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Salvatore Sortino

Salvatore Sortino

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Chemistry

D-Index
47
Citations
8527
World Ranking
15590
National Ranking
561

Overview

Salvatore Sortino is affiliated with the University of Catania in Italy. Their research spans multiple fields with a significant focus on Materials Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Within these broad areas, their work concentrates particularly on Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, with additional interests in Physiology and Organic Chemistry.

The primary topics covered by Sortino's scientific output include:

  • Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics
  • Photodynamic Therapy Research Studies
  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
  • Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry
  • Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques

Sortino frequently publishes in various scientific journals, with notable contributions appearing most regularly in:

  • Journal of Materials Chemistry B
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Molecules
  • New Journal of Chemistry
  • Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Sortino include:

  • "A generator of peroxynitrite activatable with red light" (2021), Chemical Science
  • "Overcoming Doxorubicin Resistance with Lipid-Polymer Hybrid Nanoparticles Photoreleasing Nitric Oxide" (2020), Molecular Pharmaceutics
  • "Nitric Oxide Photoreleasers with Fluorescent Reporting" (2021), Chemistry - A European Journal
  • "A High-Performing Metal-Free Photoactivatable Nitric Oxide Donor with a Green Fluorescent Reporter" (2020), ChemPhotoChem
  • "Development of Spirulina sea-weed raw extract/polyamidoamine hydrogel system as novel platform in photodynamic therapy: Photostability and photoactivity of chlorophyll a" (2020), Materials Science and Engineering C

Collaborations are a key component of their research activities, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Aurore Fraix
  • Cristina Parisi
  • Francesca Laneri
  • Fabiana Quaglia
  • Mimimorena Seggio

Best Publications

  • Chromogenic oxazines for cyanide detection.

    Massimiliano Tomasulo;Salvatore Sortino;and Andrew J. P. White;Françisco M. Raymo

  • Light-controlled nitric oxide delivering molecular assemblies.

    Salvatore Sortino

  • Photoactivated nanomaterials for biomedical release applications

    Salvatore Sortino

  • Fast and stable photochromic oxazines.

    Massimiliano Tomasulo;Salvatore Sortino;and Andrew J. P. White;Françisco M. Raymo

  • A Fast and Stable Photochromic Switch Based on the Opening and Closing of an Oxazine Ring

    Massimiliano Tomasulo;Salvatore Sortino;Françisco M. Raymo

  • Photochemistry of 2-(3-benzoylphenyl)propionic acid(ketoprofen) Part 1A picosecond and nanosecond time resolved study inaqueous solution

    Sandra Monti;Salvatore Sortino;Guido De Guidi;Giancarlo Marconi

  • Photodelivery of nitric oxide from water-soluble platinum nanoparticles.

    Elisa B. Caruso;Salvatore Petralia;Sabrina Conoci;Salvatore Giuffrida

  • Photoprocesses of photosensitizing drugs within cyclodextrin cavities

    Sandra Monti;Salvatore Sortino

  • Photoactivatable Fluorophores for Super-Resolution Imaging Based on Oxazine Auxochromes

    Erhan Deniz;Massimiliano Tomasulo;Janet Cusido;Ibrahim Yildiz

  • Photoresponsive polymer nanocarriers with multifunctional cargo

    Subramani Swaminathan;Jaume Garcia-Amorós;Aurore Fraix;Noufal Kandoth

  • Nanoparticles of cationic amphiphilic cyclodextrins entangling anionic porphyrins as carrier-sensitizer system in photodynamic cancer therapy.

    Salvatore Sortino;Antonino Mazzaglia;Luigi Monsù Scolaro;Francesca Marino Merlo

  • Multifaceted photoreactivity of 6-fluoro-7-aminoquinolones from the lowest excited states in aqueous media: a study by nanosecond and picosecond spectroscopic techniques.

    Sandra Monti;Salvatore Sortino;Elisa Fasani;Angelo Albini

  • Bichromophoric photochromes based on the opening and closing of a single oxazine ring.

    Massimiliano Tomasulo;Salvatore Sortino;Françisco M. Raymo

  • Fast and Stable Photochromic Oxazines for Fluorescence Switching

    Erhan Deniz;Massimiliano Tomasulo;Janet Cusido;Salvatore Sortino

  • pH Effects on the Spectroscopic and Photochemical Behavior of Enoxacin: A Steady-State and Time-Resolved Study

    S. Sortino;G. De Guidi;S. Giuffrida;S. Monti

  • An engineered nanoplatform for bimodal anticancer phototherapy with dual-color fluorescence detection of sensitizers.

    Aurore Fraix;Noufal Kandoth;Ilse Manet;Venera Cardile

  • Inclusion of 5-[4-(1-dodecanoylpyridinium)]-10,15,20-triphenylporphine in supramolecular aggregates of cationic amphiphilic cyclodextrins: physicochemical characterization of the complexes and strengthening of the antimicrobial photosensitizing activity.

    Stefania Ferro;Giulio Jori;Salvatore Sortino;Rosanna Stancanelli

  • Carbon quantum dot–NO photoreleaser nanohybrids for two-photon phototherapy of hypoxic tumors

    Colin Fowley;Anthony P. McHale;Bridgeen McCaughan;Aurore Fraix

  • Synthesis and properties of benzophenone-spiropyran and naphthalene-spiropyran conjugates.

    Massimiliano Tomasulo;Sireesha L. Kaanumal;Salvatore Sortino;Françisco M. Raymo

  • Substituent Effects on the Photochromism of Bichromophoric Oxazines

    Erhan Deniz;Massimiliano Tomasulo;Salvatore Sortino;Françisco M. Raymo

Frequent Co-Authors

Françisco M. Raymo
Françisco M. Raymo University of Miami
Venera Cardile
Venera Cardile University of Catania
Chiara Riganti
Chiara Riganti University of Turin
Ruxandra Gref
Ruxandra Gref University of Paris-Saclay
Enrico Rizzarelli
Enrico Rizzarelli University of Catania
Angela Agostiano
Angela Agostiano University of Bari Aldo Moro
Angelo Albini
Angelo Albini University of Pavia
Luigi Monsù Scolaro
Luigi Monsù Scolaro University of Messina
Giuseppe Compagnini
Giuseppe Compagnini University of Catania
Maurizio Prato
Maurizio Prato University of Trieste

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