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BERTUCCI Simone

Soft Matter Physics

Adolphe Merkle Institute Chemin des Verdiers 4 CH-1700 Fribourg Switzerland

Phone:	+41 26 300 9535
Email:	simone.bertucci@unifr.ch
	0000-0002-7688-8830

Projects team

Bio-Inspired Photonic Pigments for Non-Fading, Structural Colouration (Marie-Curie Global Postdoctoral Fellowship)

Inspired by nature’s most vibrant colors, COLOUR project pioneers a new class of photonic pigments that…

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Nanostructured polymer particles

Polymer particles with well-defined nanostructures obtained via the confined self-assembly of block copolymers…

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Microfluidics for Tailored Photonic Microparticle Fabrication

Microfluidic techniques enable the precise and scalable fabrication of polymer microparticles with controlled…

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Block copolymer self-assembly

Block copolymer self-assembly unlocks large, ordered 3D nanostructures for advanced material applications

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Publications

One-pot synthesis of photonic microparticles doped with light-emitting quantum dots
Simone Bertucci, Davide Piccinotti, Mauro Garbarino, Andrea Escher, Gianluca Bravetti, Christoph Weder, Paola Lova, Davide Comoretto, Ullrich Steiner, Francesco Di Stasio, Andrea Dodero
Nanoscale 17 , 10194-10204 (2025)

Crafting Nanostructured Hybrid Block Copolymer–Gold Nanoparticles by Confined Self-Assembly in Evaporative Droplets
Andrea Escher, Gianluca Bravetti, Simone Bertucci, Davide Comoretto, Christoph Weder, Ullrich Steiner, Paola Lova, Andrea Dodero
ACS Macro Letters 13 , 1338-1344 (2024)

Exploring Solar Energy Solutions for Per‐ and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Degradation: Advancements and Future Directions in Photocatalytic Processes
Simone Bertucci, Paola Lova
Solar RRL 8 (2024)

High Quality Factor in Solution-Processed Inorganic Microcavities Embedding CsPbBr3 Perovskite Nanocrystals
Simone Bertucci, Andrea Escher, Matilde Cirignano, Manuela De Franco, Federico Locardi, Maddalena Patrini, Davide Comoretto, Paola Lova, Francesco Di Stasio
ACS Applied Optical Materials 1 , 1343-1349 (2023)

Mild Sol–Gel Conditions and High Dielectric Contrast: A Facile Processing toward Large-Scale Hybrid Photonic Crystals for Sensing and Photocatalysis
Simone Bertucci, Heba Megahd, Andrea Dodero, Sergio Fiorito, Francesco Di Stasio, Maddalena Patrini, Davide Comoretto, Paola Lova
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 14 , 19806-19817 (2022)

Intelligent Packaging for Real-Time Monitoring of Food-Quality: Current and Future Developments
Andrea Dodero, Andrea Escher, Simone Bertucci, Maila Castellano, Paola Lova
Applied Sciences 11 , 3532 (2021)

BERTUCCI Simone

Bio-Inspired Photonic Pigments for Non-Fading, Structural Colouration (Marie-Curie Global Postdoctoral Fellowship)

Nanostructured polymer particles

Microfluidics for Tailored Photonic Microparticle Fabrication

Block copolymer self-assembly