Andrea Spanu

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 865 citations indexed

About

Andrea Spanu is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Polymers and Plastics. According to data from OpenAlex, Andrea Spanu has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 865 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 15 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 14 papers in Polymers and Plastics. Recurrent topics in Andrea Spanu's work include Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (15 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (14 papers) and Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (14 papers). Andrea Spanu is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Neural Engineering (15 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (14 papers) and Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (14 papers). Andrea Spanu collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Lebanon. Andrea Spanu's co-authors include Annalisa Bonfiglio, Piero Cosseddu, Fabrizio Antonio Viola, Pier Carlo Ricci, Sérgio Martinoia, Stefano Lai, Alberto Salleo, Fabio Biscarini, Eleonora Macchia and Iain McCulloch and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces and IEEE Access.

In The Last Decade

Andrea Spanu

30 papers receiving 853 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Electrolyte-gated transistors for enhanced performance bioelectronics

2021 305 citations Fabrizio Torricelli, Demetra Z. Adrahtas et al. Nature Reviews Methods Primers profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Andrea Spanu Italy	13	499	443	383	207	174	31	865
Michele Di Lauro Italy	18	304 0.6×	521 1.2×	453 1.2×	326 1.6×	262 1.5×	40	897
Anton Guimerà‐Brunet Spain	19	435 0.9×	433 1.0×	211 0.6×	447 2.2×	102 0.6×	47	1.0k
Christian Bergaud France	16	441 0.9×	392 0.9×	337 0.9×	588 2.8×	74 0.4×	34	1.0k
Quanxia Lyu Australia	10	622 1.2×	331 0.7×	262 0.7×	56 0.3×	125 0.7×	13	786
Xudong Ji United States	16	420 0.8×	959 2.2×	655 1.7×	186 0.9×	156 0.9×	25	1.2k
Gul Hassan South Korea	20	654 1.3×	918 2.1×	314 0.8×	148 0.7×	266 1.5×	50	1.2k
Fabrizio Antonio Viola Italy	14	399 0.8×	359 0.8×	267 0.7×	57 0.3×	104 0.6×	25	638
Yuanzhe Li Hong Kong	11	387 0.8×	735 1.7×	491 1.3×	112 0.5×	206 1.2×	13	989
Shengfei Yu China	3	615 1.2×	298 0.7×	215 0.6×	53 0.3×	128 0.7×	6	729
Émeline Descamps France	12	328 0.7×	271 0.6×	264 0.7×	447 2.2×	53 0.3×	25	731

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20 of 20 papers shown

Caruso, Marco, Andrea Spanu, Daniele Riboni, et al.. (2025). A User-Friendly Wearable Telerehabilitation System Based on Neuromotor Training for Mild Post-Stroke Patients: The DoMoMEA System. IEEE Access. 13. 122900–122913.

Spanu, Andrea, et al.. (2023). Wearable System Based on Ultra-Thin Parylene C Tattoo Electrodes for EEG Recording. Sensors. 23(2). 766–766. 19 indexed citations

Spanu, Andrea, et al.. (2023). Multimodal force and temperature tactile sensor based on a short-channel organic transistor with high sensitivity. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 16232–16232. 10 indexed citations

Spanu, Andrea, Felice Torrisi, Graziana Viola, et al.. (2022). Parylene C-Based, Breathable Tattoo Electrodes for High-Quality Bio-Potential Measurements. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. 10. 820217–820217. 20 indexed citations

Spanu, Andrea, et al.. (2022). Simultaneous recording of electrical and metabolic activity of cardiac cells in vitro using an organic charge modulated field effect transistor array. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. 10. 945575–945575. 4 indexed citations

Spanu, Andrea, et al.. (2022). Epidermal Electrodes with Ferrimagnetic/Conductive Properties for Biopotential Recordings. Bioengineering. 9(5). 205–205. 6 indexed citations

Spanu, Andrea, et al.. (2022). A wearable electronic system for EEG recording. UNICA IRIS Institutional Research Information System (University of Cagliari). 345–348. 3 indexed citations

Spanu, Andrea & Annalisa Bonfiglio. (2021). <em>In Vitro</em> Multiparametric Cellular Analysis by Micro Organic Charge-modulated Field-effect Transistor Arrays. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 2 indexed citations

Spanu, Andrea, et al.. (2021). Interfacing cells with organic transistors: a review ofin vitroandin vivoapplications. Lab on a Chip. 21(5). 795–820. 43 indexed citations

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Torricelli, Fabrizio, Demetra Z. Adrahtas, Zhenan Bao, et al.. (2021). Electrolyte-gated transistors for enhanced performance bioelectronics. Nature Reviews Methods Primers. 1(1). 305 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lodi, Matteo Bruno, Nicola Curreli, Alessandro Fanti, et al.. (2020). A Periodic Transmission Line Model for Body Channel Communication. IEEE Access. 8. 160099–160115. 11 indexed citations

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Spanu, Andrea, Pasqualina Farisello, Alexander Friz, et al.. (2020). A three-dimensional micro-electrode array for in-vitro neuronal interfacing. Journal of Neural Engineering. 17(3). 36033–36033. 27 indexed citations

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Spanu, Andrea, et al.. (2019). Growing Patterned, Cross-linked Nanoscale Polymer Films from Organic and Inorganic Surfaces Using Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12(3). 4041–4051. 16 indexed citations

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Lorenzelli, Leandro, et al.. (2019). Three-Dimensional Microelectrodes Array Based on Vertically Stacked Beads For Mapping Neurons’ Electrophysiological Activity. UNICA IRIS Institutional Research Information System (University of Cagliari). 8 indexed citations

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Pani, Danilo, Andrea Achilli, Andrea Spanu, et al.. (2019). Validation of Polymer-Based Screen-Printed Textile Electrodes for Surface EMG Detection. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. 27(7). 1370–1377. 55 indexed citations

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Viola, Fabrizio Antonio, Andrea Spanu, Pier Carlo Ricci, Annalisa Bonfiglio, & Piero Cosseddu. (2018). Ultrathin, flexible and multimodal tactile sensors based on organic field-effect transistors. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 8073–8073. 96 indexed citations

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Spanu, Andrea, et al.. (2018). An organic neurophysiological tool for neuronal metabolic activity monitoring. APL Bioengineering. 2(4). 46105–46105. 8 indexed citations

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Spanu, Andrea, et al.. (2015). An organic transistor-based system for reference-less electrophysiological monitoring of excitable cells. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 8807–8807. 50 indexed citations

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Lai, Stefano, Andrea Spanu, Sérgio Martinoia, et al.. (2013). Charge sensing by organic charge-modulated field effect transistors: application to the detection of bio-related effects. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 1(31). 3811–3811. 30 indexed citations

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Spanu, Andrea, Stefano Lai, Piero Cosseddu, et al.. (2013). Organic FET device as a novel sensor for cell bioelectrical and metabolic activity recordings. UNICA IRIS Institutional Research Information System (University of Cagliari). 82. 937–940. 2 indexed citations

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