Publications

Journal Papers

Project Results

Low background fluorescence 3D-printed micro-lens for imaging of vulnerable atherosclerotic plaques

Rouyan Chen ; Florian Rothermel ; Robert Fitridge ; Christina A. Bursill ; Peter J. Psaltis; Harald Giessen; Alois Herkommer ; Robert A. McLaughlin ; Andrea Toulouse ; Jiawen Li

APL PHOTONICS, 2025

3D-printed micro-axicon enables extended depth-of-focus intravascular optical coherence tomography in vivo

Pavel Ruchka, Alok Kushwaha, Jessica A. Marathe, Lei Xiang, Rouyan Chen, Rodney W. Kirk, Joanne T. M. Tan, Christina Bursill, Johan Verjans, Simon Thiele, Robert Fitridge, Robert A. McLaughlin, Peter J. Psaltis, Harald Giessen, Jiawen Li

Advanced Photonics, 2025

Flexible Strain Sensors for Real-Time Monitoring of Vessels Deformation

Genchi, D.; Vurro, D.; Maurina, E.; Mishra, R. B.; Rosadoni, E.; Ottomaniello, A.; Tarabella, G.; Mattoli, V.

Proceedings of Chimica sotto l'albero – Building Peace through (Chemical) Bonds, 2026

The Challenges of Vascular Implants: Regulatory Strategies and Biological Responses

Babboni, S.; Sicari, R.; Russo, L.; Mattoli, V.; Basta, G.; Del Turco, S.

Small Science, 2025

Bioorthogonal Mussel-Inspired Elastin-like Nanocoatings for Indwelling Devices

Acosta, S.; Chaskovska, V.; El-Maachi, I.; Englert, J.; Puertas-Bartolomé, M.; Jockenhövel, S.; Rodríguez-Cabello, J. C.; Rodriguez-Emmenegger, C.*; Fernández-Colino, A

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2025

Antifouling Surface-Attached Hydrogel Nanocoatings Redefined: Green Solvent-Based, Degradable, and High-Performance Protection Against Foulants

Jenny Englert, Marc Palà, Jonas Quandt, Hannah Sieben, Oliver Grottke, Bernd Marx, Gerard Lligadas, Cesar Rodriguez-Emmenegger

Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2025

Enhancing Hemocompatibility in ECMO Systems With a Fibrinolytic Interactive Coating: in Vitro Evaluation of Blood Clot Lysis Using a 3D Microfluidic Model

Lena Witzdam, Samarth Sandhu, Suji Shin, Yeahwa Hong, Shanzeh Kamal, Oliver Grottke, Keith E. Cook, Cesar Rodriguez-Emmenegger

Macromolecular Bioscience, 2025

Advanced Antibacterial Strategies for Combatting Biomaterial-Associated Infections: A Comprehensive Review

Esra Kasapgil, Manuela Garay-Sarmiento, César Rodriguez-Emmenegger

WIRES, 2024

Beyond Transconductance: Cell-Polymer Coupling Determines Fidelity in Action Potential Recording via Electrolyte-Gated Polymer Transistors

Giulia Zoe Zemignani, Elena Mancinelli, Gabriele Tullii, Aleksandr Khudiakov, Cristiano Bortolotti, Shubham Tanwar, Peter J. Schwartz, Luca Sala, Maria Rosa Antognazza, Mario Caironi, Adrica Kyndiah

ADVANCED SCIENCE, 2026

Non-invasive action potential recordings using printed electrolyte-gated polymer field-effect transistors

Adrica Kyndiah, Giulia Zoe Zemignani, Carlotta Ronchi, Gabriele Tullii, Aleksandr Khudiakov, Giuseppina Iachetta, Stefano Chiodini, Rosalia Moreddu, Fabrizio Antonio Viola, Peter J. Schwartz, Gabriel Gomila, Francesco De Angelis, Luca Sala, Maria Rosa Antognazza & Mario Caironi

Naturale Communications, 2026

On the origin of spontaneous electrical oscillations in a minimal peptide assembly

Salvatore Del Basso , Pietro Squeri, Rishit Mohan Ahuja , Rishav Karki , Giuseppe De Giorgio, Vardan Galstyan, Raffaele Martucci Zecca, Enrico Dalcanale , Xiongchuan Huang, Davide Vurro, Saksham Sharma, Pasquale D’Angelo, Andrew Adamatzky , Giuseppe Tarabella

Science Direct, 2026

3D-printed micro-optical dark-field condenser

Robert Horvat, Leander Siegle, Luca Schmid, Pavel Ruchka, Philipp Flad, Monika Ubl, Michael Schmid, Lukas Wesemann, and Harald Giessen

OPTICA PUBLISHING GROUP, 2026

From Two-Photon Grayscale Lithography to Scalable Replication: Enabling Complex Aspherical Micro-Optics for Mass Production

Stefan Wagner, Leander Siegle, Stephan Haeusler, Philipp Flad, Mario Henschel, Thomas Guenther, André Zimmermann, Harald Giessen

WILEY ADVANCED, 2025

Side-looking endoscopic micro-optics: comparison between state-of-the-art two-photon polymerization printing techniques

Jan Niklas Bauer, Leander Siegle, Claudia Imiolczyk, Pavel Ruchka, and Harald Giessen

OPTICA PUBLISHING GROUP, 2025

Femtosecond Direct Laser Writing of Conductive and Electrically Switchable PEDOT:PSS Optical Nanostructures

Dominik Ludescher, Pavel Ruchka, Leander Siegle, Yanzhe Huang, Philipp Flad, Monika Ubl, Sabine Ludwigs, Mario Hentschel, Harald Giessen

Advanced Optial Materials, 2025

Direct Laser Writing of Polymer Nanocomposites for Tunable Structural Color

Teodora Faraone, Jing Qian, Srikanth Kolagatla, A. Louise Bradley, Larisa Florea, Colm Delane

Advanced Materials, 10,1002, 2025

Lateral shear interferometry for shape accuracy measurements of 3D-printed micro-optics

Yanqiu Zhao EMAIL logo , Lunwei Wang , Leander Siegle and Harald Giessen

DE Gruyter Brill, 2024

Silk Fibroin Materials: Biomedical Applications and Perspectives

G. De Giorgio†, B. Matera†, D. Vurro, E. Manfredi, V. Galstyan, G. Tarabella*, B. Ghezzi*, P D’Angelo

Bioengineering, 11(2):167, 2024

Inflammatory biomarker detection in saliva samples by printed graphene immunosensors

D. Vurro, L. Pasquardini, M. Borriello, R. Foresti, M. Barra, M. Sidoli D. Pontiroli, L. Fornasini, L. Aversa, R. Verucchi, P. D'Angelo*, G. Tarabella

Sensors and Actuators Reports, 8:100211, 2024

Diffractive microoptics in porous silicon oxide by grayscale lithography

Leander Siegle*, Dajie Xie, Corey A. Richards, Paul V. Braun, and Harald Giessen

Optics Express, 32(20):35678, 2024

Positional Accuracy of 3D Printed Quantum Emitter Fiber Couplers

Ksenia Weber, Simon Thiele, Mario Hentschel, Alois Herkommer, Harald Giessen*

Advanced Quantum Technologies, Online 2400135, 2024

Inhalable drug-loaded silk fibroin carriers for pulmonary drug delivery

I. D'Onofrio, G.De Giorgio, R. Sajapin, D. Vurro, A. Liboà, E. Dembech, G. Trevisi, M. Botti, V. Galstyan, G. Tarabella*, P. D'Angelo

RSC Advances, 14:27288, 2024

Preliminary Results

Coming SoonFacile Handling of 3D Two‐Photon Polymerized Microstructures by Ultra‐Conformable Freestanding Polymeric Membranes

F. M. den Hoed†, A. Ottomaniello†, O. Tricinci, L. Cesarecciu, M. Carlotti, P. Raffa, V. Mattoli*

Advanced Functional Materials, 33(39):2214409, 2023

A sub 150 nanometers thick and ultra-conformable solution processed all-organic transistor

F. A. Viola*, J. Barsotti, F. Melloni, G. Lanzani, Y.-H. Kim, V. Mattoli*, M. Caironi*

Nature Communication, 12: 5842, 2021

Direct recording of action potentials of cardiomyocytes through solution processed planar electrolyte-gated field-effect transistors

A. Kyndiah*, M. Dipalo, A. Molazemhosseini, F. A. Viola, F. Modena, G. Iachetta, N. F. Zorn, F. J. Berger, J. Zaumseil, M. Caironi*, F. De Angelis*

Sensors and Actuators B, 393:134227, 2023

A Rapidly Stabilizing Water-Gated Field-Effect Transistor Based on Printed Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes for Biosensing Applications

A. Molazemhosseini, F. A. Viola, F. J. Berger, N. F. Zorn, J. Zaumseil, M. Caironi*

ACS Appl. Electron. Mater. 3(7):3106, 2021

Homocysteine Solution-Induced Response in Aerosol Jet Printed OECTs by Means of Gold and Platinum Gate Electrodes

P. D’Angelo et al.

Int. J. Mol. Sci., 22(21):11507, 2021

Integrated Micro-Devices for a Lab-in-Organoid Technology Platform: Current Status and Future Perspectives

G. N. Angotzi*, L. Giantomasi, J. F. Ribeiro, M. Crepaldi, M. Vincenzi, D. Zito, L. Berdondini

Front. Neurosci. 16:842265, 2022

BBB-on-a-chip with integrated micro-TEER for permeability evaluation of multi-functionalized gold nanorods against Alzheimer’s disease

S. Palma-Florez, A. López-Canosa, F. Moralez-Zavala, O. Castaño, M. J. Kogan, J. Samitier, A. Lagunas*, M. Mir*

Journal of Nanobiotechnology, 21:115, 2023

Fetal ischemia monitoring with in vivo implanted electrochemical multiparametric microsensors

S. Dulay, L. Rivas, L. Pla, S. Berdún, E. Eixarch, E. Gratacós, M. Illa, M. Mir*, J. Samitier

Journal of Biological Engineering, 15:28, 2021

Interactive Hemocompatible Nanocoating to Prevent Surface-Induced Coagulation in Medical Devices

L. Witzdam, B. Vosberg, K. Große-Berkenbusch, S. Stoppelkamp, H. P. Wendel, C. Rodriguez-Emmenegger*

Macromol. Biosci., 24:2300321, 2024

Tackling the Root Cause of Surface-Induced Coagulation: Inhibition of FXII Activation to Mitigate Coagulation Propagation and Prevent Clotting

L. Witzdam, B. Vosberg, K. Große-Berkenbusch, S. Stoppelkamp, H. P. Wendel, C. Rodriguez-Emmenegger*

Macromol. Biosci., 24:2300321, 2024

Two-Photon Polymerization of Sugar Responsive 4D Microstructures

A. Ennis, D. Nicdao, S. Kolagatla, L. Dowling, Y. Tskhe, A. J. Thompson, D. Trimble, C. Delaney, L. Florea

Adv. Funct. Mater. 33:2213947, 2023

Responsive Spiral Photonic Structures for Visible Vapor Sensing, Pattern Transformation and Encryption

J. Qian, S. Kolagatla, A. Pacalovas, X. Zhang, L. Florea*, A. L. Bradley*, C. Delaney*

Adv. Funct. Mater., 33:2211735, 2023

Journal Papers

Conference Papers

Printed Electrolyte-Gated Transistors for High-Fidelity Transduction of Intracellular Action Potentials in Cardiomyocytes

Mario Caironi (invited)

ORBITALY 2024

The Crucial Role of Cell-Polymer Interface for the Transduction of Action Potentials via Printed Electrolyte-Gated Polymer Field-Effect Transistors

Poster Presentation

ORBITALY 2024

Multimodal Operando Probing of Mixed Conduction in Organic Electrochemical Transistors

Oral Presentation

ORBITALY 2024

Preliminary Results

A µRadio CMOS Device for Real-Time In-Tissue Monitoring of Human Organoids

G.N. Angotzi, M. Crepaldi, A. Lecomte, L. Giantomasi, S. Rancati, D. Depietri Tonelli, L. Berdondini

2018 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS)

Conference Papers

Publications

Journal Papers

Project Results

Low background fluorescence 3D-printed micro-lens for imaging of vulnerable atherosclerotic plaques

3D-printed micro-axicon enables extended depth-of-focus intravascular optical coherence tomography in vivo

Flexible Strain Sensors for Real-Time Monitoring of Vessels Deformation

The Challenges of Vascular Implants: Regulatory Strategies and Biological Responses

Bioorthogonal Mussel-Inspired Elastin-like Nanocoatings for Indwelling Devices

Antifouling Surface-Attached Hydrogel Nanocoatings Redefined: Green Solvent-Based, Degradable, and High-Performance Protection Against Foulants

Enhancing Hemocompatibility in ECMO Systems With a Fibrinolytic Interactive Coating: in Vitro Evaluation of Blood Clot Lysis Using a 3D Microfluidic Model

Advanced Antibacterial Strategies for Combatting Biomaterial-Associated Infections: A Comprehensive Review

Beyond Transconductance: Cell-Polymer Coupling Determines Fidelity in Action Potential Recording via Electrolyte-Gated Polymer Transistors

Non-invasive action potential recordings using printed electrolyte-gated polymer field-effect transistors

On the origin of spontaneous electrical oscillations in a minimal peptide assembly

3D-printed micro-optical dark-field condenser

From Two-Photon Grayscale Lithography to Scalable Replication: Enabling Complex Aspherical Micro-Optics for Mass Production

Side-looking endoscopic micro-optics: comparison between state-of-the-art two-photon polymerization printing techniques

Femtosecond Direct Laser Writing of Conductive and Electrically Switchable PEDOT:PSS Optical Nanostructures

Direct Laser Writing of Polymer Nanocomposites for Tunable Structural Color

Lateral shear interferometry for shape accuracy measurements of 3D-printed micro-optics

Silk Fibroin Materials: Biomedical Applications and Perspectives

Inflammatory biomarker detection in saliva samples by printed graphene immunosensors

Diffractive microoptics in porous silicon oxide by grayscale lithography

Positional Accuracy of 3D Printed Quantum Emitter Fiber Couplers

Inhalable drug-loaded silk fibroin carriers for pulmonary drug delivery

Preliminary Results

Coming SoonFacile Handling of 3D Two‐Photon Polymerized Microstructures by Ultra‐Conformable Freestanding Polymeric Membranes

A sub 150 nanometers thick and ultra-conformable solution processed all-organic transistor

Direct recording of action potentials of cardiomyocytes through solution processed planar electrolyte-gated field-effect transistors

A Rapidly Stabilizing Water-Gated Field-Effect Transistor Based on Printed Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes for Biosensing Applications

Homocysteine Solution-Induced Response in Aerosol Jet Printed OECTs by Means of Gold and Platinum Gate Electrodes

Integrated Micro-Devices for a Lab-in-Organoid Technology Platform: Current Status and Future Perspectives

BBB-on-a-chip with integrated micro-TEER for permeability evaluation of multi-functionalized gold nanorods against Alzheimer’s disease

Fetal ischemia monitoring with in vivo implanted electrochemical multiparametric microsensors

Interactive Hemocompatible Nanocoating to Prevent Surface-Induced Coagulation in Medical Devices

Tackling the Root Cause of Surface-Induced Coagulation: Inhibition of FXII Activation to Mitigate Coagulation Propagation and Prevent Clotting

Two-Photon Polymerization of Sugar Responsive 4D Microstructures

Responsive Spiral Photonic Structures for Visible Vapor Sensing, Pattern Transformation and Encryption

Conference Papers

Project Results

Identification of GB3 as a novel target for the alternative vasculature in neuroblastoma using a stiffness-based model

Biosensor for the neuronal activity monitoring and neurofilament light detection in a brain-on-a-chip

Two photon polymerization on ultrathin polymeric films: a route toward conformable optical meta-surfaces and sensors

Vascularized neuroblastoma-on-a-chip

Reimagining hemocompatible coatings: modulation of hemostasis by interactive polymer brushes

Harnessing nature’s blueprints to design antifouling interactive biointerfaces.

Phagocytic Synthetic Cells to protect us against bacterial and viral pathogens

Biosensors integrated in biological models for drug discovery and early diagnosis

Progress in unconventional electronics and sustainable flexible sensing technologies

Inflammatory biomarkers detection in saliva samples by printed graphene immunosensors

Nanostructured silk fibroin carriers as innovative approach for pulmonary drug delivery

Ultra-thin soft electronics for soft sensing and actuations

Wide-gamut dynamic structural colour; when hope and history rhyme

Harnessing nature’s blueprints to design interactive biointerfaces and synthetic cells

Phagocytic synthetic cells: non-living predators to fight bacteria

Non-Invasive Monitoring Of Cell Cultures Using Printed Carbon-Based Electrolyte Gated Transistors

Hierarchical ordering of nanomaterials for 4D photonic structures

Edible Electronic Components for Future Edible Electronic System

Ultra-conformable capacitive pressure sensors via two-photon and focused-ion beam lithography

Printed Electrolyte-Gated Transistors for High-Fidelity Transduction of Intracellular Action Potentials in Cardiomyocytes

The Crucial Role of Cell-Polymer Interface for the Transduction of Action Potentials via Printed Electrolyte-Gated Polymer Field-Effect Transistors

Multimodal Operando Probing of Mixed Conduction in Organic Electrochemical Transistors

Preliminary Results

A µRadio CMOS Device for Real-Time In-Tissue Monitoring of Human Organoids