Publications

  • Fernando D. Stefani

    “Tracking nanoscopic motion with minima of light”

    Nature Photonics 17 (2023) 552-553

  • Julian Gargiulo, Matias Herran, Ianina L. Violi, Ana Sousa-Castillo, Luciana P. Martinez, Simone Ezendam, Mariano Barella, Helene Giesler, Roland Grzeschik, Sebastian Schlücker, Stefan A. Maier, Fernando D. Stefani, Emiliano Cortes

    “Impact of bimetallic interface design on heat generation in plasmonic Au/Pd nanostructures studied by single-particle thermometry”

    Nature Communications 14 (2023) 3813

  • Cecilia Zaza, Germán Chiarelli, Ludovit P. Zweifel, Mauricio Pilo-Pais, Evangelos Sisamakis, Fernando D. Stefani, Guillermo P. Acuna

    “Super-resolved FRET imaging by confocal fluorescence-lifetime single-molecule localization microscopy”

    Small Methods (2023) 2201565

  • Luciana P. Martinez, Santiago Poklepovich-Caride, Julian Gargiulo, Eduardo D. Martínez, Fernando D. Stefani, Paula C. Angelomé, Ianina L. Violi

    “Optical Printing of Single Au Nanostars”

    Nano Letters 23 (2023) 2703-2709

  • Lucía F. Lopez, Luciano A. Masullo, Alan M. Szalai, Florencia Edorna, Florencia D. Choque, Fernando Caprile, Fernando D. Stefani

    “Optimization and characterization of toroidal foci for super-resolution fluorescence microscopy: a tutorial”

    Journal of the Optical Society of America B  40 (2023) c103-c110

  • Piotr Zdańkowski, Lucía F. Lopez, Guillermo P. Acuna, Fernando D. Stefani

    “Nanometer resolution imaging and tracking of single fluorophores by sequential structured illumination”

    ACS Photonics 9 (2022) 3777–3785

  • Aleksandra K. Adamczyk, Teun A. P. M. Huijben, Miguel Sison, Andrea Di Luca, Germán Chiarelli, Stefano Vanni, Sophie Brasselet, Kim I. Mortensen, Fernando D. Stefani, Mauricio Pilo-Pais, and Guillermo P. Acuna

    “DNA Self-Assembly of Single Molecules with Deterministic Position and Orientation”

    ACS Nano 16 (2022) 16924−16931

  • Fangjia Zhu, María Sanz-Paz, Antonio I. Fernández-Domínguez, Xiaolu Zhuo, Luis M. Liz-Marzán, Fernando D. Stefani, Mauricio Pilo-Pais, and Guillermo P. Acuna

    “DNA-Templated Ultracompact Optical Antennas for Unidirectional Single-Molecule Emission”

    Nano Letters 20 (2022) 6402–6408

  • Luciano A. Masullo, Alan M. Szalai, Lucía F. Lopez, Mauricio Pilo-Pais, Guillermo P. Acuna, and Fernando D. Stefani

    “An alternative to MINFLUX that enables nanometre resolution in a confocal microscope”

    Light: Science & Applications  11 (2022) 199

  • Luciana P. Martinez, Julian Gargiulo, Mariano Barella, Ianina L. Violi, Fernando D. Stefani

    “Fine tuning the optical properties of single Au nanoparticles by plasmon-driven growth in closed-loop control”

    Advanced Optical Materials 10 (2022) 2102724

  • Luciano A. Masullo, Fernando D. Stefani

    “Multiphoton single-molecule localization by sequential excitation with light minima”

    Light: Science & Applications 11 (2022) 70

  • Fernando Caprile, Luciano A. Masullo, Fernando D. Stefani

    “PyFocus – a Python package for vectorial calculations of focused optical fields under realistic conditions. Application to toroidal foci”

    Computer Physics Communications 275 (2022) 108315

  • Ianina L. Violi, Luciana P. Martinez, Mariano Barella, Cecilia Zaza, Lukáš Chvátal, Pavel Zemánek, Marina V. Gutiérrez, María Y. Paredes, Alberto F. Scarpettini, Jorge Olmos-Trigo, Valeria R. Pais, Iván Díaz Nóblega, Emiliano Cortes, Juan José Sáenz, Andrea V. Bragas, Julian Gargiulo, Fernando D. Stefani

    “Challenges on Optical Printing of Colloidal Nanoparticles”

    Journal of Chemical Physics 156 (2022) 034201

  • Luciano A. Masullo, Lucía F. Lopez, Fernando D. Stefani

    “A common framework for single-molecule localization using sequential structured illumination”

    Biophysical Reports 2 (2022) 100036

  • Luciano A. Masullo, Alan M. Szalai, Lucía F. Lopez, Fernando D. Stefani

    “Fluorescence nanoscopy at the sub-10 nm scale”

    Biophysical Reviews  13 (2021) 1101–1112

  • Alan M. Szalai, Cecilia Zaza, Fernando D. Stefani

    “Super-resolution FRET measurements”

    Nanoscale  13 (2021) 18421-18433

  • Rodrigo A. Ponzio, Ramiro M. Spada, Ana B. Wendel, M. Virginia Forcone, Fernando D. Stefani, Carlos A. Chesta, Rodrigo E. Palacios

    “Exciton diffusion, antenna effect and quenching defects in superficially dye doped conjugated polymer nanoparticles”

    Journal of Physical Chemistry C  125 (2021) 23299-23312

  • Kristina Hübner, Himanshu Joshi, Aleksei Aksimentiev, Fernando D. Stefani, Philip Tinnefeld, and Guillermo P. Acuna

    “Determining the In-Plane Orientation and Binding Mode of Single Fluorescent Dyes in DNA Origami Structures”

    ACS Nano 15 (2021) 5109-5117

  • Alan M. Szalai, Bruno Siarry, Jerónimo Lukin, Sebastián Giusti, Nicolás Unsain, Alfredo Cáceres, Florian Steiner, Philip Tinnefeld, Damián Refojo, Thomas M. Jovin, and Fernando D. Stefani

    “Super-resolution Imaging of Energy Transfer by Intensity-Based STED-FRET”

    Nano Letters 21 (2021) 2296-2303

  • Alan Szalai, Bruno Siarry, Jerónimo Lukin, David J. Williamson, Nicolás Unsain, Alfredo Cáceres, Mauricio Pilo-Pais, Guillermo Acuna, Damián Refojo, Dylan M. Owen, Sabrina Simoncelli, Fernando D. Stefani

    “Three-dimensional total-internal reflection fluorescence nanoscopy with nanometric axial resolution by photometric localization of single molecules”

    Nature Communications 12 (2021) 517

  • Luciano A. Masullo, Florian Steiner, Jonas Zähringer, Lucía F. Lopez, Johann Bohlen, Lars Richter, Fiona Cole, Philip Tinnefeld, Fernando D. Stefani

    “Pulsed Interleaved MINFLUX”

    Nano Letters 21 (2021) 840-846

  • Mariano Barella, Ianina L. Violi, Julian Gargiulo, Luciana P. Martinez, Florian Goschin, Victoria Guglielmotti, Diego Pallarola, Sebastian Schlücker, Mauricio Pilo-Pais, Guillermo P. Acuna, Stefan A. Maier, Emiliano Cortes, Fernando D. Stefani

    “In Situ Photothermal Response of Single Gold Nanoparticles Through Hyperspectral Imaging Anti-Stokes Thermometry”

    ACS Nano 15 (2020) 2458-2467

  • Alan M Szalai, Lucía F López, Miguel Ángel Morales-Vásquez, Fernando D Stefani, Pedro F Aramendia

    “Analysis of sparse molecular distributions in fibrous arrangements based on the distance to the first neighbor in single molecule localization microscopy”

    Nanoscale 12 (2020) 9495–9506

  • Annette M. Vogl, Lilian Phu, Raquel Becerra, Sebastian A. Giusti, Erik Verschueren, Trent B. Hinkle, Martín D. Bordenave, Max Adrian, Amy Heidersbach, Patricio Yankilevich, Fernando D. Stefani, Wolfgang Wurst, Casper C. Hoogenraad, Donald S. Kirkpatrick, Damian Refojo, Morgan Sheng

    “Global site-specific neddylation profiling reveals that NEDDylated cofilin regulates actin dynamics”

    Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 27(2020) 210-220

  • Gaby F. Martínez, Nahir G. Gazal, Gonzalo Quassollo, Alan M. Szalai, Esther Del Cid-Pellitero, Thomas M. Durcan, Edward A. Fon, Mariano Bisbal, Fernando D. Stefani, Nicolas Unsain

    “Quantitative expansion microscopy for the characterization of the spectrin periodic skeleton of axons using fluorescence microscopy”

    Scientific Reports 10 (2020) 2917

  • Kristina Hübner, Mauricio Pilo-Pais, Florian Selbach, Tim Liedl, Philip Tinnefeld, Fernando D. Stefani, Guillermo P. Acuna

    “Directing Single-Molecule Emission with DNA Origami-Assembled Optical Antennas”

    Nano Letters 19(2019) 6629-6634

  • Cecilia Zaza, Ianina L. Violi, Julián Gargiulo, Germán Chiarelli, Ludmilla Schumacher, Jurij Jakobi, Jorge Olmos-Trigo, Emiliano Cortes, Matthias König, Stephan Barcikowski, Sebastian Schlücker, Juan José Sáenz, Stefan A. Maier, and Fernando D. Stefani

    “Size-Selective Optical Printing of Silicon Nanoparticles through Their Dipolar Magnetic Resonance”

    ACS Photonics 6 (2019) 815-822

  • Santiago Sosa, Andres H. Rossi, Alan M. Szalai, Sebastian Klinke, Jimena Rinaldi, Ana Farias, Paula M. Berguer, Alejandro D. Nadra, Fernando D. Stefani, Fernando A. Goldbaum and Hernan R. Bonomi

    “Asymmetric bifunctional protein nanoparticles through redesign of self-assembly”

    Nanoscale Advances 1 (2019) 1833-1846

  • Alan M. Szalai, Natalia G. Armando, Federico M. Barabas, Fernando D. Stefani, Luciana Giordano, Sara E. Bari, Claudio N. Cavasotto, Susana Silberstein, Pedro F. Aramendía.

    “A fluorescence nanoscopy marker for corticotropin-releasing hormone type 1 receptor: computer design, synthesis, signaling effects, super-resolved fluorescence imaging, and in situ affinity constant in cells”

    Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 20(2018) 29212-29220

  • Rocío G. Sampayo, Andrés M. Toscani, Matthew G. Rubashkin, Kate Thi, Luciano A. Masullo, Ianina L. Violi, Jonathon N. Latkins, Alfredo Cáceres, William C. Hines, Federico Coluccio Leskow, Fernando D. Stefani, Dante R. Chialvo, Mina J. Bissell, Valerie M. Weaver, Marina Simian.

    “Fibronectin rescues estrogen receptor alpha from lysosomal 1 degradation in breast cancer cells”

    Journal of Cell Biology 217(2018) 2777-2798

  • Nicolas Unsain, Fernando D. Stefani, Alfredo O. Cáceres.

    “The Actin/Spectrin Membrane-Associated Periodic Skeleton in Neurons”

    Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience 10 (2018) 10

  • Yanina D. Álvarez, Jesica V. Pellegrotti, Fernando D. Stefani.

    “Gold Nanoparticles as Nucleation Centers for Amyloid Fibrillation”

    Book Chapter in “Use of Nanoparticles in Neuroscience”, edited by F. Santamaria, X. Peralta.
    Neuromethods 135 (2018) 269-291. Humana Press, New York.

  • Nicolas Unsain, Martin D. Bordenave, Gaby F. Martinez, Jalil Sami, Catalina von Bilderling, Federico M. Barabas, Luciano A. Masullo, Aaron D. Johnstone, Philip A. Barker, Bisbal Mariano, Fernando D. Stefani & Alfredo O. Cáceres.

    “Remodeling of the Actin/Spectrin Membrane-associated Periodic Skeleton, Growth Cone Collapse and F-Actin Decrease during Axonal Degeneration”

    Scientific Reports 8 (2018) 3007

  • Federico M. Barabas, Luciano A. Masullo, Martín D. Bordenave, Sebastián Giusti, Nicolás Unsain, Damián Refojo, Alfredo Cáceres, Fernando D. Stefani

    “Automated quantification of protein periodic nanostructures in fluorescence nanoscopy images: abundance and regularity of neuronal spectrin membrane-associated skeleton”

    Scientific Reports 7 (2017) 16029 

  • Julián Gargiulo, Ianina L. Violi, Santiago Cerrota, Lukáš Chvátal, Emiliano Cortés, Eduardo M. Perassi, Fernando Diaz, Pavel Zemánek, Fernando D. Stefani

    “Accuracy and Mechanistic Details of Optical Printing of Single Au and Ag Nanoparticles”

    ACS Nano 11 (2017) 9678–9688

  • Julian Gargiulo, Thomas Brick, Ianina L. Violi, Facundo C. Herrera, Toshihiko Shibanuma, Pablo Albella, Felix G. Requejo, Emiliano Cortés, Stefan A. Maier, Fernando D. Stefani

    “Understanding and Reducing Photothermal Forces for the Fabrication of Au Nanoparticle Dimers by Optical Printing”

    Nano Letters 17 (2017) 5747–5755

  • Mario Raab, Carolin Vietz, Fernando D. Stefani, Guillermo P. Acuna and Philip Tinnefeld

    “Shifting molecular localization by plasmonic coupling in a single-molecule mirage”

    Nature Communications 8 (2017) 13966

  • Francisco Balzarotti, Yvan Eilers, Klaus C. Gwosch, Arvid H. Gynma, Volker Westphal, Fernando D. Stefani, Johan Elf, Stefan W. Hell

    “Nanometer resolution imaging and tracking of fluorescent molecules with minimal photon fluxes”

    Science 355 (2017) 606-612

  • Federico Barabas, Luciano Masullo, Fernando D. Stefani

    “Tormenta: an open source Python-powered control software for camera based optical microscopy”

    Review of Scientific Instruments 87 (2016) 126103

  • Jesica V. Pellegrotti, Emiliano Cortés, Martin D. Bordenave, Martin Caldarola, Mark P. Kreuzer, Alfredo D. Sanchez, Ignacio Ojea, Andrea V. Bragas, Fernando D. Stefani

    “Plasmonic photothermal fluorescence modulation for homogenous biosensing”

    ACS Sensors 1 (2016) 1351-1357

  • Ianina L. Violi, Julián Gargiulo, Catalina von Bilderling, Emiliano Cortés, and Fernando D. Stefani

    “Light-Induced Polarization-Directed Growth of Optically Printed Gold Nanoparticles”

    Nano Letters 16 (2016) 6529 – 6533

  • Martín D Bordenave, Francisco Balzarotti, Fernando D Stefani, and Stefan W Hell

    “STED nanoscopy with wavelengths at the emission maximum”

    Journal of Physics D 49 (2016) 365102

  • Julian Gargiulo, Santiago Cerrotta, Emiliano Cortés, Ianina Violi, Fernando D. Stefani

    “Connecting metallic nanoparticles by optical printing”

    Nano Letters 16 (2016) 1224-1229

  • Jesica Pellegrotti, Guillermo Acuña, Anastasiya Puchkova, Phil Holzmeister, Andreas Gietl, Birka Lalkens, Fernando Stefani and Philip Tinnefeld

    “Controlled reduction of photobleaching in DNA origami – gold nanoparticle hybrids”

    Nano Letters 14(2014) 2831-2836

  • D. Brinks, R. Hildner, E. M. H. P. van Dijk, F. D. Stefani, J. B. Nieder, J. Hernando, N. F. van Hulst

    “Ultrafast dynamics of single molecules”

    Chemical Society Reviews 43 (2014) 2476-2491

  • Y. Alvarez, J. A. Fauerbach, J. V. Pellegrotti, T. M. Jovin, E. A. Jares-Erijman, F. D. Stefani

    “Influence of Gold Nanoparticles on the Kinetics of α‑Synuclein Aggregation”

    Nano Letters 13 (2013) 6156–6163

  • F. Balzarotti, F. D. Stefani

    “Plasmonics Meets Far-Field Optical Nanoscopy”

    ACS Nano 6 (2012) 4580–4584

  • G. P. Acuna, M. Bucher, I. H. Stein, Ch. Steinhauer, A. Kuzyk, P. Holzmeister, R. Schreiber, A. Moroz,
    F. D. Stefani, T. Liedl, F. C. Simmel, P. Tinnefeld

    “Distance Dependence of Single-Fluorophore Quenching by Gold Nanoparticles Studied on DNA Origami”

    ACS Nano 6 (2012) 3189–3195

  • S. R. Kirchner, A. Ohlinger, T. Pfeiffer, A. S. Urban, F. D. Stefani, A. Deak, A. A. Lutich, J. Feldmann

    “Membrane composition of jetted lipid vesicles: a Raman spectroscopy study”

    Journal of Biophotonics 5 (2012) 40 -46

  • D. Brinks, R. Hildner, F. D. Stefani, N. F. van Hulst

    “Beating spatio-temporal coupling: implications for pulse shaping and coherent control experiments”

    Optics Express 19 (2011) 26486-26499

  • E. A. Coronado, E. R. Encina, F.D. Stefani

    “Optical Properties of Metallic Nanoparticles: manipulating light, heat and forces at the nanoscale”

    Nanoscale 3 (2011) 4042-4059

  • D. Brinks, R. Hildner, F. D. Stefani, N. F. van Hulst

    “Coherent control of single molecules at room temperature”

    Faraday Discussions 153 (2011) 51-60

  • T.H. Taminiau, F. D. Stefani, N. F. van Hulst

    “Optical nanorod antennas as cavities for dipolar emitters: evolution of sub- and super-radiant modes”

    Nano Letters 11 (2011) 1020-1024

  • R. Hildner, D. Brinks, F. D. Stefani, N. F. van Hulst

    “Electronic Coherences and Vibrational Wave Packets in Single Molecules Studied with Femtosecond Phase-Controlled Spectroscopy”

    PCCP 13 (2011) 1888-1894

  • A. S. Urban, A. A. Lutich, F.D. Stefani, J. Feldmann

    “Laser Printing Single Gold Nanoparticles”

    Nano Letters 10 (2010) 4794-4798

  • S. K. Dondapati, T. K. Sau, C. Hrelescu, T. A. Klar, F.D. Stefani, J. Feldmann

    “Label-free Biosensing Based on Single Gold Nanostars as Plasmonic Transducers”

    ACS Nano 4 (2010) 6318-6322

  • H. Ba, J. Rodríguez-Fernández, F.D. Stefani, J. Feldmann

    “Immobilization of Gold Nanoparticles on Living Cell Membranes upon Controlled Lipid Binding”

    Nano Letters 10 (2010) 3006-3012

  • D. Brinks, F. D. Stefani, F. Kulzer, R. Hildner, T. H. Taminiau, Y. Avlasevich, K. Müllen & N. F. van Hulst

    “Visualizing and controlling vibrational wavepackets of single molecules”

    Nature  465 (2010) 905-908

  • A.A. Lutich, A. Pöschl, G. Jiang, A. S. Susha, A. L. Rogach, F. D. Stefani, J. Feldmann

    “Efficient energy transfer in layered hybrid organic/inorganic nanocomposites: a dual function of semiconductor nanocrystals”

    Applied Physics Letters 96 (2010) 083109

  • G. Jiang, A. S. Susha, A. A. Lutich, F. D. Stefani, A. L. Rogach , J. Feldmann

    “Cascaded Two‐Level FRET from Conjugated Polymer/Quantum Dot Complexes for DNA Hybridization Detection”

    ACS Nano 3 (2009) 4127–4131

  • S. Mayilo, M. A. Kloster, M. Wunderlich, A. Lutich, T. A. Klar, A. Nichtl, K. Kürzinger, F. D. Stefani, J. Feldmann

    “Long‐range fluorescence quenching by gold nanoparticles in a sandwich immunoassay for cardiac troponin T”

    Nano Letters 9 (2009) 4558‐4563

  • M. Stemmler, F. D. Stefani, S. Bernhardt, R. E. Bauer, M. Kreiter, K. Müllen, W. Knoll

    “One‐Pot Preparation of Dendrimer−Gold Nanoparticle Hybrids in a Dipolar Aprotic Solvent”

    Langmuir 25 (2009) 12425–12428

  • A. S. Urban, M. Fedoruk, F. D. Stefani, M. Horton, J.O. Rädler, J. Feldmann

    “Controlled nanometric phase transitions on phospholipid membranes by plasmonic heating of single gold nanoparticles”

    Nano Letters 9 (2009 ) 2903‐2908

  • A. A. Lutich, G. Jiang, F. D. Stefani*, A. S. Susha, A. L. Rogach, J. Feldmann.

    “Energy transfer beats charge separation in type‐II hybrid organic‐inorganic nanocomposites”

    Nano Letters 9 (2009) 2636‐2640

  • T. K. Sau, A. S. Urban, S. K. Dondapati, M. Fedoruk, M. R. Horton, A. L. Rogach, F. D. Stefani, J. O. Rädler, J. Feldmann

    “Controlling loading and optical properties of gold nanoparticles on liposome membranes”

    Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochem. Eng. Aspects 342 (2009) 92‐96

  • F. D. Stefani, J. P. Hoogenboom, Eli Barkai

    “Beyond quantum jumps: the blinking of single emitters ”

    Physics Today 62 (February 2009) 34‐39

  • F. D. Stefani, K. Vasilev, N. Bocchio, F. Gaul, A. Pomozzi , M. Kreiter

    “Photonic mode density effects on single molecule fluorescence blinking”

    New J. Phys. 9 (2007) 21

  • F. D. Stefani, W. Knoll, X. Zhong, M. Y. Han, M. Kreiter

    “Quantification spontaneous and photoinduced quantum‐dot photoluminescence blinking”

    Phys. Rev. B 72 (2005) 125304

  • F. D. Stefani, W. Knoll, X. Zhong, M. Y. Han, M. Kreiter

    “Memory in quantum‐dot photoluminescence blinking”

    New J. Phys. 7 (2005) 197

  • F. D. Stefani, K. Vasilev, N. Bocchio, N. Stoyanova, M. Kreiter

    “Surface plasmon mediated single molecule fluorescence through a thin metallic film”

    Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 (2005) 023005

  • K. Vasilev, F. D. Stefani, V. Jacobsen, W. Knoll, M. Kreiter

    “Reduced photobleaching of chromophores close to a metal surface”

    J. Chem. Phys. 120 (2004) 6701-6704

  • A. K. Vogt, F. D. Stefani, A. Best, G. Nelles, A. Yasuda, W. Knoll, A. Offenhäuser

    “Impact of micropatterned surfaces on neuronal polarity”

    J. Neuroscience Meth. 134 (2004) 191-198

  • A. Baba, S. Tian, F. D. Stefani, C. Xia, Z. Wang, R. C. Advincula, D. Johannsmann, W. Knoll

    “Electropolymerization and doping/dedoping properties of polyaniline thin films as studied by electrochemical‐surface plasmon spectroscopy and by the quartz crystal microbalance”

    J. Electroanal. Chem. 562 (2004) 95-103

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