Publications de Adrian Stefan Gheata

Functionalization of harmonic nanoparticles for drug release and multimodal imaging applications

Cancer is among the leading causes of death worldwide, and as knowledge of the disease continues to grow there is an increasing interest towards precision medicine: more specifically towards the theranostics field, i.e the development of targeted molecular ...

EPFL2024

Modulating the Surface Properties of Lithium Niobate Nanoparticles by Multifunctional Coatings Using Water-in-Oil Microemulsions

Sandrine Gerber, Alessandra Spada, Adrian Stefan Gheata, Manon Inès Noëlla Wittwer

Inorganic nanoparticles (NPs) have emerged as promising tools in biomedical applications, owing to their inherent physicochemical properties and their ease of functionalization. In all potential applications, the surface functionalization strategy is a key ...

2023

Nonclassical Nucleation and Crystallization of LiNbO3 Nanoparticles from the Aqueous Solvothermal Alkoxide Route

Sandrine Gerber, Aurélien Bornet, Adrian Stefan Gheata

The exact molecular reaction pathway and crystallization mechanisms of LiNbO3 nanoparticles under solvothermal conditions are derived through extensive time- and temperature-resolved experiments allowing to track all the transient molecular and solid speci ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2023

Gd3+-Functionalized Lithium Niobate Nanoparticles for Dual Multiphoton and Magnetic Resonance Bioimaging

Marinella Mazzanti, Sandrine Gerber, Anne-Sophie Chauvin, Katarzyna Pierzchala, Ileana Ozana Jelescu, Jérémy Vuilleumier, Raphaël Jovita De Matos, Laura Camille Louise Nicolle, Adrian Stefan Gheata, Dario Diviani

Harmonic nanoparticles (HNPs) have emerged as appealing exogenous probes for optical bioimaging due to their distinctive features such as long-term photostability and spectral flexibility, allowing multiphoton excitation in the classical (NIR-I) and extend ...

2022

Photoresponsive Nanocarriers Based on Lithium Niobate Nanoparticles for Harmonic Imaging and On-Demand Release of Anticancer Chemotherapeutics

Sandrine Gerber, Jérémy Vuilleumier, Adrian Stefan Gheata, Dario Diviani, Luigi Bonacina, Simon Kaiser

Nanoparticle-based drug delivery systems have the potential for increasing the efficiency of chemotherapeutics by enhancing the drug accumulation at specific target sites, therebyreducing adverse side effects and mitigating patient acquired resistance. In ...

2022