Publications by authors named "Leonardo Martini"

The growth of high-quality graphene on flat and rigid templates, such as metal thin films on insulating wafers, is regarded as a key enabler for technologies based on 2D materials. In this work, the growth of decoupled graphene is introduced via non-reducing low-pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD) on crystalline Cu(111) films deposited on sapphire. The resulting film is atomically flat, with no detectable cracks or ripples, and lies atop of a thin CuO layer, as confirmed by microscopy, diffraction, and spectroscopy analyses.

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  • Researchers developed highly sensitive Hall sensors using monolayer single-crystal graphene, achieving a carrier mobility over 12000 cm V s and low residual carrier density.
  • The sensors demonstrated a Hall sensitivity greater than 5000 V A T, a level typically reached only with more complex methods involving encapsulated graphene.
  • They also introduced a simple polymeric encapsulation technique, which stabilizes the sensor performance in ambient conditions and reduces degradation over extended periods, enhancing the potential for graphene-based Hall sensors in practical applications.
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  • The European Respiratory Society (ERS) and American Thoracic Society (ATS) recommend using race-neutral z-scores for interpreting spirometry, but the implementation and impact of these recommendations have not been widely studied.
  • In a study with over 10,000 participants, airflow obstruction was defined by a specific FEV/FVC ratio, and two methods for classification (GOLD vs. zGLI Global) were compared in terms of their effectiveness in determining COPD severity and outcomes.
  • The zGLI Global approach showed better discrimination for survival rates, exacerbations, and imaging characteristics compared to the GOLD classification, especially highlighting differences in milder disease stages where the agreement was lower.
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The versatility of cellular response arises from the communication, or crosstalk, of signaling pathways in a complex network of signaling and transcriptional regulatory interactions. Understanding the various mechanisms underlying crosstalk on a global scale requires untargeted computational approaches. We present a network-based statistical approach, MuXTalk, that uses high-dimensional edges called multilinks to model the unique ways in which signaling and regulatory interactions can interface.

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Copper (Cu) is the electrical conductor of choice in many categories of electrical wiring, with household and building installation being the major market of this metal. This work demonstrates the coating of Cu wires-with diameters relevant for low-voltage (LV) applications-with graphene. The chemical vapor deposition (CVD) coating process is rapid, safe, scalable, and industrially compatible.

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Graphene-hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) scalable heterostructures are pivotal for the development of graphene-based high-tech applications. In this work, we demonstrate the realization of high-quality graphene-hBN heterostructures entirely obtained with scalable approaches. hBN continuous films were grown via ion beam-assisted physical vapor deposition directly on commercially available SiO/Si and used as receiving substrates for graphene single-crystal matrixes grown by chemical vapor deposition on copper.

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Single-layer molybdenum ditelluride (MoTe) has attracted attention due to the smaller energy difference between the semiconducting (1H) and semimetallic (1T') phases with respect to other two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). Understanding the phenomenon of polymorphism between these structural phases is of great fundamental and practical importance. In this paper, we report a 1H to 1T' phase transition occurring during the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) synthesis of single-layer MoTe at 730 °C.

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Comprehensive understanding of the human protein-protein interaction (PPI) network, aka the human interactome, can provide important insights into the molecular mechanisms of complex biological processes and diseases. Despite the remarkable experimental efforts undertaken to date to determine the structure of the human interactome, many PPIs remain unmapped. Computational approaches, especially network-based methods, can facilitate the identification of previously uncharacterized PPIs.

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  • The text discusses the value of network-based methods for identifying disease-related genetic modules in the human interactome, highlighting their role in directing therapeutic research while addressing the high costs of experimental methods.
  • It introduces the Biological Random Walks (BRW) method for prioritizing disease genes, integrating multiple biological information sources, and compares its effectiveness with established techniques.
  • The implementation details and code for the BRW approach are publicly accessible on GitHub, along with supplementary data available online for further reference.
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Graphene grown chemical vapour deposition (CVD) on copper foil has emerged as a high-quality, scalable material, that can be easily integrated on technologically relevant platforms to develop promising applications in the fields of optoelectronics and photonics. Most of these applications require low-contaminated high-mobility graphene (, approaching 10 000 cm V s at room temperature) to reduce device losses and implement compact device design. To date, these mobility values are only obtained when suspending or encapsulating graphene.

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Out of the different structural phases of molybdenum ditelluride (MoTe), the distorted octahedral 1T' possesses great interest for fundamental physics and is a promising candidate for the implementation of innovative devices such as topological transistors. Indeed, 1T'-MoTe is a semimetal with superconductivity, which has been predicted to be a Weyl semimetal and a quantum spin Hall insulator in bulk and monolayer form, respectively. Large instability of monolayer 1T'-MoTe in environmental conditions, however, has made its investigation extremely challenging so far.

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We report compact, scalable, high-performance, waveguide integrated graphene-based photodetectors (GPDs) for telecom and datacom applications, not affected by dark current. To exploit the photothermoelectric (PTE) effect, our devices rely on a graphene/polymer/graphene stack with static top split gates. The polymeric dielectric, poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA), allows us to preserve graphene quality and to generate a controllable p-n junction.

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The adoption of graphene in electronics, optoelectronics, and photonics is hindered by the difficulty in obtaining high-quality material on technologically relevant substrates, over wafer-scale sizes, and with metal contamination levels compatible with industrial requirements. To date, the direct growth of graphene on insulating substrates has proved to be challenging, usually requiring metal-catalysts or yielding defective graphene. In this work, a metal-free approach implemented in commercially available reactors to obtain high-quality monolayer graphene on c-plane sapphire substrates via chemical vapor deposition is demonstrated.

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People living with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and Vascular Cognitive Impairment (VCI) are persons who do not fulfill a diagnosis of dementia, but who have a high risk of progressing to a dementia disorder. The most recent guidelines to counteract cognitive decline in MCI/VCI subjects suggest a multidimensional and multi-domain interventions combining cognitive, physical, and social activities. The purpose of this study is to test an innovative service that provides a multi-dimensional tele-rehabilitation program through a user-friendly web application.

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Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs), quasi-one-dimensional graphene strips, have shown great potential for nanoscale electronics, optoelectronics, and photonics. Atomically precise GNRs can be "bottom-up" synthesized by surface-assisted assembly of molecular building blocks under ultra-high-vacuum conditions. However, large-scale and efficient synthesis of such GNRs at low cost remains a significant challenge.

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Background: The human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) and p53 pathways may be involved in chemotherapy sensitivity and/or resistance. We explore the value of HER2 and p53 status to foretell docetaxel sensitivity in advanced breast cancer.

Methods: HER2 and p53 expression was analysed in 36 (median age 55 yrs; range 37-87) metastatic breast cancer patients receiving docetaxel-based first-line chemotherapy.

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We present a case of metastatic spreading to the testicle in a 46-year-old patient with renal cell carcinoma, "clear-cell" type, during interleukin-2 combined subcutaneous plus aerosol treatment. Testicular metastasis occurred while the patient showed a response to the treatment with disappearance of lung lesions and reduction of lymph-nodes lesions. After orchiectomy with spermatic cord resection and disease re-evaluation confirming the previous response, the patient re-started immunotherapy.

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