Paolo Elvati

TL;DR: It is reported that covalent attachment of l/d-cysteine moieties to the edges of graphene quantum dots (GQDs) leads to their helical buckling due to chiral interactions at the "crowded" edges.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted a thermodynamic analysis of the physical growth of poly-aromatic hydrocarbons using atomistic models and found that the formation of soot nuclei can be related to two classes of mechanisms (physical and chemical growth), their relative importance is still under debate.

TL;DR: In this article, a combined experimental and probabilistic simulation study of soot-precursor was conducted using aerosol mass spectrometry coupled with tunable vacuum ultraviolet radiation from the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

TL;DR: Experimental and computational results show that graphene quantum dots efficiently dock near the N-terminus of the peptide and change the secondary structure of phenol-soluble modulins, which disrupts their fibrillation and represents a strategy for mitigation of bacterial communities.

TL;DR: In this paper, a very fast process provided dispersed gold nanoparticles with average diameters ranging from 3 to 20 nm depending on the host polymer matrix and the irradiation time, and the anisotropic distribution of packed assemblies of gold particles, providing oriented films with polarizationdependent tunable optical properties.