Peer-reviewed scientific publications

2025

• Navid Mostofi Sarkari, Luca Stendardo, Zoé Roche, Bram Cloet, Arantxa Penninger, Irene Tagliaro, Francisco Molina-Lopez, Manish K. Tiwari, Carlo Antonini, David Seveno. Inadequacy of Peak Detachment Force in Describing Ice Adhesion Strength: the Critical Role of Shear Force–Time Evolution in Icephobicity Assessment. Advanced Engineering Materials 2025, 2402996. https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.202402996 

• Lisa Titze, Francesca Cadamuro, Nicoletta Murenu, Raziyeh Akbari, Luca Pellegrino, Giancarlo Capitani, Maurizio Acciarri, Carlo Antonini, Laura Russo, and Norberto Manfredi. Spiro-Ometad As A Promising Substrate In Biomedical Devices. Chemistry Open 2025, e202400002. https://doi.org/10.1002/open.202400002 

• Pegah Sartipizadeh, Mohammad Reza Mohammadizadeh, Carlo Antonini, Raziyeh Akbari. Enhanced fog water harvesting on superhydrophobic steel meshes. Advanced Engineering Materials 2025, 2402378. https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.202402378 

• Pablo F. Ibáñez Ibáñez, Luca Stendardo, Catalina Ospina, Rajat Chaudhary, Irene Tagliaro, Carlo Antonini. Discontinuity-enhanced icephobic surfaces for low ice adhesion. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 2025, 679, 403-410.
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2024.09.205

• Raziyeh Akbari, Federico Ambrosio, Joe D Berry, Carlo Antonini. Wetting characterisation on complex surfaces by an automatic open-source tool: DropenVideo. Journal of Colloids and Interface Science 2025, 678, 1075-1086. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2024.08.159

• Catalina Ospina, Pablo F Ibáñez-Ibáñez, Irene Tagliaro, Luca Stendardo, Samuele Tosatti, Carlo Antonini. Low ice adhesion on soft surfaces: Elasticity or lubrication effects? Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 2025, 677, 494-503. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2024.08.042

2024

• Gabriel Hernández Rodríguez, Giulia Gastaldo, Luca Stendardo, Younes Rafik, Jason Pothin, Marc Budinger, Carlo Antonini, Valérie Pommier-Budinger, Anna Maria Coclite. Icephobic Gradient Polymer Coatings Coupled with Electromechanical De-icing Systems: A Promising Ice Repellent Hybrid System. Advanced Engineering Materials 2024, 2401532. https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.202401532

• Sabrina Ziliani, Anna Alekseeva, Carlo Antonini, Emiliano Esposito, Fabio Neggiani, Marco Sansò, Marco Guerrini, Sabrina Bertini. Synthesis and Physiochemical Properties of Sulphated Tamarind (Tamarindus indica L.) Seed Polysaccharide. Molecules 2024, 29(23), 5510.
  https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules29235510

• Luca Stendardo, Giulia Gastaldo, Marc Budinger, Irene Tagliaro, Valérie Pommier-Budinger, Carlo Antonini. Why the adhesion strength is not enough to assess ice adhesion on surfaces. Applied Surface Science 672 (2024), 160740. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2024.160740

• Irene Tagliaro, Veronica Radice, Roberto Nisticò, Carlo Antonini. Chitosan electrolyte hydrogel with low ice adhesion properties Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 700 (2024), 134695. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfa.2024.134695

• Margherita Aghito, Gabriel Hernandéz Rodríguez, Carlo Antonini, Anna Maria Coclite. Controlled Wrinkle Patterning on Thin Films to Improve Hydrophobicity Langmuir, 40, (2024) 13017–13024. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.4c00743

• Thomas J Kolibaba, Jason P Killgore, et al. Results of an Interlaboratory Study on the Working Curve in Vat Photopolymerization. Additive Manufacturing, 84 (2024), 104082. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2024.104082

• Irene Tagliaro, Massimiliano Mariani, Raziyeh Akbari, Marco Contardi, Maria Summa, Francesco Saliu, Roberto Nisticò, Carlo Antonini. PFAS-free superhydrophobic chitosan coating for fabrics. Carbohydrate Polymers, 333 (2024), 121981. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbpol.2024.121981

• Gabriel Hernández Rodríguez, Mario Fratschko, Luca Stendardo, Carlo Antonini, Roland Resel, Anna Maria Coclite. Icephobic Gradient Polymer Coatings Deposited via iCVD: A Novel Approach for Icing Control and Mitigation.  ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 16 (2024) 11901-11913. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.3c18630 

• Raziyeh Akbari, Yu Wei, Alberto Bagni, Riccardo Ruffo, Marie-Jean Thoraval, Longquan Chen, Carlo Antonini. Outcomes from water drop impact on hydrophobic meshes. Physics of Fluids, 35 (2024) 027137. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0189860 

• Carlo Antonini, Massimiliano D’Arienzo, Michele Ferrari, and Maria Vittoria Diamanti. Advanced Self-Cleaning Surfaces. Materials 17, no. 3: 537. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma17030537 (Editorial) 

2023

• Francesca Cadamuro, Matteo Ferrario, Raziyeh Akbari, Carlo Antonini, Francesco Nicotra, Laura Russo. Tyrosine glucosylation of collagen films exploiting Horseradish Peroxidase (HRP). Carbohydrate Research 2023, 533,108938 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carres.2023.108938 

• Irene Tagliaro, Giacomo Musile, Paolo Caricato, Romolo M. Dorizzi, Franco Tagliaro, and Carlo Antonini. Chitosan Film Sensor for Ammonia Detection in Microdiffusion Analytical Devices. Polymers 2023, 15, 4238. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym15214238 

• Nadia Maria Porpiglia, Irene Tagliaro, Beatrice Pellegrini, Arianna Alessi, Franco Tagliaro, Laura Russo, Francesca Cadamuro, Giacomo Musile, Carlo Antonini, Sabrina Bertini. Chitosan derivatives as dynamic coatings for transferrin glycoform separation in capillary electrophoresis. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 2024, 243, 127888. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.127888 

• Luca Stendardo, Giulia Gastaldo, Marc Budinger, Valerie Pommier-Budinger, Irene Tagliaro, Pablo F. Ibanez-Ibanez, Carlo Antonini. Reframing ice adhesion mechanisms on a solid surface. Applied Surface Science 2023, 641, 158462. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2023.158462

• Luca Stendardo, Giulia Gastaldo, Marc Budinger, Carlo Antonini, Valérie Pommier-Budinger, Anny Catalina Ospina Patiño. Dynamic and Static Test Methods: Quantifying the Shear Strength at the Interface of Iced Substrates.  SAE Technical Paper 2023, 2023-01-1451. https://doi.org/10.4271/2023-01-1451.

• Theodoros Dimitriadis, Luca Stendardo, Irene Tagliaro, Anna Maria Coclite, Carlo Antonini, Tanmoy Maitra. Capillary-Driven Water Transport by Contrast Wettability-Based Durable Surfaces. Applied materials and interfaces 2023, 15, 27206. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.3c03840

• Q Tang (唐庆国), S Xiang (项诗涵), S Lin (林世玑), Y Jin (靳亚康), C Antonini, L Chen (陈龙泉). Enhancing droplet rebound on superhydrophobic cones. Physics of Fluids 2023 35, 052101. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0145234

• Y Xu, Y Jia, C Antonini, Y Jin, L Chen. Interfacial Nanoblisters Formed in Water Serving as Freestanding Platforms for Measuring Elastic Moduli of Polymeric Nanofilms. Nano Letters 2023, 23, 7, 3078–3084. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c05070

• S Petroni, I Tagliaro, C Antonini, M D’Arienzo, S Fernanda Orsini, J F. Mano, V Brancato, J Borges, L Cipolla. Chitosan-Based Biomaterials: Insights into Chemistry, Properties, Devices, and Their Biomedical Applications. Marine Drugs 2023, 21(3), 147; https://doi.org/10.3390/md21030147

• Laurens Snels, Navid Mostofi Sarkari, Jeroen Soete, Arne Maes, Carlo Antonini, Martine Wevers, Tanmoy Maitra, David Seveno.  Internal and interfacial microstructure characterization of ice droplets on surfaces by X-ray computed tomography. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 2023, 637. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2023.01.103 

• R Chaudhary, R Akbari, C Antonini. Rational Design and Characterization of Materials for Optimized Additive Manufacturing by Digital Light Processing. Polymers 15, 227 (2023). https://doi.org/10.3390/polym15020287

2022

• C Antonini, H Chochois, The Interface of Science and Disability: A Personal View, Langmuir, (2022)

• I Tagliaro, S Seccia, B Pellegrini, S Bertini, C Antonini, Chitosan-based coatings with tunable transparency and superhydrophobicity: A solvent-free and fluorine-free approach by stearoyl derivatization. Carbohydrate Polymers, 120424 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbpol.2022.120424 

• R Akbari, MR Mohammadizadeh, C Antonini, F Guittard, T Darmanin. Controlling Morphology and Wettability of Intrinsically Superhydrophobic Copper-Based Surfaces by Electrodeposition. Coatings 12 (9), 1260 (2022). https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings12091260 

• V Lutz-Bueno, A Diaz, T Wu, G Nyström, T Geiger, C Antonini. Hierarchical Structure of Cellulose Nanofibril-Based Foams Explored by Multimodal X-ray Scattering. Biomacromolecules 23 (3), 676-686 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.1c00521 

• Chaudhary, R.; Fabbri, P.; Leoni, E.; Mazzanti, F.; Akbari, R.; Antonini, C. Additive Manufacturing by Digital Light Processing: A Review. Prog. Addit. Manuf. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40964-022-00336-0 

• I Tagliaro, A Cerpelloni, V-M Nikiforidis, R Pillai, C Antonini. On the development of icephobic surfaces: bridging experiments and simulations, in: The Surface Wettability Effect on Phase Change, edited by M Marengo and J De Coninck, Springer (2022). 10.1007/978-3-030-82992-6 

2021

• R Akbari, C Antonini. Contact angle measurements: From existing methods to an open-source tool. Advances in Colloid and Interface Science 294, 102470 (2021)

• R Ladiè, C Cosentino, I Tagliaro, C Antonini, G Bianchini, S Bertini. Supramolecular Structuring of Hyaluronan-Lactose-Modified Chitosan Matrix: Towards High-Performance Biopolymers with Excellent Biodegradation. Biomolecules 11 (3), 389 (2021).

• N Blanken, M. S. Saleem, M.-J. Thoraval, C. Antonini. Impact of compound drops: a perspective. Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science, 51, 101389 (2021).

2020

• M D’Arienzo, S Dirè, E Cobani, S Orsini, B Di Credico, C Antonini, E Callone, F Parrino, S Dalle Vacche, G Trusiano, R Bongiovanni, R Scotti. SiO2/Ladder-Like Polysilsesquioxanes Nanocomposite Coatings: Playing with the Hybrid Interface for Tuning Thermal Properties and Wettability. Coatings 2020, 10(10), 913. 

• N Blanken, M. S. Saleem, C. Antonini, M.-J. Thoraval. Rebound of self-lubricating compound drops. Science Advances, 6 (11), eaay3499 (2020). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aay3499

2019

• C Antonini, T Wu, T Zimmermann, A Kherbeche, MJ Thoraval, G Nyström, T Geiger. Ultra-porous nanocellulose foams: A facile and scalable fabrication approach. Nanomaterials 9 (8), 1142 (2019) https://doi.org/10.3390/nano9081142