Molecular Packing Governed by a Single Carbon Atom: Odd–Even Effects in 4-n-Alkyloxybenzoic Acids on Au(111) Oreste De Luca, Francesco Petrone, Michele Pisarra, Fabian Cossidente, Martina Casciaro, Tommaso Caruso, Eugenia Giorno, Iolinda Aiello, Nicolas Godbert, Daniela Pacilè, Raffaele Giuseppe Agostino, Marco Papagno Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2026 Two-dimensional (2D) self-assembly monolayers of 4- n -alkyloxybenzoic acids (4-OBA) on Au(111) were investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and semiempirical modeling. The study reveals that the supramolecular organization of these molecules is governed by the interplay between directional intermolecular hydrogen and dipole bonding and nondirectional van der Waals (vdW) interactions with the metallic substrate. We observe a clear odd/even effect: the parity (even or odd) of the carbon number in the alkyloxy chain leads to distinct packing geometries. This behavior is attributed to a compromise between optimal intermolecular bonding, maximization of molecular packing, and substrate–adsorbate interaction. Both assemblies exhibit weak interactions with the substrate, as indicated by the preservation of the Au(111) herringbone reconstruction and molecular mobility. By integrating STM experiments with semiempirical modeling, we correlate real-space imaging with molecular-level conformational analysis, thereby offering a comprehensive picture of the structural determinants of chain-parity effects. These findings highlight the subtle balance of intermolecular and molecule–substrate forces in directing 2D crystal formation and offer a platform for engineering tunable supramolecular monolayers via chain-length control.
Electronic structure of a p-type topological insulator SnSbBiTe4 S.V. Eremeev, L. Ferrari, P.M. Sheverdyaeva, O. De Luca, T. Caruso, M. Casciaro, Kh.Z. Mehtiyeva, Z.S. Aliev, E.V. Chulkov, A.S. Vasenko, G. Di Santo, L. Petaccia, M. Papagno, D. Pacilé Physica B Condensed Matter, 2025 This study explores the bulk and surface electronic band structure of the SnSbBiTe 4 van der Waals (vdW) compound composed of septuple layer (SL) vdW blocks in which pnictogen atoms (Sb,Bi) share the same sublattice in a 50/50 ratio. We provide a characterization of the electronic structure of SnSbBiTe 4 by means of core-level photoemission spectroscopy and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, complementing experimental studies with density functional theory calculations.
Adsorption of Methylene Blue onto Polydopamine-Functionalized Halloysite Nanotubes: Kinetics and Equilibrium Studies Hamoon Hemmatpour, Vahid Haddadi-Asl, Fatemeh Khanipour, Oreste De Luca, Marc C.A. Stuart, Liqiang Lu, Yutao Pei, Petra Rudolf Langmuir, 2025 High Resolution Image Download MS PowerPoint Slide The elimination of synthetic dyes from industrial effluents represents a persistent environmental challenge. Developing sustainable and effective adsorbents is essential to preserve global water resources. In this study, we introduce an efficient and facile strategy for methylene blue removal from aqueous systems using halloysite nanotubes functionalized with polydopamine. The polydopamine coating generated a dense array of active adsorption sites, as confirmed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis, and zeta potential measurements. Porosity characterization and X-ray diffraction provided complementary insight into the structure and morphology of the hybrid nanotubes. We systematically investigated the influence of contact duration and solution pH on dye uptake by pristine and functionalized nanotubes. Kinetic evaluation revealed excellent agreement with the pseudo-second-order model ( R 2 > 0.999), yielding rate constants of 0.002 and 0.003 g·mg –1 ·min –1 for samples treated with polydopamine for 6 and 24 h, respectively. The equilibrium adsorption data were analyzed using Langmuir and Freundlich isotherms, showing that functionalized nanotubes achieved a maximum adsorption capacity of 86 mg·g –1 at 25 °C and pH 10 – almost double that of pristine HNTs (47 mg·g –1 ). The high adsorption efficiency, comparable to conventional adsorbents such as zeolites, together with the simplicity and environmental compatibility of the functionalization procedure, underscores their suitability for real-world wastewater applications. Additionally, the demonstrated applicability of this modification method to other dye-adsorbent systems highlights its adaptability and broad potential.
Highly efficient and stable NiFe oxide-based electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution in alkaline and saline solutions Soumia El Boumlasy, Mariarosaria Pascale, Oreste De Luca, Tommaso Caruso, Salvatore Mirabella, Antonio Terrasi, Antonino Salvatore Aricò, Francesco Ruffino Applied Surface Science Advances, 2025 Developing cost-effective and stable oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalysts is crucial for advancing hydrogen production via water electrolysis. Given the growing scarcity of freshwater resources, seawater electrolysis offers a promising alternative. However, maintaining both high catalytic activity and long-term durability in saline environments remains a significant challenge. In this study, four catalysts, nickel oxide (NiO), two nickel-iron oxides (Ni₀.₈₅Fe₀.₁₅O and Ni₀.₆₅Fe₀.₃₅O), and iron oxide (Fe₂O₃), were synthesized using a simple chemical bath deposition method and systematically characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), UV–visible spectroscopy, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). Among them, Ni₀.₈₅Fe₀.₁₅O exhibited the best OER performance, achieving a low overpotential of 348 mV at 10 mA cm⁻² and a Tafel slope of 52 mV dec⁻¹ after 24 h of operation in surrogate seawater (1 M KOH + 2.45 wt % NaCl). This superior activity is attributed to its compact nanosheet morphology and the synergistic interaction between Ni²⁺ and Fe³⁺, which induces lattice strain and increases the density of active sites, as confirmed by SEM and XPS. Electrochemical surface area (ECSA) analysis further revealed a high number of accessible and stable active sites under saline conditions, supporting the catalyst’s intrinsic activity. Ni₀.₈₅Fe₀.₁₅O demonstrates OER performance and durability comparable to state-of-the-art seawater electrolysis catalysts, underscoring its potential for scalable and sustainable hydrogen production.
Vapor phase processing as a strategy towards MXenes formation Roman G. Parkhomenko, Oreste De Luca, Petra Rudolf, Evgeny Modin, Diego Martínez Martínez, Luís Cunha, Mato Knez Materials Today Advances, 2025 MXenes are a family of two-dimensional materials composed of transition metal nitrides or carbides, known for their exceptional properties. However, the fabrication of nitride-based MXenes has posed challenges due to their lower stability in acidic solutions. This work presents a novel approach for the fabrication of nitride-based MXenes using vapor phase processing. The proposed method utilizes a system consisting of a multilayered TiN/Ga thin film grown by atomic layer deposition (ALD) and metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD). The as-deposited samples exhibited a core-shell structure wherein the shell primarily consisted of cubic TiN and the core composed of TiGa 3 phase. At the interface between the two phases the presence of Ti 2 GaN was identified. Upon annealing the samples at 500–650 °C, most gallium atoms evaporated, leading to the formation of a Ti 2 N phase. The samples were investigated by means of SEM, HR-TEM, XRD, XPS. This vapor phase approach represents a significant advancement in the fabrication of nitride-based MXenes and opens new possibilities for their application in energy storage, plasmonics, and electrochemical capacitors.
Enhanced Hydrogen and Methane Storage in β-Zeolite Templated Carbons: Structural and Functional Insights Giuseppe Conte, Daniela Cozza, Oreste De Luca, Massimo Migliori, Girolamo Giordano, Raffaele Giuseppe Agostino, Alfonso Policicchio Applied Materials Today, 2025 This study explores the hydrogen and methane adsorption properties of β-zeolite-templated carbons (β-ZTCs). It evaluates the effects of chemical and thermal post-synthesis treatments on their structural, textural, and surface functionalities. Modifications to surface oxygen functionalities led to slight changes in carbonyl, lactone, and phenol species, alongside a minor reduction in long-range pore order. Despite these alterations, the microporous nature of β-ZTCs remained dominant, with minimal impact on H₂ adsorption at 77 K. The materials demonstrated high storage capacities, achieving 6.4 wt% for H₂ and 18.7 wt% for CH₄, with volumetric uptakes of 40 g/L (H₂, 77 K, 40 bar) and 110 g/L (CH₄, 298 K, 50 bar), comparable to compressed gas systems. The results highlight that the treatments had a limited effect on pore surface structure and microporosity (∼90 % of total pore volume), significantly contributing to enhanced gas uptake. At room temperature, β-ZTCs exhibited a strong affinity for CH₄ over H₂, with adsorption ratios nearing 10 across the pressure range, underscoring their potential for gas separation. These results highlight the suitability of β-ZTCs for sustainable energy storage and separation technologies, with the post-synthesis treatments providing insights into performance tunability.
Imaging of twisted monolayers in three-dimensional nanoporous graphene Oreste De Luca, Antonio Palamara, Michele Pisarra, Francesca Mazzei, Tommaso Caruso, Giovanni Desiderio, Dario Marchiani, Riccardo Frisenda, Samuel Jeong, Yoshikazu Ito, Carlo Mariani, Maria Grazia Betti, Marco Papagno, Raffaele G. Agostino, Daniela Pacilé, Antonello Sindona Physical Review B, 2025 The investigation of intricate alignments in two-dimensional materials has garnered significant attention, fueled by the growing ability to precisely manipulate and engineer electronic properties through controlled stacking and orientation. Recent observations of spontaneous arrangements in multilayer materials with stochastic twist angles offer new opportunities to elucidate the unique physics governing moir\'e superstructures, and the critical role of the electronic coupling between layers. In this context, the present study focuses on the atomic-scale characterization of nanoporous graphene, with particular emphasis on regions formed by misoriented graphene layers that assemble into crumpled, continuous patterns. Despite the absence of flat domains at the submicron scale, scanning tunneling microscopy is employed to identify dominant twisted multilayer structures in the samples. To complement the experimental observations, a simplified, yet, effective exponential parametric model is introduced, merging independent analytic electron densities to estimate the number of misaligned layers in the scanned areas. This approach is further refined through density-functional theory calculations of projected electron densities from graphene, which are rotated and stacked at adjusted interlayer distances. The synergy between the two models provides a robust framework for distinguishing between twisted bilayer and twisted trilayer domains, as observed in constant-current imaging. Finally, a full density-functional theory analysis is conducted on simple few-layer graphene structures, assessing the role of interlayer correlations. The present study provides an atomic-level description of porous graphene, while also offering accessible tools for simulating twisted layered materials beyond graphene, which may be beneficial for the STM community.
An Interesting Nanoparticle-Ligand Interaction Between Porphyrins and Gold Nanorods Leads to Luminescent Mesostructures Angela Candreva, Caterina Damiano, Massimo La Deda, Emma Gallo, Oreste De Luca, Tommaso Caruso, Antonello Nucera, Irene Barba Castagnaro, Marco Castriota Chemnanomat, 2025 In this study, we aim to investigate the family of porphyrins from a novel perspective. In particular, we focus on their role in controlling the assembly of gold nanorods (AuNRs) through a synthetic approach. Using a seed‐mediated growth method, AuNRs were first synthesized. Then, the surfaces of the AuNRs were functionalized with four different types of porphyrins to explore their unique influence on the assembly process. Two pairs of porphyrins were synthesized: the metal‐free porphyrins 1 and 2 and the two corresponding zinc complexes Zn(1) and Zn(2). Compounds 1 and Zn(1) bind to the nanoparticle surface via an amine group, 2 and Zn(2) via a carbon‐carbon triple bond. A careful photophysical and morphological characterization has been carried out on the different samples, and interestingly, we observed that metal‐free porphyrins 1 and 2 promote nanoparticle assembly, forming luminescent mesostructures. Porphyrin 2 preferentially organizes nanorods by end‐to‐end assembly, whereas porphyrin 1 does not confer a preferential organization.
Nano-ARPES investigation of structural relaxation in small angle twisted bilayer tungsten disulfide Giovanna Feraco, Oreste De Luca, Przemysław Przybysz, Homayoun Jafari, Oleksandr Zheliuk, Ying Wang, Philip Schädlich, Pavel Dudin, José Avila, Jianting Ye, Thomas Seyller, Paweł Dąbrowski, Paweł J. Kowalczyk, Jagoda Sławińska, Petra Rudolf, Antonija Grubišić-Čabo Physical Review Materials, 2024 The diverse and intriguing phenomena observed in twisted bilayer systems, such as graphene and transition-metal dichalcogenides, prompted new questions about the emergent effects that they may host. However, the practical challenge of realizing these structures on a scale large enough for spectroscopic investigation, remains a significant hurdle, resulting in a scarcity of direct measurements of the electronic band structure of twisted transition metal dichalcogenide bilayers. Here, we present a systematic nanoscale angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy investigation of bulk, single-layer, and twisted bilayer $\mathrm{W}{\mathrm{S}}_{2}$ with a small twist angle of $4.{4}^{\ensuremath{\circ}}$. The experimental results are compared with theoretical calculations based on density functional theory along the high-symmetry directions $\overline{\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Gamma}}}\text{\ensuremath{-}}\overline{\mathrm{K}}$ and $\overline{\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Gamma}}}\text{\ensuremath{-}}\overline{\mathrm{M}}$. Surprisingly, the electronic band structure measurements suggest a structural relaxation occurring at $4.{4}^{\ensuremath{\circ}}$ twist angle and the formation of large, untwisted bilayer regions replacing most of the twisted area.
Alkali Metals Adsorbed on Nanoporous Graphene: Charge Transfer and Metallic Phase Dario Marchiani, Riccardo Frisenda, Carlo Mariani, José Avila, Pavel Dudin, Hayato Sueyoshi, Samuel Jeong, Yoshikazu Ito, Oreste De Luca, Sara Macchi, Marco Papagno, Raffaele G. Agostino, Daniela Pacilé, Maria Grazia Betti Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2024 The doping mechanism of fully suspended nanoporous graphene with alkali metals unveils the charge redistribution between the donors and graphene. The evolution of the electronic charge induced in the graphene upper Dirac cone has been correlated with the electron–phonon interaction by employing complementary electronic and vibrational spectroscopic techniques in ultra high vacuum ambient. K and Cs doping induces a significant rigid band shift and Dirac cone filling correlated with the neat formation of a π*-plasmon mode and a clear signature of electron–phonon interaction in the Raman spectra, while Na doping slightly influences the graphene electronic and vibrational response, fostered by adatom Na clustering.
New insights in polydopamine formation via surface adsorption Hamoon Hemmatpour, Oreste De Luca, Dominic Crestani, Marc C. A. Stuart, Alessia Lasorsa, Patrick C. A. van der Wel, Katja Loos, Theodosis Giousis, Vahid Haddadi-Asl, Petra Rudolf Nature Communications, 2023
Nearly-freestanding supramolecular assembly with tunable structural properties Tommaso Caruso, Oreste De Luca, Nicola Melfi, Alfonso Policicchio, Michele Pisarra, Nicolas Godbert, Iolinda Aiello, Eugenia Giorno, Daniela Pacilè, Paolo Moras, Fernando Martín, Petra Rudolf, Raffaele Giuseppe Agostino, Marco Papagno Scientific Reports, 2023
Energy-overlap of the Dirac surface state with bulk bands in SnBi2Te4 S. V. Eremeev, O. De Luca, P. M. Sheverdyaeva, L. Ferrari, A. V. Matetskiy, G. Di Santo, L. Petaccia, C. Crovara, T. Caruso, M. Papagno, R. G. Agostino, Z. S. Aliev, P. Moras, C. Carbone, E. V. Chulkov, D. Pacilè Physical Review Materials, 2023
Structural Dynamics and Tunability for Colloidal Tin Halide Perovskite Nanostructures Kushagra Gahlot, Sytze de Graaf, Herman Duim, Georgian Nedelcu, Razieh M. Koushki, Majid Ahmadi, Dnyaneshwar Gavhane, Alessia Lasorsa, Oreste De Luca, Petra Rudolf, Patrick C. A. van der Wel, Maria A. Loi, Bart J. Kooi, Giuseppe Portale, Joaquín Calbo, Loredana Protesescu Advanced Materials, 2022
Insight into the electronic structure of semiconducting ϵ-GaSe and ϵ-InSe S. V. Eremeev, M. Papagno, I. Grimaldi, O. De Luca, L. Ferrari, Asish K. Kundu, P. M. Sheverdyaeva, P. Moras, G. Avvisati, A. Crepaldi, H. Berger, I. Vobornik, M. G. Betti, M. Grioni, C. Carbone, E. V. Chulkov, D. Pacilé Physical Review Materials, 2020
TCNQ Physisorption on the Topological Insulator Bi2Se3 Ada Della Pia, Simone Lisi, Oreste De Luca, Daniel A. Warr, J. Lawrence, Mikhail M. Otrokov, Ziya S. Aliev, Evgueni V. Chulkov, Raffaele G. Agostino, Andrés Arnau, Marco Papagno, Giovanni Costantini Chemphyschem, 2018
Chemical bonds and charge-transfer dynamics of a dye-hierarchical-TiO2 hybrid interface Carla Castellarin-Cudia, Tommaso Caruso, Enrico Maccallini, Andrea Li Bassi, Paolo Carrozzo, Oreste De Luca, Andrea Goldoni, Victor Lyamayev, Kevin Charles Prince, Federica Bondino, Elena Magnano, Raffaele Giuseppe Agostino, Carlo Spartaco Casari Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2015
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