Publications and Awards
Rehab Technologies Lab is an award-winning research line of IIT and our teams actively support the scientific community with many publications, dissemination talks and other accomplishments.
Publications
2026
Merisani A. E. F., Economou C. N., Nanni G., Athanassiou A.
Chemical conversion of Pleurotus ostreatus mycelium into biodegradable films with tailored properties
ACS Applied Engineering Materials
2024
Douaki A., Weng S., Lanzavecchia G., Sapunova A., Stuber A., Nanni G., Nakatsuka N., Tsutsui M., Yokota K., Krahne R., Garoli D.
Modular Plasmonic Nanopore for Opto-Thermal Gating
Advanced Optical Materials
2019
Nanni G., Heredia-Guerrero J.A., Paul U.C., Dante S., Caputo G., Canale C., Athanassiou A., Fragouli D., Bayer I.S.
Poly(furfuryl alcohol)-polycaprolactone blends
Polymers, vol. 11, (no. 6)
2018
Barroso-Solares S., Pinto J., Nanni G., Fragouli D., Athanassiou A.
Enhanced oil removal from water in oil stable emulsions using electrospun nanocomposite fiber mats
RSC Advances, vol. 8, (no. 14), pp. 7641-7650
2018
Genovese M.E., Abraham S., Caputo G., Nanni G., Kumaran S.K., Montemagno C.D., Athanassiou A., Fragouli D.
Photochromic Paper Indicators for Acidic Food Spoilage Detection
ACS Omega, vol. 3, (no. 10), pp. 13484-13493
2017
Genovese M.E., Caputo G., Nanni G., Setti C., Bustreo M., Perotto G., Athanassiou A., Fragouli D.
Light Responsive Silk Nanofibers: An Optochemical Platform for Environmental Applications
ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, vol. 9, (no. 46), pp. 40707-40715
2016
Cataldi P., Bayer I.S., Nanni G., Athanassiou A., Bonaccorso F., Pellegrini V., del Rio Castillo A.E., Ricciardella F., Artyukhin S., Tronche M.-A., Gogotsi Y., Cingolani R.
Effect of graphene nano-platelet morphology on the elastic modulus of soft and hard biopolymers
Carbon, vol. 109, pp. 331-339
2016
Barroso-Solares S., Zahedi M.G., Pinto J., Nanni G., Fragouli D., Athanassiou A.
Oil removal from water-oil emulsions using magnetic nanocomposite fibrous mats
RSC Advances, vol. 6, (no. 75), pp. 71100-71107
2015
Nanni G., Fragouli D., Ceseracciu L., Athanassiou A.
Adhesion of elastomeric surfaces structured with micro-dimples
Applied Surface Science, vol. 326, pp. 145-150
2015
Nanni G., Ceseracciu L., Oropesa-Nunez R., Canale C., Salvatore P., Fragouli D., Athanassiou A.
Tunable Friction Behavior of Photochromic Fibrillar Surfaces
Langmuir, vol. 31, (no. 22), pp. 6072-6077
2014
Mele E., Bayer I.S., Nanni G., Heredia-Guerrero J.A., Ruffilli R., Ayadi F., Marini L., Cingolani R., Athanassiou A.
Biomimetic approach for liquid encapsulation with nanofibrillar cloaks
Langmuir, vol. 30, (no. 10), pp. 2896-2902
2013
Fragouli D., Torre B., Villafiorita-Monteleone F., Kostopoulou A., Nanni G., Falqui A., Casu A., Lappas A., Cingolani R., Athanassiou A.
Nanocomposite pattern-mediated magnetic interactions for localized deposition of nanomaterials
ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, vol. 5, (no. 15), pp. 7253-7257
2012
Nanni G., Petroni S., Fragouli D., Amato M., De Vittorio M., Athanassiou A.
Microfabrication of magnetically actuated PDMS-Iron composite membranes
Microelectronic Engineering, vol. 98, pp. 607-609
Awards
2025
Rehab Technologies.
ADI Index award - Hannes arm
2025
Laffranchi M., Traverso S., Vaccaro R., Cavallaro L., Canepa M., Boccardo N., Vassallo C., Maludrottu S., De Michieli L., Gruppioni E.
Compasso d'oro international award - Twin exoskeleton
2025
Semprini M.
EMBC Distinguished Lecturer
2025
Laffranchi M.
Member of the Scientific Committee, acted as a reviewer for the scientific projects programme.
2025
Laffranchi M.
Premio ANGI 2025 - Menzione speciale innovazione "Innovation leader award"
2024
Macaluso A., Bottino A., Pratticò F.G., Lamberti F., Galletti C., Storchi C., Podda J., Tacchino A., Brichetto G., Boccardo N., et al.
Best Session Presentation - Executive Control in a Mixed Reality Exergame for Motor-Cognitive Rehabilitation in Multiple Sclerosis
2024
Laffranchi M.
Member of the Scientific Committee, acted as a reviewer for the scientific projects programme.
2024
Vassallo C.
Tornare a camminare grazie a un esoscheletro
2024
Vassallo C.
User-Centered Design and Development of Medical Robots: Rehabilitative Exoskeletons and Prostheses
2024
Franconi B., Cherubini A., Sacchini A., De Giuseppe S., Bunt A., Berettoni A., Modica A., Boccardo N., Gruppioni E., Traverso S., et al.
Winner of the 2024 Cybathlon Leg Prosthesis Race