped inorganic materials and biomaterials.

In addition, his studies also concern the magnetic behavior of nanoparticles by superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) magnetometry.

Selected Publications

• ​Crespo J., Falqui A., García-Barrasa J., López-De-Luzuriaga J.M., Monge M., Olmos M.E., Rodríguez-Castillo M., Sestu M., Soulantica, K. Synthesis and plasmonic properties of monodisperse Au-Ag alloy nanoparticles of different compositions from a single-source organometallic precursor. J. Mater. Chem. C, 2014, 2(16), 2975-2984, DOI: 10.1039/c3tc32577f
  
• Marotta R., Falqui A., Curcio A., Quarta A., Pellegrino T. Immunocytochemistry, electron tomography, and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDXS) on cryosections of human cancer cells doped with stimuli responsive polymeric nanogels loaded with iron oxide nano particles. Meth. Mol. Biol. 2013, 1025, 179-198, DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-462-3-14
• Francesco Gentile, Manola Moretti, Tania Limongi, Andrea Falqui, Giovanni Bertoni, Alice Scarpellini, Stefania Santoriello, Luca Maragliano, Remo Proietti Zaccaria, Enzo di Fabrizio Direct imaging of DNA fibers: The visage of double helix. Nano Lett., 2012, 12 (12), 6453–6458, DOI: 10.1021/nl3039162
• Luca De Trizio, Albert Figuerola, Liberato Manna, Alessandro Genovese, Rosaria Brescia, Zineb Saghi, Roberto Simonutti and Andrea Falqui. Size-tunable, hexagonal plate-like Cu3P and Janus-like Cu3P-Cu nanocrystals. ACS Nano, 2012, 6 (1), 32-41, DOI: 10.1021/nn203702r
• Marco Allione, Bruno Torre, Alberto Casu, Andrea Falqui, Philomena Piacenza, Ricardo Di Corato, Teresa Pellegrino, Alberto Diaspro. Rod-shaped nanostructures based on superparamagnetic nanocrystals as viscosity sensors in liquid. J. Appl. Phys., 2011, 110(6), 064907, DOI: 10.1063/1.3638695