Francesca Cavalieri

Catalytically Active Copper Phosphate-Dextran Sulfate Microparticle Coatings for Bioanalyte Sensing

Pietro Pacchin Tomanin, Sukhvir Kaur Bhangu, Frank Caruso, Francesca Cavalieri

Journal article  |  2020  |  Particle and Particle Systems Characterization

Engineering reactive and functional nanostructured surfaces is important for enhancing the sensitivity and versatility of biosenso..

RNAi therapeutics: an antiviral strategy for human infections

Anthony D Kelleher, Christina Cortez-Jugo, Francesca Cavalieri, Yijiao Qu, Allan R Glanville, Frank Caruso, Geoff Symonds, Chantelle L Ahlenstiel

Journal article  |  2020  |  Current Opinion in Pharmacology

Gene silencing induced by RNAi represents a promising antiviral development strategy. This review will summarise the current state..

Sono-Assembly of the [Arg-Phe]4 Octapeptide into Biofunctional Nanoparticles.

Anshul Baral, Sukhvir K Bhangu, Rita Cimino, Juliane NBD Pelin, Wendel A Alves, Santanu Chattopadhyay, Muthupandian Ashokkumar, Francesca Cavalieri

Journal article  |  2020  |  Nanomaterials

High-frequency ultrasound treatment is found to be a one-pot green technique to produce peptide-based nanostructures by ultrasound..

Protein Component of Oyster Glycogen Nanoparticles: An Anchor Point for Functionalization

Quinn A Besford, Alessia CG Weiss, Jonas Schubert, Timothy M Ryan, Manfred F Maitz, Pietro Pacchin Tomanin, Marco Savioli, Carsten Werner, Andreas Fery, Frank Caruso, Francesca Cavalieri

Journal article  |  2020  |  ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Biosourced nanoparticles have a range of desirable properties for therapeutic applications, including biodegradability and low imm..

Template-Mediated Assembly of DNA into Microcapsules for Immunological Modulation

Yijiao Qu, Yi Ju, Christina Cortez-Jugo, Zhixing Lin, Shiyao Li, Jiajing Zhou, Yutian Ma, Agata Glab, Stephen J Kent, Francesca Cavalieri, Frank Caruso

Journal article  |  2020  |  SMALL

There is a need for effective vaccine delivery systems and vaccine adjuvants without extraneous excipients that can compromise or ..

Distribution of Particles in Human Stem Cell-Derived 3D Neuronal Cell Models: Effect of Particle Size, Charge, and Density

Ewa Czuba-Wojnilowicz, Sara Miellet, Agata Glab, Serena Viventi, Francesca Cavalieri, Christina Cortez-Jugo, Mirella Dottori, Frank Caruso

Journal article  |  2020  |  BIOMACROMOLECULES

Neurodegenerative diseases are generally characterized by a progressive loss of neuronal subpopulations, with no available cure to..

Dissecting the intracellular signalling and fate of a DNA nanosensor by super-resolution and quantitative microscopy.

Agata Glab, Alessandro Bertucci, Fabiana Martino, Marcin Wojnilowicz, Alessia Amodio, Mariano Venanzi, Francesco Ricci, Giancarlo Forte, Frank Caruso, Francesca Cavalieri

Journal article  |  2020  |  Nanoscale

DNA nanodevices have been developed as platforms for the manipulation of gene expression, delivery of molecular payloads, and dete..

Nanoengineering multifunctional hybrid interfaces using adhesive glycogen nanoparticles.

Pietro Pacchin Tomanin, Jiajing Zhou, Alessia Amodio, Rita Cimino, Agata Glab, Francesca Cavalieri, Frank Caruso

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Materials Chemistry B

Multifunctional and biodegradable nanostructured hybrid interfaces based on biopolymers are potentially useful in many application..

Nanoporous Microsponge Particles (NMP) of Polysaccharides as Universal Carriers for Biomolecules Delivery.

Maria Federica Caso, Felicia Carotenuto, Paolo Di Nardo, Alberto Migliore, Ana Aguilera, Cruz Matilde Lopez, Mariano Venanzi, Francesca Cavalieri, Antonio Rinaldi

Journal article  |  2020  |  Nanomaterials

Different polysaccharides-namely dextran, carboxymethyl dextran, alginate, and hyaluronic acid-were compared for the synthesis of ..

Glycogen as a Building Block for Advanced Biological Materials

Quinn A Besford, Francesca Cavalieri, Frank Caruso

Journal article  |  2020  |  Advanced Materials

Biological nanoparticles found in living systems possess distinct molecular architectures and diverse functions. Glycogen is a uni..