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2025

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Chemistry

D-Index
74
Citations
19299
World Ranking
4706
National Ranking
95

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Luca Prodi is affiliated with the University of Bologna in Italy and conducts research primarily in the fields of Materials Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work frequently addresses topics related to advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, biosensors and analytical detection, and molecular sensors and ion detection.

The scientist has published extensively on subjects including crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, luminescence and fluorescent materials, and microplastics and plastic pollution. These research interests span subfields such as materials chemistry, molecular biology, biomedical engineering, spectroscopy, and pollution.

Prodi's recent papers reflect a focus on chemical and biosensing methodologies, including:

  • Static quenching upon adduct formation: a treatment without shortcuts and approximations, 2021, Chemical Society Reviews
  • Dye-Doped Silica Nanoparticles for Enhanced ECL-Based Immunoassay Analytical Performance, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Photoluminescence-Based Techniques for the Detection of Micro- and Nanoplastics, 2021, Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Ultrasensitive PCR-Free detection of whole virus genome by electrochemiluminescence, 2022, Biosensors and Bioelectronics
  • Nitroxides as Building Blocks for Nanoantioxidants, 2021, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Frequent coauthors contributing to Prodi's work include Enrico Rampazzo, Damiano Genovese, Giovanni Valenti, Matteo Calvaresi, and Chiara Capolungo. Their collaborations suggest interdisciplinary efforts in the overlapping areas of materials science and molecular biology.

Prodi's publications have appeared repeatedly in several scientific venues, such as:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Molecules
  • Chemical Society Reviews

Best Publications

  • Handbook of Photochemistry

    Marco Montalti;Alberto Credi;Luca Prodi;M Teresa Gandolfi

  • Luminescent chemosensors for transition metal ions

    L Prodi

  • Molecular meccano. 1. [2]Rotaxanes and a [2]catenane made to order

    Pier Lucio Anelli;Peter R. Ashton;Douglas Philp;Marek Pietraszkiewicz

  • An Effective Fluorescent Chemosensor for Mercury Ions

    Luca Prodi;Carlotta Bargossi;Marco Montalti;Nelsi Zaccheroni

  • 8-Hydroxyquinoline Derivatives as Fluorescent Sensors for Magnesium in Living Cells

    Giovanna Farruggia;Stefano Iotti;Luca Prodi;Marco Montalti

  • Luminescent Silica Nanoparticles: Extending the Frontiers of Brightness

    Sara Bonacchi;Damiano Genovese;Riccardo Juris;Marco Montalti

  • Dye-doped silica nanoparticles as luminescent organized systems for nanomedicine

    M. Montalti;L. Prodi;E. Rampazzo;N. Zaccheroni

  • Luminescent chemosensors: from molecules to nanoparticles

    Luca Prodi

  • Synthesis, Structure and Photophysics of Neutral π-Associated [2]Catenanes

    Darren G. Hamilton;John E. Davies;Luca Prodi;Jeremy K. M. Sanders

  • A Photochemically Driven Molecular Machine

    Roberto Ballardini;Vincenzo Balzani;Maria Teresa Gandolfi;Luca Prodi

  • Simple Mechanical Molecular and Supramolecular Machines: Photochemical and Electrochemical Control of Switching Processes

    Peter R. Ashton;Roberto Ballardini;Vincenzo Balzani;Sue E. Boyd

  • Self-Assembly, Spectroscopic, and Electrochemical Properties of [n]Rotaxanes1

    P. R. Ashton;R. Ballardini;V. Balzani;M. Belohradsky

  • Luminescent Lanthanide Complexes of a Bis-bipyridine-phosphine-oxide Ligand as Tools for Anion Detection

    Loïc J Charbonnière;Raymond Ziessel;Marco Montalti;Luca Prodi

  • Imaging agents based on lanthanide doped nanoparticles

    L. Prodi;E. Rampazzo;F. Rastrelli;A. Speghini

  • Recent developments in transition metal ion detection by luminescent chemosensors

    Carlotta Bargossi;Maria Cristina Fiorini;Marco Montalti;Luca Prodi

  • Molecular Meccano. 4. The Self-Assembly of [2]Catenanes Incorporating Photoactive .pi.-Extended Systems

    David J. Williams;Peter R. Ashton;Roberto Ballardini;Vincenzo Balzani

  • The Slipping Approach to Self-Assembling [n]Rotaxanes†

    Masumi Asakawa;Peter R. Ashton;Roberto Ballardini;Vincenzo Balzani

  • Hydrogen-Bonded Complexes of Aromatic Crown Ethers with (9-Anthracenyl)methylammonium Derivatives. Supramolecular Photochemistry and Photophysics. pH-Controllable Supramolecular Switching†

    Peter R. Ashton;Roberto Ballardini;Vincenzo Balzani;Marcos Gómez-López,‡,⊥

  • Ru(bpy)3 Covalently Doped Silica Nanoparticles as Multicenter Tunable Structures for Electrochemiluminescence Amplification

    Simone Zanarini;Enrico Rampazzo;Leopoldo Della Ciana;Massimo Marcaccio

  • From observed to corrected luminescence intensity of solution systems: an easy-to-apply correction method for standard spectrofluorimeters

    Alberto Credi;Luca Prodi

  • 8-Hydroxyquinoline derivatives as fluorescent sensors for magnesium in living cells (vol 128, pg 344, 2006)

    Farruggia G;Iotti S;Prodi L;Montalti M

Frequent Co-Authors

Marco Montalti
Marco Montalti University of Bologna
Nelsi Zaccheroni
Nelsi Zaccheroni University of Bologna
Francesco Paolucci
Francesco Paolucci University of Bologna
Roberto Paolesse
Roberto Paolesse University of Rome Tor Vergata
Alberto Credi
Alberto Credi University of Bologna
Vincenzo Balzani
Vincenzo Balzani University of Bologna
Massimo Marcaccio
Massimo Marcaccio University of Bologna
Paul B. Savage
Paul B. Savage Brigham Young University
Reed M. Izatt
Reed M. Izatt Brigham Young University
J. Fraser Stoddart
J. Fraser Stoddart Northwestern University

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