Consorzio Interuniversitario per lo sviluppo dei Sistemi a Grande Interfase
Center for Colloid and Surface Science

Personal information

Position: Permanent Staff

Email: nunzio.tuccitto@unict.it

Phone: +39 0957385091

Location: Catania


Fields of Interest and Expertise

Investigation of physico-chemical processes involved in biomolecules-surface interaction.

Study of ordered self-assembled mono- and multilayers based on molecular and supramolecular functional assemblies.

Secondary ion mass spectrometry and study of the related phenomena induced by ion-surface interaction.

Teaching

Nanostrutture Organiche (University of Catania)

Chimica Fisica e Laboratorio (University of Catania)

Chimica Organica dei Materiali funzionali (University of Catania)

Chimica dei Materiali per l’Ambiente (University of Catania)

 

Curriculum Vitae

2003: Degree in Chemistry at the University of Catania

2003-2006: Ph.D in Chemistry at the University of Catania

2007-2009: Post.Doc at the Department of Chemistry, University of Catania

2009-2014: Project Specialisty, R&D at Ecocontrol Sud. S.r.l., Siracusa

2014 – present: Researcher at the Department of Chemistry, University of Catania

 

Awards

Beynon Prize “Best Paper published 2009-10”

 

Unit

Publications

Antifungal activity and sensory analyses of chitosan aromatized with essential oils for the protection of fresh oranges and apples

- Riolo M. - La Spada F. - Farina P. - El Boumlasy S. - Ascrizzi R. - Venturi F. - Taglieri I. - Nunzio Tuccitto - Pane A. - Álvarez-García S. - Conti B. - Romanazzi G. - Santa Olga Cacciola
Postharvest Biology and Technology

Surface plasmon resonance unveils diffusion fingerprints of biomolecular mixtures in ocular fluid models

- Calcagno D. - Oliveri V. - Parravano M.C. - Nunzio Tuccitto - Grasso G.
Biosensors Bioelectronics

Rapid detection of Staphylococcus aureus using a fluorescent PoC array for perioperative guidance for infection

- Santonocito R. - Avnet S. - Nunzio Tuccitto - Musso N. - Alessia Cavallaro - Spinello M. - Lipreri M.V. - Ricceri M. - Filannino I.M.P. - Raimondi I. - Stefani S. - Baldini N. - Trusso Sfrazzetto G.
Biosensors and Bioelectronics

Methylamine gas sensing by optical array

- Alessia Cavallaro - Santonocito R. - Pappalardo A. - Nunzio Tuccitto - Trusso Sfrazzetto G.
Sensors and Actuators B Chemical

Functionalized carbon nanoparticles for smartphone-based sensing of formaldehyde

- Alessia Cavallaro - Russo L. - Sebastián V. - Roberta Ruffino - Giovanni Li Destri - Ferreri L. - Consoli G.M.L. - Gulino A. - Ferlazzo A. - Pappalardo A. - Santonocito R. - Petroselli M. - Nunzio Tuccitto - Trusso Sfrazzetto G.
Nanoscale Advances

Accelerating Computation in Molecular Nano Neural Networks Using Non-Ideal Chemical Reaction Dynamics

- Basile G.S. - Grattringer M. - Haselmayr W. - Nunzio Tuccitto - Angerbauer S.
Nanocom 2025 Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication

Formaldehyde sensing by fluorescent organic sensors

- Santonocito R. - Pappalardo A. - Nunzio Tuccitto - Alessia Cavallaro - Trusso Sfrazzetto G.
Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry

From Design to Experimentation in Molecular Communications: Discussion Through a Case Study

- Femminella M. - Reali G. - Federico Calì - Nunzio Tuccitto
IEEE Transactions on Molecular Biological and Multi Scale Communications

Temperature-assisted high-energy-per-atom argon cluster SIMS of layered hybrid nanomaterials

- Ragusano G. - Valentina Spampinato - Auditore A. - Nunzio Tuccitto - Penconi M. - Bossi A. - Franquet A. - Conard T. - Antonino Licciardello
Applied Surface Science

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