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Antonio Politano

Antonio Politano

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Materials Science

D-Index
50
Citations
8197
World Ranking
10299
National Ranking
206

Overview

Antonio Politano is affiliated with the University of L'Aquila in Italy. Their research focuses primarily on materials science, engineering, and physics and astronomy. They have contributed extensively to subfields such as materials chemistry, atomic and molecular physics and optics, electrical and electronic engineering, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, and biomedical engineering.

The main topics addressed by Antonio Politano's work include:

  • 2D materials and applications
  • Topological materials and phenomena
  • Graphene research and applications
  • Chalcogenide semiconductor thin films
  • Quantum dots synthesis and properties
  • MXene and MAX phase materials
  • Electrocatalysts for energy conversion

Antonio Politano has published numerous papers in various scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • Nature Communications
  • Small
  • Advanced Sustainable Systems

Some of the recent papers by Antonio Politano are:

  • "Anisotropic ultrasensitive PdTe 2 -based phototransistor for room-temperature long-wavelength detection," 2020, Science Advances
  • "Hybrid Dirac semimetal-based photodetector with efficient low-energy photon harvesting," 2022, Light Science & Applications
  • "High-frequency rectifiers based on type-II Dirac fermions," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Mapping propagation of collective modes in Bi2Se3 and Bi2Te2.2Se0.8 topological insulators by near-field terahertz nanoscopy," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Self-Assembled SnO2/SnSe2 Heterostructures: A Suitable Platform for Ultrasensitive NO2 and H2S Sensing," 2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Co-authorship is an important aspect of Antonio Politano's academic work. Frequent collaborators include:

  • C. S. Lue
  • Gianluca D'Olimpio
  • Danil W. Boukhvalov
  • Chia-Nung Kuo
  • Amit Agarwal

Best Publications

  • Photothermal Membrane Distillation for Seawater Desalination

    Antonio Politano;Pietro Argurio;Gianluca Di Profio;Vanna Sanna

  • Black Phosphorus Terahertz Photodetectors

    Leonardo Viti;Jin Hu;Dominique Coquillat;Wojciech Knap;Wojciech Knap

  • Plasma-Wave Terahertz Detection Mediated by Topological Insulators Surface States

    Leonardo Viti;Dominique Coquillat;Antonio Politano;Konstantin A. Kokh

  • Plasmon modes in graphene: status and prospect

    Antonio Politano;Gennaro Chiarello

  • Probing the Young’s modulus and Poisson’s ratio in graphene/metal interfaces and graphite: a comparative study

    Antonio Politano;Gennaro Chiarello

  • Electronic and geometric corrugation of periodically rippled, self-nanostructured graphene epitaxially grown on Ru(0001)

    Bogdana Borca;Sara Barja;Sara Barja;Manuela Garnica;Manuela Garnica;Marina Minniti

  • Efficient Terahertz detection in black-phosphorus nano-transistors with selective and controllable plasma-wave, bolometric and thermoelectric response.

    Leonardo Viti;Jin Hu;Dominique Coquillat;Antonio Politano

  • PtTe2‐Based Type‐II Dirac Semimetal and Its van der Waals Heterostructure for Sensitive Room Temperature Terahertz Photodetection

    Huang Xu;Cheng Guo;Jiazhen Zhang;Wanlong Guo

  • 3D Dirac Plasmons in the Type-II Dirac Semimetal PtTe 2

    Antonio Politano;Gennaro Chiarello;Barun Ghosh;Krishanu Sadhukhan

  • The influence of chemical reactivity of surface defects on ambient-stable InSe-based nanodevices.

    A. Politano;G. Chiarello;R. Samnakay;G. Liu

  • Optoelectronic devices, plasmonics, and photonics with topological insulators

    Antonio Politano;Leonardo Viti;Miriam S. Vitiello

  • Evidence for acoustic-like plasmons on epitaxial graphene on Pt(111)

    A. Politano;A. R. Marino;V. Formoso;D. Farías

  • Overcoming temperature polarization in membrane distillation by thermoplasmonic effects activated by Ag nanofillers in polymeric membranes

    Antonio Politano;Gianluca Di Profio;Enrica Fontananova;Vanna Sanna

  • Elastic properties of a macroscopic graphene sample from phonon dispersion measurements

    Antonio Politano;Antonio Raimondo Marino;Davide Campi;Daniel Farías

  • Interplay of Surface and Dirac Plasmons in Topological Insulators: The Case of Bi 2 Se 3

    A. Politano;V. M. Silkin;V. M. Silkin;V. M. Silkin;I. A. Nechaev;I. A. Nechaev;I. A. Nechaev;M. S. Vitiello

  • Anisotropic ultrasensitive PdTe2-based phototransistor for room-temperature long-wavelength detection.

    Cheng Guo;Yibin Hu;Gang Chen;Dacheng Wei

  • Heterostructured hBN-BP-hBN Nanodetectors at Terahertz Frequencies

    Leonardo Viti;Jin Hu;Dominique Coquillat;Antonio Politano

  • Hybrid Dirac semimetal-based photodetector with efficient low-energy photon harvesting

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  • Ultrasensitive Room-Temperature Terahertz Direct Detection Based on a Bismuth Selenide Topological Insulator

    Weiwei Tang;Weiwei Tang;Antonio Politano;Cheng Guo;Cheng Guo;Wanlong Guo

  • When plasmonics meets membrane technology.

    A Politano;Anna Cupolillo;G Di Profio;Ha Arafat

  • Plasmonics with two-dimensional semiconductors: from basic research to technological applications

    Amit Agarwal;Miriam S Vitiello;Leonardo Viti;Anna Cupolillo

  • Liquid-Phase Exfoliated Indium–Selenide Flakes and Their Application in Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

    Elisa Petroni;Elisa Petroni;Emanuele Lago;Emanuele Lago;Sebastiano Bellani;Danil W. Boukhvalov;Danil W. Boukhvalov

  • The advent of graphene and other two-dimensional materials in membrane science and technology

    Annarosa Gugliuzza;Antonio Politano;Enrico Drioli;Enrico Drioli;Enrico Drioli

  • Helium reflectivity and Debye temperature of graphene grown epitaxially on Ru(0001)

    A. Politano;A. Politano;B. Borca;Marina Minniti;J. J. Hinarejos

  • Electronic and Geometric Corrugation of Periodically Rippled, Self-nanostructured Graphene Epitaxially Grown on Ru(0001)

    Bogdana Borca;Sara Barja;Sara Barja;Manuela Garnica;Manuela Garnica;Marina Minniti

Frequent Co-Authors

Danil W. Boukhvalov
Danil W. Boukhvalov Nanjing Forestry University
Rodolfo Miranda
Rodolfo Miranda Autonomous University of Madrid
Amit Agarwal
Amit Agarwal Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Enrico Drioli
Enrico Drioli National Research Council (CNR)
Efrem Curcio
Efrem Curcio University of Calabria
Xiaoshuang Chen
Xiaoshuang Chen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wojciech Knap
Wojciech Knap Warsaw University of Technology
Vittorio Pellegrini
Vittorio Pellegrini Italian Institute of Technology
Carlo Cantalini
Carlo Cantalini University of L'Aquila
Francesco Bonaccorso
Francesco Bonaccorso Italian Institute of Technology

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